Alabama

• Free beer was offered at HBCU event in Montgomery before shootout
• Governor Ivey says state is looking at all option to address crime in capital
• Anti-death penalty group protests execution planned for Anthony Boyd
• AG Steve Marshall pleased that FBI breaks ties/contracts with SPLC
• AFL obtains docs showing SPLC influence on Biden's DOJ agenda
• Congressman Moore talks about effort to return kidnapped child to US
• Queer criminology in textbooks used at Auburn University 

National

• WH  says furloughs will move to firings during government shutdown
• Chicago mayor declares ICE free zones within parts of city
• VA governor calls for Jay Jones to end campaign for AG after murderous texts
• VA Prosecutor refuses to charge NY AG Letitia James with mortgage fraud
• DOJ to appeal judge's light sentence for Brett Kavanaugh would be assassin
• CDC acting director wants MMR combo vaccine to be separated into individual shots