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Comedians Clayton English, center, and Eric Andre, right, speak with their attorney, Allegra Lawrence-Hardy, on Tuesday outside the federal courthouse in Atlanta.

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Comedians Eric André and Clayton English allege racial profiling at Atlanta's airport

1:06pm October 12, 2022

by Ashley Ahn

The say officers stopping passengers on the bridges from the gate to the plane, questioning them, and searching their bags is unconstitutional. The suit stems from separate incidents in 2020 and 2021.

Music Midtown pulls the plug over Georgia's gun laws, highlighting a legal gray area

6:39pm August 01, 2022

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Music Midtown canceled the annual festival at Piedmont Park because of legal concerns over the organizers' ability to ban guns during the two-day event.

Taniyah Pilgrim and Messiah Young address the press at Morehouse College in Atlanta. Prosecutors filed charges against six officers involved in the couple's arrest.

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Atlanta officers won't face charges from 2020 arrest of 2 college students

5:33am May 24, 2022

by Ayana Archie

On bodycam footage, officers are shown confronting two young Black adults, Taniyah Pilgrim and Messiah Young, after the pair were out past curfew following protests over George Floyd's death.

Dinesh D'Souza, seen here at a premiere of one of his films in 2018, has released a new film alleging voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Fact checkers have cast doubt on many of the film's claims.

Politics & Government

A pro-Trump film suggests its data are so accurate, it solved a murder. That's false

4:54pm May 17, 2022

by Tom Dreisbach

Conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza's new film "2,000 Mules" alleges massive voter fraud in the 2020 election, but NPR has found the filmmakers made multiple misleading and false claims.

Rappers Young Thug and Gunna were charged with racketeering

5:04pm May 10, 2022

by The Associated Press

Prosecutors allege that Atlanta rapper Young Thug co-founded a violent street gang.

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Apple workers in Atlanta become company's 1st retail workers to file to unionize

10:22am April 21, 2022

by Ayana Archie

Communications Workers of America, the retail workers' union, said big tech companies like Apple fail to give employees who don't work in an office equal standing and respect.

Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have linked nearly 300 firearms to 11 people accused of illegally re-selling the weapons in a straw purchase scheme, according to court documents.

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Prosecutors say a smuggling ring moved nearly 300 guns from Atlanta to Philadelphia

6:00am April 12, 2022

by Vanessa Romo

Over six months, the Atlanta-based group bought hundreds of firearms from local retailers only to resell them to Philadelphia-based brokers. Now the weapons are showing up at crime scenes.

A makeshift memorial is seen outside one of the spas targeted in the shooting that occurred on March 16, 2021, in Acworth, Ga.

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A year later, Atlanta remembers the 8 people killed in spa shootings

8:35pm March 12, 2022

by Deepa Shivaram

The anniversary of the shooting spree that killed eight people, six of whom were women of Asian descent, will take place Tuesday. Organizers are planning rallies around the country.

Prosecutor Linda Dunikoski speaks during opening statements in the trial of Gregory McMichael, his son, Travis McMichael, and a neighbor, William "Roddie" Bryan, at the Glynn County Courthouse on Friday in Brunswick, Ga. The three men are charged with the

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Prosecutor says the McMichaels chased Ahmaud Arbery for 5 minutes before killing him

3:35pm November 05, 2021

by Bill Chappell

Travis McMichael, his father, Gregory McMichael, and William "Roddie" Bryan face murder charges, accused of cornering and killing Arbery in a neighborhood in Glynn County, Ga.

Rapper Gunna and Goodr CEO Jasmine Crowe stop by the Goodr grocery store, at the Atlanta middle school he formerly attended.

A Free In-School Grocery Store Is Tackling Child Hunger, One Family At A Time

12:35pm September 25, 2021

by Sharon Pruitt-Young

The free store in an Atlanta middle school offers not only food, but also household items, toiletries, clothing and shoes. Social entrepreneur Jasmine Crowe hopes to open more.