SAVANNAH, Ga. — Tori Branum is a Marine Corps veteran, firearms instructor, and Republican candidate for Georgia’s 12th congressional district. She’s also a proud “America first” supporter of President Donald Trump. On Thursday, as agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security were still carrying out …
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Donald Trump’s tax bill, which Republicans passed in the House of Representatives overnight on Thursday, will slash funding for Medicaid, food assistance, and Medicare to finance a new set of tax cuts for the rich. It also includes tax breaks for gun silencers. In a speech at 4 a.m. on …
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As Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers ponder how best to cut Medicaid in order to pay for new tax boons for the rich, doctors, hospital executives, and advocates are warning that changes to the nation’s health insurance program for the poor could harm patients, quickly cause rural hospitals to close, …
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk have spent the first month of the president’s second administration systematically dismantling the federal government. Trump has been issuing a flurry of ostensibly illegal executive orders aimed at consolidating power in the White House, while Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have …
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A Georgia appeals court has disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from heading the state’s RICO prosecution against Donald Trump and several of his allies over their alleged attempts to interfere with Georgia’ 2020 election results. The decision is another blow to Georgia’s efforts to try the president-elect for …
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The father of a 14-year-old boy accused of killing four people in a mass school shooting pleaded not guilty to charges related to allegedly purchasing his son a weapon. Colin Gray entered a not-guilty plea on Thursday. He faces 29 counts, including second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter, and cruelty to children, …
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Throughout the 2024 campaign, federal law enforcement and election officials from both sides of the aisle have consistently sounded the alarm about the cascade of right-wing, Donald Trump-inspired threats that election workers are facing as they attempt to perform the basic, essential task of administering America’s democratic elections. Now, Election …
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A Trump-appointed federal judge in Georgia slapped down a lawsuit filed by the Republican National Committee on Tuesday, and gave the lawyers responsible a brutal dressing down while he did it. Judge R. Stan Baker, who was nominated to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia …
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Michael Stipe performed at a Harris-Walz get-out-the-vote rally in Atlanta, Georgia on Sunday attended by Democratic vice presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz (MN) and second gentleman Doug Emhoff. He performed R.E.M.’s “Driver 8” from the band’s third album, 1985’s Fables of the Reconstruction. “Thank you for being here, and thank …
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Georgia’s top election official on Thursday night blamed “likely foreign interference” for a video that is quickly racking up views on social media and purports to show a newly-arrived Haitian migrant claiming he voted for Kamala Harris just six months after arriving in the United States. The video is “targeted …
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