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Editorial: Blocking military promotions is unpatriotic

Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville misses few chances to tout both his career as a college football coach and his love for the military. It’s all the more reprehensible, then, that Tuberville is single-handedly blocking the Pentagon from putting its best team on the field — and harming the country’s security…

Tribune News Service

Tuberville is showing how much power one lawmaker wields under Senate rules

Sen. Tommy Tuberville has been blocking every U.S. military personnel move that needs Senate confirmation since February. Here, a look at why and how he can bend the will of the Senate to his own.

WEKU

Why a single senator is blocking US military promotions and what it means for the Pentagon

Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville is waging an unprecedented campaign to try to change Pentagon abortion policy by holding up hundreds of military nominations and promotions

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Anti-abortion senator puts nation’s military preparedness at risk

Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama is holding up more than 270 military promotions because he is not happy that the Pentagon pays for travel for service members who are having an abortion.

Chicago Sun-Times

Alabama high school won’t have a varsity football team this year

Crossville's opponents will either find a replacement game or take a forfeit victory.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Republican senator finally ends crusade to defend white nationalists

Tommy Tuberville, from Alabama, had seemed determined to support extremists despite condemnation from his colleagues

The Guardian - US

Republican senator should drop his 'irresponsible' protest and OK military nominees, Biden says

President Joe Biden says it is “irresponsible” of an Alabama senator to block confirmation of military officers in protest of a Defense Department policy that pays for travel when a service member has to go out of state to get an abortion or reproductive care

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Biden attacks ‘ridiculous’ Republican senator for blocking military picks

President says Tommy Tuberville is jeopardising national security with protest against defense department’s abortion policy

The Guardian - US

HASC hold on DOD reprogramming draws ire of Colorado Dems - Roll Call

The dispute between Colorado and Alabama over where to put U.S. Space Command's headquarters has ensnared DOD reprogramming requests.

Roll Call

FACT FOCUS: A story about a deadly TikTok boat-jumping challenge went viral. Then it fell apart

News outlets are warning of a deadly TikTok challenge that involves people jumping off speeding boats

The Independent UK

How missing baby Harlow Freeman police hunted for 14 hours survived in hot car overnight

Harlow Freeman, who was missing for 14 hours, survived in the hot car thanks to ventilation from a broken window, until she was found alive and well in Parrish, Alabama

Daily Mirror

Alabama senator says white nationalists are racists after weeks of declining to say so

Alabama Sen_ Tommy Tuberville is backing off his defense of white nationalists, telling reporters in the Capitol that white nationalists “are racists.”

The Independent UK

"The View" takes down Tuberville

The Alabama senator said that "it's some people's opinion" that white nationalists are racist

Salon

Harlow Freeman: Crashed car with 'kidnapped' baby in that cops missed for 14 HOURS

Nine-month-old Harlow Darby Freeman was reported missing after the car she was sat in the back of in Parrish, Alabama, went missing as her dad briefly left her to go into a friend's house

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The Independent UK

GOP senator says calling white nationalists racist is an ‘opinion’

Chuck Schumer says ‘The senator from Alabama is wrong, wrong, wrong’

Daily Mirror

Harlow Freeman found: Mum's heartbreaking plea to thief she feared had kidnapped baby

Harlow Darby Freeman was sat in the back of the family's Lexus SUV when her dad ran into a friend's house quickly in Parrish, Alabama, but was found safe in the car 14-hours later nearby

Daily Mirror

Harlow Freeman found: Baby found in dad's car after cops feared she had been kidnapped

Harlow Freeman was found safe Tuesday morning

Al Jazeera

Senator stalls US military promotions in anti-abortion standoff

Senator Tommy Tuberville has blockaded nearly 265 military confirmations to protest the Pentagon’s abortion stance.

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The Guardian - US

US Marines without leader for first time in 150 years as Republican blocks nomination

Gen David Berger steps down as Alabama senator stages months-long blockade of successor to protest over abortion policies

The Independent UK

Trump and DeSantis begin eyeing Super Tuesday states as they prepare for 2024 long game

As the Republican presidential primary intensifies this summer, most White House hopefuls are devoting their time to events in Iowa and New Hampshire, the states that will kick off the nomination process early next year

The Independent UK

New museum in Alabama tells history of last known slave ship to US and its survivors

A new museum Alabama tells the history of the Clotilda — the last ship known to transport Africans to the American South for enslavement

USA Today Sports Media Group

2024 NFL draft prospect watchlist

Here are our top 20 draft-eligible prospects heading into the 2023 college football season.

Tribune News Service

Lisa Jarvis: Political attacks on transgender health care are hurting kids

It’s increasingly difficult for transgender youth to get the health care they need. Over the past two years, a swath of U.S. states have made it illegal for minors to receive gender-affirming treatments like puberty blockers and hormone treatments. That’s fostered a dangerous climate for trans kids and their parents…

USA Today Sports Media Group

4-star LB Jakaleb Faulk names top five schools

Class of 2025 linebacker Jakaleb Faulk has named his top five schools.

Los Angeles Times

Jackie Calmes: The Supreme Court's just-ended term contained some surprising gifts for Democrats

Even a broken clock is right twice a day, as the saying goes. The same lopsidedly right-wing Supreme Court that since June 2022 has overturned longtime precedents to eliminate a federal abortion right, gun controls, clean water safeguards and now affirmative action has also, surprisingly, ruled twice lately to bolster…

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