7. A small North Alabama town is fighting back against a bitcoin mining center that they has “crushed so many hopes” as residents push back with one woman claiming, “A data center is not a neighbor that we were looking forward to. It’s in essence a pest, a big ugly pest; it never migrates, has no dormancy period, never sleeps, never even stops to breathe. It just consumes and screams 24/7/365 days a year without producing any measurable benefit to the quiet corner of the woods, and invades.”

6. Outgoing outspoken Huntsville City School board member Andrea Alvarez announced an doomed-to-fail lawsuit over the Choose Act as she raises funds for a legal effort challenging the school choice legislation that expands options for Alabama families.

5. A new poll finds a majority of parents want TV shows to label LGBTQAI+ content for children, U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise), who is also running for U.S. Senate, is pushing a bill that would enforce such labeling requirements on entertainment media.

4. Chevron and other big oil companies continue to face scrutiny over gas prices as President Donald Trump and the administration examine factors driving fuel costs across the country, with Chevron’s CFO saying, “It’s going to take time, though. There is a lag between, you know, oil prices and reductions in oil prices, and when that shows up at the pump, but we expect that prices will come down as things continue to normalize.”

3. A major health care fraud takedown swept up a Phenix City provider in what the Department of Justice called the largest Medicaid fraud case in history, as federal authorities targeted schemes costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.

2. President Donald Trump’s meeting with GOP senators “explodes” into a shouting match over Iran as senators argued with the President about the Iran conflict, then the U.S. Senate later walked back a vote on war powers related to the conflict.

1. President Donald Trump delayed the signing of a housing bill U.S. Senators Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) and Governor-elect National Championship-winning Coach Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) split over and called for the passage of the SAVE America Act, while U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise), who will not take his place in the higher chamber until January 2027, backed the delay as leverage to force a vote on the SAVE America Act, which can’t clear the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster without either a change to U.S. Senate rules or a reconciliation workaround.

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Dale Jackson is a thought leader for Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 5-9 a.m. weekdays on WVNN.