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Two Giuliani associates were arrested while trying to flee the country on Wednesday and indicted on federal campaign finance charges. Prosecutors in New York say the men were part of an effort to funnel foreign money to U.S. candidates for federal and state offices, at the request of Ukrainian officials. “Rudy 1986 would have indicted Rudy 2019 in a New York minute,” wrote Conway, husband of White House adviser Kellyanne Conway, on Twitter....

Sunday evening, Springer kept Houston in the game in the bottom of the 10th inning when he robbed the Rangers’ Leonys Martin of a walk-off grand slam with two outs. MORE: Penguin delivers Reds’ game ball | Two Marlins suffer identical injuries | Bartolo Colon’s RBI single Your browser does not support iframes. The Astros finally took the lead in the top of the 14th inning to break the tie, and reliever Samuel Deduno came on in the bottom half of the inning to close the door and secure a 6-4 Houston victory....

As the Republican party grapples with its future under President Joe Biden, the civil war has intensified after 10 House members voted in favor of impeaching Trump for allegedly inciting the deadly insurrection on January 6. Bush spoke out one day after Gaetz railed against Liz Cheney—the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney—the No. 3 Republican in the House who joined nine others in voting to impeach. Freddy Ford, Bush’s chief of staff, told CNN Friday that the former Republican president isn’t “thinking about the next election cycle yet,” but said that he’s “planning to call VP Cheney tomorrow for two reasons: to wish him a happy 80th birthday, and to thank him for his daughter’s service....

DeKalb County, a largely African-American suburb of Atlanta, skews heavily towards the Democrats. Democrat Reverend Raphael Warnock, a first-time political candidate, looks set to defeat incumbent Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler to become the first Black senator of Georgia, and only the 11th Black senator in America’s history. “Due to technical issues, the remaining 19,000 ballots must be manually scanned in order to be tabulated and added to the total vote count,” Erica Hamilton, the county’s voter registration and elections director, said in a statement....

Once a Republican stronghold, Gwinnett County went for conservatives John McCain and Mitt Romney by near-double-digit margins in 2008 and 2012. But Democrat Hillary Clinton won the county by more than 5 points four years ago, marking the beginning of what might be a blue wave. That trend, lawmakers and activists say, is likely to continue in 2020. “The general consensus in Gwinnett County is that it is inevitably going to turn blue this year,” said Beth Moore, a Democratic state representative who flipped a Gwinnett-based district two years ago....

The Floyd County Democratic Party opted to hold Sunday’s gathering, which had been set to take place in the city of Rome, via a virtual Zoom meeting instead. Chairwoman Ruth Demeter said in a statement the move was taken at the recommendation of the Democratic Party of Georgia and out of an “abundance of concern for the health and safety of our citizens.” “We have been informed that a large militia presence is expected in Rome today due to Trump’s visit,” she said....

“The frustration is grounded in the basic idea of the free pursuit of inquiry and political independence of higher education as defined in the phrase academic freedom,” University of North Georgia’s Dr. Matthew Boedy told Newsweek on Friday. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Representative Emory Dunahoo, who is white, sent a series of questions to school leaders last week, including: “Are any classes within the Georgia public school system or the University System of Georgia teaching students who identify as white, male, heterosexual, or Christian are intrinsically privileged and oppressive, which is defined as ‘malicious or unjust’ and ‘wrong’?...

“The release of the video and its caption led viewers to believe the worker was agitated which resulted in the worker crumbling and disposing the ballot,” Elections Supervisor Rick Barron told a bipartisan group of observers on Friday. “However, one thing that you need to know is that those ballots are 8½ by 19 inches long. At no time did you see him extract anything from the envelope and that crumbled piece of paper, they were instructions and it was a smaller piece of paper,” he added....

The Bulldogs under Kirby Smart have accomplished a lot heading into the 2019 college football season: He got them to the 2017 College Football Playoff and 2018 SEC championship game, both of which had national titles on the line. The Bulldogs lost both in heartbreaking fashion to Alabama. They have excellent recruiting classes to fall back on this year, but the Bulldogs still haven’t been able to clear that championship hurdle....

The governor and his wife will hold a meeting with both lawmakers and gun rights advocates in a gun shop on Wednesday. During this meeting, he is expected to announce support for new legislation that could revoke the need for people to have a license to carry a weapon in public. This law would affect both open and concealed guns, according to drafts obtained by the Associated Press. “Building a safer, stronger Georgia starts with hardworking Georgians having the ability to protect themselves and their families,” wrote Kemp in the obtained draft remarks....

According to prosecutors, the man, Vinath Oudomsine, of Dublin, Georgia, also used part of the loan to purchase a $57,789 Pokemon card, the Macon Telegraph reported on Friday. Prosecutors said that Oudomsine submitted an application for an Economic Injury Disaster Loan in July 2020, and later received an $85,000 loan from the Small Business Administration, according to the newspaper. They alleged that he spent a portion of the funds to buy the card....

Fani Willis, a Democrat recently elected as DA for Fulton County, also addressed the issue of criminal intent, seen by legal experts as a sticking point in any prosecution, with an apparent reference to Trump’s request to “find 11,780 votes.” Willis has stressed her impartiality in interviews since it was announced that her office would take on the case. Speaking to local news channel WSB-TV2 Atlanta, she said they would not “treat anyone differently....

The higher court’s granting of an emergency stay of a lower court’s injunction in State of Georgia v. SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective et al. comes less than two weeks before Walker and incumbent Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock face off in a December 6 runoff. It reverses a November 15 ruling made by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney that allowed for abortions to continue to occur past six weeks....

The ad juxtaposes a clip of Warnock on Fox News saying that he celebrates Wright against footage of the pastor saying “God d*** America.” The ad is the latest installment in a series of attacks on Warnock as an “anti-American radical” by the Georgia GOP. Warnock is running against incumbent Republican Kelly Loeffler in a Georgia Senate runoff race that will take place on January 5. The Loeffler campaign has poured over $1 million into ads associating Warnock with Wright, claiming that he “celebrates anti-American hatred,” according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution....

No. 3 Georgia didn’t just erase any doubts about their national championship pedigree in a 34-11 blowout against No. 2 Michigan in the College Football Playoff semifinal at the Capital One Orange Bowl on Friday. The Bulldogs also changed the perception about how that rematch against No. 1 Alabama might flow in the College Football Playoff championship game at Lucas Oil Stadium on Jan. 10. “I’m so happy for these kids,” Georgia coach Kirby Smart said on the ESPN telecast afterward....

Shooting into the air, the new arrivals chased off a carload of genuine police who had also arrived on the scene. Then they took Shaw. The fate of Shaw, in Georgia on assignment for the European Union, is still unknown. But his kidnapping underscores the enormous challenges still facing the political stability and economic well-being of this strategic former Soviet republic. Shaw was at least the fourth foreigner to be kidnapped here in the last 18 months....

The workers were seen resuming recount proceedings early Sunday morning, appearing in a video livestream shared to YouTube and promoted prominently on Fulton County’s official government website. This is the third time Georgia’s elections departments are counting ballots. Following the original tally that took place in the days following November 3, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger authorized a manual recount of ballots cast for president. In order to verify that new electronic tabulation machines yielded accurate results, Georgia was required to initiate a hand recount of one election race this year....

The county faced scrutiny going into 2020’s presidential election, especially after coronavirus infections affected the June primary due to poll workers who were sick or wishing to avoid getting COVID-19. New voting equipment only added to problems during the primary. Former President Donald Trump then pushed unproven claims about election fraud after November’s presidential election, saying fraud cost him victory in the state. GOP state lawmakers then pushed the Republican-controlled State Election Board to remove local election officials....

Yellow Jackets play-by-play announcer Brandon Gaudin was there every step of the way Saturday night as Lance Austin scooped up the ball and took it 78 yards to the end zone. The “Miracle on Techwood Drive” will be remembered in Atlanta for a long time. MORE: Best of Week 8 | Scoreboard | Best plays of the past decade One funny aspect of the play: Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson was actually telling his players to get away after the Roberto Aguayo kick was blocked....

Jeanna Renee Triplicata, 18, was taking part in a tandem jump with a professional instructor at SkyDive Atlanta when both chutes failed to open properly on Sunday. Both Triplicata and her instructor, Nick Esposito, 35, died crashing into a field in Upson County. Her family said they were taking part in a dive together so Triplicata could tick off an item on her bucket list, which she hoped to complete before she started her freshman year at the University of North Georgia in August....