In a Wednesday ruling, Judge Victoria M. Calvert said federal law doesn't required states to disclose sensitive voter information.

Nine months ago this week, FBI agents raided the Fulton County elections office, seizing hundreds of boxes of ballots cast in the 2020 election. According to the subpoena authorizing that seizure, fed...

Keisha Lance Bottoms and Rick Jackson have contrasting visions for how to deal with data centers, but voters don’t seem entirely sold on either’s plan.

The resolution passed in a 3-2 vote Monday, roughly two weeks before Georgia residents begin heading to the polls for early voting.

Georgia drivers may soon see a little temporary relief at the pump after Gov. Brian Kemp suspended the state’s motor fuel tax after gas prices continued to surge.

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has, once again, infuriated lawmakers from both political parties by using a controversial maneuver to cancel funding previously approved by Congress.  The $810 m...

Election officials say nothing has changed about absentee voting for the midterm elections. But voters should be proactive and follow all necessary steps.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune came to Atlanta to keep hope alive for the Mike Collins campaign as Collins challenges Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff in the Nov. 3 midterm election.

Lawyers for the state argue that government officials should have the right to temporarily remove children from a home without a hearing in some cases, even if there is no immediate danger.

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WABE and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. Google would help pay for upgrades to Georgia’s nuclear reactors under an agr...

WASHINGTON — Republicans on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee used a hearing Wednesday to continue voicing opposition to transgender athletes competing in women’s sports, which the top Democrat on t...

Georgia House Democrats say 2026 is the year they’re going to take control of the state House, ending more than two decades of Republican rule.

WASHINGTON — U.S. District Court Judge Timothy J. Kelly indicated during a Wednesday hearing he may order the Trump administration to reinstate White House press passes for reporters from three news o...

Warnock, a Democrat, is teaming up with U.S. Sen. Katie Britt, an Alabama Republican, to urge the Department of Justice to issue guidance.

Commentary: As state lawmakers prepare for next year's legislative session, our guest commentary author writes that there is an opportunity to focus on the policies that can make the greatest differen...

A measure up for a vote on the November ballot would require all Georgia probate judges, who oversee matters like wills, estates and conservatorships, to be elected in nonpartisan elections, and a bip...

The mistrial in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial earlier this month places her future in doubt, three years after she killed her three children in Duxbury, Massachusetts. But one potential outcome is a s...

The fate of a Georgia law that makes the district attorney’s seat nonpartisan in five metro Atlanta counties rests in the hands of a Fulton County judge.

Civil rights icon Andrew Young was welcomed as a "legend" Friday at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation conference, for his work passing the Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act -- landmark le...

Both Democrats and Republicans running for higher office this year can agree on one thing: It’s time to address the rise of corporate-owned housing.

WASHINGTON — The rare 2026 issue that draws huge support from Republicans and Democrats in Congress is the same one that’s mobilized many Americans: restrictions on giant data centers. The House has o...

Georgia’s second-largest school district is once again at the center of a political controversy over the appropriateness of school materials.

The list raises new questions about whether the Trump administration may be planning to deploy federal agents to polling places during midterms.

Voting rights groups and Democratic officials are looking to defend against what they see as possible election interference from the Trump administration ahead of the upcoming midterm elections, now t...

Georgia GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson has unveiled an "intelligent" Medicaid expansion proposal, but the plan has so far raised more questions than it answered.

The federal Environmental Protection Agency has rolled back rules restricting climate warming emissions at electrical power plants, including those in Georgia.

Tricia Pridemore, who is a Republican, was tapped to represent DC BLOX in policy discussions with lawmakers, regulatory bodies and utility providers.

Convicted murderer Stacey Humphreys was not executed Wednesday night as scheduled after the Georgia Supreme Court upheld a Cobb County judge’s order temporarily halting the execution.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House is expected to depart Wednesday evening for a seven-week campaign break after spending less than two weeks in session during August and September. The extended “district wo...

WASHINGTON — As the November midterms approach, vulnerable U.S. House Republicans voted late Tuesday to require congressional approval for President Donald Trump to continue his war in Iran. Seven Rep...

Humphreys, 53, was convicted in 2007 of the kidnapping, robbery, assault and murder of Cyndi Williams and Lori Brown, real estate agents working in a model home in a new subdivision in Cobb County. Pr...

Humphreys, 53, was convicted in 2007 of the kidnapping, robbery, assault and murder of Cyndi Williams and Lori Brown, real estate agents working in a model home in a new subdivision in Cobb County. Pr...

WASHINGTON — The cost of U.S. military operations in Iran has exceeded $40 billion and the war will continue to cost taxpayers between $2 billion and $3 billion per month, according to an analysis rel...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will revoke limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that run on coal and natural gas, according to regulatory documents Administrator Lee Zeldin s...

Early fall in Georgia brings the sounds of high schoolers blaring trumpets and pounding drums from football stadiums – as well as the squeaks and squawks of beginner musicians practicing their newly r...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday kept in place a lower court’s order blocking President Donald Trump’s embattled plan to place new restrictions on mail ballots for this year’s midterm elections. The u...

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has endorsed Republican Congressman Mike Collins in Georgia’s high-stakes U.S. Senate race after backing Collins’ rival in the GOP primary. “Mike Collins and I share a commitme...

Republican gubernatorial nominee Rick Jackson released a major policy announcement last week supporting “intelligent Medicaid expansion.” But Medicaid expansion to all a state’s poor is no longer poss...

Powerful U.S. officials past and present faced families, survivors and first responders Friday at ceremonies to honor the 25th anniversary of the day 2,977 Americans died in terrorist attacks in Virgi...

The Democratic and Republican candidates for Georgia governor have unveiled proposals aimed at addressing the rising cost of living, but it's unclear how they would pay

WASHINGTON — A proposal by President Donald Trump to give $5,000 to each American adult if Republicans retain control of the U.S. House and Senate in November would “explode” the national deficit and ...

The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, transformed how American intelligence and law enforcement agencies collect, share and analyze information. Twenty-five years later, that infrastructure has mer...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump headlined the first night of the first Republican midterm convention Wednesday, seeking to rally his base ahead of the November elections and dangling a “Trump divi...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration wants to overhaul the U.S. census to exclude noncitizens who don’t have a green card from the country’s next population count in 2030, according to a Wednesday no...

WASHINGTON —  Temporary protected status for 170,000 Salvadorans is set to expire at midnight Wednesday, but the Department of Homeland Security said protections will remain in place until the Trump a...

The Republican candidate for governor unveiled his plan for covering more people with health insurance but did not provide details on how he would accomplish it.

WASHINGTON — Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on American goods kicked in Tuesday, escalating a trade war with one of the largest U.S. trading partners that President Donald Trump continued to antagonize ...

A new law overhauled the state’s medical cannabis program but limits remain on how the raw cannabis flower can be used.

What was previously the Stephen C. Foster State Park was officially renamed the Okefenokee State Park effective Tuesday. The park serves as the main entrance to the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge...

WASHINGTON — A District of Columbia Superior Court judge Friday seemed inclined to bar any new felony charges against former Olympian David Hearn, after the Trump administration accused the Maryland m...