Wake Up Call: Alabama’s Jones, a Lawyer With a Knack For Timing

• Doug Jones unexpectedly beat Republican Roy S. Moore for the Alabama U.S. Senate seat vacated by U.S. attorney general Jeff Sessions, and will be the state’s first Democratic senator in a quarter century. One of Jones’ law partners told the Times that Jones has a Forrest Gump-like knack for being where the action is. He made his mark as a former U.S. attorney in Birmingham, in particular by prosecuting two Ku Klux Klansmen in a deadly church bombing. ( Associated Press via Bloomberg ) ( New York Times ) ( Washington Post )

• As the Federal Communications Commission prepares to ...