Georgia House OKs bill to provide gun-related tax credits, prevent tracking of firearm purchases
Pistols on the shelf at Caso’s Gun-A-Rama store on March 25, 2021, in Jersey City, New Jersey. Spencer Platt/Getty Images The next time you buy a gun safe, trigger lock or take a class on gun safety, you could apply for up to $300 back in tax credits from the state if a bipartisan bill…
Student’s killing in Athens over the weekend gives momentum to bill to require Georgia sheriffs to cooperate with ICE
A U.S. Department of Homeland Security vehicle sits outside the Atlanta field office of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office Saturday. File photo In the wake of the killing of 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley at the University of Georgia, a state House committee has moved forward on legislation targeting immigrants in state custody.…
Florida Man Facing 91 Criminal Counts Wins Michigan Primary
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump keeps losing in the courtroom, but that isn’t stopping him from prevailing at the ballot box. The former president is facing four indictments covering a combined 91 criminal counts. He’s racking up hundreds…
Producers of “Forever Chemicals” Knew They Were Toxic, Say UN Experts
Aerial views of Cape Fear River in North Carolina, which is surrounded by forests. Ken Blevins/Star News/AP This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In advance of a United Nations meeting this week where pollution is on the agenda, a UN human rights team has called out…
The Migrant Families Separated Under Trump Are Still in Legal Limbo
Mother Jones; Daniel Ochoa de Olza/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In the spring of 2018, attorney Christie Turner-Herbas returned from parental leave to her job at Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), a nonprofit serving unaccompanied migrant children, to find that her “universe was on fire.”…
Georgia House OKs bill to ease restrictions on construction of new hospitals in state
Swainsboro Republican Rep. Butch Parrish watched the vote tally for his health care bill Tuesday. Jill Nolin/Georgia Recorder A proposal to loosen Georgia’s business regulations for health care services easily cleared the House Tuesday. The bill, sponsored by the powerful House Rules chairman, Swainsboro Republican Rep. Butch Parrish, would allow new hospitals to open in…