Alabama Attorney General

TikTok will pay the state of Alabama at least $100 million and must implement a slew of safety features for teens in the state as part of a settlement agreement reached just before the case was set to go to trial.

Investigators continue looking into the deaths of two students at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss.) The two died this week and multiple published reports say packages of the drug kratom was found during the separate death investigations. Authorities said it is not confirmed that the kratom, or any controlled substance, contributed to either death. The powdered stimulant is against the law in Alabama, and the subject of reporting by APR news.

Alabama is among forty three states to collect money from a court settlement with the owners of an alternative online banking system called “Cash App.” Oregon and California led the action, which alleged that the parent company of the App , Block Incorporated, deceived customers on the safety of the system, failed to provide promised safeguards and resolution services required by law.

An endorsement from President Donald Trump is worth a lot in Republican primaries. But can it propel a congressman past an insurgent outsider in Alabama? Is it worth more than $100 million in Georgia? Can it transform a candidate into a front-runner in Oklahoma? Trump has been at the center of this year’s midterm campaigns, and his influence will be tested in different ways Tuesday as four states and the District of Columbia hold primaries.

A lot of attention has been focused on an upcoming U.S. House primary in Alabama. The U.S. Supreme Court approved a voting map that a lower court ruled was discriminatory against blacks. That’s not the only thing on the “to do” list for the state’s voters. A Republican runoff is set for next Tuesday in the race for Alabama Attorney General. Candidates typically work to set themselves apart from each other.

Alabama will get a rematch between two high-profile nominees for governor while candidates of both major parties will head to runoff elections next month for an open U.S. Senate seat, and Attorney General.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is joining a group of 22 state attorneys general who back Louisiana in a lawsuit over abortion pills.The case challenges a Biden-era change that expanded access to the drug, mifepristone.

A judge was wrong to block part of an Alabama state law that makes it a felony to provide gifts or payments for helping with an absentee ballot application, state attorneys told an appeals court panel. The Alabama attorney general’s office asked the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to lift a judge’s preliminary injunction.

A federal appeals court ruled Alabama prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a man sentenced to death in 1990, saying Blacks were rejected from the jury during his trial. The Monday ruling from a three judge panel on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals means Michael Sockwell, 62, is eligible for a retrial.

Alabama Chief Justice Sarah Stewart used a new law to appoint a retired judge to handle the case against a man accused of the 2019 killing of a college student that drew national attention.