• Jeff Coleman and Barry Moore will meet in a runoff for the District 2 U.S. House nomination in southeast Alabama. 
• Moore claimed the second runoff spot Wednesday against Coleman, the top vote-getter, as returns showed him leading third-place finisher Jessica Taylor by fewer than 600 of the more than 104,000 votes that were cast Tuesday. 
• Taylor issued a statement congratulating Moore on his strong finish. 
• The eventual winner will face Democrat Phyllis Harvey-Hall in November. The seat is currently held by U.S. Rep. Martha Roby, who isn't seeking reelection.

• Alabama is set to execute an inmate Thursday night for the murders of three police officers who were shot by another man in a hail of gunfire at a suspected crack house in 2004.
• Nathaniel Woods, 43, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the state prison in Holman unless the governor or courts intervene. 
• Woods and Kerry Spencer were convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in the slayings of the three Birmingham officers that rocked Alabama's largest city that year. Carlos Owen, Harley A. Chisolm III and Charles R. Bennett died in the gunfire while trying to serve a misdemeanor domestic assault warrant on Woods at a suspected drug house.
• Prosecutors have said Woods helped set up an ambush for the officers and should die for the killings even though he didn't pull the trigger on the high-powered rifle that killed the men. Such convictions are allowed under state law, and other people have been executed for “non-triggerman” slayings.
• But supporters including the son of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and Woods' family appealed for mercy, claiming the man received an unfair trial and that the death sentence was unjust.
• The U.S. Supreme Court turned down Woods' appeal in 2019 and the state set an execution date earlier this year.
• Read the full story from Kim Chandler HERE.

• A seemingly divided Supreme Court struggled Wednesday with its first major abortion case of the Trump era, leaving Chief Justice John Roberts as the likely deciding vote.
• Roberts did not say enough to tip his hand in an hour of spirited arguments at the high court. 
• The court's election-year look at a Louisiana dispute could reveal how willing the more conservative court is to roll back abortion rights. A decision should come by late June.
• The outcome could have huge consequences at a time when several states have passed laws, being challenged in the courts, that would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, as early as six weeks. 
• The justices are weighing a Louisiana law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. A federal judge found that just one of Louisiana's three abortion clinics would remain open if the law is allowed to take effect. The federal appeals court in New Orleans, though, upheld the law, setting up the Supreme Court case.
• Read the full story HERE.