The covid pandemic has coincided with more death from one of the nation’s chronic health issues: gun homicide. Cities across the country, but more often in the South, have seen a spike in the number of gun homicides in the last year and a half. What isn’t easy to understand is why this is happening or what to do about it.
A group of Republican lawmakers are parlaying their election skepticism into bids for higher office, launching campaigns for Congress, the governor’s mansion and the office of the top election official in the state.
After defeats in the November presidential race and dual U.S. Senate runoffs, the Republican Party of Georgia state convention was all about shunning those who do not believe the election was stolen or do not fully embrace Trump's vision of the party moving forward.
The White House is hoping to help more people start college through a provision in the $1.8 trillion American Families Plan to provide two free years of community college to all Americans. It calls for $109 billion for two years of free community college and another $62 billion to increase completion and retention rates.
It’s been against the rules governing collegiate sports for student athletes to make a profit off their name or image — a practice that’s commonplace in professional sports. But a number of states, including Georgia, have forged ahead with laws granting college athletes the rights to their own “name, image and likeness."
As part of an ongoing effort by some Republicans and Trump supporters to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election, you might have heard something about efforts to conduct a forensic audit on the ballots to prove fraud did — or did not — occur.
The resolution, which states that "Georgia is not a racist state," comes in response to a request from Gov. Kemp to ban so-called critical race theory.
Parts of rural Georgia are seeing low rates of vaccination against COVID-19, which could be a problem for the state going forward, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
At the Georgia GOP state convention on Jekyll Island this weekend, the question won't be "Does the party support Trump?" but rather "How much will Trump influence the party?"
In 1988, Georgia banned the executions of intellectually disabled people and now is the only state that has a more substantial burden than “by clear and convincing evidence.”
The Fulton County Sheriff's office is investigating why an alarm went off over the weekend at a warehouse that stores election equipment, the latest bizarre twist in an ongoing lawsuit seeking to prove thrice-counted absentee ballots were marred by fraud.
Georgia's outgoing elections director Chris Harvey said the secret to successful elections lies with more proactive work with local officials and that the keys to both rebuilding confidence and shutting down conspiracies is showing evidence of things that go right.
A Henry County judge is allowing a conspiracy theorist and other voters to review copies of Fulton County's 147,000 absentee ballots for evidence of fraud — despite three previous counts of the vote, a Georgia Bureau of Investigation examination of absentee ballot envelopes and every election being certified.
