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News Articles: Politics

A splitscreen image of Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff.

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  • Politics

Ossoff, Warnock pick up new Senate committee assignments

Georgia’s two U.S. senators have landed plum committee assignments as the 119th Congress prepares to convene on Friday.

January 06, 2025
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  • Dave Williams
Demi Moore poses in the press room during the 82nd annual Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night.

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  • Movies

'It's the beginning': Demi Moore wins her first major acting award at the Golden Globes

Moore, 62, won the Golden Globe for her starring role in The Substance. She said the film is the start of a new chapter in her career: "It's just this wonderful new time of exploration and discovery."

January 06, 2025
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  • Dhanika Pineda
Cross-sex hormones, including testosterone, are part of gender-affirming care that has been banned in half of states.

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  • Health

'A very, very small number' of teens receive gender-affirming care, study finds

A new analysis of private insurance claims data finds less than 0.1% of youth accessed puberty blockers or hormones for gender transition. This small group has garnered a huge amount of attention from Republican lawmakers in recent years.

January 06, 2025
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
U.S. Steel filed a lawsuit to defend its $15 billion sale to Nippon Steel of Japan. President Biden moved to block the sale on Friday, but the companies accuse Biden of playing politics and violating their due process rights.

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  • Business

U.S. Steel sues to salvage its sale to Japan's Nippon Steel

U.S. Steel and its would-be Japanese suitor filed twin lawsuits Monday to defend their $15 billion merger. President Biden issued an order on Friday to block the deal, citing national security concerns.

January 06, 2025
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  • Scott Horsley
In this 2024 file photo, Sen. Ben Watson speaks to reporters about his bill banning puberty blockers from transgender minors. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder

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  • Politics

Trans Georgians and allies brace for another year of culture wars in state Legislature

With all the hustle and bustle of the holidays and the preparation for the new year, many Georgians were not thinking about the state Legislature’s plans for when they meet up Jan. 13 for their annual lawmaking session.

January 06, 2025
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  • Ross Williams
A monument of Soviet leader Josef Stalin sits in a statuary garden in Frumushika-Nova, Ukraine.

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  • Europe

Pictures of Odesa, as it tangles with a complex web of Russian and Ukrainian heritage

Photographer Michael Robinson Chávez visits a city in Ukraine that was partly famous as a site for Russian travelers and intellectuals, but since 2022 has come under Russian attack.

January 06, 2025
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  • Michael Robinson Chávez
A plow clears a parking lot during a winter storm on Sunday in Cincinnati.

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  • Weather

Heavy snowfall closes schools and businesses across a large swath of the U.S.

Several governors have issued states of emergency as 6 to 12 inches of snow are expected from Ohio to Washington, D.C.

January 06, 2025
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  • Ayana Archie
Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell watches a video of rioters during a hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol on July 27, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

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  • News

How Jan. 6 will be different this year. And, who took home a Golden Globe award

Today, four years since the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, President-elect Donald Trump's victory is scheduled to be certified by Congress. And, the big wins and surprises at the 82nd Golden Globes.

January 06, 2025
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  • Brittney Melton
A jury found CNN defamed security contractor Zachary Young in a November 2021 report, shown above, about Afghans' fears of exorbitant charges from people offering to get them out of the country after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan.

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  • Media

CNN goes on trial over its report alleging 'black market' for Afghan rescues

A CNN story about a "black market" for rescuing people from Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover is at the heart of a defamation trial that opens Monday in Florida.

January 06, 2025
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  • David Folkenflik
Ann Telnaes says the rough version of the cartoon she drew for <em>The Washington Post</em> , shown above, was rejected by the paper's editorial page editor.

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  • Media

A Pulitzer winner quits 'Washington Post' after a cartoon on Bezos is killed

Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after an editor rejected her sketch satirizing tech chiefs, including the Post's owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

January 06, 2025
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  • David Folkenflik
Zoe Saldaña accepts the award for best supporting actress in a motion picture at the Golden Globes Sunday night for her role in the film <em>Emilia Pérez. </em>

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  • Movies

Here are the winners of the 2025 Golden Globes

Emilia Pérez, The Brutalist, and Shōgun all took home awards Sunday night at the Golden Globes.

January 06, 2025
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  • Dhanika Pineda
Belgian ultra runner Hilde Dosogne, center, is cheered on as she crosses the finish line during her 366th consecutive marathon in Ghent, Belgium, on Dec. 31, 2024.

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  • Sports

A 55-year-old who ran a marathon every day in 2024 says the toughest part was mental

World-record chaser Hilde Dosogne is used to running extreme distances. Still, she says she underestimated the challenge. She's now hoping to make it official with a Guinness World Record.

January 05, 2025
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  • Emma Bowman
Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton, when they served as vice president and secretary of state, respectively, are seen here on Dec. 8, 2016. Biden is honoring Clinton and 18 others with the Medal of Freedom.

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  • Politics

Biden awards Medal of Freedom to Hillary Clinton, Soros, Messi and 16 others

Biden will also posthumously grant the medal to former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and former Michigan Gov. George Romney.

January 05, 2025
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  • Franco Ordoñez
A motorist drives through the snow near Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport on Sunday in Louisville, Ky. Local forecasts called for heavy snowfall followed by significant accumulation of freezing rain and ice.

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  • Weather

Millions face snow and ice as a major winter storm moves across the U.S.

A major winter storm is bringing ice, snow and freezing rain from the Plains to the East Coast through Tuesday.

January 05, 2025
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By:
  • Chandelis Duster
Nathan Williams, a University of New Orleans student, lights a candle at a memorial on Bourbon Street on Friday for the victims of a deadly truck attack on New Year's Day in New Orleans.

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  • National

FBI says suspect in New Orleans attack twice visited the city to conduct surveillance

The FBI says the man who allegedly carried out the New Year's Day attack visited the city in October and November, and recorded video of the area he aimed to target using "smart glasses."

January 05, 2025
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  • Robbie Griffiths
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