On the Tuesday, Nov. 5 edition of Georgia Today: Georgia voters cast their ballot on Election Day; polling places receive bomb threats; and Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus has died.
A judge has ordered Rudy Giuliani to appear in a New York courtroom Thursday to explain why he missed a deadline to surrender his belongings as part of a $148 million defamation judgment. Federal Judge Lewis Liman issued the order late Monday.
Bernard "Bernie" Marcus, the co-founder of The Home Depot, the world's largest home improvement chain, a billionaire philanthropist, and a big Republican donor, has died. He was 95.
A Republican lawyer who interned in the White House under Donald Trump is challenging Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. She's the Georgia prosecutor who brought charges against the former president over efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Georgia's highest court has stayed a lower court ruling that would have allowed certain voters in the state's third-largest county who received their absentee ballots late to return them after the deadline. That means the affected Cobb County residents must vote in person on Election Day, which is Tuesday, or get their absentee ballots to the county elections office by 7 p.m. that day
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GPB’s Peter Biello speaks with Dr. Adrienne Jones, an assistant professor of political science at Morehouse College, about Black voters this election cycle.