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The Last Days of Roy Moore: Inside the Bewildering End of the Alabama Election
How Doug Jones vanquished Moore and delivered Donald Trump what may be the most damning loss of his tenure. By T.A. Frank.
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Charles Barkley reacts to Doug Jones’ Alabama senate win: ‘This is a wake-up call’
An Alabama native, Barkley campaigned for Jones leading up to Tuesday’s election. By Colin Ward-Henninger.
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Once a Long Shot, Democrat Doug Jones Wins Alabama Senate Race
Doug Jones, a former prosecutor, defeated scandal-scarred Roy S. Moore for the Senate seat once held by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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UN poverty official touring Alabama’s Black Belt: ‘I haven’t seen this’ in the First World
A United Nations official who tours the globe investigating extreme poverty said Thursday that areas of Alabama’s Black Belt are suffering the most dire sewage disposal crisis of any place he has visited in a developed country. By Connor Sheets.
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What I Saw Inside Roy Moore’s Barn Burner
The message made zero sense. People lapped it up. By Charles P. Pierce.
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Roy Moore Reemerges for an Election-Eve Rally, and Good Lord, Was It Weird
The rally in a remote barn featured Steve Bannon, a dig at Ivanka, a reference to Moore’s Jewish lawyer, and several inflatable alligators. By Olivia Nuzzi.
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In final-hour order, court rules that Alabama can destroy digital voting records after all
Alabama is allowed to destroy digital voting records created at the polls during today's U.S. Senate election after all. At 1:36 p.m. Monday, a Montgomery County Circuit Court judge issued an order directing Alabama election officials to preserve all digital ballot images created at polling places across the state today.
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‘We’re being suppressed’: Black Alabamians forced to cast provisional ballots
Dechauna Jiles was excited to cast a ballot on Tuesday for Democratic Senate candidate Doug Jones. She said her parents grew up two blocks from the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, which was bombed by the KKK during the civil rights movement, and it would be a dishonor to her family to not vote in this election. But when she arrived at her polling place, the First Assembly of God Church, on Tuesday morning, Jiles was told that she was “inactive” on the rolls and would have to cast a provisional ballot — a ballot that will not be counted unless she is able to verify her voter information.
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In final-hour order, court rules that Alabama can destroy digital voting records after all
Alabama is allowed to destroy digital voting records created at the polls during today's U.S. Senate election after all.
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Roy Moore Emerges from Self-Imposed Exile to Chat with 12-Year-Old Girl
The candidate for Alabama's Senate race—who's been accused of sexually pursuing teens in his 30s—sat down with Millie March to talk about border security. By Allie Conti.
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U.N. officials touring rural Alabama are shocked at the level of poverty and environmental degradation
Updated | A United Nations official investigating poverty in the United States was shocked at the level of environmental degradation in some areas of rural Alabama, saying he had never seen anything like it in the developed world. "I think it's very uncommon in the First World. This is not a sight that one normally sees. I'd have to say that I haven't seen this," Philip Alston, the U.N.'s Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, told Connor Sheets of AL.com earlier this week as they toured a community in Butler County where "raw sewage flows from homes through exposed PVC pipes and into open trenches and pits."
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A Racist Flyer Might Cost Doug Jones the Election Because the Entire Democratic Party Is Trash
While the policies of the party may be more progressive and black-friendly, the Democratic leadership is often as prejudiced and shortsighted as its Republican counterparts, and next week’s Senate election is the perfect example. By Michael Harriot.
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Alabama poll: Jones leads Moore by 4 points
GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore trails his Democratic opponent in the Alabama Senate race by 4 points in a new survey.
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Pastor Linked to Roy Moore Once Convicted for Trying to Destroy Evidence in Molestation Case
Here’s a weird detail spun out of the Roy Moore situation in Alabama. The GOP Senate nominee, who is running for office despite numerous allegations that he sought relationships with teenage girls as an adult, held a Wednesday event at Magnolia Springs Baptist Church in Mobile. There, Rev. Bill Atkinson led singing, AL.com reports. Alabamans may remember him for his 2012 conviction for obstruction and conspiracy. A federal jury found him guilty for interfering in an investigation into his son.
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Roy Moore Just Blamed His Sexual Misconduct Allegations On Lesbians, Gays, And Socialists
Speaking from a church pulpit in Alabama, the Republican Senate candidate said the "lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender...socialists" are behind the "malicious" allegations against him.
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53 pastors sign letter of support for Roy Moore
Kayla Moore, wife of Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, shared a letter on Facebook over the weekend indicating support from more than 50 Alabama pastors. Not all the pastors said they gave permission for their name to be be used on what appears to be a recycled letter from before the GOP primary, however.
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Report: Alabama Mall Banned Roy Moore in the ’80s for Pursuing Teens
Local cops say Moore had been “run out” of the mall for trying to pick up high school dates.
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Another Roy Moore accuser to come forward; alleging sexual assault while she was a minor
Famed attorney Gloria Allred says she and a new accuser who alleges Roy Moore sexually assaulted her as a minor will hold a press conference Monday afternoon.
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Walmart shopper hurt while buying melon wins $7.5M verdict
An Alabama man who said he tripped and broke his hip while buying a watermelon at a Walmart store has won a $7.5 million verdict in his lawsuit against the retailer. Henry Walker on Wednesday was awarded the damages after a jury trial in Phenix City, Alabama, just west of the Georgia state line, court records show. Walker had sued Arkansas-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc., saying his foot became trapped in a pallet beneath the watermelons as he reached for one of the fruits at a Phenix City Walmart on June 25, 2015.
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Woman says Roy Moore initiated sexual encounter when she was 14, he was 32
Alabama resident Leigh Corfman said that in 1979, when Moore was an assistant district attorney, he brought her to his home and touched her sexually. Three other women said that Moore – now a candidate for U.S. Senate -- pursued them when they were teenagers and he was in his early 30s.
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