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A big increase in the tax on university endowments is adding to financial uncertainty for the wealthiest colleges in the U.S.

He says that with mortgage interest rates still high for many buyers, tight housing supply and housing affordability at a ...

Wednesday marks the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the landmark legislation after a hard-fought campaign led by Georgia civil rights icons like ...

Officials with Clayton County’s fire department have more details on an incident involving a dozen foster care teens living in the basement of a local church. Clayton County’s Fire Department […] ...

Updated at 6:41 p.m. An active shooter was reported Friday afternoon on the campus of Emory University near the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A shelter-in-place order was lifted […] ...

Two Atlanta transit police officers were shot after they tried to confront a man urinating in a train station, investigators say.

Former Roswell Mayor Jere Wood hand-delivered a letter to City Hall Aug. 6 signed by a slew of past elected officials who are critical of current leadership.

A months-long investigation into Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention led by U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia's ...

A federal grand jury indicted a former southeast Georgia sheriff's sergeant Thursday on civil rights charges, accusing him of ...

Former President and Georgia native Jimmy Carter created the U.S. Department of Education and the Federal Emergency Management Agency back in 1979. But now President Donald Trump is calling for these ...

A Macon activist who helped call attention to conditions at a federal immigration detention center in south Georgia in 2020 ...