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Navigating market volatility in 2025 After reaching all-time highs in February, U.S. markets have experienced notable volatility amidst a flurry of news regarding tariffs and rapid changes in the geopolitical landscape. The S&P 500 is now negative for the year, having declined nearly 9% from its mid-February peak (as of March 31, 2025), while the tech-heavy Nasdaq briefly entered correction territory in early March, and is down over 9%. This pullback has effectively erased the post-election...
April 2, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) took to the Senate floor to celebrate President Trump's "Liberation Day" after Senate Democrats repeatedly tried to block and impede the President's tariffs from going into effect. Excerpts from Senator Tuberville's remarks below or watch on YouTube or Rumble. "The media, for some reason, is in full meltdown mode after President Trump declared today 'Liberation Day.' Only my Democratic colleagues and the media, g...
April 2, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL.) – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall joined a 27-state brief in the U.S. Supreme Court defending the Trump administration's recent actions to combat Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. The attorneys general are also calling for a stay of a district court's recent temporary restraining order that halts President Trump's actions to combat this violent gang, which has now been designated a foreign terrorist organization. The brief argues that the lower court's r...
April 2, 2025 – MONTGOMERY, AL – The Alabama House Health Committee held a public hearing on controversial legislation that would strictly regulate psychoactive cannabinoid products synthesized from lawfully grown hemp. House Bill 445 (HB445) is sponsored by state Representative Andy Whitt (R-Harvest). Whitt said that psychoactive cannabinoids, like Delta 8 or Delta 10, "Has plagued our state" since the federal government created "a loophole" in the Farm Bill. His legislation "Places gua...
Childbirth can be a beautiful and rewarding experience. However, even in the best of situations, it can also be traumatic for both mother and baby. That can be especially true in cases where medical professionals need to utilize special tools, like vacuum extraction tools, to help deliver a newborn. Unfortunately, these medical devices can cause significant and everlasting vacuum delivery injuries in infants, Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C. notes. Learning about the risks and side effects...
Mental health concerns were front and center for office workers adjusting to fully remote work environments at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Between feelings of isolation, a never-ending news cycle, and the stress of staying safe, people sought support from their workplaces. A Society for Human Resource Management survey noted that employee benefits such as stress management, life coaching, and meditation programs increased in 2020. But, for many, it still wasn't enough. As the pandemic...
March 28, 2025 – FAYETTE, AL - Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (R) announced that the City of Fayette has received a $733,700 grant through the SEEDS program to allow local officials to purchase property for a prime industrial site. The hope is that this effort will accelerate economic growth in this rural West Alabama region. The Industrial Development Board of the City of Fayette (Fayette IDB) plans to purchase land to establish the North Fayette Industrial Site. The 76-acre site, with frontage o...
April 2, 2025 – JEFFERSON COUNTY, AL – Jefferson County Republican Party Chairman Phillip Brown accused the Alabama Democratic Party of lying about the Republican agenda. “The Alabama Democrat Party is once again lying to the public — using fear tactics to push their big-government agenda and line the pockets of liberal special interests,” Brown said in an email to supporters. “We want to set the record straight. Republicans aren’t cutting healthcare for seniors, working families, or children....
Colleen Thomas' son was born missing a part of his immune system. The Indiana mother didn't know that immediately, but there were signs. The little boy was always sick—constant congestion and respiratory infections. Thomas had to hold a breathing mask over her son's face as he slept and wheezed. "That was just for a cold," Thomas recalled. "It was horrible." Thomas' son was 3 when he was diagnosed with an immunodeficiency that made him susceptible to severe illness if he was exposed to r...
April 3, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) joined a bipartisan group of colleagues including Senator Katie Britt (R-Alabama) in reintroducing the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act. This legislation would expand telehealth services under Medicare, and make COVID-19-related telehealth flexibilities permanent. Sponsors believe that this will improve health outcomes, and make it easier for patients t...
If the developer building a six-story apartment complex in Salt Lake City out of shipping containers had it to do over again, he says he probably wouldn't. Box 500 Apartments, the blocky blue-and-silver structure at 543 S. 500 West, might be one of the most creative multistory housing experiments to get underway in Utah's capital. The idea: Stack a series of rectangular steel containers to create affordable units, at a time when the Beehive State really needs them. While the ubiquitous...
March 11, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL - Did you know that tuberculosis (TB), an airborne infectious disease, remains one of the leading causes of death in the world? Daily, TB claims approximately 4,100 lives, and close to 27,000 people fall ill with this preventable and curable disease. Global efforts to end TB have saved 79 million lives since 2000. Significant progress has occurred, but to be even more effective, more people need access to effective treatment and new TB infections that were missed...
With heightened immigration enforcement making headlines, manufacturing, logistics, and agriculture workers are at the highest risk of being affected by ICE raids. As a result, many companies are wondering: Are these policy shifts leading to increased absenteeism among workers? To answer this, TeamSense, a provider of automated absence-tracking software specializing in manufacturing and logistics, analyzed its workforce data to understand how absenteeism trends are shifting nationwide and in...
Since his reelection, President Trump has followed through on campaign promises to impose tariffs on America's biggest trading partners—Canada, China, and Mexico—in an attempt to further his terms on trade, borders, and drug trafficking crackdowns. But the tariff threats, reversals, deals, and reprisals are leaving consumers, businesses, and economists experiencing whiplash about what's going to happen next. Tariffs are import taxes on foreign goods, but it's not foreign companies who pay the...
March 11, 2025 - HOOVER, AL - Alabama Republican Party Chairman John Wahl announced his full support for President Donald J. Trump's proposed executive order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. This decisive action aligns with the Party's long-standing commitment to returning educational authority to state and local governments, ensuring that policies are tailored to the unique needs of individual communities. "The Alabama Republican Party fully supports President Trump's plan to...
March 10, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall urged Congress to pass a bipartisan bill that will unleash homegrown American energy by securing nationwide access to year-round E15 gasoline. On day one in office, President Trump signed an executive order expanding access to E15 gasoline and making clear that E15 is key in unlocking America's energy-independent future. He also created the National Energy Dominance Council, which has called to use national assets like b...
Stretching a paycheck beyond the basics is becoming harder for many Americans. After covering taxes and essential expenses, the disposable income that is left impacts a household's ability to save, invest or stay afloat. But high prices of housing, food, childcare and more can keep households struggling, leaving many families with little or nothing to spare at the end of the month. Furthermore, in most large U.S. cities, the median household income falls short of what's needed to support a...
March 9, 2025 – Body camera video of the last minutes of Otis French Jr. by Bay Minette police officer was released to Twitter. On August 22, 2023 – French, a 32-year-old Black man, was killed after the White Bay Minette police officer, Brandon Thompson, pulled him over near his home because a blinker light was out on his vehicle. Officer Thompson was giving French a warning ticket for the mechanical violation; when he asked French to get out of the car. Then things just went completely out of c...
Amid economic uncertainty and a slowdown in hiring—particularly for technology and professional services sectors—the H1-B program has once again become a focal point in the debate over American jobs and immigration policy. The program allows foreign workers in specialty occupations to be employed by U.S. companies. Proponents argue that the program strengthens the U.S. economy in many ways by expanding the talent pool, complementing the native-born workforce, and attracting immigrant wor...
One quick online search or scroll through social media and you'll find an endless amount of weight loss advice. But it's hard to know what's backed by science and what's a waste of your time—or worse, what's downright dangerous. Below, Hers separates the fad from fact and busts some common weight loss myths. Myth 1: Losing Weight Is All About Willpower Willpower is a hopefully small part of weight loss, but it's not the only thing at play. If your weight loss efforts don't work or you regain s...
As anybody who has managed a workforce of substantial size already knows, Alabama has a drug and mental health problem; but the state and the University of Alabama are teaming up to help employers deal with this challenging element of the state's workforce. The state is offering businesses free training to help supervisors identify and respond to mental health and substance abuse issues within the workforce. The University of Alabama's VitAL partnership uses education and training to help...
March 10, 2025 - MOBILE, Ala. - Today, the Connie Hudson for Mayor Campaign introduced its campaign management team. The campaign leadership team includes Wiley Blankenship as Campaign Manager, Aqualyn Kennedy as Communications Director, and Dr. Raoul Richardson, PHD. as Community Outreach Director. Wiley Blankenship is well known in our coastal area for his work building one of the greatest advocacy groups in south Alabama. This month, Wiley left his position as President and CEO of Coastal...
March 10, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL - Wes Allen, Alabama's Secretary of State, has joined 20 other conservative Secretaries of State in writing to the Trump-appointed Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, requesting that needed improvements to the Systematic Alien Verifications for Entitlements (SAVE) program become a priority of her administration. SAVE is a service provided by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services branch of the Department of Homeland Security and used by...
Securing car insurance is required in nearly every state—except New Hampshire. When it comes to micromobility vehicles like electronic bikes, scooters, and mopeds, however, the same insurance rules don't always apply. Still, as sales for energy-efficient and environmentally friendly vehicles have grown over the years, so has awareness of their risks—and the number of insurance policies for these alternate modes of transportation. E-bike sales reached over 1 million for the first time in 202...
Gasoline prices have remained relatively flat compared to this time last month, but the cost to fill up the tank has declined by more than 25 cents per gallon since last year. The national average fuel price is about $3.11, with McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Texas, seeing the cheapest metro-area prices at $2.41 and Lihue, Hawaii, with the most expensive at $5.17. After a monthlong pause on tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports, the Trump administration proceeded this week to impose 25% tariffs on...
