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Fred Ridley, chairman of Augusta National Golf Club, shakes hands with Winner Scottie Scheffler at the Masters golf tournament at Augusta National Golf Club Sunday, April 14, 2024, in Augusta, Ga.

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The Masters adds two hours of weekend coverage on Paramount+

The Masters and CBS are expanding weekend coverage by five hours from Augusta National. The club says the Saturday telecast will start an hour earlier at 2 p.m.

September 17, 2024
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Lt. Shaun Gorski with the Cobb County Sheriff's Department, speaks during an election security training session at Cobb County Emergency Management headquarters, Aug. 23, 2024, in Marietta, Ga.

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Election officials prepare for threats with panic buttons, bulletproof glass

Across the country, local election directors are beefing up their security in advance of Election Day. Bulletproof glass and drug-sniffing dogs in election offices, and panic buttons and security officers for polling places are some of the steps they are taking.

September 17, 2024
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  • Associated Press
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These states will decide the election. We went to all of them to talk to voters

Your guide to the six swing states that will decide this year’s presidential election: Georgia, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona and Pennsylvania.

September 17, 2024
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  • NPR Staff
PBS NewsHour Weekend  Explainer: New state abortion laws, the future of Roe v. Wade, and the Supreme Court’s upcoming term

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Georgia Today: Harris statement on an abortion-related death; Walz visits Macon; Antibiotics factory

On the Tuesday, Sept. 17 edition of Georgia Today: Kamala Harris says that Donald Trump's policies played a role in a Georgia woman's death; vice president hopeful Tim Walz made a stop in Macon today; and the American factory making one of the most common antibiotics is at risk of shutting down.

September 17, 2024
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  • Peter Biello and
  • Jake Cook
JD Vance is shown speaking at a podium.

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GPB evening headlines for September 17, 2024

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance rallied conservative evangelical voters in Metro Atlanta's Cobb County last night.

Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz kicked off a campaign swing through Georgia and North Carolina in Macon today.

State regulators have approved Georgia Power's plan to buy about 80 megawatts of electricity generated by burning wood chips.

September 17, 2024
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Vice presidential candidate Tim Walz in Macon

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VP candidate Walz starts two-state swing in Macon

Vice presidential candidate Tim Walz kicked off a campaign swing through two battleground states — Georgia and North Carolina — in Macon Tuesday.  

September 17, 2024
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  • Grant Blankenship
October 26, 2022. Biology students Peyton Reed, left, and Callista (Calleigh) Reber, collect aquatic matter with Biology Professor David Bruce Conn, right, during an entomology lab. (Brant Sanderlin/ Berry College)

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'Rhabdias conni' The worm species named after a Berry College professor

A team of scientists based in Ukraine, South Africa, and the U.S. recently xxpublished about discovering a new worm species named after a Berry College professor, one of Georgia's best private schools in Rome.

September 17, 2024
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  • GPB News Staff

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As obesity rates rise, Georgia needs more funding for preventative programs, report says

A decade ago, no state reported an obesity rate of more than 35%, but now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there are 23 — including Georgia.

September 17, 2024
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  • Ellen Eldridge
Thurman and her son in a selfie she posted online in 2020, two years before her death Credit: via Facebook

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Abortion bans have delayed emergency medical care. In Georgia, experts say this mother’s death was preventable

At least two women in Georgia died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state, ProPublica has found. This is one of their stories.

September 17, 2024
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  • Kavitha Surana and
  • ProPublica

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It's National Voter Registration Day. Here's how to participate

County offices, universities and private groups are holding events to help Georgia voters register for the 2024 general election on Nov. 5.

September 17, 2024
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A Bucks County resident drops off a mail-in ballot in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, U.S., October 24, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier

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Georgia leaders worry mail delays could cause many absentee ballots to arrive too late to count

In a rare bipartisan consensus about Georgia’s election process, both Republican and Democratic leaders agree that persistent mail delivery delays in the state could cost voters who use absentee ballots their chance to be counted on Election Day this November. The stakes are high as Georgia is again considered a swing state that will likely help decide who will be the next U.S. president.

September 17, 2024
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  • Stanley Dunlap
David Phenix is shown in casual dress, his right arm around Leesa Wells Phenix, in this photo taken from his Facebook page.

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GPB evening headlines for September 16, 2024

Apalachee High School now has a return-to-class plan following the shooting that killed four people at the school on September 4th.

A new report from shows that barriers to nutritious food and physical activity are driving up rates of obesity in Georgia communities.

Notable figures in politics, film and music are set to take the stage on Tuesday for a concert celebrating Jimmy Carter's centennial.

September 16, 2024
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Those in attendance at the prayer vigil pictured at Jug Tavern Park in Winder. Grant Blankenship/GPB News

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Georgia’s top GOP lawmaker seeks tougher action against students who make threats. But it may not make schools safer

To deter violence, research suggests the best strategy is not harsh punishment for threats but a different tactic, one based on decades of interviews with mass shooters, political assassins and people who survived attacks: threat assessments.

September 16, 2024
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  • Aliyya Swaby and
  • ProPublica
The new John Lewis bus design features new and old pictures of the civil rights leaders and several iconic quotes.

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Special Atlanta bus design honors civil rights icon John Lewis

MARTA continues its yearlong celebration of Atlanta civil rights leaders in their latest bus design.

September 16, 2024
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  • Amanda Andrews
Dozens of Black Lives Matter and Black Panther protesters gather outside the Glynn County Courthouse where the trial of Travis McMichael, his father, Gregory McMichael, and William "Roddie" Bryan is held, Nov. 22, 2021, in Brunswick, Ga.

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Ahmaud Arbery's family is still waiting for ex-prosecutor's misconduct trial after 3 years

The family of Ahmaud Arbery is waiting for stalled court proceedings to resume in the case of a former Georgia prosecutor accused of interfering with the police investigation into the Black man's killing. A grand jury indicted former District Attorney Jackie Johnson on misconduct charges in September 2021.

September 16, 2024
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