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• Three Americans Killed in ISIS Attack in Syria

  04-12-2025 19:31 via alabamagazette.com
  
  On December 13, a deadly ambush by a lone ISIS gunman in the central Syrian town of Palmyra claimed the lives of two U.S. Army soldiers and a civilian interpreter, while three others were wounded, according to statements from the Pentagon and U.S. Central Command. The incident occurred as U.S. forces were conducting a key leader engagement in support of ongoing counter-ISIS and counterterrorism...
  
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• Why shoppers around the world abandon carts and what they expect from international checkout in 2026

  28-12-2025 18:14 via alabamagazette.com
  
  Why shoppers around the world abandon carts and what they expect from international checkout in 2026 Global e-commerce has crossed the $6 trillion mark and according to Shopify, cross-border commerce is now growing faster than domestic sales in many regions. As more shoppers buy from brands outside their home country, the opportunity for global sales continues to accelerate. But, as Passport...
  
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• Why more doctors are prescribing GLP-1s for small amounts of weight loss

  28-12-2025 18:14 via alabamagazette.com
  
  Why more doctors are prescribing GLP-1s for small amounts of weight loss GLP-1 medications like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Zepbound have quickly become tools for helping people with obesity and diabetes lose weight and lower blood sugar. But emerging research suggests these medicines may also offer healthspan–extending benefits for people without these conditions. A growing number of clinicians view GLP...
  
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• Why many first-time investors choose a hard money loan

  28-12-2025 18:14 via alabamagazette.com
  
  Why many first-time investors choose a hard money loan The real estate investment arena hasn’t exactly been rolling out the red carpet for new investors, but things are about to change. According to industry insiders, we’re stepping into a Goldilocks zone over the next six to 12 months. For the last few years, you couldn't breathe on a property without ten cash offers beating you. That frenzy...
  
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• When Criminal Regimes Finally Face Consequences

  28-12-2025 18:14 via alabamagazette.com
  
  Let's get something straight right up front. What just happened in Venezuela was not recklessness. It was long delayed accountability. This operation was carried out by brave men and women of the United States military, many of whom will never be named and will never be publicly recognized. They executed their mission with discipline, precision, and professionalism, placing duty above...
  
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• What to eat when you have the flu: 5 foods to eat and 3 foods to avoid

  28-12-2025 18:14 via alabamagazette.com
  
  What to eat when you have the flu: 5 foods to eat and 3 foods to avoid When the flu hits, your body needs more than just rest. Proper nutrition plays a crucial role in helping your immune system fight off the virus and recover faster. Eating the right foods can reduce symptoms like fatigue, congestion, and sore throat, while avoiding certain foods can prevent aggravating your condition. Flu...
  
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• What therapists tell clients about getting through January

  28-12-2025 18:14 via alabamagazette.com
  
  What therapists tell clients about getting through January The holidays are over, the credit card bill just hit, and the sun sets at 4:47 p.m. If you’re feeling more drained than motivated right now, there’s a biological reason: Research shows that mood-regulating serotonin activity drops during darker months, while melatonin production increases. In other words, your body is telling you to slow d...
  
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• What cities have the biggest housing shortage?

  28-12-2025 18:14 via alabamagazette.com
  
  What cities have the biggest housing shortage? Housing affordability and availability are top of mind for buyers and homeowners all over the country. Housing prices nationwide have increased about 25% since the start of the pandemic in 2020, which is largely a result of housing demand exceeding the current supply. According to Freddie Mac, there’s a U.S. housing shortage of 3.7 million units as of...
  
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• Want to save more money this year? Put it on your calendar

  28-12-2025 18:14 via alabamagazette.com
  
  Want to save more money this year? Put it on your calendar Most people approach saving money with good intentions, but it can be challenging to stay on track without the right tools. One surprisingly simple solution is implementing a financial calendar. The visual nature of a calendar may help you view your savings goals as more pressing than a simple to-do list. Forbright Bank explains how it...
  
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• Venezuelans Celebrate Worldwide After U.S. Forces Seize Nicolás Maduro

  28-12-2025 18:14 via alabamagazette.com
  
  When news broke that U.S. forces had captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro in a dramatic overnight military operation, Venezuelan communities across the United States - from Miami to Dallas to Cincinnati - poured into the streets in celebration. For many, it was the moment they had waited for through years of repression, economic collapse, and separation from loved ones. Crowds gathered before...
  
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• USF Quarterback Byrum Brown signs with Auburn

  28-12-2025 18:14 via alabamagazette.com
  January 6, 2025 - AUBURN, Ala. — University of South Florida Quarterback Byrum Brown has signed with Auburn Tigers football team, following former USF head coach Alex Golesh to the Plains. Brown led all FBS quarterbacks in 2025 with 42 total touchdowns while averaging 347.2 yards of offense per game. The 6-foot-3, 232-pound senior from Raleigh, North Carolina, dominated defenses through the air an...
  
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• U.S. Reduces Number of Childhood Vaccines Recommended: A Major Shift in National Immunization Policy

  28-12-2025 18:14 via alabamagazette.com
  
  January 6, 2026 – WASHINGTON, D,C. – In January the United States undertook the most sweeping revision of its childhood immunization schedule in decades, reducing the number of universally recommended vaccines from 17 diseases to 11. The move was announced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and approved by Acting Director Jim O'Neill. President Donald J. Trump (R) said on...
  
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• U.S. Launches Christmas Day Airstrikes on ISIS Targets in Nigeria After Trump's Announcement

  28-12-2025 18:14 via alabamagazette.com
  
  December 26, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Donald J. Trump (R) used Christmas night to deliver one of the most consequential foreign‑policy announcements of his second term, revealing that U.S. forces had carried out what he described as "powerful and deadly" airstrikes against ISIS militants in northwest Nigeria. The strikes, conducted in coordination with the Nigerian government,...
  
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• U.S. Invasion of Panama Marked First Combat Use of Stealth Aircraft

  28-12-2025 18:14 via alabamagazette.com
  
  December 20, 1989 - In the early hours of December 20, 1989, the United States launched Operation Just Cause, a large‑scale military invasion of Panama aimed at removing strongman Manuel Noriega from power and restoring the country's elected government. The operation would become one of the most significant U.S. military actions of the late Cold War - and the first to feature the combat use o...
  
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• U.S. Enforcement of Law Against Transnational Corruption: The Maduro Case

  28-12-2025 18:14 via alabamagazette.com
  For years, Venezuela’s collapse has been treated as a tragedy without a remedy. Under failed socialist rule, citizens have endured widespread corruption, violence, election manipulation, inhumane conditions, and rampant crime. The economy systematically crippled as the one-party state, in its quest for control at the expense of its people, dismantled the private sector. To shield this oppression f...
  
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• U.S. Builds Up Forces in the Caribbean as Tensions With Venezuela Escalate

  28-12-2025 18:14 via alabamagazette.com
  
  The United States is rapidly expanding its military presence in the Caribbean as tensions with Venezuela reach their highest point in decades. What began as a series of U.S. strikes on alleged drug‑smuggling boats has now evolved into the largest American military buildup in the region since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, according to multiple reports. The escalation has triggered warnings from th...
  
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• UAH Senior Development Officer Dr. Helen Lien receives 2025 Lamplighter Award from Alabama League for Nursing

  28-12-2025 18:14 via alabamagazette.com
  
  HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (DEC 23, 2025) – Dr. Helen Lien appreciates the vital work of the dedicated professionals in the College of Nursing at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), and the feeling is mutual. Lien, the college's senior development officer, received the 2025 Lamplighter Award from the Alabama League for Nursing (ALN) after being nominated by Dr. Karen Frith, dean of the colle...
  
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• "Tuxedo Junction" Documentary Showing On January 18th, 2026

  28-12-2025 18:14 via alabamagazette.com
  
  "Way down south in Birmingham, I mean south in Alabam', There's an old place where people go, To dance the night away." So go the lyrics to the 1940s Number One Hit, "Tuxedo Junction". A popular big band era song that was recorded by none other than the Glenn Miller Orchestra. And as the words to the song state, it is about none other than "Tuxedo Junction"...
  
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• Tuscaloosa's 2025 housing market year in review

  28-12-2025 18:14 via alabamagazette.com
  
  Alena Mozhjer // Shutterstock Tuscaloosa's 2025 housing market year in review In 2025, the U.S. housing market largely continued the sluggish trends that have defined the post-pandemic years: high prices, elevated mortgage rates, and persistent economic uncertainty. Historically few homes sold through November 2025, and as sellers struggled to find buyers, many chose not to list at all. That...
  
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• Tuberville Says Huntsville Is Poised to Lead America's Next Era of Missile Defense

  28-12-2025 18:14 via alabamagazette.com
  
  When Senator Tommy Tuberville talks about national defense, he often frames it through a simple lens: America's security is only as strong as the innovation behind it. That theme was front and center in late December when he highlighted Huntsville's growing role in the nation's next major missile‑defense initiative - a system he referred to as the "Golden Dome." "The...
  
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• Tuberville Honors Pat Downing of Mobile as January "Veteran of the Month"

  28-12-2025 18:14 via alabamagazette.com
  
  January 6, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) released a video honoring U.S. Army Colonel Patrick Downing as the January "Veteran of the Month." Excerpts of Sen. Tuberville's remarks can be found below, and complete remarks can be found here. "The military will take you all over the world, but Sweet Home Alabama has a way of bringing people ba...
  
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• Trump Is Right. America Cannot Afford to Be Late Again

  28-12-2025 18:14 via alabamagazette.com
  
  President Donald Trump is right about fentanyl, the border, and confronting threats early, and the cost of ignoring that truth is measured in dead American children. As a Navy SEAL, I learned a lesson that is written in blood and my memory, not theory or politics. Threats are far cheaper to stop early than to fight later, when lives are already lost and families are already grieving. That lesson...
  
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• Trump announces new class of American battleships

  28-12-2025 18:14 via alabamagazette.com
  
  December 23, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Donald J. Trump (R), Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced their intent to construct a new class of American-designed battleships. Trump promised that the new ship will be the most lethal surface combatant ever constructed. The first ship in the new Trump class will be the USS Defiant (BBG 1). The Trump...
  
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• Top Ten Stories of 2025

  28-12-2025 18:14 via alabamagazette.com
  
  December 31, 2025 – MONTGOMERY – 2025 is about to fade into memory. 2025 had a lot of familiar faces making news. The Alabama Gazette reminisces on the biggest stories it covered during the year. Number one has to be the return of Donald J. Trump to the presidency. Whether you love him, hate him, or are indifferent few Presidents are in the news as much as Trump is. His return to power, complete w...
  
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• Top science stories of 2025

  28-12-2025 18:14 via alabamagazette.com
  
  Top science stories of 2025 2025 was a year of turmoil for many scientists — particularly in the United States, where job cuts and budget slashing have left many reeling. But it was also a year of promising advances in fields from gene therapy to quantum computing. In the U.S., executive orders by President Donald Trump led to the loss of thousands of jobs in government agencies, including NASA, w...
  
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• The United States has toppled the Maduro government in Venezuela

  28-12-2025 18:14 via alabamagazette.com
  
  January 3, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Donald J. Trump (R) announced on Friday that the U.S. military has toppled the Venezuelan dictator Nicholas Maduro. President Trump said on Truth Social – "The United States of America has successfully carried out a large-scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas Maduro, who has been, along with his wife, captured and flown...
  
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• The "Super Bowl Effect": How major events cause a spike in travel by private jet

  28-12-2025 18:14 via alabamagazette.com
  
  The "Super Bowl effect": How major events cause a spike in travel by private jet The Super Bowl is the most high-profile sporting event in the United States, drawing around 70,000 spectators each year. At its peak, attendance has surpassed 103,000 people, which is roughly the population of a mid-sized American city. What sets the event apart is the unique blend of elite sportsmanship...
  
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• The Practice Of Sheep Stealing

  28-12-2025 18:14 via alabamagazette.com
  A colleague accosted me in the Monday morning pastors meeting after Bob and Kay joined our church the day before. He told me he’d invested many hours in marital counseling leading to their recommitment, and he was disturbed to hear they’d presented themselves for membership in our church. He believed I’d “courted” and persuaded them to leave his church. I’m still unsure how he knew this so quickly...
  
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• The Night the Rhine Broke: December 31, 406 and the Invasion of Gaul

  28-12-2025 18:14 via alabamagazette.com
  
  On the final night of the year 406, as the Roman world prepared to welcome a new year under the consulship of Arcadius and Probus, one of the most consequential border breaches in European history unfolded. Along the frozen or weakened stretches of the Rhine River - Rome's most secure frontier in the northwest - a coalition of Vandals, Alans, and Suebians crossed into Roman Gaul. Ancient...
  
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• The new standard for safe luxury: The safety features that could be required on every private jet by 2030

  28-12-2025 18:14 via alabamagazette.com
  
  The new standard for safe luxury: The safety features that could be required on every private jet by 2030 Private aviation is entering a decade that will define the industry like never before. What was once a sector primarily associated with convenience and luxury is increasingly being shaped by a different driver: safety technology. As private flight activity continues to grow, spurred by...
  
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