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What would it actually take to erase the carving from the face of Stone Mountain?

With Confederate monuments coming down across the country and debate raging over whether they s...
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The decision came after the legal backlash over sending address confirmation notices to tens of thousands of voters last month.

Voters who move within the same county will no longer face "inactive" status if they don't return the notices, which are subject of a lawsuit.
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"The doctor in charge, they testified, would not end the suffering."

In the Macon State Prison infirmary, even the most hardened healthcare professionals were shocked as...
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A political consulting company was charged by the Justice Department last week with conspiring to launder money.

A political consulting company that U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop hired to lead his re-election campaign in 2014 was charged by the Justice Department last week with conspiring to launder money.

The Albany Democrat, who has represented Georgia’s 2nd U.S. House District for 24 years, spent more than $9...
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About 45 million Americans wear the lenses.

About six out of seven adolescents who wear contact lenses also engage in a habit that could lead to...
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Are any teachers in Georgia throwing out their planned lessons to discuss Charlottesville and its ramifications?

I've been talking to high school students about the violence and turmoil in Charlottesville and its aftermath, including the rising call in Georgia to take down monuments that celebrate the Confederacy and its leaders.

For the most part, the teens said these issues aren't coming up in their class...
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Happy birthday Mrs. Carter!!!

Four ways you can help celebrate Rosalynn Carter's remarkable life as she turns 90.
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ICYMI: Steve Bannon is out.

President Donald Trump has decided to remove Steve Bannon from his position as White House chief str...
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OPINION:
"Folks, this is not that hard:
Neo-Nazis are bad.
The KKK: also bad.
White supremacists: bad today, bad tomorrow, bad forever."



I'm back after a couple of days of reporting outside Atlanta. Somehow, we are still talking about the propriety of those who assembled under and against the banners of Nazi swastikas in Charlottesville.

Sigh.

Folks, this is not that hard:

Neo-Nazis are bad.
The KKK: also bad.
...
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Which candidate has the staying power in the race to replace Kasim Reed as Atlanta mayor?

Candidates for Atlanta mayor, City Council have until Friday to qualify
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Here's what you need to know in politics today.



While routinely denounced as a bastion of liberalism, the ACLU has often drawn leftist fire for its defense of the free speech rights of the radical right – on the theory that...
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Casey Cagle is busy tuning up his campaign for governor.



Dahlonega - The breakfast crowd is rolling into The Wagon Wheel, where Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle is busy tuning up his campaign for governor.

He’s backslapping supporters, greeting old friends — “the best-looking man in all of Lumpkin County,” he razzes a retiree — and generally...
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There are no black members of the board of state-owned Stone Mountain. Why DeKalb County's chief executive wants to change that.

Michael Thurmond lives in the shadows of Stone Mountain, the massive gray monolith honoring a triumvirate of Confederate leaders. To say he has a complicated relationship with the mount, now under renewed scrutiny along with other Rebel symbols, is an understatement. Three of four residents in the t...
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Things got pretty heated at the Netroots Nation conference ...

At the Netroots Nation conference in Atlanta, activists prepared to fight President Donald Trump, but also Democrats they saw as not liberal enough.
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Michael Thurmond has a complicated relationship with the mountain.



Michael Thurmond lives in the shadows of Stone Mountain, the massive gray monolith honoring a triumvirate of Confederate leaders. To say he has a complicated relationship with the mount, now under renewed scrutiny along with other Rebel symbols, is an understatement.

Three of four residents i...
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From Baltimore to Birmingham, Confederate monuments are being removed.

Update: President Trump this morning decried efforts across the country to remove Civil War monument...
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