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GPB evening headlines for July 19, 2024
Georgia institutions are dealing with impacts both large and small from this morning's technology outage in Microsoft Windows. Georgia Republicans are exuding a sense of confidence after their party wrapped up their national convention in Milwaukee. The last-ever Atlanta Tennis Open is set to begin tomorrow. The loss saddens tennis...
Soda cans are exploding on Southwest flights due to sky-high temperatures
Summer temperatures across the U.S. are so high that they’ve created problems at cruising altitude, causing some overheated beverages to burst midair on a number of Southwest Airlines flights. Many of the airports where Southwest has a large presence — such as Phoenix, Las Vegas, Austin, Dallas, Houston and...
Taxpayer dollars at work: Tax breaks for disabled people, fire safety, lowering prescription costs
Neither Sen. Jon Ossoff nor Sen. Raphael Warnock is up for reelection this year — the former will run again in 2026 and the latter in 2028. But 2024 is off to a busy start for both senators. In this recurring digital news series, GPB follows your federal tax dollars back to the state of Georgia each week.
As workers train, Hyundai Metaplant salary picture takes shape
Early in the morning a lifelong Savannahnian and a military veteran commute 50 minutes in a 15-year-old SUV from Savannah to the Hyundai Metaplant, the $7.56 billion electric vehicle factory rising from amid the pine forests of rural Bryan County. The two men are among the more than 1,471 workers...
Sundance Film Festival narrows down host cities — from Atlanta to Santa Fe — for future years
Sundance Institute on Friday announced six finalists in its search for a new host location for the influential film festival. After 40 years in Park City, Utah, the festival is eyeing locations across the country for festivals starting in 2027 when its existing contract will be up for renewal. The snowy mountain town, along with Salt Lake City, will still be home to the 2025 and 2026 festivals, and the Utah cities are one of the six options for future festivals.
Escaped prisoner found in Georgia 30 years later, using the identity of a dead child
An Oregon fugitive that escaped from prison 30 years ago was arrested at his apartment on Tuesday afternoon in Macon, Ga. According to authorities, he had been living under the identity of a dead child. Steven Craig Johnson, 70, fled from a prison work detail at the Mill Creek Correctional...
'One big family': Georgia Republicans react to first Trump speech since assassination attempt
LISTEN: Georgia Republicans react to Trump's speech at the Republican national convention Thursday night. GPB's Sarah Kallis reports. Just days after an assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, Georgia Republicans gathered at a Sandy Springs movie theater, just north of Atlanta, to watch the presidential nominee speak at the final night of the Republican National Convention.
Top U.N. court says Israel's occupation of West Bank, East Jerusalem is 'unlawful'
The top United Nations court in the Hague said Friday that Israel’s 57-year occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem is 'unlawful' and called on Israel to cease its presence in the occupied territories, including dismantling Israel settlements there and paying reparations. The advisory decision by the International...
Federal lawsuit challenges constitutionality of blank check ‘leadership committees’
The Democratic Party of Georgia is challenging the constitutionality of a 2021 state law that allows Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and others to raise and spend unlimited campaign funds. The lawsuit was filed Thursday in federal court and names only Kemp in his official capacity as governor as a defendant....
Lawsuit charges State Election Board with meeting illegally
ATLANTA — A nonprofit nonpartisan watchdog group filed a lawsuit Friday charging the State Election Board with violating Georgia’s Open Meetings Act after meeting last week without legally required public notice or a quorum. The three Republicans on the five-member board gave preliminary approval during a special meeting...
8 hot new love stories from a stellar lineup of Black authors
When the Essence Festival of Culture celebrated its 30th anniversary in New Orleans earlier this month, organizers showcased a stellar lineup of Black romance authors — from trailblazing pioneers like Beverly Jenkins and Brenda Jackson to newer stars Kennedy Ryan, Natasha Bishop and Danielle Allen. In spite of barriers, optimistic, swoony love stories by African American authors are an increasingly sought-after commodity, as we’ve been tracking, finding audiences outside of traditional pathways.
A newly discovered dinosaur may have spent part of its life underground
A new dinosaur discovery just hit the paleontology block — and this one was a burrower. Found in Utah by North Carolina State University researchers and paleontologists, the Fona herzogae was a small-framed, plant-eating dinosaur that lived in the Cenomanian age — about 100-66 million years ago. “If...
More Democrats ask Biden to drop out. His campaign says he'll be back next week
REHOBOTH BEACH, Del./WASHINGTON — More Democratic lawmakers on Friday publicly called for President Biden to drop out of the 2024 race, including New Mexico Sen. Martin Heinrich, who is running for reelection is what is supposed to be a safe seat for the party. But Biden is planning to...
'Twisters' swirls an old-fashioned rom-com into an effects-happy action movie
I spent my boyhood in small Iowa towns. One afternoon my mother and I were on the back steps, gazing down across the highway at cornfields that seemed to go on forever. Suddenly, the air got eerily still. “Look,” mom said. A couple of miles away, a funnel cloud eased itself down and began winding across the countryside, luckily in the other direction. I sat there awed and transfixed, and have loved watching tornadoes ever since.
New parents, no time or energy for sex? Here's how to keep the romance alive
Congratulations! You’re parents now! How’s your sex life?. Chances are, not so hot. Between endless diaper changes, sleep deprivation, hormonal changes and general exhaustion, new parents don’t have a lot of time or energy for physical intimacy. And even though many doctors give the birthing partner the...
Macon graves linked to infamous Georgia murder were vandalized. Investigation underway
A gravesite in Macon’s Rose Hill Cemetery containing the remains of a family killed in a grisly murder more than a century ago was vandalized earlier this month, and investigators are looking for the suspects. Headstones at the site — which has the remains of the nine members of...
Why we choke under pressure, according to a cognitive scientist
Part 1 of the TED Radio Hour episode Sports psychology for everyday life. Choking, whiffing it, the yips. For every spectacular performance in sports history, there’s an example of a highly-skilled athlete who folds under pressure. And it’s not just sports: we also might freeze up during a presentation, an important recital or a big speech. But what happens in our brains during those high-stakes moments?
Boston is shaking up its public art scene
The city of Boston announced Thursday a major, citywide campaign to reimagine public art. The Un-Monument initiative is funded with a $3 million grant from the Mellon Foundation — the largest Boston has ever received for public art programming. The initiative aims to bring residents, artists and groups together...
Russian court sentences U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich to 16 years in prison
MOSCOW — A Russian court convicted Wall Street Journal correspondent Evan Gershkovich on charges of espionage Friday — sentencing the American to 16 years in a Russian prison colony in a closed-door trial denounced as a sham by the journalist’s newspaper and the U.S. government. Prosecutors had requested an 18-year sentence.
If a presidential nominee drops out, what happens to states’ ballots?
WASHINGTON — The Electoral College could help Democrats avoid a complicated situation in the event President Joe Biden withdraws from the race after his name is printed on ballots. States Newsroom reporters and editors in the network’s 39 states explored how a presidential candidate could be replaced on ballots...
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