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Three high-ranking FBI officials were fired last month in a “campaign of retribution” carried out by a director who knew better but caved to political pressure from the Trump administration so he could keep his own position, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday that seeks reinstatement of the agents. This includes an agent on his way to a new assignment in Alabama.

The Trump administration has published a list of more than 320 federal properties it identified to close or sell, including in Alabama. The designations are part of Trump and billionaire Elon Musk's unprecedented effort to slash the size of the federal workforce and shrink government spending.

Bubba Wallace said he “couldn’t care less” if Donald Trump attends the Daytona 500 on Sunday, nearly five years after the president accused the NASCAR Cup Series’ only Black full-time driver of perpetrating “a hoax” when a crew member found a noose in the team garage stall.

A University of Alabama engineering student, a graduate of Auburn, a single mother, a father of two, and a former Princeton football star were killed when the driver of a white pickup truck sped down Bourbon Street, packed with holiday revelers.

The FBI now says a lone "act of terrorism" killed University of Alabama student Kareen Badawi on New Years Day. Investigators identified Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar was the driver of truck that rammed into a crowd of New Year’s revelers on New Orleans’ Bourbon Street. Fifteen people, including Badawi, where killed and thirty more injured.

The New Year’s Day terrorist attack in New Orleans is hitting home at the University of Alabama. Campus leaders report that UA student Kareem Badawi is among those killed when the attacker drove in a crowd on Bourbon Street.

An Alabama sheriff requested the FBI investigate possible civil rights violations after two detention officers were charged with sexually assaulting minors in a youth detention facility.

A Baldwin County man shot and killed by the FBI was reportedly assembling a militia that would answer to Donald Trump. Court documents identified the suspect as Alexander Randles and that his armed group would target Attorney General Merrick Garland among other officials considered corrupt.

A newly unsealed federal complaint says a man accused of having a machine gun at Tuskegee University admitted to firing his weapon during a weekend shooting but denied shooting at anyone. The shooting early Sunday on the campus left one man dead and at least 16 others hurt.

A shooting during homecoming weekend at Tuskegee University in Alabama has left one person dead and injured 16 others, a dozen of them by gunfire. Authorities announced an arrest on a weapons charge. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency says Jaquez Myrick was arrested while leaving the scene of the shooting early Sunday and was found with a handgun with a machine gun conversion device.