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Mike Rogers on the Caribbean ‘double-tap’: Down in Alabama
A legal strike?
As members of the House Armed Services Committee mull the legality of the U.S. military’s reported so-called “double tap” attack that destroyed an alleged drug boat and then killed two survivors off the coast of Venezuela, Committee Chair and Alabama 3 Congressman Mike Rogers said he’s personally been persuaded that the strike was legal, reports AL.com’s Mike Cason.
That’s based on classified briefings and a viewing of video footage of the incident. He wants the rest of the committee to get a chance to see that video.
Of course, there are multiple takes by lawmakers who’ve seen the classified material. Connecticut’s Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, called for the video to be released to the public and said he has spent “years looking at videos of lethal action taken, often in the terrorism context, and this video was profoundly shaking.”
A teacher’s accolade
There are all kinds of awards out there. The are super prestigious national and international awards that make headlines. Awards in your profession. Your local pickleball-league awards.
The best kind of awards? Quite possibly the ones that come with a $25,000 check.
Not to knock the nice recognition.
Pike County’s Goshen High School agriscience teacher Christian Stanley became one of only 30 winners of the 2025 Milken Educator Award, reports AL.com’s Williesha Morris. He’s the only Alabamian to win the award this year.
The Milken Family Foundation began the program in 1987.
Stanley teaches animal and dairy science, horticulture, landscape design, floral design and agriscience explorations. As for the 25 large, in a press interview posted to the foundation’s YouTube page he said he has a month-old son who now has a college fund.
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