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Democratic Senators Brian Schatz of Hawaii and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut went to the Senate floor and tried to force a vote on a resolution disapproving of the Qatari gift. The Middle Eastern nation wants to give Donald Trump a thirteen year old Boeing 747 to be the latest Presidential aircraft known as Air Force One. But it was blocked by Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville.

The city of New Orleans tried to protect its famed French Quarter from a terrorist attack years before a U.S. Army veteran rammed a truck into crowds of New Year's revelers on Bourbon Street, killing 14 people. The list of fatalities included incoming University of Alabama engineering Badawi and Auburn graduate Andrew Dauphin

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.

The U.S., including in Alabama, is remembering the lives taken and those reshaped by Sept. 11, the date when hijacked plane attacks killed nearly 3,000 people in 2001, marking an anniversary laced this year with presidential campaign politics. APR listeners shared their stories from that day during the 20th anniversary of the attacks, in this encore presentation.

Today marks twenty-two years since the nine eleven terrorist attacks on the United States. Alabama Public Radio reached out to its listeners for their stories from that day, for the twentieth anniversary. There was a flood of responses.

A central Alabama woman will spend about a decade in prison for providing material support to a terrorist group. Arwa Muthana of the Birmingham suburb of Hoover pleaded guilty along with her husband to helping the Islamic State.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — A woman accused of trying to help al-Qaeda has pleaded guilty in Alabama to a charge of concealing terrorism financing.Federal…

A north Alabama man pleaded guilty to terrorism charges yesterday, admitting he bought bomb-making materials and had hoped to conduct terrorist attacks.In…