No excuse absentee voting in Georgia survives a state election board vote to end it
Georgians turned in a record number of absentee ballots during the 2020 election cycle after the State Election Board adopted an emergency rule in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. File Jill Nolin/Georgia Recorder The newly appointed chairman of the Georgia State Election Board cast the deciding vote on Tuesday against recommending that state legislators ban…
U.S. Senate sends to the House a $95 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan
The U.S. Senate early Tuesday passed legislation extending global military and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Senators earlier blocked a sweeping larger package that would have overhauled immigration law for the first time in decades. Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom This story was updated at 11:20 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. WASHINGTON — The…
Thursday hearing in Fulton’s 2020 Georgia election interference case could be blockbuster
Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee said at February 12 court hearing that he would intervene if a February 15 hearing about a romantic relationship between District Attorney Fani Willis and prosecutor becomes a personal attack by defense attorneys seeking to remove Willis from the 2020 election case. (File Jason Getz/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool) An…
Some GOP senators shy away from Trump threat he won’t aid ‘delinquent’ NATO allies
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump mocks U.S. President Joe Biden while speaking during a Get Out The Vote rally at Coastal Carolina University on Feb. 10, 2024 in Conway, South Carolina. South Carolina holds its Republican primary on February 24.Win McNamee/Getty Images WASHINGTON — Republican and Democratic senators on Monday distanced themselves…
Congress is looking at expanding the child tax credit again. Who would benefit?
Children from the KU Kids Deanwood Childcare Center complete a mural celebrating the launch of the Child Tax Credit on July 14, 2021 at the KU Kids Deanwood Childcare Center in Washington, D.C. Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Community Change WASHINGTON — The bipartisan tax package passed by the U.S. House last month is not a done deal,…
Georgia Senate Republicans say probe of Fulton DA in 2020 election case will be free of bias
Athens Republican Sen. Bill Cowsert said the special committee’s objective is to find the truth and not conduct partisan biased investigations into Fani Willis’ decision to pursue a case against the former Republican president. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder The chairman of a Georgia Senate panel pledged on Friday that his committee will be on a fact…