Georgia's Brian Kemp could tie New York's Kathy Hochul for the highest-paid state governor under a proposal made Thursday. State senators agreed to give big pay raises to most of Georgia's statewide elected officials, who are all Republicans.
Georgia lawmakers are retreating from some controversial election proposals. A proposed bill would no longer allow the Donald Trump-aligned State Election Board to possibly strike thousands of challenged voters from the rolls.
NATO is clarifying comments that Secretary-General Mark Rutte made when he suggested that four U.S. soldiers who went missing while training in Lithuania had died, even though the U.S. Army said their fate was not yet confirmed.
Five high-level officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are leaving. The departures were announced Tuesday at a meeting of agency senior leaders. This means close to a third of the agency's top management is leaving or left recently.
