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Vice President Kamala Harris addressed an enthusiastic crowd of supporters in Atlanta on Saturday evening, Oct. 19, 2024.

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GPB evening headlines for November 4, 2024

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump visited Georgia over the weekend in one last push for votes ahead of Election Day tomorrow.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger says the state is ready for polls to open -- after a record-breaking early voting.

The state court has ruled in favor of a company planning to build a southwest Georgia facility to breed medical research monkeys.

 

November 04, 2024
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  • GPB News Radio
Fine Fettle is one of only six businesses licensed by the state of Georgia to cultivate, manufacture, and dispense medical cannabis, with dispensaries across the state and an118,000 square-foot cultivation, processing, and manufacturing facility in Macon-Bibb County. Macon Mayor Lester Miller visited the facility on May 29, 2024.

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Georgia medical marijuana advocates react to changes affecting card holders

The Georgia Department of Public Health has rolled out several changes to the how patients can access state’s medical cannabis cards. Advocates are responding to the changes. 

November 04, 2024
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By:
  • Amanda Andrews
Atlanta United forward Xande Silva (16) celebrates his goal during stoppage time in the second half of an MLS soccer match against Inter Miami, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024, in Atlanta.

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Silva scores in stoppage time, Atlanta rallies to beat Messi's Miami 2-1 to even playoff series

Xande Silva scored with about a minute to go in stoppage time shortly after a goal by Lionel Messi was waved off by a clear offside, giving ninth-seeded Atlanta United a 2-1 victory over Inter Miami and evening the best-of-three MLS playoff series at one game apiece.

November 04, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Macon, Ga., on Nov. 3, 2024.

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  • Elections

Trump and Harris swing through Georgia on final push before Election Day

Harris pitched to thousands of voters at the Atlanta Civic Center on Saturday afternoon while Trump also rallied thousands of voters in Macon on Sunday.

November 04, 2024
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  • Sarah Kallis ,
  • Grant Blankenship ,
  • and 1 more
Michael Stipe (center) performs with David Barbe (left) and Andy LeMaster perform at a rally for U.S. vice presidential candidate, Governor Time Walz of Minnesota, at the Cobb Galleria in Atlanta on Nov. 3, 2024.

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Tim Walz and Doug Emhoff rally for Harris in Cobb County with Michael Stipe and Jon Bon Jovi

The Minnesota governor and second gentleman bonded with their favorite rock stars and reinforced Vice President Kamala Harris' closing message at this mini-concert at the Cobb Galleria on Sunday afternoon, with less than 48 hours to go before Election Day.

November 04, 2024
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By:
  • Kristi York Wooten
Left to right: Tha Vin, Emily Lillystone, Eric Alston, Sydney Craddock, and Judy Zhu and Wei Kang Ding.

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  • Politics

The election in Georgia is tight. Meet 5 groups of voters who will shape the outcome

In a state decided recently by tiny margins, subtle shifts among any demographic can matter. These five groups could be key in determining who wins Georgia — and possibly the presidency.

November 02, 2024
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  • Sam Gringlas
Young Thug

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Georgia Today: Last day of early voting; Dock collapse witnesses testify; Young Thug pleads guilty

On the Friday, Nov. 1 edition of Georgia Today: It's the last day of early voting in Georgia, and more than half of active voters have already cast their ballot; witnesses of the fatal Sapelo Island dock collapse testify before the state Senate; and Atlanta rapper Young Thug pleads guilty, ending the longest criminal trial in Georgia history.

November 01, 2024
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  • Peter Biello and
  • Jake Cook
 Voters line up to cast their ballots on Tuesday, despite the fact that statistically, some of them fear their votes will not be counted. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder

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GPB evening headlines for November 1, 2024

It's the last day of early voting in Georgia. Already more than 3.7 million voters -- more than half the electorate -- have cast ballots.

Secretary of State numbers show women are voting in higher numbers than men. The figures encourage Kamala Harris supporters.

The state Department of Public Health is shipping its medical cannabis cards in the mail, among other recently approved changes.

November 01, 2024
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  • GPB News Radio
Yvonne Brockington testifies remotely from a hospital bed during a Georgia Senate hearing Thursday into the Oct. 19 collapse of the Sapelo Island dock that killed seven people.

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  • Politics

‘Scarred for the rest of my life’: Survivors testify about Sapelo Island dock collapse that killed 7

The mental state felt by some survivors “will make the living jealous of the dead,” one attorney said.

November 01, 2024
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  • Benjamin Payne
poll worker inspects absentee ballot

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Election skeptics are targeting voting officials with ads that suggest they don’t have to certify results

The ads, which have been placed in swing states like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, come from a new group with deep ties to activists who have challenged the legitimacy of recent elections.

November 01, 2024
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  • Doug Bock Clark and
  • ProPublica
Voters are seen exiting the polling station, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024, in Stockbridge, Ga.

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  • News

Early voting reaches such heights that some Georgia polls may be Election Day 'ghost town'

Record levels of early voting are making it so polls in Georgia might be a "ghost town" on Election Day. Republicans tried to avoid voting early in the last two election cycles because Donald Trump cast doubt on the practice.

November 01, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, listens as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol continues to reveal its findings of a year-long investigation, at the Capitol in Washington, June 21, 2022.

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US officials say video falsely depicting voter fraud in Georgia linked to ‘Russian influence actors’

A video that purports to show election fraud in Georgia by a man who claims to be from Haiti is fake and the work of “Russian influence actors,” U.S. intelligence officials said Friday.

November 01, 2024
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  • Associated Press
A woman holds up her sticker that signifies that she has officially voted in the state of Georgia, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024, in Atlanta.

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Georgia county says more than 3,000 absentee ballots being mailed late just days before election

Election officials in Georgia's third-largest county say they're late in mailing more than 3,000 absentee ballots to voters just a few days before the election. Election officials in Cobb County north of Atlanta say they're using express mail and UPS overnight delivery in an effort to deliver the ballots on time.

November 01, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Supreme Court of Georgia bench. (Supreme Court of Georgia/X)

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  • Law

Georgia Supreme Court upholds state Capitol arrests, tax on strip clubs

The Georgia Supreme Court issued two rulings Thursday that upheld the arrests of two Democratic state lawmakers for protesting inside the state Capitol and declared constitutional a state tax levied on adult entertainment establishments.

November 01, 2024
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By:
  • Dave Williams
Berry College and Georgia Tech University students pictured for WNET’s Preserving Democracy social media campaign, in which GPB, as a partner, asked students what democracy meant to them. Ambria Burton & Allexa Ceballos/GPB News

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  • Elections

Preserving Democracy: GPB asks college students about voting plans and democracy

In partnership with WNET for the nonpartisan Preserving Democracy project's "Ready to Vote" social media campaign, Georgia Public Broadcasting interviewed students from Berry College in Rome, Ga., and Georgia Tech in Atlanta about their plans to vote and their thoughts on democracy ahead of the election.

November 01, 2024
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  • Ambria Burton
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