Atlanta is far from the ocean, but it will have a naval vessel named for it again. U.S. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro announced Wednesday that the Navy will build a nuclear attack submarine that will be known as the USS Atlanta.
Three white men serving life sentences for chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery are asking a Georgia judge for a new trial. Greg and Travis McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan appeared Thursday before the same judge who sentenced them three years ago.
With less than two weeks before Election Day, a resurgence of misinformation and conspiracy theories about voting is forcing state and local election officials to spend their time debunking rumors and explaining how elections are run.
A federal judge has ordered Rudy Giuliani to turn over his New York City apartment and various other assets to two Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment against him. Judge Lewis Liman in Manhattan issued the ruling Tuesday.
In Georgia, nonvoters are the most complicated piece of the electoral puzzle in a state that could decide the presidency. There are more than 47,000 people in Bibb County, Georgia, about 80 miles south of Atlanta, who are eligible to vote but don't.
