In the closing hours of a campaign shadowed by a once-in-a-century pandemic, President Donald Trump charged across the nation Monday delivering an incendiary but unsupported allegation that the election is rigged, while Democratic challenger Joe Biden pushed to claim states once seen as safely Republican. America stood at a crossroads. Never before in modern history […]
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Hospitals competing for nurses as US coronavirus cases surge
As the coronavirus pandemic surges across the nation and infections and hospitalizations rise, medical administrators are scrambling to find enough nursing help — especially in rural areas and at small hospitals. Nurses are being trained to provide care in fields where they have limited experience. Hospitals are scaling back services to ensure enough staff to […]
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#Election2020: Marco Rubio goes full Trump on election eve
Even as some ambitious 2024 Republicans have begun to distance themselves from Donald Trump’s version of, uh, conservatism, Florida’s Sen. Marco Rubio offered the equivalent of a bear hug for the incumbent just 48 hours before Election Day. Speaking at a Florida rally, Rubio, who routinely blasted Trump in decidedly personal terms during their 2016 […]
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#Election2020 | CNN’s final 2020 Electoral College outlook: A remarkably stable race comes to an end
Perhaps one of the most unexpected developments in the 2020 presidential campaign is how remarkably stable the state of the race has proved to be through extraordinarily turbulent times. As the race for the White House comes to a close, the landscape looks quite similar to how it looked after the party conventions in August […]
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#Election2020: Polls open in Georgia on Election Day
Polling stations are now open throughout the state of Georgia on what has already been a historic Election Day season. Polls officially opened at 7 a.m. and will close at 7 p.m. In Georgia, only 250,000 votes cast on #ElectionDay are needed to break the record for the total number of votes cast in a […]
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#Election2020 | Ufot, Johnson: ‘In Georgia, police accountability is on the ballot’
This year, communities across our state and throughout America have stood up and demanded justice for Rayshard Brooks, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and the countless Black people who have been killed by the police. On Nov. 3, Georgians can help advance criminal justice reform efforts by voting in down-ballot elections like those for the local […]
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#ElectionDay: Harris closes out her campaign in Detroit; nationwide early voting breaks records
Tuesday afternoon, Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Kamala D. Harris wound down her campaign in Detroit, Michigan, in an attempt to turn out the vote in a key battleground state. “So I’m back in Michigan and in Detroit, because I just, first of all, wanted to thank you. I know folks are standing in line for […]
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Four men charged in Clayton State shooting
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) announced that four men were charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon (felony) and aggravated battery (felony), pertaining to a shooting that recently happened on Clayton State University’s campus. All four suspects, Zydarius Arkady Brewer (18), Braylen Tremaine Staples (19), Ra’him Sykes (18), and Terrance Woods (18) are […]
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KSU neuroscientist awarded grant for PTSD in women research
Kennesaw State University’s Ebony Glover, an associate professor of neuroscience, received a $406,300 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to gain a more comprehensive picture of sex-linked biomarkers for PTSD, which can lead to potential treatments that are more customized for this high-risk population. The grant is allotted for the next three years. […]
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Washington: ‘Test or temptation? Know that there’s a big difference between the two’
There’s a saying that many of us would say resonates within our spirit. We’ve all heard it so many times that we can easily recite it from memory. God will not put more on you than you can stand. Some take those words of scripture as absolute fact, yet the interpretation can and does vary […]
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Randstad appoints Bob Lopes as chief human resources officer
Randstad North America, an Atlanta-based recruitment company, announced the appointment of Bob Lopes as the company’s new chief human resources officer. Lopes has served as an executive at Randstad’s sister company, Randstad Sourceright, for six years. “We are very fortunate to have Bob bring his expertise to the Randstad North America leadership team,” said Karen Fichuk, CEO of […]
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#ElectionDay: Obama rallies Democrats and Black men to polls
Monday afternoon, Barack Obama arrived at the 1996 Olympic Rings with a scathing message against Donald Trump and continued to drive home the message that its time for the Democrats to take Georgia for the first time since 1992. “Georgia could be the state. Georgia could be the place where we put this country back […]
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Fact check: CNN breaks down the 7 kinds of dishonesty to expect in a late-campaign Trump rally
President Donald Trump is closing his campaign with a torrent of lies. His October rally speeches have been notably dishonest even by Trump standards. Trump is known for meandering off script, and he hasn’t stopped ad-libbing as Tuesday approaches. But as he dashes from state to state — the President has 14 rallies scheduled from […]
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Fair Count awarded grant to strengthen pathways for greater civic participation
Fair Count Inc. of Atlanta has received funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to support Fair Count’s mission of strengthening the pathways to greater civic participation and ensuring all people in Georgia and the nation are seen in the 2020 Census, heard at the polls, and respected in states’ redistricting process. “Fair Count is thrilled […]
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#Election2020: Biden works to push Black turnout in campaign’s final days
Joe Biden is spending the final days of the presidential campaign appealing to Black supporters to vote in-person during a pandemic that has disproportionally affected their communities, betting that a strong turnout will boost his chances in states that could decide the election. Biden was in Philadelphia on Sunday, the largest city in what is […]