Good News: New promising vaccine for malaria, and India’s Elon Musk creates a solar-powered car
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How Do Election Recounts Work? What You Need To Know.
Though it looks like Democratic nominee Joe Biden has won, the outcome of the presidential election is so close in…
Stephen Colbert Shreds Governor’s Mask-Law Ban With Really Gross Joke
Stephen Colbert blasted Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp for prohibiting cities from ordering people to wear masks in public places. (See…
Coronavirus live updates: Florida hits new coronavirus daily record
A novel coronavirus pandemic has now killed more than 525,000 people worldwide. More than 10.8 million people across the globe…
As monuments fall, Confederate carving has size on its side
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. — Some statues of figures from America’s slave-owning past have been yanked down by protesters, others dismantled…
Georgia Bill Would Stop Officials From Mailing Absentee Ballot Applications
ATLANTA (AP) — Republicans controlling a Georgia House committee approved legislation Wednesday that would prevent election officials from proactively sending…
Extremely Long Lines At Georgia Polling Places Lead To Claims Of Voter Suppression
Thousands of voters in Georgia participating in Tuesday’s primary elections have experienced major delays, with reports of long lines and…
Georgia’s Primary Election Was A National Scandal
Thousands of Georgia voters waited for up to seven hours in lines that stretched blocks during the state’s primary election…
Migos’ Quavo Celebrates High School Graduation By Dropping A New Song
Quavo walks it like he talks it and just revealed he’s officially a high school graduate. The 29-year-old rapper shared…
Investigators execute search warrants for home of Ahmaud Arbery’s alleged killers
Ahmaud Arbery’s family attorney slams the release of past police body cam video. May 20, 2020, 11:16 PM 6 min…
Justice Department Weighing Hate Crime Charges In Ahmaud Arbery Shooting Case
The Department of Justice announced Monday it is considering whether to bring federal hate crime charges against two white men…
Ahmaud Arbery’s Dad Wants Son’s Killers Caught ‘Before They Lynch Anybody Else’s Kids’
The father of Ahmaud Arbery, the unarmed Black man fatally shot by two white men who pursued him while he…
Michigan, California move to reopen factories as U.S. jobless ranks grow
DETROIT/SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – Michigan and California, two U.S. manufacturing powerhouses, acted on Thursday to allow factories to reopen from…
Father and son charged with murder of unarmed black man Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia
Arbery was shot to death on a jog in February. May 8, 2020, 12:16 AM 6 min read 6 min…
Audio Confirms 911 Calls Made About ‘Black Guy’ Running Before Ahmaud Arbery Killing
Audio recordings of two 911 calls released by The Guardian on Thursday confirm previously reported transcripts and provide details about…
Ahmaud Arbery’s Parents Demand Arrests More Than 2 Months After Son Shot Dead
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The parents of a black man slain in a pursuit by two white men armed with…
Cellphone video shows a Georgia jogger allegedly ambushed by 2 gunmen
Ahmaud Arbery’s 26th birthday would have been May 8. Instead, his family will be mourning his death and seeking justice…
New York’s Cuomo warns against ‘blindly’ reopening states
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Saturday pushed back against what he called premature demands that…
Severe weather outbreak expected South to the Midwest
Record and historic heat is expected in the Southwest for the next several days. April 28, 2020, 12:35 PM 3…
As U.S. coronavirus death toll tops 51,000, handful of states move toward reopening
ATLANTA (Reuters) – With the U.S. coronavirus death toll topping 51,000 and nearly one in six workers out of a…
Coronavirus updates: Pandemic could cause famines of ‘biblical proportions’
A global pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 176,000 people worldwide. Over 2.5 million people across…
Democrat Raphael Warnock Leads Crowded Georgia Senate Race With Big Fundraising Haul
Out of the 21 candidates running for U.S. Senate in Georgia’s special election race, it was the Rev. Raphael Warnock…
Pregnant Reporter Was Inside News Van When Pregnant Woman Carjacked It
Atlanta TV reporter Iyani Hughes ended up making the news herself Tuesday morning after her news van was carjacked by…
Tornado outbreak expected today in South, powerful winds coming to Northeast
There are over 60 reports of severe weather from Texas to Kansas. April 12, 2020, 10:23 AM 5 min read…
Fired Kansas City school worker blames bosses for faked data
A fired Kansas City Public Schools secretary who was among seven employees accused of falsifying attendance data in a bid…
Stacey Abrams ‘absolutely’ wants to run for president one day, but says she’d accept a VP slot in 2020
Stacey Abrams, the former Georgia gubernatorial candidate who’s now focusing on tackling voter suppression head on, said she “absolutely” sees…
DA deciding whether to investigate James Brown’s death
A prosecutor in Atlanta is deciding whether to open a formal investigation into singer James Brown’s death February 13, 2020,…
Wreckage of small jet found north of Atlanta
The wreckage of a small jet has been found in a remote area of Georgia, north of Atlanta February 9,…
Dragon Con co-founder reaches plea deal in hacking case
A co-founder of Dragon Con has reached a plea deal in a case that accused him and three others of…
Major storm moving East with heavy snow and severe weather
14 states are on alert for heavy snow and flooding from California to Georgia. February 4, 2020, 1:42 PM 4…
Pastor Of Historic Atlanta Church Announces Campaign For U.S. Senate
ATLANTA (AP) — The Rev. Raphael Warnock, pastor of the Atlanta church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. preached,…
After brain surgery, Jimmy Carter returns to hometown church
Former President Jimmy Carter publicly appeared at the Georgia church where he worships for the first time since undergoing brain…
Texas man to be exonerated after DNA leads to new arrest
Authorities say they will begin the process to exonerate a Houston man who was convicted in a 2010 fatal stabbing…
Mariners told to use ‘extreme caution’ after Russian spy ship spotted off East Coast
A U.S. Navy destroyer, the USS Mahan, is shadowing the Russian ship. December 18, 2019, 12:54 AM 5 min read…
Shooting at suburban Atlanta mall injures 1 as shoppers flee
A shooting in a mall food court in suburban Atlanta has left one man wounded and sent shoppers fleeing in…
Runner apologizes for slapping reporter’s rear on live TV
A Georgia man says he’s sorry for slapping a news reporter’s rear end on live TV while she was covering…
Mom charged after police say she abandoned special needs son
Police charged a mother with cruelty to children after a special needs teenager was found abandoned at a downtown Atlanta…
Georgia Teen Planned To Attack Predominantly Black Church: Police
ATLANTA (AP) — A white 16-year-old girl is accused of plotting to attack a mostly black church in a north…
New measles case reported in metro Atlanta
Cobb County, a suburban part of Atlanta, Georgia, confirmed a case of measles in an unvaccinated person, according to state…
Police: Man using racist slurs killed in Waffle House fight
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says a man was shot to death at a Waffle House after calling other patrons…
3 US Army soldiers killed during training at Fort Stewart in Georgia, officials say
Three U.S. Army soldiers were killed during training at Fort Stewart in Georgia, according to officials. The soldiers, part of…
School district backtracks on transgender student policy
A Georgia school district says it won’t let transgender students use bathrooms aligning with their gender identity, reversing a previous…
U.S. vaping-related deaths rise to 18, illnesses surpass 1,000: CDC
(Reuters) – U.S. health officials on Thursday reported 18 deaths due to a mysterious lung illness linked to e-cigarettes and…
U.S. CDC recommends against using vapes with marijuana ingredient
(Reuters) – People should stop using e-cigarettes, especially those with marijuana ingredient tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), U.S. public health officials recommended on…
Homeowner shoots and kills 3 masked men in possible ‘stand your ground’ case
A homeowner in Georgia shot and killed three young masked men at his home early Monday morning, according to Rockdale…
Rescuer describes ’emotional moment’ when 4 crew members emerged from capsized cargo ship
One of the rescuers who helped get four crew members out of the Golden Ray, the cargo ship that capsized…
Rescue teams make contact with crew members inside capsized cargo ship Golden Ray off Georgia coast: Coast Guard
All of the four crew members trapped inside the Golden Ray, the cargo ship that capsized off the coast of…
Trump not backing down on claim that Alabama could have been hit by Hurricane Dorian
President Donald Trump is not backing down on his claim that Alabama could have been hit by Hurricane Dorian —…
Hurricane Dorian, already responsible for 20 reported tornadoes, ‘ready to unleash its fury’ on North Carolina
Hurricane Dorian is pummeling the South Carolina coastline with winds, storm surge and heavy rain as the powerful storm moves…
Hurricane Dorian: The latest forecast for Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas
Dangerous Hurricane Dorian is barreling toward the Southeast U.S., where residents from Florida to the Carolinas are bracing for impact.…
Hurricane Dorian, now Category 4, continues its path toward Florida
Hurricane Dorian has strengthened to a Category 4 storm with 130 mph winds as Floridians brace for the extremely dangerous…
Georgia good Samaritan shot in head attempting to break up road rage confrontation: Police
A Georgia good Samaritan is fighting for his life after he was shot in the head while attempting to break…
Black Couple Shocked When Contractor Shows Up For Work With Confederate Flag
A black couple’s encounter with a white man they hired to fix their golf cart is going viral for the…
Police: 7 dead in multi-vehicle interstate crash in Georgia
Seven people were killed Saturday in a chain-reaction crash on an interstate in Georgia when an SUV crossed over the…
U.S. rights groups, doctors sue to stop Georgia ‘heartbeat’ abortion ban
(Reuters) – A group of civil rights organizations, doctors and clinics sued Georgia’s government on Friday to overturn a law…
Missouri’s only abortion clinic to stay open until at least August 1
(Reuters) – Missouri’s only abortion clinic will remain open for now after a state arbiter on Friday ordered a stay…
Stacey Abrams Urges Hollywood To ‘Stay And Fight’ Georgia Abortion Law
Former Georgia gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams on Tuesday reiterated her calls against a Hollywood boycott of Georgia over its new…
Seth Moulton: ‘If This Country Wasn’t Racist, Stacey Abrams Would Be Governor’
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) said on Sunday that racism was the reason Democrat Stacey Abrams lost the 2018 election for…
Louisiana lawmakers pass ‘heartbeat’ abortion bill as legal battles rage in multiple states
The ongoing legal battles over abortion access are forging on in multiple states Wednesday. Interested in Abortion Rights? Add Abortion…
Groups sue over Alabama abortion law; judge blocks Mississippi ban
(Reuters) – The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit on Friday challenging a law enacted…