ATLANTA — A dramatic drop in automatic voter registrations in Georgia may be caused by a government website that required potential voters to click a button before they could sign up. That’s not how automatic voter registration is supposed to work. The…
Federal judge allows effort to disqualify Marjorie Greene from ballot to proceed
ATLANTA — A federal judge has denied U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s request to block a challenge of her eligibility to run for a second term in office. That challenge, filed by five voters in Greene’s 14th Congressional District, is slated for a he…
Michael Cunningham: Trae Young has passed every test for Hawks. Now he faces a new one.
MIAMI—The best part about watching Trae Young’s career up close is getting to see him work. He’s a great entertainer. The next best part is seeing Young’s game evolve. Young quickly proved he’s a good NBA player, opponents adjusted accordingly, and You…
Did Georgia weaken automatic voter registration?
ATLANTA — Until last year, the vast majority of people who visited Georgia driver’s license offices automatically registered to vote at the same time. Not anymore. Voter registrations submitted through the Georgia Department of Driver Services have plu…
Motions hearing scheduled Tuesday for admitted spa shooter
ATLANTA — The 23-year-old facing the death penalty in last year’s spa shooting rampage that killed eight people in the Atlanta area is scheduled to appear in a Fulton County courtroom Tuesday morning for a motions hearing. Robert Aaron Long admitted to…
Patricia Murphy: George W. Bush’s subversive, inspired push for immigration reform
ATLANTA — I remember hearing in 2013 that George W. Bush had taken up painting. It sounded like a surprisingly artsy, but pleasant hobby for a man who had finished two terms in the White House and was finally done with politics after decades in the gam…
Georgia candidates raise crush of cash for 2022. It’s ‘just the beginning’
ATLANTA — Georgia Democrats are building a formidable advantage in their battle to hold U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock’s seat and flip other statewide races: a tidal wave of cash. Republicans, meanwhile, are slowly cobbling together their own mountain of mo…
Hawks beat Cavs, advance to playoffs as No. 8 seed
CLEVELAND — With improved defense and a stellar second half from Trae Young, the Hawks rallied to beat the Cavaliers, 107-101, in a must-win play-in game Friday at Rocket Mortage Fieldhouse. Next up, the Hawks will begin the playoffs in Miami Sunday. B…
Russian airspace closure has driven weeks-long rerouting of flights
Flights from Atlanta to Seoul are already among the longer ones operated out of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. The flight lasts more than 14 hours, depending on the weather and other factors. But fallout from the Russian invasion of Ukraine …