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Georgia legislative panel recommends mobile units, student loan aid for rural cancer care

(Georgia Recorder) — A state legislative committee is recommending expanded loan forgiveness for doctors and increased funding for mobile screening units to combat a...

Maduro set to make first appearance in US courtroom on drug trafficking charges

NEW YORK (AP) — Deposed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is set to make his first appearance Monday in an American courtroom on the narco-terrorism...

Georgia flu-associated deaths tick up in most recent report with possibility for another surge

As 2026 begins, Georgia remains among states with the highest numbers of influenza-associated hospitalizations, according to metrics from the Centers for Disease Control and...

Rubio says US will press change in Venezuela with oil embargo, while Trump insists...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested Sunday that the United States would not govern Venezuela day-to-day other than enforcing an existing...

Delcy Rodríguez becomes Venezuela’s interim president after Maduro’s ouster

MEXICO CITY (AP) — As uncertainty simmers in Venezuela, interim President Delcy Rodríguez has taken the place of her ally President Nicolás Maduro, captured...

After capture and removal, Venezuela’s Maduro is being held at notorious Brooklyn jail

NEW YORK (AP) — The Brooklyn jail holding Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is a facility so troubled, some judges have refused to send people...

Marjorie Taylor Greene made waves. Her constituents don’t agree on whether it was worth...

DALTON, Ga. (AP) — President Donald Trump says Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is a traitor. But for Jackie Harling, who chairs the local Republican...

Georgia agency proposes changes to waiting list for services for people with disabilities

(Georgia Recorder) — A key program aimed at helping individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities gain access to home care may be getting a...

US military operation in Venezuela disrupts Caribbean holiday travel, hundreds of flights canceled

The U.S. military operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and flew him out of the country early Saturday has also disrupted Caribbean travel...

Sen. Warnock calls on ‘feckless Congress’ to keep ‘reckless president’ in check after Venezuela...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) issued a strong statement today after President Trump announced that U.S. forces had carried out...

Trump says US ‘will run’ Venezuela during transition after capture of President Maduro

WASHINGTON (States Newsroom) — President Donald Trump said Saturday that the United States will “run the country” of Venezuela until “a proper transition can...

US strikes Venezuela, captures Maduro and his wife

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The United States hit Venezuela with a “large-scale strike” early Saturday and said its president had been captured and flown...