ATLANTA — Republican leaders are promising quick legislative action to fight violent crime in Atlanta as the House begins hearings on crime in Georgia’s largest city. Gov. Brian Kemp told the House Public Safety and […]
PERRY, Ga. — Brian Kemp often tells supporters to “keep choppin’ wood,” the way the self-described “country guy” urges a steady, deliberate approach. Yet the Georgia governor also says he’ll be “running scared” as he […]
ATLANTA — Georgia’s governor says he will end the state’s public health state of emergency on July 1, more than 15 months after he initially declared it because of the coronavirus pandemic. Republican Brian Kemp […]
JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. — Republican governors running for reelection have begun trumpeting the party’s more pragmatic approach to the coronavirus pandemic, trying to flip the script on an issue that Democrats say helped narrowly win […]
ATLANTA — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has signed a law aimed at blocking “defund the police” efforts in larger Georgia cities and counties, saying it’s unfair to “condemn and demonize” police officers. “This far-left movement […]
ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp plans to sign a repeal of Georgia’s Civil War-era citizen’s arrest law on Monday, a year after the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man pursued by white men […]
ATLANTA — President Joe Biden called Georgia’s new voting law an “atrocity.” A leading black bishop called for a national boycott of companies headquartered in the state. But when Stacey Abrams, who never conceded her […]
The 2021 legislative session in Georgia is over, and the most-discussed legislation concerned election reform. While dozens of these bills were introduced, only Senate Bill 202 cleared both chambers. Gov. Brian Kemp signed it into […]
NEW YORK — Atlanta lost Major League Baseball’s summer All-Star Game on Friday over the league’s objections to sweeping changes to Georgia voting laws that critics — including the CEOs of Atlanta-based Delta Air […]
ATLANTA — U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr says the federal government is awarding more than $100 million in grants to target human trafficking. The money will go to task forces combatting human trafficking, to victim […]
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