No state may have more to lose than Georgia as Republicans in Congress look to gut federal subsidies that aid both the solar and electric vehicle industries. And few towns have more to lose than Cartersville. Some local Republicans oppose the cuts, but high-ranking Georgia Republicans have been publicly silent.
A conservation group says it will pay $60 million to buy land outside the Okefenokee Swamp from a mining company that spent years battling environmentalists over its plans to extract minerals there.
Republican Tim Echols has won renomination to the Georgia Public Service Commission in a primary election. Democrats Keisha Waites and Peter Hubbard appear headed to a July 15 runoff in mostly complete returns.
A Spanish-language journalist known for documenting immigration raids could face deportation proceedings after police arrested him on charges of obstructing officers and unlawful assembly as he covered a weekend protest outside Atlanta.
Southern Baptist delegates at their national meeting overwhelmingly endorsed banning same-sex marriage — including a call for a reversal of the U.S. Supreme Court's 10-year-old precedent legalizing it nationwide.
