“If you think about just the data from the past cycle, he’s a few thousand votes from being a United States senator,” said Mayor Walt Maddox of Tuscaloosa, the Democratic nominee for governor last year. Mr. Moore’s rivals in the primary include Representative Bradley Byrne, whose 2010 campaign for governor fizzled out in a bruising […]
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A federal appeals court said Thursday new Trump administration rules imposing additional hurdles for women seeking abortions can take effect while the government appeals decisions that blocked them. More than 20 states and several civil rights and health organizations challenged the rules in cases filed in Oregon, Washington and California. Judges in all three states
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Five critically endangered eastern black rhinos from wildlife parks in three European countries are ready to be transported back to their natural habitat in Rwanda, where the entire rhino population was wiped out during the genocide in the 1990s. Interested in Animals? Add Animals as an interest to stay up to date on the latest
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The Tampa Bay Rays have been given the go-ahead by Major League Baseball to look into playing a split season in Montreal. Interested in MLB? Add MLB as an interest to stay up to date on the latest MLB news, video, and analysis from ABC News. Commissioner Rob Manfred said made the announcement Thursday at
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WASHINGTON — The Senate voted to block the sale of billions of dollars of munitions to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates on Thursday, in a sharp and bipartisan rebuke of the Trump administration’s attempt to circumvent Congress to allow the exports by declaring an emergency over Iran. In three back-to-back votes, Republicans joined
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Energy stocks have gone along with oil prices on a wild ride this quarter. Oil prices steadily rose through April and then sank as the trade war between the U.S. and China escalated and threatened global economic growth. More recently, rising tensions between the U.S. and Iran have pushed prices higher. After hitting a high
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Shortly after ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, Stewart Butterfield, chief executive and co-founder of Slack, said going public had benefits. It opens the company up to a degree of scrutiny that large customers will find helpful, he said. When Slack was private, some customers asked to see its financials to
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President Donald Trump says he’ll consider inviting the NBA champion Toronto Raptors to the White House “if they’d like to do it.” Asked whether he’d invite the Canadian team, Trump said Thursday that he hadn’t thought about it. Trump said the Raptors played “phenomenal basketball” to win the team’s first NBA title by defeating the
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Michael Gove was narrowly voted out of the Conservative leadership race, with Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt now facing members who will pick a new leader. Mr Johnson came top with 160 votes from Tory MPs, followed by Mr Hunt on 77, and Mr Gove on 75, and the top two going through. The result
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionLee Donald says fitness has changed her life Lee Donald didn’t think she would see her 21st birthday. She had struggled with an eating disorder from the age of 13 and at her lowest point made herself sick more than 10 times a day. But she successfully
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