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Leah Fleming

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta in partnership with Emory and Georgia Tech is conducting a study that uses newborn babies’ own stem cells to help heal congenital heart defects.  

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Congress will consider renewed efforts to shore up voting and election laws in the coming weeks. House Republicans are traveling to Georgia today to unveil a sweeping proposal to tighten voting laws. House Democrats are preparing to reintroduce their own proposals to set federal voting standards and restore protections under the Voting Rights Act.

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Khalid Kamau, the mayor of the city of South Fulton in metro Atlanta is out of jail on bond after being arrested and charged with burglary and criminal trespass over the weekend.

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