As part of the The Current‘s ongoing election coverage and candidate interviews, reporter Jake Shore and photojournalist Justin Taylor paid a visit to Camden County Sheriff Jim Proctor at the Woodbine office and detention center for an interview. While he won’t be on the main ballot on May 21, his challengers have put his spending and jail record foremost in their messages.
It is "the first known case of active wound treatment in a wild animal with a medical plant," biologist Isabelle Laumer told NPR. She says the orangutan, called Rakus, is now thriving.
For the week ending May 3, 2024, Sens. Warnock and Ossoff worked on improving youth mentorship, reconnecting undeserved communities in Atlanta, creating Georgia's first National Park and Preserve and expanding nursing programs in West Georgia.
More than 6.5 million people in 2023 took a mental health screening test through the Mental Health America (MHA) Online Screening Program, with 79% of users located in the U.S. scoring positive for moderate to severe symptoms of a mental health condition.
Advocates for immigrant rights across the state are working together on a final day of action in response Governor Brian Kemp signing a new law requiring law enforcement to check all inmates' citizenship status.
Pro-Palestinian protests have been popping up at universities around the world, and in the last few days things have escalated at a number of those campuses. Columbia University called on police to shutdown the encampment on their university lawn and 300 people were arrested. At University of California Los Angeles, about 200 pro-Israel counter-protestors raided a pro-Palestinian encampment. To get first hand accounts of the protests, Brittany talks to two student journalists: Shaanth Nanguneri, an undergraduate reporter at UCLA, and Claire Davenport, a graduate reporter at Columbia University in New York.
Then, Eurovision may seem like a quaint, quirky event to Americans but it's a huge cultural event that easily surpasses the Super Bowl in terms of global viewership. And for an apolitical event, Eurovision can teach us a lot about geopolitics. This year, all eyes are on Israel, which is not European but has been a competitor since the 70s. With Israel's ongoing conflict in Gaza, there's a lot of politicking for and against its inclusion at the song contest. Brittany chats with Eurovision scholar Paul David Flood about Israel's controversial song and dance at Eurovision... and why Americans might want to pay attention.
There's growing support from Republicans in Congress for excluding non-U.S. citizens from a special census count that the 14th Amendment says must include the "whole number of persons in each state."
Students in the U.K., France and Mexico have sought to erect what many of them call "solidarity encampments," prompting a variety of responses from university authorities and local law enforcement.
Investigators hope new DNA evidence could get them closer to solving a decades old murder case.The FBI and the Putnam County Sheriff's office confirmed on Thursday that additional DNA has been found in connection with the murders of Shirley and Russell Dermond.
A former Augusta University employee has been indicted for allegedly stealing more than $300,000 from the school, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr announced Thursday.
Google's landmark antitrust lawsuit wraps today. Steve Inskeep celebrates 20 years as Morning Edition host. After a week of silence, Biden addresses the pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses.