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The future ownership of the Baltimore Orioles is in limbo after the team hired Goldman Sachs to "assess the prospects for selling the team," according to a report.

Georgia’s secretary of state has announced plans to replace election equipment in one county after what he called unauthorized access to the equipment just two months after the 2020 election.

Georgia's secretary of state on Friday announced plans to replace election equipment in one county following “unauthorized access” to the equipment that happened two months after the 2020 election. A company representative has said they made complete copies of the election management system server and other election system components. Later that month, two men who have been involved in efforts to discredit the 2020 election results also spent hours inside the elections office with access to the equipment.

Georgia Military College president Lt. Gen. Bill Caldwell joined "Fox & Friends" to discuss the prep school's partnership with NewDay USA to give out full-tuition scholarships.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger will decommission all voting machines in the county where forensics experts working for election denier Sidney Powell last year copied virtually every component of the voting system.

The reported recommendation means the DOJ is unlikely to charge Gaetz with a crime from the probe into his alleged relationship with a 17-year-old girl.

A handcuffed inmate was assaulted by four former Georgia correctional officers in retaliation for an interaction with a female officer. The officers were sentenced to time in jail.

Stacey Abrams prompted outrage on the right after claiming that a fetal heartbeat at six weeks was a "manufactured sound" meant to control a woman's body.

A Georgia teen who died during a flag football game reportedly suffered a medical emergency.

Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, appearing on a panel this week, told the audience that fetal heartbeats at six weeks are 'manufactured.'

Georgia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams said that “there is no such thing as a heartbeat at 6 weeks." Abortion access has been under attack nationwide since the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court this past summer. Georgia was one of the states that had an abortion trigger law that went into effect immediately after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

A high school student reportedly died after suffering a medical emergency during flag football practice after school in Sandy Springs, Georgia, on Wednesday.

Authorities in Georgia said there's no evidence suggesting a missing Georgia mother who was found dead this month was kidnapped — despite a chilling text message to her daughter indicating that she was possibly being held against her will.

Authorities arrested 19 juveniles and an adult linked to a massive Georgia shopping mall brawl involving possibly 200 "young people," Douglasville police said.

A biracial man who says he was fending off a racist attack on a Georgia highway when he fired into a pickup truck and killed a teenage passenger has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

A Republican Party official in Georgia told a computer forensics team to copy components of the voting system at a rural elections office two months after the 2020 election and spent nearly all day there, contradicting her sworn deposition testimony about her role in the alleged breach of the equipment, a new court filing says. The filing late Monday is part of a broader lawsuit challenging the security of the state's voting machines that has been drawn into a separate investigation of former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn his loss in Georgia. The apparent breach happened on Jan. 7, 2021, the day after a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters seeking to stop the certification of the election.

Former President Trump defended the controversial call he made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger following the 2020 election, saying in a statement on Monday it was “an absolutely PERFECT phone call.” The latest defense of the call, which has triggered an investigation in Georgia, follows remarks last week by Fulton County District Attorney…

William “Marc” Wilson was recently convicted of involuntary manslaughter for a shooting that he says was in self-defense against a racist attack on a Georgia highway, and his family and lawyers say the case reveals a racial double standard for “stand your ground” laws.

Hurricane Fiona made landfall in Puerto Rico on Sunday, causing catastrophic flooding and landslides, and leaving much of the island without power. Gov. Pedro Pierluisi said in a news conference Monday that the response to the storm was still ongoing and the next step will be recovery.

William “Marc” Wilson was recently convicted of involuntary manslaughter for a shooting that he maintains was self-defense against a racist attack on a Georgia highway, and his family and lawyers say the case reveals a racial double standard with “stand your ground” laws.“If you put me in Marc’s shoes, there’s no way that I would’ve been prosecuted,” Wilson’s cousin, Chance Pridgen, who is white, told Yahoo News. “Odds are I would’ve been given a medal — probably gotten a parade in my name. It’s unreal how he was treated just because he’s a little bit more tan than I am.”

A parent found with a firearm and drugs at a park in Georgia where children were present was arrested Saturday. Police have not released his identity at this time.

A puppy stolen from an animal shelter in Atlanta, Georgia, has been found safe, but two other pooches remain missing. The puppies were taken during a break-in on Friday.

Zackery Miller, 22, hit a man in the head with a machete in the parking lot of a Waffle House in Georgia. The suspect then stole a motorcycle and led a police chase.

Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is launching an intensive effort to get out the vote by urging potential supporters to cast in-person ballots the first week of early voting as she tries to navigate the state’s new election laws.

Representative Taylor Greene is an extremist in the Republican Party and has been a loyal Trump supporter. Former President Trump had documents seized in a FBI raid at Trump’s resort in Florida, Mar-a-Lago, due to his unlawful possession of highly classified and top secret documents.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis told The Washington Post that her team has heard credible allegations that serious crimes have been committed.

Pate drowned while swimming in an inlet with his teenage son on St. Simons Island, the coroner said.

A 17-year-old girl was able to use a smartphone app and alligator sign to alert authorities to her location after a man allegedly raped her in Georgia.

Republican Gov. Brian Kemp says he wants Georgia to provide grants to school districts to help students catch up on what they didn’t learn because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A corporate watchdog graded companies including Apple, AT&T and the Home Depot on voting bills, democracy and support for those who objected to the election.

The discovery surprised a state biologist who was doing the dissection.

Authorities say two Georgia sheriff's deputies were killed in a shootout while serving an arrest warrant in a suburban neighborhood outside Atlanta.

The shadow of Donald Trump's tampering with the 2020 election in Georgia lands differently for the various Republicans running for office in 2022.

Amid relentless scrutiny, disinformation campaigns, harassment and a state review, Georgia’s most populous county has struggled to hire an elections director.

The campaign for GOP Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp seeking re-election in November reacted to New York Times’ reporting that Democrat candidate Stacey Abrams is floundering in the race.

The Southeastern Conference was perhaps one blocked kick away from perfection on opening weekend, with a few impressive nonconference wins and some no-brainers.

Henry Fredrick Wise, also known as Hoss Wise, was identified as Stacey Chahorski's killer using genealogy DNA testing.

Two months after the 2020 presidential election, a team of computer experts traveled to south Georgia to copy software and data from voting equipment in an apparent breach of a county election system. A security camera outside the elections office in rural Coffee County captured their arrival. The footage also shows that some local election officials were at the office during what the Georgia secretary of state’s office has described as “alleged unauthorized access” of election equipment.

Flood watches are in effect in the U.S. southeast and across much of the northeast as forecasters warn of the possibility of torrential downpours across already saturated ground.

A Georgia prosecutor says a poll worker was pressured and threatened with imprisonment during a meeting arranged with the help of an ally of the Trump campaign.

After the 2020 election, a Georgia poll worker who was falsely accused of voting fraud by former President Donald Trump was pressured and threatened with imprisonment during a meeting arranged with the help of an ally of the Trump campaign, a prosecutor said in a court filing Friday. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is investigating whether Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in Georgia.

The College Football Playoff that determines the national champion is expanding from four teams to 12.

A federal judge has ruled constitutional protections don’t shield U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham from testifying before a special grand jury investigating possible illegal efforts to overturn then-President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia.

A federal judge on Thursday ruled that constitutional protections don't shield U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham from testifying before a special grand jury investigating possible illegal efforts to overturn then-President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May rejected Graham’s argument that all his calls with Georgia's secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, were protected under the U.S. Constitution’s “speech or debate” clause, which shields members of Congress from questioning about official legislative acts. The ruling does push Graham — one of Trump's top congressional allies and a key figure in the former president's postelection activities — one step closer to testifying before the special grand jury empaneled this year by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), a close Trump ally, has resisted a subpoena from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to testify about calls he made to Georgia election officials.

Graham cannot face questioning "about investigatory fact-finding" he conducted in phone calls made to state officials, a federal judge in Atlanta ruled.

Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis is investigating possible 2020 election interference by former President Donald Trump and his allies.

The university presidents who oversee the College Football Playoff are scheduled to meet Friday to discuss expanding the four-team format.

Lawyers for John Eastman say they advised their client to assert attorney-client privilege and invoke his constitutional right to remain silent when testifying before a special grand jury investigating possible election interference in Georgia.

A biracial man who says he was fending off a racist attack when he fired a gun into a pickup truck on a Georgia highway has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter for killing one of the truck's teenage passengers.

A Fulton County Superior Court judge ruled that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp doesn't have to testify until after the November midterm elections.

Scott Spina Jr. was sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay restitution to the former NFL player whom he defrauded.

However, the judge agreed to delay Kemp's grand jury appearance until after Election Day.

A judge has ruled that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp must testify before a special grand jury that’s investigating possible illegal attempts to influence the 2020 election in the state.

A judge ruled Monday that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp must testify before a special grand jury that’s investigating possible illegal attempts by then-President Donald Trump and others to influence the 2020 election in the state — but not until after the November midterm election. Lawyers for Kemp had argued that immunities related to his position as governor protect him from having to testify.

A federal jury in Atlanta has awarded $100 million to a panhandler who fell and broke his neck after a police officer shocked him with a stun gun during a chase.

To make up some ground in the Georgia race for governor, Stacey Abrams is hoping to harness any energy around abortion rights by pointing to success on the issue in Kansas and appealing to emotions.

Georgia Democrats had a contested primary for governor four years ago because the party old guard didn’t believe in Stacey Abrams.

John Ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence under former President Donald Trump, spoke to CBS News senior investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge about the release of the redacted affidavit in the FBI search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.

The prosecutor investigating whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to interfere in the 2020 election in Georgia is seeking information about a breach of voting equipment in a county roughly 200 miles south of her Atlanta office.

Former chief of staff Mark Meadows, lawyer Sidney Powell are among the highest-profile members of Trump's circle to be called to testify in the probe.

The prosecutor who's investigating whether Donald Trump and his allies illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in Georgia is seeking to compel testimony from more allies of the former president.

School-age children diagnosed with monkeypox are raising concern before the return to school, but officials say the spread of risk is still small.

With the midterm elections approaching, a new wave of political and legal tensions erupted into public view.

The call came in as if it had been made from a suicide crisis center, but it actually came from an internet chat, police said.

Local police said in a statement that Rep. Greene was first "swatted" on Wednesday morning over her stance against transgender youth rights.

Data shows that Marjorie Taylor Greene's company, Taylor Commerial Inc, had $183,504 in Paycheck Protection Program loans forgiven.

The prosecutor investigating whether Donald Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in Georgia is seeking to compel testimony from more allies of the former president, including former chief of staff Mark Meadows and lawyer Sidney Powell.

The actor responds to the U.S. Senate hopeful's latest baffling claim.

A company seeking to mine in southeast Georgia near the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp says the project is back on track after a federal agency reversed a June decision that had temporarily blocked it.

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham is citing the “speech or debate” clause of the Constitution as he tries to avoid testifying before a special grand jury that’s investigating whether former President Donald Trump and others tried to illegally influence the 2020 election in Georgia.

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck said “I do” again this weekend.

A federal appeals court has agreed to temporarily put on hold a lower court’s order requiring that U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham testify before a special grand jury that’s investigating possible illegal efforts to overturn then-President Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential election loss in Georgia.

A federal judge says Sen. Lindsey Graham’s appearance before a special grand jury should not be delayed while he continues to challenge it in court.

Police are trying to determine a motive in three seemingly random shootings along an interstate highway in Alabama and Georgia that left a motorist critically wounded.

Prosecutors investigating whether Donald Trump committed crimes as he sought to overturn his 2020 election defeat in Georgia are running into increasing resistance as they seek to call witnesses to testify before a special grand jury.

A judge in Colorado on Tuesday ordered a legal adviser for former President Donald Trump’s campaign to travel to Georgia to testify before a special grand jury that’s looking into whether Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in Georgia.

Prosecutors in Atlanta have told Rudy Giuliani's lawyers that he is a target of their criminal investigation into possible illegal attempts by then-President Donald Trump and others to interfere in the 2020 general election in Georgia.

Singer and songwriter Michelle Branch was arrested Thursday in Tennessee for allegedly slapping her husband, Patrick Carney, the drummer for The Black Keys, authorities said.

The cancellation of a major music festival in Atlanta has ignited a new fight over Georgia gun laws.

Prosecutors in Atlanta say U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham may be able to provide insight into the extent of any coordinated efforts to influence the results of the 2020 general election in Georgia.

Alabama is No. 1 in the preseason USA Today coaches’ poll, with Ohio State second and defending national champion Georgia third.

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham is challenging a subpoena to testify before a special grand jury investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and others broke any laws when they tried to overturn Joe Biden’s win in Georgia.

The concept of personhood that underlies anti-abortion laws in some states considers fertilized eggs, embryos and fetuses as people with the same rights as those already born.

A Georgia county has filed a lawsuit that seeks to force a company to sell it 4,000 acres on which the county has long planned to build a launch pad for commercial rockets.

A judge has ruled that the prosecutor who’s investigating whether former President Donald Trump and his allies illegally tried to interfere in the 2020 election in Georgia cannot question a lawmaker who signed a certificate falsely stating that Trump won the state.

The state of Georgia and local governments are giving Hyundai Motor Group incentives worth $1.8 billion to build electric vehicles in the state.

A judge says Georgia Republicans who signed a certificate falsely stating that Donald Trump had won the state in 2020 and that they were the state’s “duly elected and qualified” electors will have to appear before a special grand jury investigating whether the former president and others illegally tried to interfere in the state’s election.

Georgia’s abortion law changed so abruptly Wednesday afternoon that some patients who were in an office waiting for abortions were sent home.

State election officials are urging their colleagues around the U.S. to be open and transparent in confronting conspiracy theories and false information about how voting works.

A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling and said Georgia’s restrictive 2019 abortion law could take effect immediately.

A judge in New York has ordered Rudy Giuliani to appear next month before a special grand jury in Atlanta that’s looking into whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to interfere in the 2020 election in Georgia.

Georgia officials are close to finalizing a deal with automaker Hyundai to build a $5.5 billion electric car plant near Savannah.

The Georgia prosecutor who’s investigating whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally interfered in the 2020 election in the state has informed 16 Republicans who served as fake electors that they could face criminal charges.

The Georgia prosecutor investigating potential criminal interference in the 2020 presidential election says she's considering requesting that former President Donald Trump testify under oath to a grand jury.

Attorneys for Sen. Lindsey Graham say he wasn't trying to interfere in Georgia’s 2020 election when he called state officials to ask them to reexamine certain absentee ballots after President Donald Trump’s narrow loss to Democrat Joe Biden.

The Georgia investigation into potential criminal interference in the 2020 election is heating up.

A judge says the federal government hasn’t done enough to protect a rare species of whale from lethal entanglement in lobster fishing gear, and new rules are needed to protect the species from extinction.

The Georgia prosecutor investigating the conduct of former President Donald Trump and his allies after the 2020 election is subpoenaing U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani to testify before a special grand jury.

This week’s gripping testimony to Congress about threats to local election officials following the 2020 presidential election had a rapt audience outside Washington — secretaries of state and election clerks across the U.