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May 21, 2019

Alabama Public Television refuses to air 'Arthur' episode that showed gay wedding

Alabama Public Television refused to air an episode of the PBS children's show "Arthur" that featured a same-sex marriage.

May 21, 2019

Hank Williams Jr. will give you $6,000 to find his grandpa’s shotgun

Country singer Hank Williams Jr. is enlisting the public's help in locating his grandfather’s shotgun and offering a $6,000 reward to whoever can connect him with the family antique.

May 19, 2019

2020 Dem Bullock says abortion issue was settled by Supreme Court with Roe v. Wade

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, who last week became one of the latest Democrats to enter the presidential race, weighed on Sunday on the moves by several states to limit abortions – saying that while he believes life starts when a fetus can survive outside the womb, it is ultimately up for a woman to decide whether or not to have an abortion.

May 18, 2019

Tomi Lahren: I'm a pro-choice conservative. I have had it with extremism on both sides of the abortion issue

Most Americans are in the middle on the abortion issue but our politicians aren’t representing that very well. 

May 17, 2019

Alabama abortion law an example of 'emboldened' GOP state houses after Kavanaugh replaced Kennedy, Thiessen says

Alabama's new abortion law and other states' pending measures are examples of "emboldened" Republican-majority legislatures in the wake of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh filling retired Justice Anthony Kennedy's seat.

May 17, 2019

RNC Chairwoman 'personally' supports rape, incest exceptions to abortion bans

Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said Friday that while she personally favors exceptions for rape and incest, she was willing to accept Alabama's controversial abortion ban as another aspect of the party's broad tent.

May 17, 2019

Joe Scarborough: GOP ‘extremism’ on abortion is ‘scaring the hell out of a lot of Americans’

MSNBC's "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough said Friday that Republican “extremism” on abortion “is scaring the hell out of a lot of Americans who might even be pro-life,” responding to the recent passing of the controversial bill in Alabama which makes nearly all abortions in the state illegal and makes performing one a felony.

May 16, 2019

Tim Graham, Brad Wilmouth: MSNBC’s Chuck Todd only cites polls suggesting public support for abortion

On Wednesday's “Meet the Press Daily,” MSNBC host Chuck Todd cited two polls suggesting the public was mostly supportive of abortion.

May 16, 2019

Alabama man to be executed for 1997 quadruple homicide over pickup truck dispute

An Alabama man that was sentenced to death after killing four people, including two young girls, over 20 years ago in a dispute over a pickup truck is set to be executed Thursday evening.

May 16, 2019

Judge Napolitano: Alabama's restrictive abortion law will go to Supreme Court

Fox News' senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano referred to Alabama's recent ruling on abortion "the most extreme pro-life legislation in the country," and argued that it was written with the intention of going to the Supreme Court.