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After one of the most chaotic and least productive U.S. House sessions in modern history, voters made a surprising choice in elections — they overwhelmingly stuck with the status quo. Republicans will hold onto a thin majority in the House. Democrat Shomari Figures win in Alabama’s new District 2 in the state’s black belt, and a new minority majority seat in Louisiana may help keep the balance of power tighter.

Based on Donald Trump's first term and his campaign statements, the United States will become less predictable, more chaotic, colder to allies and warmer to some strongmen, and much more transactional in picking friends globally than before. European country where all this seems okay is Serbia. That’s according to Tamara Bajcic. She’s CEO of the fact checking, anti-disinformation, think tank in Belgrade called DEMOSTAT. APR first met Bajcic at the invitation of the U.S. State Department.

A federal judge has ordered Virginia to restore more than 1,600 voter registrations that she said were illegally purged in the last two months in an effort to stop noncitizens from voting. The judge granted the injunction request Friday after a hearing in Alexandria, Virginia. Similar court actions were taken in Alabama last week.

Birmingham Mayor Randall L. Woodfin joined President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris this week in the East Room of the White House to address gun violence in America. He highlighted the impact of gun violence in light of a mass shooting that happened Saturday at Hush Lounge.

In battleground states, a network of Republican political operatives and lawyers is trying to shape the November's election in favor of former President Donald Trump. They're propping up liberal third-party candidates such as Cornel West and Jill Stein in the hopes that those candidates will siphon off votes from Democrat Kamala Harris. The Associated Press reports one key figure is the former Chief of Staff to former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman.

Vice presidential nominee Tim Walz and former President Bill Clinton headlined day three of the Democratic National Convention. The crowd also heard from Republicans with the message of “quit Trump.” That included a GOP voter from Alabama.

Today marks fifty years since President Richard Nixon resigned from office during the fallout from the Watergate scandal. Operatives allegedly linked to the Commander-In-Chief broke into the Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate Hotel next to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. A Congressional committee investigation led by North Carolina U.S. Senator Sam Ervin, punctuated by testimony by former House counsel John Dean, grabbed the headlines. But, two Alabama lawmakers reportedly helped seal Nixon’s fate.

Fifteen states, including Alabama, filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Biden administration over a rule that is expected to allow 100,000 immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children to enroll next year in the federal Affordable Care Act's health insurance.

NAACP leaders, nationally and here in Alabama, issued statements following President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw his name from the November race for the White House.

Alabama Republican House Gary Palmer joined Speaker of the House Mike Johnson in demanding that President Joe Biden resign from the White House. This move came after Biden dropped out of the 2024 race for the White House on Sunday.