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Georgia’s parliament approves second reading of bill on ‘foreign agents’ amid protests
A woman reacts as law enforcement officers use a water cannon to disperse the crowd near the parliament building, during a rally to protest against a bill on "foreign agents" in Tbilisi, Georgia, May 1, 2024. Georgian parliament is set to debate the second reading of the bill described as authoritarian and Russian-inspired by Georgia's opposition and Western countries. REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze
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Fake elector prosecutions gain ground in states Trump lost
Former President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he leaves a Manhattan courtroom after the second day of his criminal trial, Tuesday, April 16, 2024 in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, Pool)
world
Right whale is found entangled off New England in a devastating year for the vanishing species
This photo provided by NOAA shows an endangered whale that has been found entangled in fishing gear off the coast of New England. The right whales number less than 360 and they are vulnerable to entanglement in fishing gear and collisions with ships. The entangled whale was seen about 50 miles south of Block Island, Rhode Island, on Wednesday, April 10, 2024, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. (NOAA Fisheries via AP)
world
Timeline of Donald Trump’s upcoming legal dates
Former President Donald Trump and his lawyer, Todd Blanche, right, before a hearing at the State Supreme Court in Manhattan, on Feb. 15, 2024. Trump faces four criminal cases, and Blanche is at the center of his defense team. (Jefferson Siegel/The New York Times)
u.s. politics
Judge rejects Trump’s First Amendment challenge to indictment in Georgia election case
FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, March 9, 2024, in Rome Ga. The judge in the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump and others says Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis must step aside or remove the special prosecutor with whom she had a romantic relationship before the case can proceed. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)
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Florida Supreme Court upholds state’s 15-week ban on most abortions
FILE - Participants wave signs as they walk back to Orlando City Hall during the March for Abortion Access, Oct. 2, 2021, in Orlando, Fla. The Florida Supreme Court on Monday, April 1, 2024, upheld the state's ban on most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, which means a subsequently passed six-week ban can soon take effect. (Chasity Maynard/Orlando Sentinel via AP, File)
u.s. politics
Trump asks appeals court to review ruling allowing Fani Willis to remain on Georgia election case
FILE- Fulton County Superior Judge Scott McAfee presides over a hearing is to determine whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should be removed from the case because of a relationship with Nathan Wade, special prosecutor she hired in the election interference case against former President Donald Trump, Friday, March, 1, 2024, in Atlanta. Scott McAfee, who's presiding over the election interference case, drew two challengers Friday, March 8, 2024, for his nonpartisan race in May: civil rights attorney Robert Patillo and Tiffani Johnson, a staff attorney for another Fulton County judge. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz, Pool, File)
soccer
Ukraine, Georgia and Poland are going to Euro 2024 after late drama in qualifying playoffs
Georgia's Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, centre, argues with Greece's Petros Mantalos during the Euro 2024 qualifying play-off soccer match between Georgia and Greece at the Boris Paichadze National Stadium in Tbilisi, Georgia, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Tamuna Kulumbegashvili)
u.s. politics
Judge in Georgia lets prosecutor Fani Willis stay on Trump case but deputy steps down
FILE - Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis looks on during a hearing on the Georgia election interference case, Friday, March, 1, 2024, in Atlanta. A progressive Democrat and a Republican who briefly worked in Donald Trump's administration entered the Fulton County district attorney's race Friday, March 8, 2024, as the current officeholder, Willis, awaits a judge's decision on whether she will be removed from the Georgia election interference case against the former president. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz, Pool, File)
u.s. politics
Biden, Trump clinch nominations, kicking off bruising presidential rematch
world
Georgia governor signs bill that would define antisemitism in state law
Gov. Brian Kemp signs an antisemitism bill HB 30 at the Capitol in Atlanta, on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024. (Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
world
Enemy drone that killed U.S. troops in Jordan was mistaken for a U.S. drone, report suggests
This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows a military base known as Tower 22 in northeastern Jordan, on Oct. 12, 2023. Three American troops were killed and "many" were wounded Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024, in a drone strike in northeast Jordan near the Syrian border, President Joe Biden said. He blamed Iran-backed militia groups for the first U.S. fatalities after months of strikes against American forces across the Middle East amid the Israel-Hamas war. U.S. officials identified Tower 22 as the site of the attack. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)
energy and resources
Microsoft, Qcells strike massive supply deal for U.S.-made solar panels
FILE PHOTO: Solar panels are built at the QCells solar energy manufacturing factory in Dalton, Georgia, U.S., March 2, 2023. REUTERS/Megan Varner//File Photo
soccer
Hungary qualifies for Euro 2024 with own-goal in stoppage time in match marred by violence
Hungary's midfielder #13 Zsolt Kalmar celebrates after Bulgaria scored an own goal during the UEFA Euro 2024 Group G qualification football match between Bulgaria and Hungary, at the Vassil Levski Stadium in Sofia, on November 16, 2023. (Photo by Nikolay DOYCHINOV / AFP) (Photo by NIKOLAY DOYCHINOV/AFP via Getty Images)
football
Roughriders release defensive back Nic Marshall after arrest in U.S. on gun possession charge
Saskatchewan Roughriders defensive back Nic Marshall (3) is tackled after making an interception against the Edmonton Elks during the second half of CFL football action in Regina on July 6, 2023. The Roughriders released Marshall on Monday, a day after the team said it was aware through media reports that Marshall had been arrested on a gun possession charge. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Heywood Yu
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Russian troops shoot and kill a Georgian civilian near the breakaway province of South Ossetia
FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2019, file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, speaks to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during a Kremlin meeting in Moscow, Russia about suspending participation in the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty signed in 1987 between the Soviet Union and the United States. On Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023, Russia pulled out of the Treaty of Conventional Armed Forces in Europe and NATO member countries froze their participation in the pact, which was aimed at preventing the massing forces at or near their mutual borders, raising fresh questions about the future of arms control agreements in Europe. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
world
The Trump era has changed the politics of local elections in Georgia, a pivotal 2024 battleground
Stacy Skinner, a city councilwoman in John's Creek, Georgia, leaves her early voting location after casting her ballot for her reelection on Oct. 19, 2023. Skinner has accepted an endorsement from Veterans for Trump. But she's careful about how she uses it. The dynamics show how national political fault lines are filtering down to local government and campaigns. (AP Photo/Bill Barrow)
u.s. politics
U.S. judge orders new congressional map in Georgia, citing harm to Black voters
Steve C. Jones, United States District Court Judge for the Northern District of Georgia, gives the commencement address at the University of Georgia's fall commencement in Athens, Ga., on Friday, Dec. 14, 2018. (Joshua L. Jones/Athens Banner-Herald via AP)
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Meadows, other Trump allies plead not guilty in Georgia election case
Former U.S. President Donald Trump's Chief of Staff Mark Meadows walks out of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, where a hearing on his petition to move the Fulton County case to federal court in the 2020 election case took place, in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., August 28, 2023. REUTERS/Dustin Chambers
u.s. politics
Trump pleads not guilty, waives arraignment in Georgia election subversion case
Former President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before departure from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
basketball
Canada to face Brazil next at basketball World Cup
Canada Canada guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (2) defends the ball against Latvia forward Rodions Kurucs (00) during the Basketball World Cup group H match between Canada and Latvia at the Indonesia Arena stadium in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)
world
Hurricane Idalia hits Florida with winds of 125 miles an hour, flooding streets, snapping trees and cutting power
A backyard of a house is seen flooded in Steinhatchee, Florida on August 30, 2023, after Hurricane Idalia made landfall. Idalia barreled into the northwest Florida coast as a powerful Category 3 hurricane on Wednesday morning, the US National Hurricane Center said. "Extremely dangerous Category 3 Hurricane #Idalia makes landfall in the Florida Big Bend," it posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, adding that Idalia was causing "catastrophic storm surge and damaging winds." (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)
u.s. politics
Trump, 18 co-defendants in Georgia election case meet deadline to surrender at jail
The motorcade of former President Donald Trump arrives at the Fulton County Jail, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
u.s. politics
Rudy Giuliani surrenders in Trump election subversion case, $150,000 bond set
Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani speaks to reporters as he leaves his apartment building in New York, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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U.S. judge blocks Georgia ban on hormone replacement therapy for transgender minors
State Rep. Debra Bazemore, D-South Fulton, left, embraces Rep. Karla Drenner, D-Avondale Estates, who was the first openly gay member of the Georgia legislature, after Drenner spoke against SB 140 at the House of Representatives in Atlanta, Thursday, March 16, 2023. SB 140 limits treatment for transgender youth. (Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
opinion
Canada needs a RICO law. Can we do it better than the U.S.?
Alexandra Wrage
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Georgia law enforcement probe threats after Trump grand jury ID’d online
FILE PHOTO: A sheriff's vehicle passes by the Lewis R. Slaton Courthouse and Superior Court of Fulton County, after a Grand Jury brought back indictments against former U.S. President Donald Trump and 18 of his allies in their attempt to overturn the state's 2020 election results, in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. August 17, 2023. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
u.s. politics
The 19 people charged in the Georgia indictment connected to Trump election scheme
Former President Donald Trump at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, on Aug. 12, 2023. Georgia prosecutors charged Trump and his allies under the state’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act, which allows them to tie together various crimes committed by different people by arguing that they were acting together for a common criminal goal. (Jon Cherry/The New York Times)
u.s. politics
Trump’s Georgia criminal case assigned to newest judge on court
Former President Donald Trump, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, campaigns in Erie, Pa., on July 29, 2023. Trump and 18 others have been indicted by an Atlanta grand jury in a sweeping racketeering case, accusing Trump and some of his former top aides of orchestrating a Òcriminal enterpriseÓ to reverse the results of the 2020 election in Georgia. (Maddie McGarvey/The New York Times)
u.s. politics
Georgia prosecutor aims to ‘tell the whole story’ with racketeering charges against Trump and 18 associates
FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as he campaigns at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S. August 12, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo
u.s. politics
Donald Trump criminally indicted in Georgia for efforts to overturn 2020 election
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump walks to his vehicle after arriving at the Des Moines International Airport before his visit to the Iowa State Fair, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)