Politics

As if the allegations about a Trump-sympathizing Republican Congressman from Florida about trafficking at least one underage girl weren't bad enough, a new report says he also used drugs and paid women for sex.

After facing threats of a boycott, Delta Air Lines' CEO Ed Bastain reversed his praise of Georgia's controversial new law restricting voting access expected to disproportionately affect Black and brown communities.

Out of President Joe Biden’s 11 nominees to be federal judges, nine are women, five are Black and four are Black women.

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham dog-whistled about Georgia's new law restricting voting, Biden's response to that law, his proud ownership of an AR-15 and more during a Fox News appearance.

Legislation that could improve access to the ballot and strengthen democracy depends on whether the Senate can remove the filibuster, which has a history rooted in racism.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed the state's voter suppression bill into law while seated in front of a painting of a "back-breaking" plantation that "thrived" from slave labor.

Georgia police forcibly arrested Democratic State Rep. Park Cannon for peacefully and nonviolently protesting the governor signing a new law increasing voting restrictions expected to disproportionately affect Black people. 

Politics

Texas attorney general candidate S. Lee Merritt rose to prominence in part by representing families who lost loved ones as a result of high-profile police killings including Atatiana Jefferson in Fort Worth and Botham Jean in Dallas

A federal investigation is reportedly underway with Marilyn Mosby, the state's attorney for Baltimore, and her husband, Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby, at the center of the probe.

The suspect in the deadly shooting spree at Asian massage parlors near Atlanta was able to buy the gun he used to kill eight people quicker than it takes for average Georgia residents to register to vote.