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Alabama Power has guaranteed that residents' power bills won't increase as a result. Can the state's largest utility keep its promise?
This Weekend Today
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Here's your round up of events to check out in Birmingham this weekend from BHMSTR's Sam George.
Commentaries from Sean of the South
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Gulf States Newsroom
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Photo courtesy of New Orleans City ArchivesTanner Riley has spent years searching for his grandfather's NOPD service records. What he found revealed something deeper about memory, history and the people willing to preserve both. -
Avery White/WWNOResearch shows that many children don’t read enough and are behind when they return to school. One way to encourage more reading, experts say, is to let them read what they want.
News from NPR
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The U.S. stopped issuing visas for citizens of 75 countries because it said they were likely to need public assistance. A judge ruled the policy illegally discriminated on the basis of nationality. -
Dozens of cities have canceled their contracts with Flock. Some are switching to other companies, but privacy experts say they're no better than Flock. -
If Watchmen taught us that you can use superheroes to excavate the cracked foundations of the American experience, Lanterns seems content to linger in the shadow of another HBO prestige genre series, True Detective. -
The U.S. has now imposed 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian products. Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada will match those tariffs "dollar for dollar" next month. -
A legal battle over what looks like a cartoon stick could help set the rules over whether creators can claim ownership of their AI-generated characters.
