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Vice President Pence receives the COVID-19 vaccine at the White House complex on Friday.

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  • Politics

'I Didn't Feel A Thing:' Pence Gets COVID-19 Vaccine In Public Event

The vice president, who chairs the White House coronavirus task force, is the most high-profile U.S. official so far to receive the vaccine.

December 18, 2020
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By:
  • Alana Wise
The line for early voting at the Lucas Senior Center in Macon stretched out the front door on the first day of early voting Monday.

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  • Elections

Georgia Tops 1 Million Early Voters In Senate Runoffs

More than 1.1 million Georgians have already cast their ballots in the Jan. 5 runoffs that will decide control of the U.S. Senate and a seat on the Public Service Commission.

December 18, 2020
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler
Rep. Cedric Richmond, left, speaks with Joe Biden at Columbus Airport in Columbus, Ga., in October. Biden's transition team says he has not had close contact with Richmond, who has tested positive for the coronavirus.

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  • Politics

Cedric Richmond, Close Biden Adviser, Tests Positive For The Coronavirus

Richmond, who Biden picked as his director of the Office of Public Engagement, was not in close contact with Biden, his spokeswoman Kate Bedingfield said in a statement.

December 17, 2020
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By:
  • Alana Wise
Georgia Senate Republicans said Tuesday they will push for legislation in 2021 putting an end to a no excuse absentee ballot law passed in 2005.

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  • Elections

Courts Dismiss Challenges To Georgia's Absentee Rules For U.S. Senate Runoff

Two different federal judges dismissed lawsuits Thursday filed by Republicans seeking to crack down on absentee voting procedures in Georgia for the Jan. 5 runoffs that will decide control of the U.S. Senate.

8.5.5

December 17, 2020
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler
President-elect Joe Biden is set to name Brenda Mallory to lead his Environmental Quality Council.

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  • News

Biden To Nominate Brenda Mallory To Run Council On Environmental Quality

Mallory, an Obama veteran, would take the helm at a White House office where she worked as former general counsel. The CEQ is seen as critical to address climate change and environmental equity.

December 17, 2020
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By:
  • Neela Banerjee and
  • Rebecca Hersher
(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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  • Politics

Georgia Today: The 30-Day Congressman

Kwanza Hall is Georgia’s newest congressman, even if he is serving for just a month. On Georgia Today, host Steve Fennessy talks with Rep. Hall about his legislative priorities and what it's like following in the footsteps of his predecessor — the late civil rights icon, John Lewis.

December 17, 2020
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By:
  • Steve Fennessy and
  • Sean Powers
A former Houston police captain was charged Tuesday with allegedly running a man off the road and pointing a gun at his head in an attempt to prove his claims of a voter fraud conspiracy.

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  • Law

Ex-Houston Police Officer Charged In Attack Over Bogus Election Fraud Plot

Former police captain Mark Anthony Aguirre was paid $266,400 by the right-wing Liberty Center for God and Country to investigate an alleged ballot fraud scheme in Harris County, Texas.

December 16, 2020
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
U.S. Capitol

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  • Elections

Poll Finds Georgia Senate Runoff Races In Virtual Dead Heat

Georgia’s two U.S. Senate races are too close to call heading into the final three weeks before the Jan. 5 runoffs, according to a new poll from Insider Advantage and Atlanta’s Fox 5.

The poll of 500 likely Georgia voters, conducted Monday by telephone, found Republican U.S. Sen. David Perdue holding a slight lead over Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff, 49.0% to 47.8%.

December 16, 2020
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By:
  • Dave Williams
Plant Vogtle

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  • Energy

Billion Dollar Plant Vogtle Tab Could Be On The Line With PSC Runoff

Georgia Power’s overdue and over-budget Plant Vogtle nuclear plant expansion served as a handy punching bag for the challenger in a Tuesday debate as he took on a veteran of utility regulation ahead of the state’s Jan. 5 runoff election.

Georgia’s twin U.S. Senate contests are consuming most of the country’s political attention now that the presidential contest is finally decided in favor of President-elect Joe Biden.

December 16, 2020
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., here at the Capitol on Friday, acknowledged Joe Biden as president-elect in a speech on the Senate floor Tuesday for the first time since the election.

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  • Politics

'Electoral College Has Spoken': McConnell Belatedly Congratulates Biden On Win

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell acknowledged Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as president- and vice president-elect on Tuesday for the first time. McConnell spoke with Biden later in the day.

December 16, 2020
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By:
  • Claudia Grisales
A poll of nonvoters shows there is little that would encourage them to vote — even campaigns haven't heavily invested in motivating this group.

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  • Politics

Poll: Despite Record Turnout, 80 Million Americans Didn't Vote. Here's Why

Nonvoters are disengaged and don't believe politics can make a difference in their lives. They are also more likely to be Latino, younger, make less money and have lower levels of education.

December 16, 2020
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By:
  • Domenico Montanaro
Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen addressed a press conference at the Justice Department in October. He'll now run the show there until the arrival of the incoming Biden administration.

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  • Politics

Will Jeffrey Rosen, William Barr's Replacement, Withstand White House Pressure?

Jeffrey Rosen will lead the Justice Department for the final weeks of the Trump presidency as the White House presses officials to do more to investigate politically sensitive cases.

December 16, 2020
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By:
  • Carrie Johnson

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  • Elections

Biden Visits Georgia, Pushes Early Vote For Ossoff, Warnock In U.S. Senate Runoff

President-elect Joe Biden campaigned in Atlanta on Tuesday for Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock as the two seek to flip the Senate majority by winning both seats in a Jan. 5 runoff election.

December 15, 2020
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler
President-elect Joe Biden speaks after the Electoral College formally elected him president Monday.

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  • Analysis

As Democracy Holds, Trump Finds Himself Increasingly Isolated

The Electoral College reaffirmed that Joe Biden is president-elect, but the current president continues to not accept it, threatening to undermine Biden's legitimacy.

December 15, 2020
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By:
  • Domenico Montanaro
President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020, before boarding Marine One. Trump is en route to the Army-Navy Game at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y.

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  • Elections

Battleground: Ballot Box | For Trump, Georgia Republicans Ignore Election Reality

On this episode of Battleground: Ballot Box, we look at the extraordinary steps Georgia Republicans have taken to try to overturn the state's election results, attack the systems and rules they put in place and support President Trump's false claims of fraud.

December 15, 2020
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler
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