Medicaid incentive so far not enough to sway holdout states
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Democrats' nearly $2 trillion coronavirus relief package includes a big financial incentive for the states that have opted against expanding Medicaid...
Court tosses $8M verdict in ‘Walking Dead’ stuntman’s death
ATLANTA — An appeals court has thrown out an $8 million jury verdict awarded to the family of a stuntman who was fatally injured...
Biden to meet with Stacey Abrams on trip to Georgia
During his visit to Atlanta on Friday, President Joe Biden will meet with former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, who has been widely credited...
Collaboration with police divides social workers across US
CHICAGO — Rayshard Brooks was killed last June when Atlanta police responding to a report of a man asleep in a car blocking a...
Corporations become unlikely financiers of racial equity
In the months since the police killing of George Floyd sparked a racial reckoning in the United States, American corporations have emerged as an...
Assumptions about hurricane season face winds of change
With named storms coming earlier and more often in warmer waters, some assumptions about the Atlantic hurricane season are being rethought.
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Warnock: GOP voting restrictions resurrect ‘Jim Crow era’
Sen. Raphael Warnock, whose election as Georgia’s first Black senator helped hand control of the chamber to Democrats, used his first floor speech on...
Voter outreach led to big drop in rejected mail ballots
ATLANTA — The coronavirus pandemic triggered an unprecedented surge in mailed ballots last year, raising concerns that a flood of first-time absentee voters would...
Crews remove 3rd giant chunk of shipwreck off Georgia coast
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Salvage crews cutting a wrecked cargo ship into giant chunks along the Georgia coast Tuesday lifted away the third big section...
2 dead, others hurt in Georgia massage parlor shooting
ACWORTH, Ga. — A shooting at an Atlanta-area massage parlor left two dead and several more injured Tuesday, authorities said.
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