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Katherine Robertson wins GOP nomination for Alabama attorney general

Katherine Robertson, deputy attorney general and Republican runoff candidate for Attorney General, speaking at the Shelby County Republican Party runoff candidate forum May 26, 2026, in Pelham, Alabama, at the Pelham Civic Complex. Robertson won the Republican nomination for attorney general on Tuesday night. (Anna Barrett/Alabama Reflector) Deputy Attorney General Katherine Robertson Tuesday won the Republican nomination for Alabama Attorney General, defeating Alabama Supreme Court Justice Jay Mitchell after an expensive and often heated race. “Here I stand tonight, a girl from Dallas County, Alabama, whose family barely made ends meet, growing cotton and running the local post office, with the chance to become Alabama’s first lay Attorney General,” Robertson said in her victory address shortly after AP called the race. “We are ending this primary and runoff the same way we started it 371 days ago when we I announced my candidacy, resolving to stand tall for conservative principles, ...

Republicans in US Senate left in dark by Trump on Iran deal, but want details and a vote

U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said on Tuesday, June 16, 2026, he’s heard the president's deal with Iran sets up a 60-day framework for negotiators to reach agreement on more specifics. In this photo, Thune speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill on Sept. 19, 2025. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom) WASHINGTON — U.S. senators from both political parties said Tuesday they had yet to see the text of the deal Trump administration officials struck over the weekend to end the war in Iran, though several indicated any final agreement will require their approval. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said administration officials have signaled they expect to share the text of the memorandum of understanding with lawmakers, though he didn’t know when. “Hopefully that’ll happen sooner rather than later,” he said. “But, you know, obviously it sounds like they’re not going public with it until later in the week. So we’ll see.” Thune said he’s heard the deal se...

Surging stock market, Trump policies boost wealth for top 1%

CEO of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk speaks last year at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland. Last week’s SpaceX IPO, which made Musk the world’s first trillionaire, is a vivid illustration of wealth concentration in the United States, which has been accelerating since 2022. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) When SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocket and artificial intelligence company, began trading on the stock market last week, he became the world’s first trillionaire. The SpaceX IPO made the world’s richest man even richer, grabbing headlines worldwide. But it is merely the most vivid illustration of a U.S. trend that has been accelerating since 2022. The richest 1% of Americans held nearly a third of the country’s total wealth at the end of 2025, the largest percentage the Federal Reserve Board has recorded since it started monitoring the numbers in 1989. In 1990, the share was 22.5%. The latest percentage, 31.9%, is likely the largest since the end of World War II,...

Two candidates vie for State Board of Education District 8 GOP nomination

The Alabama State Board of Education voting on a resolution at its May 8 meeting in the Gordon Pearsons Building in Montgomery, Alabama. (Anna Barrett/Alabama Reflector) Republican voters in north Alabama will pick between the chair of an Alabama Moms for Liberty chapter and a candidate running a low-profile campaign to represent them on the State Board of Education. Voters in the district, which covers Limestone, Madison, DeKalb and Jackson counties, will have to choose between Emily Jones and William Matthews. According to the Alabama Secretary of State’s website, Jones had 20,354 (42.31%) votes and Matthews had 15,504 (32.23%) votes in official returns in the May 19th primary. The winner of the runoff will face Democratic nominee Shatika Armstrong. The winner of the election will succeed incumbent Wayne Reynolds, who is not seeking re-election. GET THE MORNING HEADLINES. SU...

Most mass shooters show warning signs before attacks, study finds

A grad student stands by the sculpture 'Infinite Possibility' outside the Brown University's Engineering Research Center, restricted by crime scene tape, on Dec. 14, 2025, after a mass shooting there. People who carry out mass public shootings often display observable warning signs long before an attack, according to a new study. (Photo by Christopher Shea/Rhode Island Current) People who carry out mass public shootings often display observable warning signs long before an attack, but those signals are frequently fragmented across friends, family members, coworkers and institutions, making them difficult to piece together, according to a new study from the Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium at the Rockefeller Institute of Government, a nonpartisan public policy think tank. The report, which analyzed a sample of 171 mass public shootings in the United States between 1999 and 2024, such as those at workplaces, schools or shopping malls, found that these attacks are ...

How do courts let cruel and unusual punishments persist? By ignoring the cruelty

The Guardian or Authority of Law, created by sculptor James Earle Fraser, rests on the side of the U.S. Supreme Court on September 28, 2020 in Washington, DC. The U.S. Supreme Court Thursday allowed two lower court rulings blocking Alabama's use of nitrogen gas executions to stand. (Al Drago/Getty Images) Nitrogen gas executions are cruel. That’s been clear since January 2024, when Corrections officials strapped a mask over Kenneth Eugene Smith and suffocated him to death . Smith convulsed and struggled for breath over the course of many minutes. Did this lead to any reflection about what happened in Holman prison? No. The Alabama attorney general congratulated the state on a “ textbook ” execution. Alabama did it six more times, ignoring the mounting evidence of torture in the procedure. That’s really all you need to see the brutality of nitrogen gas executions. Not a court ruling. Not that you could expect the nation’s high court to acknowledge that. As t...