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According to 11alive.com, a Georgia NBC affiliate station, Judge Amy Totenberg of the Northern District Court of Georgia ruled in favor of a lawsuit brought by voting rights advocacy group Common Cause Georgia to delay certification of the Georgia governor race. The lawsuit accused GOP nominee Brian Kemp, who refused to resign as Georgia’s Secretary […]

According to NPR, hotel chain Motel 6 has agreed to pay $7.6 million following an investigation revealing that multiple locations in its chain shared their guest lists with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. It is not yet known exactly how many people have been arrested and/or deported as a result of the actions of […]

For the first time since it was identified in 1976, Ebola, a fatal viral disease, may not be able to be contained in the North Kivu province of the Congo.

On Monday, the United States’ reimposed economic sanctions against Iran, which had been removed under Obama after the Iran nuclear deal, went into effect. Iran is now defying the sanctions and threatening to restart its nuclear program.

After the fatal shooting of 11 Jews at the Tree of Life synagogue, hundreds came together to mourn their loss. Prominent Muslim groups raised over $200,000 to cover the victims’ funeral expenses. But as the community was recouping from the loss, President Trump’s visit divided a grieving town.

Around 4 p.m. on Sunday, a person with a gun shot four bullets into the Volusia County Republican Party office in South Daytona, Florida. No was killed or injured, but many feel this is yet another example of the uniquely heated political climate ahead of this year’s midterm elections.

In the same week which has seen the attempted mail bombing of prominent Democrats including Barack Obama and Maxine Waters and the shooting of two Black customers at a Louisville Kroger, there has been yet another attack by an alleged white supremacist. This time the target was a Jewish synagogue and community in Pittsburgh.

One day after the Saudi government denied killing U.S. based Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who had been critical of it, the New York Times is reporting that they are now calling the murder of Khashoggi premeditated, as the Turkish government had already been claiming. This represents the latest in a shifting story weaved by […]

A 14 year-long oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could spell the largest offshore enivornmental disaster in American history.

Gwinnett County is facing multiple lawsuits stemming from its rejections of 595 absentee ballots, a large number of them by African American and Asian American voters. According to CNN’s analysis of state data, Gwinnett County only makes up around 6% of the absentee ballots in Georgia, but one third of those rejected by the state, and roughly […]

By Gabrielle Noel The legal system was never built with Black queer people in mind. This system assigns victimhood, or refuses it, according to social biases, and society’s perception of who is more likely to be a victim or more credible thus affects who is allowed to receive justice. When it comes to sexual harassment, […]

PEN America, a literary activism group comprised of thousands of writers, has taken the step of suing a sitting President for his attacks on the press. Tuesday, the organization filed a suit in federal court in Manhattan, alleging that Trump “violated the First Amendment and his oath to uphold the Constitution” via what PEN refers […]