Georgia

People kayak past an abandon vehicle in the intersection of Boca Ciega Drive and Pasadena Avenue Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023 in St. Pete Beach, Fla.

National

Idalia extends its destruction along the southeastern U.S. coastline

5:28am August 31, 2023

Hurricane Idalia made landfall near Keaton Beach, Fla., on Wednesday as a Category 3 storm before it was downgraded to a tropical storm. Georgia and South Carolina could see heavy wind and flooding

Former President Donald Trump talks to people in the crowd during the final round of the Bedminster Invitational LIV Golf tournament in Bedminster, N.J., Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023.

Politics & Government

Trump cancels press conference on election fraud claims, citing attorneys' advice

1:07am August 18, 2023

by The Associated Press

No compelling evidence of the wide-scale fraud Trump alleges has emerged in the two-and-a-half years since the election in Georgia or elsewhere, despite Trump's baseless claims.

Jenna Ellis, right, is seen with other members of former President Donald Trump's legal team, including Rudy Giuliani, left, and Sidney Powell, back, at a Republican National Committee news conference on Nov. 19, 2020.

Former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis is crowdfunding her Georgia indictment defense fees

4:59pm August 16, 2023

by Dustin Jones

Ellis is one of the 19 defendants charged for trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.

Former President Donald Trump points at a crowd at a golf tournament at Trump National in Bedminster, N.J., on Sunday.

The Georgia indictment charges a 19-member 'criminal enterprise.' Here's who they are

1:57pm August 15, 2023

by Rachel Treisman

The indictment out of Fulton County alleges that former President Trump and 18 others conspired to overturn Georgia's 2020 election results. His codefendants include big names and local officials.

A police car drives through an intersection near Brownwood Park on Saturday where a stop sign has been modified in opposition to the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center that protesters refer to as "Cop City," in Atlanta.

Domestic terrorism charges in Georgia are prompting concern over political repression

10:04pm June 28, 2023

by Odette Yousef

In Atlanta, dozens of activists who oppose a new police and fire training facility are being accused of domestic terrorism. That has alarmed civil liberties and human rights groups.

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Lashawn Thompson, 35, died in the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta in September 2022. His family's attorney, Michael Harper, said Thompson's body was covered with insect bite marks.

Crump says Kaepernick to pay for autopsy for inmate who died in 'appalling conditions'

12:45pm April 21, 2023

by Juliana Kim

The former NFL quarterback is assisting the family of Lashawn Thompson, a Georgia jail inmate who died last year while covered in insects, civil rights attorney Ben Crump said.

National

Autopsy reveals anti-'Cop City' activist's hands were raised when shot and killed

3:58pm March 11, 2023

by Kaitlyn Radde

The 26-year-old protester, Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, was killed in January in an Atlanta-area forest as police cleared an encampment of activists who oppose the construction of Atlanta's "Cop City."

This combination photo shows Travis McMichael (from left), William Bryan and Gregory McMichael during their trial at the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga. The three men have filed appeals of their federal hate crime convictions.

National

3 men found guilty in Ahmaud Arbery's murder file appeals of hate crime convictions

5:51pm March 10, 2023

by Jonathan Franklin

The 25-year-old Arbery was shot and killed after he was pursued by two of the men, who saw him running in their neighborhood in Brunswick, Ga., on Feb. 23, 2020. The third man filmed the encounter.

Georgian protesters rally outside the parliament as lawmakers vote to call off their controversial "foreign agent" bill in Tbilisi on Friday.

World News

Georgians have been protesting a controversial bill for days. Lawmakers scrapped it

10:54am March 10, 2023

by Rachel Treisman

Lawmakers in the former Soviet republic voted Friday to drop their "foreign agents" bill, which critics view as a threat to democracy as well as the country's push to join the European Union.

Ilyon Woo, the author of Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom.

Books

Ilyon Woo's new book explores the relentless pursuit of freedom

1:01pm January 24, 2023

by Reena Advani

In "Master Slave Husband Wife," Ilyon Woo describes the story of Ellen and William Craft escaping slavery.

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