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The U.S. Senate, circumventing holds by Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville, on Thursday confirmed the nominations of two senior military leaders, including the first female member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The Senate has passed a massive annual defense bill that would deliver a 5.2% pay raise for service members and keep the nation's military operating, avoiding partisan policy battles with an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote. Still unresolved, though, is Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville's refusal to allow the quick confirmation of hundreds of military nominations and promotions in the Senate.

The U.S. Marine Corps is without a confirmed leader for the first time in a century as General David Berger stepped down as commandant and Republican Alabama U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama continues blocking his replacement.

An appeals court will begin hearing arguments today at 1 p.m. that could impact the sale of the federally-approved abortion drug Mifepristone.

State battles over abortion are leading to state constitutional amendments – an option in all states and available directly to citizens in 18 states. Before the Dobbs ruling, abortion-related amendments invariably sought to limit protection for abortion rights by clarifying that there is no state constitutional right to abortion.

Monday marks the start of the first full week since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Roe Versus Wade decision legalizing abortion. A Montgomery federal judge also just removed an injunction to a 2019 Alabama law that makes abortions a felony. The West Alabama Women’s Center in Tuscaloosa provided fifty percent of the procedures in the state. The clinic says one hundred patients have already been turned away.

A Montgomery federal judge lifted an injunction against Alabama’s 2019 Human Life Protection Act, officially making abortions a felony in the state. Judge Myron Thompson order states that the legal argument against Alabama’s ban no longer exists following action by the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the Roe Versus Wade decision that gave constitutional protections to women seeking end their pregnancies.

A lot of the focus in Alabama, following the U.S. Supreme Court decision to strike down Roe V, Wade, has centered on the state’s 2019 Human Life Protection act. The measure would make it a felony to conduct an abortion in Alabama. The law is under a current court injunction, but the state’s Attorney General could reportedly take action to reinstate it. That apparently isn’t what’s really concerning abortion providers and their patients in Alabama.

The latest fallout related to Alabama’s new abortion law could occur this week in Tuscaloosa.The University of Alabama's board of trustees will consider…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal lawsuit filed Friday asks a judge to block an Alabama law that outlaws almost all abortions, the most far-reaching…