President Joe Biden

Alabama immigrants known as Dreamers just lost their health coverage under the Affordable Care Act. A federal judge in North Dakota ruled in favor of nineteen states who filed a lawsuit that immigrants brought to U.S. illegally as children aren’t entitled to coverage through what’s known as Obamacare.

Alabama is deploying an additional 125 soldiers to the Southern Border. The troops are out of the 152nd Military Police Company headquartered in Hartselle. Governor Kay Ivey's office announced their mission duration is approximately 400 days.

Lilly Ledbetter, a former Alabama factory manager whose lawsuit against her employer made her an icon of the equal pay movement and led to landmark wage discrimination legislation, has died at 86. The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act strengthened the rights of workers to sue for pay discrimination.

Gov. Kay Ivey is leading a letter with 24 other governors, expressing concern over the Biden-Harris Administration’s Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans (CHNV) asylum program. This comes as Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his running mate began promoting debunked misinformation about Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, causing crime and “eating pets."

A federal judge in Missouri is putting a temporary hold on President Joe Biden’s latest student loan cancellation plan. The ruling comes after Alabama and other states filed a lawsuit in September, arguing Biden had overstepped his legal authority.

Birmingham Mayor Randall L. Woodfin joined President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris this week in the East Room of the White House to address gun violence in America. He highlighted the impact of gun violence in light of a mass shooting that happened Saturday at Hush Lounge.

Convention roll call votes can be staid and cheesy, but Democrats turned theirs into the ultimate dance party on Tuesday. DJ Cassidy stood onstage in what appeared to be a double-breasted satin suit of royal blue, spinning a special song for each state and territory awarding their delegates to Vice President Kamala Harris at the Democratic National Convention. Alabama, obviously, got "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Alabama delegates are in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention. And there’s an ongoing disagreement over which members will cast ballots. The State’s party says it’s taking legal action after the Democratic National Committee choose Alabama’s delegation. The State party reportedly missed a deadline to pick its own group.

The Biden administration said Thursday that drug price negotiations will knock hundreds of dollars — in some cases thousands — off the list prices of 10 of Medicare's most popular and costliest drugs. The Department of Health and Human Services says just two diabetes drugs, on the list for price cuts, are used by over fifty thousand Alabamians on Medicare.

New federal protections for transgender students at U.S. schools and colleges have launched, but not everywhere, including in Alabama. Most Republican-led states challenged the rule from President Joe Biden's administration, took effect Thursday. In response, judges have blocked enforcement in 21 states plus hundreds of individual schools and colleges.