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Organizers of protests against Donald Trump say close to two thousand demonstrations are planned tomorrow. That’s the day a military parade is scheduled in Washington, D.C. Protests are planned in Mobile and Montgomery as well as in Tuscaloosa.

Alabama and the world marketplace is waiting to see happens next with Donald Trump and tariffs. It’s been a week since his deadline to impose a fifty percent hike on imported steel and aluminum. Alabama appears to be among those caught in the middle.

Around 300 National Guard troops arrived in Los Angeles early Sunday on orders from President Donald Trump. Critics say the last time a President called out the National Guard without the permission of a Governor was 1965, in Alabama.

Today’s the day Donald Trump says he will hike tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum by up to fifty percent. Alabama reportedly imported eight millon tons of steel last year.

Several hundred people in Tuscaloosa joined in over a thousand anti-Donald Trump and Elon Musk protests held nationally over the weekend. Marchers in front of the Richard Shelby Federal Courthouse carried signs with slogans calling hands off social security, freedom of the press, freedom of speech and so on.

Alabama exports to China could become more expensive by Thursday. The communist nation says it will impose a thirty four percent tax on all U.S. imports this week. That could hit Alabama hard. The U.S. China Business Council says the state sent over four billion dollars worth of exports to China in 2024. A billion of that was in the form of automobiles and car parts.

Wall Street is having another tough day amid anxiety over President Donald Trump's often-changing tariff proposals. Trump delayed most tariffs on Mexican goods after talking with their president. But Canada's prime minister said retaliatory Canadian tariffs will remain as long as Trump leaves any U.S. tariffs in place. Alabama may get a momentary reprieve based on the “fine print” in Trump’s latest action on tariffs.

Don’t get out your checkbook to buy a landmark associated with Alabama’s Freedom Riders. The Trump White House identified the Montgomery bus station that now serves as a museum to that time in the state’s civil rights history for sale. That is until the administration deleted the list.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has thanked the American people and leadership and voiced hope for "strong relations," a day after an astonishing Oval Office blowout with U.S. President Donald Trump that left many uncertain where the once staunch allies stood. APR contacted a fellow journalist in Ukraine for her perspective.

President Trump has been busy since taking office. The new commander in chief has signed executive orders on declaring a national emergency along the Mexico border and pardons for the people accused in the January 6th attack on the Capitol. It’s what he hasn’t done yet that have some people worried. One goal in the conservative blueprint called Project 2025 calls for ending the U.S. Department of Education. Could this mean for small states like Alabama.