Gilbertown is the site of the first producing oil well in Alabama. First permitted oil well in Alabama. The first permit to drill an oil well in Alabama, the A. R. Jackson Well No. 1, was granted to the Hunt Oil Company on January 2, 1944, near Gilbertown.
Donald Trump is calling for the deportation of millions of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally and for the end of automatic citizenship for children born to foreigners on U.S. soil, adding specifics to the hard-line immigration stance that first helped his Republican presidential campaign take flight.
Ruth Sherlock, our US editor, reports from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where Donald Trump spoke to police union leaders: Donald Trump has said he will impose the death penalty on anybody who kills a police officer, if he is elected to become president of the United States. He also defended his plan to ban Muslims from entering the US in response to recent terror attacks, controversial comments that attracted hundreds of protesters.