Georgia

Three Georgia officers were wounded early Monday after a police chase led to a gunfight that left one suspect dead and another in custody, authorities said. The incident unfolded just after 3:30 a.m. when a Georgia State Patrol trooper attempted to stop a car for speeding at 111 mph on Interstate 20, Georgia State Patrol […]

Major League Baseball (MLB) commissioner Robert Manfred decided to move the All-Star Game on his own after holding extensive discussions with voting rights groups associated with Lebron James, Stacey Abrams and Rev. Al Sharpton, sources familiar with the move tell Fox News.  Abrams told a senior league official that she wanted him to denounce the […]

Georgia Democratic Reps. Lucy McBath and Carolyn Bourdeaux, who represent the Atlanta suburbs, have been silent after the MLB pulled this year’s All-Star Game out of Atlanta in protest of Georgia’s new voting legislation. “It’s shocking that these Congresswomen have been silent on a woke mob stealing $100 million from their city and their constituents. Lucy McBath and […]

A stabbing at a Georgia jail early Tuesday left one sheriff’s deputy dead and another wounded, authorities said.  Deputy Christopher Knight, 30, was working with other deputies to escort a handcuffed inmate on suicide watch to an observation cell at the Bibb County Law Enforcement Center in Macon when a fight broke out, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office […]

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms signed an executive order Tuesday directing the city’s chief equity officer to find ways to “mitigate” the effect of the new Georgia election law.  “This Administrative Order is designed to do what those in the majority of the state legislature did not – expand access to our right to vote,” […]

A Georgia lawmaker is proposing that his state align its voting laws with New York and Delaware’s more restrictive regulations, an admitted “political stunt” designed to rebuke criticism from President Biden, who has lived in Delaware and served as one of its senators, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. In a Facebook post Monday, Republican state Rep. Wes Cantrell wrote […]

What’s actually in the bill? Among the most high-profile provisions of the controversial new Georgia election law is a change in how the state verifies the identity of voters who request and cast absentee ballots.  The change eliminates signature-matching — a process that can be subjective at times — as the method of confirming absentee […]

Opponents of MLB’s decision Monday to move the 2021 All-Star Game to Denver because of Georgia’s new voting law suggest the move could end up hurting Atlanta’s Black residents rather than helping them. They note the move will deal an economic blow to Atlanta, which is 51% Black, and provide a boost to Colorado’s capital, which is only 9% Black, according to […]

More Americans support Georgia’s new voting law than oppose it, according to a poll. The law that prompted Major League Baseball to relocate this year’s All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver was supported by 42% of survey respondents while 36% percent opposed it, according to Morning Consult. In addition, less than 40% of the adults […]

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., accused Democrats of “terribly” distorting the facts around Georgia’s new voting law at an event in South Carolina on Saturday. “How can you distort the facts so terribly that you’re willing to bring back the concept of a poll tax or the concept of Jim Crow? You only do that when […]