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Alabama’s attorney general announced a civil investigation Monday into the Southern Poverty Law Center's fundraising practices in the wake of a federal indictment against the organization. AG General Steve Marshall said he has sent a subpoena to the center seeking information about its donations and payments to informants. He said he is seeking to determine if the organization violated state laws related to charitable organizations or deceptive trade practices.

Lawyers for the Southern Poverty Law Center will appear in court Thursday for the first time since the civil rights group was charged with defrauding donors by failing to disclose that money would be paid to informants inside extremist groups. The SPLC denies wrongdoing, and no individual is charged.

The Southern Poverty Law Center told a federal court that law enforcement agencies have long known that the nonprofit paid informants to report on the movements of hate groups, rejecting assertions by the Trump administration that the nonprofit steered money to the Ku Klux Klan and other extremist groups without the knowledge of authorities.

The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted Tuesday on federal fraud charges alleging it improperly raised millions of dollars to secretly pay leaders of the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups for inside information.

The Southern Poverty Law Center says it's the subject of a criminal investigation by the Justice Department and faces possible charges over its past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups.

The cost of groceries is up this summer. The news comes as Gulf Coast food banks say they’re feeding a record number of hungry families. Many of those individuals also get by with the help of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP. Formerly called food stamps. As you may have heard, Congress recently voted to shift a greater burden of SNAP funding to the states. In the first of a two part report on food insecurity and food access, here’s takes a look at what those changes to SNAP might mean for Alabama’s hungriest residents.

The Alabama based Southern Poverty Law Center is out with its annual study known as the Year in Hate and Extremism report. The number of white nationalist, hate and anti-government groups around the U.S. dropped slightly in 2024, not because of any shrinking influence but rather the opposite.

The Southern Poverty Law Center is releasing a new report that details racial disparities within Alabama communities that have to hand over assets. Key findings show that in recent years in Jefferson County, residents in majority-Black neighborhoods were more likely to experience law enforcement seizing property.

The 39th and longest-lived U.S. president, James Earl Carter Jr., died Sunday at the age of 100. The Montgomery based Southern Poverty Law Center was among those paying tribute to the former Commander-In-Chief

The Montgomery based Southern Poverty Law Center is responding to racist text messages invoking slavery. The notes were sent to Black men, women, and students, including at the University of Alabama and Alabama State University, as well as middle schoolers.