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President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a working breakfast with governors in the State Dining Room at the White House on Feb. 20, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump told governors Friday during a meeting at the White House he has no plans to surge federal immigration operations in states where it’s not wanted.  New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul said during an afternoon press conference with several other governors that Trump was asked during the closed-door meeting about what lessons he learned from immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota, where federal officers killed two U.S. citizens.  “The president said, ‘We’ll only go where we’re wanted.’ And said, for example, ‘I won’t go to New York unless Kathy calls and says she wants me to come to New York,’” she said. “I took that as a very positive outcome from this meeting. And I would want to hold him and the administration to that statement....

President Donald Trump speaks during a press briefing at the White House Feb. 20, 2026 in Washington, D.C., after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against his use of emergency powers to implement international trade tariffs. Also pictured on stage, left to right, are Solicitor General John Sauer and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday he plans to keep tariffs in place using different authorities after  the Supreme Court ruled he exceeded his power under the International Economic Emergency Powers Act.  During the afternoon press conference in the White House briefing room, Trump repeatedly criticized the six justices who  wrote “that IEEPA does not authorize the President to impose tariffs.”  “The Supreme Court’s ruling on tariffs is deeply disappointing and I’m ashamed of certain members of the Court, absolutely ashamed, for not having the courage to do what’s right for our cou...

Rep. Margie Wilcox, R-Mobile, throws a Moon Pie to a House staffer on Feb. 17, 2026, in the Alabama House of Representatives chamber in Montgomery, Alabama. Tuesday was Mardi Gras, a holiday in Mobile and Baldwin counties. (Anna Barrett/Alabama Reflector) Here are the bills that passed the Alabama Legislature this week. Tuesday, Feb. 17 House HB 408 sponsored by Rep. Russell Bedsole, R-Alabaster, allows the Alabaster City Council to establish and regulate entertainment districts. The bill passed 16-0. It moves to the Senate. HB 409 , sponsored by Rep. Russell Bedsole, R-Alabaster, authorizes the removal of weeds from public properties in Alabaster when they become a public nuisance and provides for their removal. The bill passed 10-0. It moves to the Senate. HB 410 , sponsored by Rep. Danny Crawford, R-Athens, makes the base salary for Limestone County sheriffs $149,000 per year effective Jan. 2027 and allows the sheriff to receive cost-of-living adjustments given to county emp...

Federal agents stage at a front gate as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Kelly Morrison and Rep. Angie Craig, all Minnesota Democrats, attempt to enter the regional Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis on Jan. 10, 2026. The House members were briefly allowed access to the facility where the Department of Homeland Security has been headquartering operations in the state. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — As they seek to curb President Donald Trump’s aggressive approach to immigration enforcement, congressional Democrats are looking to formalize some guidelines previous administrations used. Of the  10 policy proposals Democratic leaders offered in negotiations to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, which has been in a  funding lapse since Feb. 14 in the midst of widespread uproar over the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens by immigration officers in Minneapolis last month, seven have been...

Sen. Linda Coleman-Madison, D-Birmingham, speaks with a colleague on the floor of the Alabama Senate on Feb. 10, 2026 at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Alabama. The Senate passed Coleman-Madison's bill that would streamline the process for formerly incarcerated Alabamians to get their voting rights restored. (Brian Lyman/Alabama Reflector) The Alabama Senate on Thursday passed a bill that would streamline the process for formerly incarcerated Alabamians to get their voting rights restored. SB 24 , sponsored by Sen. Linda Coleman-Madison, D-Birmingham, requires the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles and the Secretary of State to develop a website with instructions on how a formerly incarcerated person “may have their right to vote restored” in an easily accessible manner.  “They just put on a web page, more of a notification deal, that they will be able to go to find out if they have completed everything,” Coleman-Madison said.  GET THE MORNING HEADLINES. SUB...

Dr. Scott Harris, Alabama State Health Officer, at the Oversight Commission on Opioid Settlement Funds meeting on Feb. 18, 2026, in the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Alabama. Harris said Thursday the state is preparing for measles cases to reach the state as outbreaks grow in South Carolina and Florida, and cases surpass 1,000 nationwide in 2026. (Anna Barrett/Alabama Reflector) Alabama’s public health director said Thursday that public health officials were “doing everything possible to prepare” for measles as the highly-contagious disease spreads through the country. “We’re educating providers and sending out information to health care facilities and individual providers so that they can look for it and recognize it,” said Dr. Scott Harris, the State Health Officer, at a meeting of the Alabama Department of Public Health.  Harris said that the state has the ability to test for measles, which it has not done before because there has not been a high demand for testing. “We...