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Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Georgia had Jim Crow laws that Democratic then-Gov. Lester Maddox — an unapologetic segregationist — vigorously defended. In 2023, Georgia has a Black district attorney, Atlanta resident Fani Willis, who is aggressively prosecuting a former president, Donald Trump, and 18 of his allies on criminal charges.

Editor’s note: American poet and educator Edwin Markham wrote the following poem after seeing Jean-François Millet’s painting “L’homme à la houe” (“Man with a Hoe”). It was published in the San Francisco Examiner in January 1899 after an editor heard Markham recite it at a New Year’s Eve party. It was reprinted in periodical across the country and included in “The Cry for Justice,” an anthology of humanist writing edited by Upton Sinclair. The anthology, published in 1915, was referred to as “a... Читать дальше...

Former President Donald Trump's bid to retake the White House in 2024 presents a "high-risk moment" for relations between the United States and Canada, warned former U.S. ambassador to Canada Bruce Heyman, according to The Hill Times.

PHILADELPHIA — President Joe Biden made his seventh trip of the year to the City of Brotherly Love on Monday, telling an audience of union workers that America’s best days are ahead of it, and that support for unions is the strongest it’s been in 60 years.

Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner joined the ranks of several other legal experts, including retired Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe and former conservative federal judge Michael Luttig, in arguing that former President Donald Trump is automatically disqualified from running for office again under the plain text of the 14th Amendment's prohibition on aiding insurrection.

Former Rep. David Jolly (R-Fla.) said Monday that Donald Trump’s latest corruption allegations against President Joe Biden say more about how the former president views himself.

Nobody expects the frozen meals once called “TV dinners” to be the height of healthy eating, but nobody expects plastic in the entree, either.

Former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, who was arrested along with Donald Trump for allegedly trying to use the Justice Department to lean on Georgia to block its electoral count, lashed out at former acting solicitor general Neal Katyal over Burning Man of all topics.

Despite polls showing him comfortably ahead of all other challengers, President Donald Trump's glide path to the 2024 presidential nomination could hit a potential stumbling block in New Hampshire.

All signs suggest Republican lawmakers are readying to launch an impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden, but the probe could backfire on the GOP, Politico reports.

The four members of SpaceX Crew-6 that had been orbiting the Earth on the International Space Station since March climbed back on board the Crew Dragon Endeavour and made the trip home for a splashdown off the Florida coast.

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Julio Urías was arrested on suspicion domestic violence late Sunday, ESPN reports.

Former President Donald Trump has little hope of getting the charges against him dismissed, argued Etan Mark, a Miami-based lawyer who focuses on civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) cases, to Law & Crime.

Republican threats to shut down the federal government if spending isn't drastically cut have put funding for a critical nutrition aid program at risk as hunger grows across the nation, with the recent lapse of pandemic-era assistance leaving many low-income families struggling to put food on the table.

DETROIT — Low unemployment, high rates of inflation and lingering impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have contributed to a boom in union and strike activity in the past couple of years. And after a summer full of strikes, this fall could be no different.

Steve Harwell, the former frontman and a founding member of the rock band Smash Mouth, has died. He was 56. The “All Star” singer’s family and friends gathered around him over the weekend while he spent the final days of his battle with liver failure in home hospice. Rolling Stone reported Monday morning Harwell had died. “Steve lived a 100 percent full-throttle life,” band manager Robert Hayes told Rolling Stone. “Burning brightly across the universe before burning out.” Hayes noted Harwell left Smash Mouth in 2021... Читать дальше...

In a rant posted to X on Monday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) doubled down on her previous demands to release all the security footage from the Capitol during the January 6 attack — this time suggesting it could help "patriots" prove a conspiracy theory that federal agents were planted in the crowd to incite the violence.

Book ban "zealots" were blasted by a Florida newspaper Monday for crippling the state's schools with crusades it said barely anybody supports.

President Joe Biden mocked Donald Trump during a Labor Day rally, calling his predecessor a “great real estate” developer who “didn’t build a damn thing,” The New York Post reported.

After a critical mauling for Roman Polanski, another blacklisted director -- Woody Allen -- arrived at the Venice Film Festival on Monday, insisting he supported the #MeToo movement "when it's beneficial".

Ex-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows' bid to get his Georgia racketeering indictment moved to federal court or dismissed will likely end in failure because Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis can simply amend her filing, according to a former federal prosecutor.

Speaking with CNN host Rahel Soloman, David Weinstein explained that Meadows will be making the case that the actions outlined in the indictment fell under his official duties as he served Donald Trump and are therefore not a crime... Читать дальше...

The federal government is investigating over 100 incidents in recent years in which Chinese nationals illegally gained access to, or tried to gain access to, U.S. military installations, often by posing as tourists, reported the Wall Street Journal.

Republican governors are now so committed to pursuing their ideologies and criticizing opponents that they would rather make their constituents suffer than collaborate with political rivals, wrote David A. Graham for The Atlantic on Monday.

With the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal already loudly and repeatedly claiming Donald Trump can't win again in 2024, the Rupert Murdoch-owned paper is "desperately" searching for a Republican candidate it can get behind as the election -- and crucial GOP primaries -- fast approach.

Former President Donald Trump is crossing yet a new line by presuming any jury seated in Atlanta is incapable of judging him fairly, wrote John M. Crisp for The Eagle-Tribune on Monday.