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Group building 'safe haven' for Black families acquires more than 400 acres of land

FREEDOM, Ga. - The organization that purchased a plot of land near Toomsboro, Georgia to create a community in which African Americans prosper just acquired even more land.The group hosted a celebratory gala that bid 2020 adieu and looks forward to establishing a new city.The initiative secured 100 acres to build "Freedom, Georgia," months ago.

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Loeffler, Perdue run hard-line pitch in swing state Georgia

ATLANTA – The merchandise featured in Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s online campaign store includes T-shirts and bumper stickers bearing Donald Trump’s name and the message: “Still my president.” The Georgia Republican is running television ads ahead of Tuesday’s Senate runoff elections that lambastes her opponent, the Rev.

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EXPLAINER: As Georgia awaits, GOP still has Senate control

ATLANTA – The consequences of Georgia’s twin Senate runoffs are well known: They’ll determine which party controls the Senate in the new Congress.Right?Long term, yes, that’s the case. But the circumstances of Georgia’s seats make the near term a bit messy.One of two Georgia races is a regular election for a six-year term.

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EXPLAINER: Stakes high for U.S. Senate runoffs in Georgia

SAVANNAH, Ga. – Two months after the November elections, Georgia voters have unfinished business. The outcome will determine partisan control of the U.S.

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Louis Gossett Jr., 84, LEAVES Georgia hospital 'out of fear' despite being sick with COVID-19

Oscar winner Louis Gossett Jr. reportedly left a Georgia hospital on Tuesday 'out of fear' despite being so sick with COVID-19 he 'couldn't even stand.'Hospital staff 'begged' the 84-year-old actor to remain there but after a couple of days he was 'freaked out by the wave of deaths' in his ward, according to TMZ.'Please wear masks, social distance, isolate, pray and listen within.

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Sen Perdue quarantines for virus exposure ahead of GA runoff

ATLANTA – Republican Sen. David Perdue was forced into quarantine Thursday in the home stretch of Georgia's high-stakes Senate runoffs, disclosing just five days before the election that he had been exposed to a campaign worker infected with the coronavirus.

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AP sources: Star Vikings RB Cook absent after father's death

MINNEAPOLIS – Running back Dalvin Cook is not practicing with the Minnesota Vikings this week, due to the death of his father.Two people with knowledge of the situation, speaking Wednesday on condition of anonymity because the team did not announce a reason for his absence, confirmed that Cook went home to Miami to be with his family after the unexpected passing. Cook has a younger brother, James Cook, who is a running back for Georgia.The Vikings play Sunday at Detroit, with both teams eliminated from contention for the playoffs, so the best season of Cook's four-year career is all but over.

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Trump's $2,000 stimulus checks stall in Senate as GOP blocks vote

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's push for bigger $2,000 COVID-19 relief checks stalled out in the Senate as Republicans blocked a swift vote proposed by Democrats and split within their own ranks over whether to boost spending or defy the White House.The roadblock mounted Tuesday by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell may not be sustainable as pressure mounts. Trump wants the Republican-led chamber to follow the House and increase the checks from $600 for millions of Americans.

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President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris set to return to Georgia in January

ATLANTA - President-elect Joe Biden and Vice-President Elect Kamala Harris will return to Georgia to campaign for Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock to rally Democrats ahead of Jan.

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Final push to turn out voters in Georgia Senate runoff

ATLANTA – Campaigns and outside groups are making a final push to turn out election-weary Georgians whose votes will determine control of the U.S. Senate.More than 2.3 million people — nearly half the turnout of last month’s presidential election — had already cast their ballots early, in person or by absentee ballot, by Tuesday morning.

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Trump's $2,000 checks stall in Senate as GOP blocks vote

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump's push for bigger $2,000 COVID-19 relief checks stalled out in the Senate as Republicans blocked a swift vote proposed by Democrats and split within their own ranks over whether to boost spending or defy the White House. The roadblock mounted Tuesday by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell may not be sustainable as pressure mounts.

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Principal Joe Clark who inspired film 'Lean on Me' has died

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Joe Louis Clark, the baseball bat and bullhorn-wielding principal whose unwavering commitment to his students and uncompromising disciplinary methods inspired the 1989 film “Lean on Me,” died at his Florida home on Tuesday after a long battle with an unspecified illness, his family said in statement. He was 82.Born in Rochelle, Georgia, on May 8, 1938, Clark’s family moved north to Newark, New Jersey, when he was 6 years old.

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Republicans stall Trump's $2,000 covid relief checks in Senate

Donald Trump's push for bigger $2,000 COVID-19 relief checks stalled out Tuesday in the Senate as Republicans blocked a swift vote proposed by Democrats and split within their own ranks over whether to boost spending or defy the White House.The roadblock mounted by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell may not be sustainable as pressure mounts. Trump wants the Republican-led chamber to follow the House and increase the checks from $600 for millions of Americans.

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AT&T to waive data overage charges for customers impacted by outages due to Nashville bombing

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - AT&T will waive data overage charges for wireless for it wireless and prepaid customers who may have been affected by the explosion near the telecommunications giant's central office in Nashville on Christmas Day.The country's largest mobile services provider, will be waiving data overage charges for customers in 1,166 zip codes across from Sunday through New Year’s Eve.

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Wealthy voters are 'mythical middle' in Georgia Senate races

ATLANTA – At Atlanta's Chastain Park, investment bank logos abut ads for pizza joints and dentists on the outfield fences of the baseball diamonds. Sprinkled among Dodges and Toyotas are Audis and Alfa Romeos.Some of Georgia's most affluent voters, formerly reliable cornerstones of the state's once-ascendant Republican majority, live in million-dollar houses here.

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Loeffler, Perdue back leniency for US teen jailed in Cayman Islands for breaching coronavirus regs

: Georgia Republican Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue are backing calls for leniency for a U.S. teenager jailed in the Cayman Islands for violating the British territory’s COVID-19 quarantine regulations.

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Warnock and Loeffler work to consolidate voters for runoff

ATLANTA – When Georgia Republican Kelly Loeffler and Democrat Raphael Warnock advanced to the Jan. 5 U.S.

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‘We are struggling’: A bleak Christmas for America’s jobless

NEW YORK – Last Christmas, Shanita Matthews cooked up a feast for her family of three: Roast chicken, barbecue spareribs, spinach, macaroni and cheese.This year? They’ll stick with tuna fish and crackers, among the few items she can afford at the supermarket.“We’re not really doing Christmas — I guess you can say it that way,” said Matthews, who lives in Suwanee, Georgia. “We are struggling.

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Turnout among young voters key to Georgia Senate runoffs

ATLANTA – Preethi Gowrishankar was never really politically active before this year. But watching the polarization that has occurred during President Donald Trump's administration changed that.The 27-year-old data scientist put on a facemask and stood in line on a recent sunny but cold day in Atlanta to cast a ballot early for Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock ahead of Georgia's Jan.

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'It does break my heart a little bit': A bleak Christmas for America's unemployed

NEW YORK (AP) - Last Christmas, Shanita Matthews cooked up a feast for her family of three: Roast chicken, barbecue spareribs, spinach, macaroni and cheese.This year? They’ll stick with tuna fish and crackers, among the few items she can afford at the supermarket."We’re not really doing Christmas — I guess you can say it that way," said Matthews, who lives in Suwanee, Georgia. "We are struggling.

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Ga. Southern routs La. Tech 38-3 in New Orleans Bowl

NEW ORLEANS – Shai Werts had three touchdown runs and threw a 65-yard scoring pass to help Georgia Southern beat Louisiana Tech 38-3 in the New Orleans Bowl on Wednesday.Werts, who missed the Eagles' last two regular-season games because of a shoulder injury, scored one of his touchdowns on a designed QB run that covered 37 yards. His two other rushing TDs came from a yard out.Georgia Southern came up with four interceptions — including two near its own goal line in the first quarter.

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Dominion Voting Systems worker sues Trump campaign, Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani and others for defamation

US President Donald Trump waves as he leaves the stage with First Lady Melania Trump at the end of a rally to support Republican Senate candidates at Valdosta Regional Airport in Valdosta, Georgia. NEW YORK - An election systems worker driven into hiding by death threats has filed a defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump's campaign, two of its lawyers and some conservative media figures and outlets.Eric Coomer, security director at the Colorado-based Dominion Voting Systems, said he wants his life back after being named in false charges as a key actor in "rigging" the election for President-elect Joe Biden.

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Georgia teen's jail sentence in Cayman Islands reduced to 2 months as family pleads for her release

Skylar Mack, a Georgia teenager who was imprisoned in the Cayman Islands earlier this month for breaking COVID-19 protocols, had her jail sentence reduced from four months to two months by an appeals court Tuesday, the Cayman Compass reports. Skylar Mack, 18, who is a pre-med student at Mercer University, visited her boyfriend, 24-year-old Cayman Islands-native Vanjae Ramgeet, on Nov. 27 and was supposed to quarantine for two weeks, as mandated by the island. But on Nov.

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California union members campaign in Georgia days before asking LA for 'strict' lockdown

A Los Angeles-based union sent a "field team" to campaign for Democrats in the Georgia Senate runoffs days before signing a petition calling for four weeks of "strict" stay-at-home orders in Los Angeles County last week, the Washington Free Beacon reported. Unite Here Local 11 posted about its ground game in Georgia on Dec.

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Perdue seeks payoff from Trump loyalty in Georgia runoff

SAVANNAH, Ga. – In 2014, David Perdue introduced himself to Georgia voters as a corporate executive capable of bringing pragmatism to a Congress depicted in his first TV ad as a bunch of diaper-clad, crying babies.“Help me change the childish behavior up there," he asked voters in his winning campaign for U.S. Senate.

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Most stunning crime stories of 2020

There are crimes that grab your attention -- and 2020 was filled with them, despite the coronavirus keeping many people closer to home for most of the year. Here are five of the most stunning crime stories of 2020: You have to see this one to believe it.

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GOP activist's voter challenges raise questions in Georgia

ATLANTA – When a conservative organization announced plans this month to launch an election integrity operation in Georgia, the group’s news release included a high-profile name: the chairman of the state’s Republican Party. Less than a week later, the same group announced plans to challenge the eligibility of hundreds of thousands of Georgia voters.

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Huge congrats! Georgia and Lee’s exciting news

WATCH: The moment Georgia Love picked Lee Elliot in The Bachelorette finaleReality stars Georgia Love and Lee Elliot were right there with the best of them.The loved up Bachelorette pair were supposed to celebrate their wedding with an Italian fiesta like no other. COVID-19 obviously saw to that (or the lack thereof).

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Georgia secretary of state sends letters to 8K out-of-state voters who requested absentee ballots

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Monday took action to protect the state’s upcoming Senate runoff races from interference from out-of-state voters. Raffensperger said on Monday that his office had sent out 8,000 letters to individuals who had moved out of Georgia, but had requested absentee ballots for the Jan.

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Harris says ‘everything is at stake’ in Georgia’s twin Senate runoff elections

Campaigning in Georgia’s U.S. Senate runoffs Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Monday emphasized that 2020 isn’t over until Jan.

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One-fifth of Georgia voters have already cast ballots in runoffs

Nearly 1.5 million Georgians have already voted in the state’s twin Jan. 5 Senate runoff elections, where the Republican majority in the Senate is at stake.

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Loeffler's wealth, Trump loyalty face scrutiny in Georgia

ATLANTA – In the fight to retain her U.S. Senate seat, Republican Kelly Loeffler has boasted she is “more conservative than Attila the Hun” and has a “100% Trump voting record.” She has backed the president's baseless allegations of voting fraud and rallied with a far-right candidate who expressed support for a conspiracy theory that sees Democrats as part of a Satanic child sex ring.It’s not the type of campaign that supporters expected from the superrich former finance executive.

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Grandmother of Georgia student jailed in Cayman Islands is seeking the White House's help

The grandmother of a Georgia college student who was jailed in the Cayman Islands for failing to follow coronavirus quarantine guidelines told Fox News on Monday that she has written to President Trump seeking the U.S. government's help in the case.

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Former Neskantaga contractor accused of cutting corners in other First Nations

First Nation, along the eastern shore of Georgian Bay, about 250 kilometres north of Toronto.“You have to be on them every step of the way,” said Gee, who was the contract administrator on the project. “You can’t leave them on their own.”Today, this plant is among seven First Nations water and wastewater infrastructure projects in two provinces, funded by the federal government, that have all involved work by KCL, an Ontario-based firm.Indigenous Services Canada says that the federal department has supplied $90 million in funding for the seven projects.

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STAT WATCH: Numbers reflect dominance of Alabama, Clemson

LSU broke through to earn the national title last season, either Alabama or Clemson has still won 12 of the last 15 playoff games. The exceptions are LSU’s two playoff wins last year and Georgia’s Rose Bowl semifinal triumph over Oklahoma during the 2017 season.Both teams flexed their muscles in winning their respective conference championship games.

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Iceberg three times the size of London splits in two on collision course with island

robot submarines to monitor it. Named A-68a, it broke off from Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf in 2017 and has been drifting in the ocean ever since.As recently as April 2020 it measured a mammoth 2,000 square miles.Ever since, it has been on course to hit South Georgia in the southern Atlantic Ocean and the impact was thought to be imminent.It is not yet clear exactly why the iceberg fractured, but a crash into the shallow seabed close to the South Georgia shoreline may have caused the split, according to the European Space Agency.

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Eva Longoria, America Ferrera To Textbank for Latina Georgia Voters Ahead of Runoffs

After becoming two of Hollywood's most vocal political activists during the 2020 presidential election, Eva Longoria and America Ferrera are reteaming ahead of the Georgia runoffs. On Saturday, the actresses will hold a text banking event with nonprofit VoteRiders to educate Georgia voters on the state's strict voter ID laws.

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Lee Elliott shares sneak peek of his wedding suit

WATCH BELOW: Georgia Love and fiancé Lee Elliott throw a lavish engagementTaking to his Instagram Stories, the 39-year-old Bachelorette winner re-shared an image by YSG Tailors, a custom-made suit business.In the black and white photo, Lee is seen being fitted for a dark suit whilst his groomsmen can be seen in the background.Another Instagram Story shared by YSG Tailors depicts a close up of Lee's sleeves being measured.Dapper indeed!Wedding suited up!As for Georgia's dress which let's face it is the wedding outfit we're most excited to see, she hasn't shared any hints just yet.For her engagement party back in March, the bride-to-be wore a stunning white frock designed by Melbourne-based bridal ateliér Marquise.In a previous chat with

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Trump campaign takes fight over Penn. election, ballot laws to Supreme Court

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Sarah Silverman, Patton Oswalt Urge Engagement in Georgia Runoffs: "Voting Is Happening Now"

Sarah Silverman, Sarah Cooper,Zach Galifianakis and Patton Oswalt joined other comedians on Friday to support a fundraiser seeking to improve voter registration and turnout in the Georgia runoff elections. During "Riffing For The Georgia Runoffs," hosted by the civic engagement organization The Comedy Resistance and benefiting voter registration and get-out-the-vote work, Andrew Yang and former Rep.

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Shaquille O'Neal delivers holiday gifts to children in Georgia

HENRY COUNTY, Ga. - He's a big man with an even bigger heart.NBA great Shaquille O'Neal played the role of jolly ole Saint Nick to surprise some children in Henry County.It's something the basketball star has done for nearly two decades and counting.During a time when nothing seems normal, O'Neal upheld his annual tradition: a massive toy drive.Sign up for FOX 5 email alertsThe bright drive-through event featured a DJ and warm waves, not from jolly St.

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In Georgia, Warnock brings faith and activism to the arena

ATLANTA – In 2008, when Barack Obama was under fire for a sermon his former pastor delivered years earlier, the aspiring president distanced himself from the preacher’s fiery words that channeled Black Americans’ anger over racism.The Rev. Raphael Warnock defended Jeremiah Wright.

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Cayman Islands jails Georgia college student in coronavirus case

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A U.S. college student and her boyfriend have been sentenced to four months in prison in the Cayman Islands for violating strict COVID-19 measures following a recent ruling that will be appealed, their attorney said Thursday.Skylar Mack, 18, of Georgia, and Vanjae Ramgeet, 24, of the Cayman Islands, have been in prison since Tuesday, when the ruling was issued.

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Georgia student being made an example of by Cayman Islands for COVID-19 related jail time: Grandma

A Georgia college student jailed for four months in the Cayman Islands for neglecting to follow novel coronavirus-related quarantine guidelines faces stringent consequences because local officials "needed to make a statement," her grandmother told Fox News on Friday. Jeanne Mack, the grandmother of Mercer University student Skylar Mack, told Fox News’s Trace Gallagher the 18-year-old has posted negative results for COVID-19 each of the six times she’s been tested.

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US college student jailed in Cayman Islands for violating COVID-19 rules

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – A U.S. college student and her boyfriend have been sentenced to four months in prison in the Cayman Islands for violating strict COVID-19 measures following a recent ruling that will be appealed, their attorney said Thursday.Skylar Mack, 18, of Georgia, and Vanjae Ramgeet, 24, of the Cayman Islands, have been in prison since Tuesday, when the ruling was issued.

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‘The Walking Dead’: Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira join virtual reunion

The Walking Dead stars Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira are set to return for a virtual reunion.The actors exited the show in previous seasons, but will be returning for a live-streamed trivia battle to raise funds for Georgia Senate victories, in support of Democratic candidates Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff.Lincoln and Gurira will be joining Norman Reedus, Lauren Cohan, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Christian Serratos and Sonequa Martin-Green and Lennie James for the charity event.Fans can tune into the event by making a donation to the Georgia Senate Victory Fund.

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'RHOA's Drew Sidora on Feuding With Kenya Moore and Airing Out Her Marriage Problems on TV (Exclusive)

Real Housewives of Atlanta co-stars might have to say (see: this interview with Kenya Moore), season 13's new peach holder Drew Sidora says she's not thirsty in the least. In fact, she claims she's hydrated.«I take care of myself,» Drew tells ET over video chat from her Georgia home, responding to Kenya describing her as parched.

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Sen. Marco Rubio: Georgians should vote for Sen. Kelly Loeffler — Dem opponent Warnock is Marxist sympathizer

We need leaders who understand — and have lived — the American Dream and who will fight hard to protect it. In Georgia’s Jan.

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