The death toll in a condo building collapse in Surfside, Florida, has risen to 64, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said, after authorities made the decision to shift the search effort from rescue to recovery. Four more victims were recovered Thursday, Levine Cava said. Seventy-six people are “potentially unaccounted for,” the mayor said at […]
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2 Haitian Americans detained in slaying of Haiti president
Two men believed to be Haitian Americans — one of them purportedly a former bodyguard at the Canadian Embassy in Port au Prince — have been arrested in connection with the assassination of Haiti’s president, Haitian officials said Thursday. James Solages and Joseph Vincent were among 17 suspects detained in the brazen killing of President […]
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Georgia marijuana regulator inches toward issuing licenses
A Georgia regulator is getting closer to issuing licenses to grow medical marijuana, but isn’t quite there yet. The Georgia Access to Medical Cannabis Commission voted Wednesday to finalize scores given to grower applications. Those scores will be used to award licenses, but the commission stopped short of awarding them. After nearly two hours of […]
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Georgia wide receiver announces transfer to Auburn
Former Georgia Bulldogs wide receiver Demetris Robertson announced that he is transferring to SEC rival Auburn Wednesday around noon via Instagram. This decision does not come as a shock to most Bulldogs fans as the news of Robertson entering the transfer portal broke June 11. “Thank you Georgia Football from the bottom of my heart […]
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2021 SEC Media Days Preview: Questions surrounding all 14 teams
After a one year hiatus, SEC Media Days will return to Hoover, Alabama after it was cancelled in 2020 due to COVID-19 considerations. In 18 of the last 19 years, Media Days have taken place in Hoover, with the lone exception of Atlanta hosting the event in 2018. This year’s Media Days features four new […]
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South Fulton Police Department encourages community effort
There is a unique practice Chief Keith Meadows implements with his team at the South Fulton Police Department and the decrease in South Fulton Crime statistics have shown that it might be receptive to the South Fulton Community. “We have regular routine discussions about race relations in our Police Department,” Meadows said. “Among our command […]
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Trump is suing Facebook, Google and Twitter. It’s a familiar tactic, and it always loses
Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday filed class-action lawsuits targeting Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter and its CEO Jack Dorsey, as well as YouTube and its parent company’s CEO Sundar Pichai, in a Hail Mary move after being removed from their platforms. Courts have typically dismissed similar suits, and these are likely […]
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Marjorie Taylor Greene compares Biden vaccine push to Nazi-era ‘brown shirts’
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday compared officials carrying out President Joe Biden’s latest Covid-19 vaccination push to Nazi-era “brown shirts,” just weeks after apologizing for her comments comparing Capitol Hill mask-wearing rules to the Holocaust. Responding to remarks from Biden about mobilizing officials to reach unvaccinated individuals at their homes, Greene tweeted, “People have […]
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Marjorie Taylor Greene compares Biden vaccine push to Nazi-era ‘brown shirts’
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday compared officials carrying out President Joe Biden’s latest Covid-19 vaccination push to Nazi-era “brown shirts,” just weeks after apologizing for her comments comparing Capitol Hill mask-wearing rules to the Holocaust. Responding to remarks from Biden about mobilizing officials to reach unvaccinated individuals at their homes, Greene tweeted, “People have […]
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EXPLAINER: Assassination threatens more chaos for Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The assassination of President Jovenel Moïse seemed to have thrown an already turbulent nation into chaos on Wednesday, with a muddled line of succession. Here is a look at the situation: WHO WAS THE ASSASSINATED PRESIDENT? Jovenel Moïse was a 48-year-old businessman and political neophyte when he was sworn in as […]
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Adams’ win in NYC latest in surge for moderate Democrats
The triumph of a moderate Democrat in the mayoral primary in deep blue New York City appears to accelerate a recent trend of some of the party’s most fervent voters breaking away from its most progressive candidates. Eric Adams, a former New York Police Department captain, this week became his party’s nominee to lead the […]
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One of the largest teachers’ unions will defend educators who teach ‘honest history’
As some states move toward banning critical race theory from public schools, the president of the second-largest teachers’ union in the country has vowed to defend teachers against any backlash. “Mark my words: Our union will defend any member who gets in trouble for teaching honest history,” Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of […]
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Beyond DC partisanship, Senator Warnock makes broad pitch in Georgia
On Capitol Hill, Sen. Raphael Warnock assails Republicans’ push for tighter voting rules as “Jim Crow in new clothes,” while his campaign operation blasts emails bemoaning dire risks to democracy. Back home, Georgia’s first Black senator is more subtle, pitching a “comprehensive view of infrastructure” and avoiding talk of his reelection fight already looming just […]
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Hawks reach agreement to make Nate McMillan full-time coach
Atlanta Hawks general manager Travis Schlenk moved quickly to lock down Nate McMillan as the full-time coach, reaching an agreement to remove the interim tag only two days after team’s season ended. The deal comes after McMillan, in his interim role, led the team to an improbable run to the Eastern Conference finals. Schlenk said […]
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Three-time Olympic gold medalist Gail Devers on how Graves’ disease ‘made me who I am’
Gail Devers’ first Olympic gold medal could hardly have come in more dramatic circumstances, dipping for the line in a blanket finish thought to be the closest ever 100m final. While her time of 10.82 seconds was less than a tenth of a second faster than her four nearest rivals, it wasn’t just the nature […]