Georgia
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Jimmy Carter was born Oct. 1, 1924, in a small local hospital in the southwest Georgia town of Plains. He was the first U.S. president born in a hospital. Carter was the first child of James Earl Carter, a World War I veteran and an industrious peanut farmer, and Lillian Carter, a nurse. He would…
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For the first time, the president of Georgia is not elected by popular vote. As Georgia gears up for Saturday’s presidential election, which is not a popular vote but one by electoral college, antigovernmental protests in the capital continue unabated into their third week. Protesters have been demanding a new parliamentary election and chanting anti-Russian…
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A rural Georgia community is mourning the loss of four people who were killed Wednesday after a 14-year-old student opened fire at a high school — sending students and staff rushing to shelter in their classrooms as schools throughout the county went into lockdown. The four victims killed were identified as two students and two teachers at Apalachee High…
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Georgia’s acting prime minister has accused Ukraine of trying to spread war to his country after authorities seized what they said was a truck loaded with explosives bound for Russia. A clandestine shipment of explosives headed for Voronezh was hidden in a cargo of car batteries driven overland from Ukraine via Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey,…
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The trial set for early 2024 will decide whether Georgia’s electronic voting system has major cybersecurity flaws, which potentially violated voters’ constitutional rights to cast their votes and have them accurately counted. As part of a long-running lawsuit filed by activists who said the state should abandon its electronic voting machines in favor of hand-marked…
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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp hopes to become the next prominent Republican to show that GOP candidates don’t necessarily need former President Donald Trump’s help to win their primaries. Some Trump-backed candidates — including Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC), Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin in Idaho, and businessman Charles Herbster in Nebraska — have already suffered primary losses.…
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Donald Trump’s campaign said it filed a lawsuit in Georgia state court on Friday seeking to invalidate the presidential election results there, the latest in a series of legal challenges aimed at reversing his loss that have so far gone nowhere. The Trump campaign said in a statement its new lawsuit would include sworn statements…
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Justice for Ahmaud Arbery, a black man killed during a pursuit by a white man and his son in Georgia, isn’t just prison time for his killers — it’s changes in a local justice system that never charged them with a crime, rallygoers said Saturday. Hundreds of people came to the Glynn County courthouse demanding…
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Georgia officials said Friday their investigation into the slaying of Ahmaud Arbery will include the man who videotaped the killing. “We are going to go wherever the evidence takes us,” the director of the state Bureau of Investigation said, USA Today reports. Father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael, two white men, have been charged with murder in the…
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