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The judge granted a request to skip a decision about temporarily halting the data center's construction and move on to whether the project should end permanently. The next hearing is set for March.
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. The Rivals of Amziah King — Sidewalk, starts Friday. Grief Sucks: A One Man Show by KevOnStage — Lyric Theatre, 7:30 pm. Y’all Things Considered: Live — Saturn, August 15, 7pm.
Commentaries from Sean of the South
We've made changes to our program schedules. Your favorite show is still waiting for you, but it may be at a different time or perhaps a different day.
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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Indiana, Illinois and surrounding states are preparing for another stretch of flooding through this weekend. -
President Trump said the USS Abraham Lincoln deployment is "not nearly long enough." A family member of a sailor on board that ship said those comments are shameful. -
The White House memorandum is thin on details, but it aims to give private businesses the ability to sabotage or spy on certain foreign actors. -
Arday was 37 when he became Cambridge's youngest Black professor in 2023. He was found unresponsive Friday at a home in southwest London. -
Homero Calderón's detention by ICE spotlights the massive backlog in the U.S. immigration system.
