Abrams announced Friday that her direct campaign and its associated One Georgia committee raised $22 million during the two months ended June 30 and together had $18.5 million in cash on hand.
Katherine Lee
Posted inNation & World, News
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott orders state to grab migrants, release them at bridges
Legal scholars have called the approach legally dubious and say it will almost certainly invite lawsuits.
advertisement
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World, News
Sacha Baron Cohen defeats $95 million defamation suit from Roy Moore
Former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore said he was tricked into an humiliating television appearance that lampooned sexual misconduct accusations against him.
Posted inNation & World, News
Biden honors 17 people, including Biles, McCain, Rapinoe with Presidential Medal of Freedom
President Biden is awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, to 17 people, including Simone Biles and Gabby Giffords and, posthumously, Steve Jobs and John McCain.
Posted inNation & World, News
Derek Chauvin gets 21 years for George Floyd’s killing
Chauvin agreed to a sentence of 20 to 25 years in his December plea to a federal charge in Floyd’s killing.
Posted inNation & World, News
UN report finds 2.3 billion people severely or moderately hungry in 2021
That was before the Ukraine war, which has sparked increases in the cost of grain, fertilizer and energy, according to a U.N. report released Wednesday.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, News
U.S. allows pharmacists to prescribe Pfizer’s COVID pill
The Food and Drug Administration said pharmacists can begin screening patients to see if they are eligible for Paxlovid and then prescribe the medication, which has been shown to curb the worst effects of COVID-19.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World, News
Jury finds man guilty of murder of rapper Nipsey Hussle
The verdict brings an end to a legal saga that has lasted more than three years and a trial that was often delayed because of the pandemic.
Posted inNation & World, News
12 killed in Ukraine as Russia pounds rebel-claimed province
Ukrainian officials say Russian shelling and missile strikes killed at least eight civilians people over the past 24 hours and wounded 25 more.
Posted inNation & World, News
Parents of boy, 2, found alone after parade shooting are among the dead
Portraits of the dead are emerging from the shooting that killed at least seven in Chicago suburb Highland Park.