Jeff Sessions
President Joe Biden waves as he arrives on the Ellipse at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 18, 2021, from Andrews Air Force Base, Md., after traveling to Detroit to visit the Ford Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Mich. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Biden moves to improve legal services for poor, minorities

By Kat Stafford May. 18, 2021 06:00 AM EDT

Today in History

By The Associated Press Feb. 14, 2021 12:00 AM EST
Today in History Today is Sunday, Feb. 14, the 45th day of 2021. There are 320 days left in the year. This is Valentine’s Day. ...

Editorial Roundup: US

By The Associated Press Feb. 10, 2021 06:42 PM EST
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Feb. 10 The Tampa Bay Times on the potential of...

An incomplete secondary wall stands alongside the previous version near where the border separating Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego meets the Pacific Ocean Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021, in Tijuana, Mexico. In the days before Joe Biden became president, construction crews worked quickly to finish Donald Trump's wall at an iconic cross-border park overlooking the Pacific Ocean that then-first lady Pat Nixon inaugurated in 1971 as symbol of international friendship. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Biden halts border wall building after Trump's final surge

By Elliot Spagat Jan. 21, 2021 04:55 PM EST

FILE - In this July 26, 2020 file photo, the casket of Rep. John Lewis moves over the Edmund Pettus Bridge by horse drawn carriage during a memorial service for Lewis, in Selma, Ala. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died Friday, July 17, 2020. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)
Pandemic deaths and economic fallout are top Alabama story

By Jay Reeves Dec. 28, 2020 07:24 AM EST

FILE - This Dec. 16, 2020, file photo shows a view of the White House in Washington. In the six weeks since his defeat by Biden, Trump has been increasingly disengaged from his job. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
As end approaches, Trump gets doses of flattery, finality

By Jonathan Lemire Dec. 20, 2020 08:01 AM EST

FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2020, file photo, Attorney General William Barr speaks during a roundtable discussion on Operation Legend in St. Louis. Barr has announced he is resigning. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
Trump says Barr resigning, will leave before Christmas

By Michael Balsamo Dec. 15, 2020 12:09 AM EST

FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2020, file photo, Attorney General William Barr speaks during a roundtable discussion on Operation Legend in St. Louis. Barr has announced he is resigning. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
Trump says Barr resigning, will leave before Christmas

By Michael Balsamo Dec. 14, 2020 05:56 PM EST

Editorial Roundup: Alabama

By The Associated Press Nov. 18, 2020 01:13 PM EST
Recent editorials from Alabama newspapers: ___ Nov. 15 The Decatur Daily and The TimesDaily on the...

FILE - In this June 27, 2018 file photo, Buena Ventura Martin Godinez, from Guatemala, sits with her son Pedro during an interview in Homestead, Florida. Godinez, who worked as a nurse in Guatemala, said she and her husband decided to leave San Juan Atitan because masked men were demanding extortion payments from her husband's small business selling Internet access. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Godínez has a long wait before knowing if she will get asylum, with her next date at the immigration court set for 2022. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)
After surge and outcry, limbo for Central Americans

By Claudia Torrens And Gisela Salomon Nov. 01, 2020 10:00 AM EST

U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Sessions speaks during a press conference at Gail's Down the Street Cafe in Montgomery, Ala., on Friday, July 10, 2020. Seeking a political comeback, Jeff Sessions is trying to beat out former college football coach Tommy Tuberville in Tuesday’s Republican primary runoff. But to reclaim the Alabama Senate seat he held for decades, Sessions also has to go through President Donald Trump. (Jake Crandall/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP)
Seeking comeback, Sessions faces Tuberville in Alabama race

By Kim Chandler Jul. 14, 2020 02:00 PM EDT

FILE - In this March 3, 2020, file photo, Alabama U.S. Senate candidate Tommy Tuberville speaks to his supporters at Auburn Oaks Farm in Notasulga, Ala. President Donald Trump's campaign sent a letter demanding his former attorney general Jeff Sessions stop tying himself to Trump in campaign materials. The letter by The March 31 letter sent by Michael S. Glassner, chief operating officer of Donald J. Trump for President, accused Sessions of attempting to misleadingly promote connections to Trump. The Trump campaign reiterated their support for Tuberville in the GOP runoff. The Sessions camp said Thursday, April 2, 2020, that Alabama voters will decide the race. (Joe Songer/AL.com. via AP, File)
Tuberville takes GOP Senate nomination; House also decided

By The Associated Press Jul. 14, 2020 01:11 AM EDT

FILE - In this June 11, 2020, file photo President Donald Trump gestures as he steps off Air Force One at Dallas Love Field in Dallas with Senate candidate Tommy Tuberville. Trump has endorsed Tuberville in the race, turning decisively against his former attorney general with direct appeals for Alabama voters to reject Sessions's candidacy. “Do not trust Jeff Sessions,” Trump tweeted this spring. “He let our Country down.” (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Sessions vies for Senate comeback in race shadowed by Trump

By Kim Chandler Jul. 11, 2020 09:09 AM EDT

Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks to reporters during a campaign stop at Sweet Creek restaurant and farmers market, south of Montgomery, Ala., Monday, July 6, 2020. Sessions faces former Auburn University football Coach Tommy Tuberville in the July 14 Republican runoff. Sessions held the seat for 20 years before resigning to become President Donald Trump’s first attorney general. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler)
Senate, House runoffs included on Alabama runoff ballot

By The Associated Press Jul. 11, 2020 08:12 AM EDT

Alabama elections chief: Masks can't be required at polls.

By Kim Chandler Jul. 10, 2020 12:51 PM EDT
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s elections chief said Friday that he is telling local officials that they cannot require voters to wear masks at polling...

Editorial Roundup: New England

By The Associated Press Jun. 05, 2020 06:19 PM EDT
Editorials from around New England: CONNECTICUT Police brutality ignites anger in tense times The...

FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2014, file photo, Los Angeles Lakers' Carlos Boozer, wearing a T-shirt reading ""I Can't Breathe" stands before team introductions for an NBA basketball game against the Sacramento Kings in Los Angeles. Eric Garner uttered those words six years ago, locked in a police chokehold. It became a rallying cry after his death for demonstrators across the country who protested the killings of African Americans by police. Until this week. George Floyd uttered the exact same words, while handcuffed and pinned at the neck under the knee of a white police officer, galvanizing the movement anew and prompting mass protests around the country. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
'I can't breathe' a rally cry anew for police protests in US

By Colleen Long And Deepti Hajela May. 29, 2020 04:04 PM EDT

FILE - In this March 21, 2020, file photo, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House in Washington. After decades of renown in American medicine, Dr. Fauci has become an unlikely celebrity in his role as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, where he has led the medical response to COVID-19 and tried to inform an anxious nation. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
Top infectious disease doctor inspires 'Fauci fever'

By Jay Reeves Apr. 16, 2020 05:50 PM EDT