Federal Reserve raises interest rates to highest point in over 20 years
The Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate Wednesday by a quarter point. It's the eleventh rate hike in 17 months as part of...
Teamsters-UPS reach ‘game-changing’ labor deal to avert strike
(GA Recorder) — Atlanta-based UPS and its workers, represented by the Teamsters, reached a tentative deal on Tuesday to prevent an Aug. 1 strike...
Decrying attempts to ‘bury history,’ Biden designates Emmett Till national monument
WASHINGTON (GA Recorder) — On what would have been the 82nd birthday of Emmett Till, a Black boy kidnapped and murdered by two white...
State regulators to hear Plant Vogtle progress report after nuclear expansion stalled again
(GA Recorder) — On Friday, Georgia Power announced that a new nuclear reactor at Plant Vogtle is on its way to becoming fully operational...
Dialing 988 for mental health crisis reaches its first year. Here’s why you may...
When someone starts choking in a restaurant, people grab their phones and call 911. They enter the same three-digit number when their kitchen catches...
Tuberville hold on military nominees is ‘not only wrong–it is dangerous,’ Biden says
WASHINGTON (States Newsroom) — President Joe Biden directly criticized Sen. Tommy Tuberville Friday in a statement over the Alabama senator’s monthslong blockade of high-ranking...
Ethics rules for Supreme Court justices approved on party-line vote by U.S. Senate panel
WASHINGTON (GA Recorder) — The Senate Committee on the Judiciary on Thursday approved a proposal to impose a code of ethics for the U.S....
Israeli president tells Congress criticism of his country must not negate ‘right to exist’
WASHINGTON (GA Recorder) — Israeli President Isaac Herzog, honoring Israel’s 75th year of independence, on Wednesday assured U.S. lawmakers that his nation “has democracy...
Court challenges to Georgia’s political maps set for federal court trial
(GA Recorder) — A trio of redistricting challenges in Georgia is set to advance to a trial this fall in the wake of a...
Changes in state election laws have little impact on results, new study finds
(GA Recorder) — In recent years, U.S. politics has been consumed by partisan fights over states’ election policies.
But a new study by two political...
Trump says he has been told he is a target of the special counsel’s...
(GA Recorder) — Donald Trump has received a target letter from Special Counsel Jack Smith, he said Tuesday, indicating another indictment of the former...
Georgia Supreme Court rejects Trump’s bid to pre-empt Fulton D.A.’s expected indictments
(GA Recorder) — On Monday, the Georgia Supreme Court rejected a petition asking the justices to stop Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from...