Georgia

Recent mass shootings have prompted renewed calls for reform of gun laws, which the president outlined as a priority during his campaign.

The former Democrat has claimed that Kemp's inaction is the reason Donald Trump is no longer president.

"Unlike our current Georgia Secretary of State, Jody leads out front with integrity," Trump said in a statement on Monday.

"Loitering" local officers and gun-toting Trump supporters were among the isolated incidents that Black Southern voters cited from last November.

New polling data pointed to a much higher inclination among people of color to report witnessing these types of incidents compared with white people.

The Georgia congressman said that bypassing the metal detectors was done to gain "legal standing" to bring the House Speaker to court.

"It's been politicized like we've never seen before," he said in a video released Friday. "They're literally attacking American civilians."

"The shootings were a total repudiation of our faith and practice, and such actions are completely unacceptable and contrary to the gospel," the Crabapple First Baptist Church in Milton, Georgia, said on Friday.

Several public figures in the Asian American community have spoken about the links between racism and the objectification of Asian women.

Georgia's new hate crime law was spurred by the killing of Ahmaud Arbery and signed by Governor Brian Kemp last year.

Baker, the director of communications for the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office, reportedly promoted shirts that blamed China for the COVID-19 pandemic.

A Tornado Watch is in effect across parts of Alabama, Florida and Georgia through early Thursday morning.

The suspect purchased a gun from Big Woods Goods in Cherokee County on Tuesday prior to the shootings, an attorney for the store confirmed to Newsweek.

Hate crimes against Asian Americans increased by nearly 150 percent last year, a report has found.

Since-deleted social media posts suggest that the shooting suspect was re-baptized by the Crabapple First Baptist Church about three years ago.

People are being urged to use the phrase "Stop Asian Hate" to show their solidarity instead of "Asian Lives Matter."

Long, 21, of Woodstock, Georgia, was taken into custody after eight people were killed at three massage parlors in the Atlanta area.

Social media users are calling for an end to violence against Asian people after eight were killed in shootings at three massage parlors in Georgia.

"Bezos WaPo domestically interfered in January GA Senate election," tweeted Republican strategist Blair Brandt.

"Voting is a foundational right in America, and we will continue to work to advance voting rights and access in Georgia and across the country," Coca-Cola said in a statement to CNBC.

The Republican lieutenant governor of Georgia called Trump's strategy "unwinnable," saying the GOP needs "real leadership."

Taylor said he wouldn't be surprised if Trump faces criminal charges in 2021, amid ongoing criminal investigations in New York City and Georgia.

A spokesperson for the territory's governor said they'd be "more than happy" to send the congresswoman a book about the island's history.

St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell has called on other alleged victims of Ephriam Granderson to come forward.

"When the right answer comes out, you'll be praised," said former President Donald Trump while urging a Georgia investigator to find evidence that he won the state's 2020 presidential election "by a lot."

On January 2, then-President Donald Trump told Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger: "All I want to do is this: I just want to find 11,780 votes."

Since the 2020 presidential election, 43 states have seen the introduction of state bills that would restrict voting access.

The former president said that election-related bills making their way through the Legislature are "not in the interests of all Georgia voters."

The voting rights activist expressed concern at moves made in Georgia, Arizona and New Hampshire that would restrict voting.

The state's Republican-led legislature has passed a bill to eliminate no-excuse absentee voting after 16 years.