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Alabama's 2026 Senate and Congressional Primaries Heat Up with Q1 Fundraising Reports

The clock is ticking on Alabama's May 19th Republican primaries — and this week's campaign finance reports tell us a lot about who has the money and the momentum heading into the final stretch.

Let's start with the U.S. Senate race to fill Tommy Tuberville's seat. Tuberville, of course, is stepping aside to run for governor. Three candidates are leading the pack — and all three posted solid first-quarter numbers.

Congressman Barry Moore, who has Trump's endorsement and the backing of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, raised just under $1 million combined through his campaign and joint fundraising committee. He's sitting on about $850,000. Former Navy SEAL Jared Hudson raised roughly $550,000 — all of it from individual donors, no PAC money — and a super PAC aligned with his campaign has now pulled in close to $1 million on its own in 2026. Attorney General Steve Marshall raised about $350,000, and while that's the smallest Q1 haul of the three frontrunners, he's got a war chest of around $518,000. Recent polling shows a three-way dead heat, with about a third of likely Republican voters still making up their minds.

Now, shifting over to Alabama's First Congressional District — Moore's current seat, which he's vacating to run for Senate. This race has its own tight battle at the top. Former Congressman Jerry Carl, who narrowly lost this seat to Moore back in 2024, raised about $382,000 in Q1 and has roughly $434,000 cash on hand.

His main challenger is State Representative Rhett Marques out of Enterprise. Marques raised about $202,000 this quarter — but here's the thing — he's got the biggest war chest in the race at $826,000, built up over a longer campaign. Marques also has the endorsement of Senator Katie Britt. Recent polling has Carl with a slight lead, but Marques is closing the gap.

Both primaries are five weeks away on May 19th. Between the Senate race and the First District, Alabama Republicans have some big decisions to make — and the money is already flying.
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Trump vows answers on 10 ‘missing’ scientists: ‘I hope it’s random’

WASHINGTON — President Trump declared Thursday that his administration will have an answer within the next few days to questions about 10 scientists who have mysteriously died or disappeared over the past three years.

Theories about the scientists have spread online, but there is no known evidence of a connection between those deaths and disappearances.

“I hope it’s random, but we’re going to know in the next week and a half,” Trump told reporters on the South Lawn before jetting off to Las Vegas, noting he had just left a meeting on that subject. “Pretty serious stuff … hopefully a coincidence, or whatever you want to call it.”
“Some of them were very important people, and we’re going to look at it over the next short period,” he went on.

When asked by a reporter whether a foreign adversary could be behind the disappearances, Trump dinged his predecessor, chiding that “Well, Biden had open borders; it wasn’t very hard to get here.”
Among the missing scientists is retired Air Force Maj. Gen. William “Neil” McCasland, who went missing from his home in Albuquerque, NM, according to local officials. Investigators claimed he said he experienced “mental fog” before vanishing.

McCasland, who retired in 2013 and vanished Feb. 27, had worked in top positions pertaining to space research and acquisition. His name appeared in the WikiLeaks dump of Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s emails, with a UFO enthusiast, Tom DeLonge, claiming to have conversed with him on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs).
The retired general left his phone, glasses, and personal devices at his home. Authorities noted that his wallet, hiking boots, and 38‑caliber revolver were missing.

His wife has publicly denied conspiracy theories that he had “any special knowledge about [alien] bodies and debris” from the notorious and mysterious 1947 Roswell incident.
Other missing scientists include: Melissa Casias, who had a security clearance at Los Alamos National Laboratory and vanished last June; Anthony Chavez, a retired Los Alamos National Laboratory worker who went missing last May; Jason Thomas, who led Novartis’ chemical biology team and was found dead this past March; NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer Frank Maiwald who died in 2024; famous MIT physicist Nuno Loureiro who was shot dead last December; exoplanet research Carl Grillmair, who was killed in February; Steven Garcia, who worked on security for a producer of non-nuclear components in American-made nukes and went missing in August of last year; and aerospace engineer Monica Jacinto Reza, who went missing last June.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked during a Wednesday briefing about the missing scientists, and reports that they “had access to classified nuclear or aerospace material.”

“I haven’t spoken to our relevant agencies about it,” she replied. “I will certainly do that, and we’ll get you an answer. If true, of course, that’s definitely something I think this government, administration would deem work worth looking into.”

Trump vows answers on 10 'missing' scientists: 'I hope it’s random'