A member of the Alabama Ethics Commission has resigned after acknowledging that he might have broken a state law by making campaign contributions. Attorney Stan McDonald confirmed his resignation in a text message sent to The Associated Press late Thursday, several days after acknowledging he had made political contributions. Alabama law prohibits commission members from giving campaign donations to candidates or participating in other partisan political activity. McDonald...

A top former Biden campaign aide, who is serving as a CNN commentator, was blasted on social media over a comment discussing the death of O.J. Simpson and what he “represented” to the “Black community.” “He wasn’t a social justice leader, but he represented something for the Black community in that moment in that trial, particularly because there were two White people killed,” Ashley Allison, who served as...