Cops closed Colt Gray investigation just two days after distressing FBI tip
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Cops closed Colt Gray investigation just two days after distressing FBI tip

The Federal Bureau of Investigation issued dire warnings about Colt Gray’s troubling online activities more than a year before he allegedly shot up his Georgia high school — but cops closed their investigation in just two days without removing any guns from the home. The Jackson County Sheriff’s office paid…

First Georgia school shooting victim ID’d as special education math teacher
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First Georgia school shooting victim ID’d as special education math teacher

The first victim in Wednesday’s tragic shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia has been identified as special education math teacher David Phenix. “We are so thankful for all the texts, calls, and messages about my dad, David Phenix. There was a shooting this morning at Apalachee High School and…

Georgia statue of John Lewis installed to replace Confederate monument
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Georgia statue of John Lewis installed to replace Confederate monument

A large bronze statue of the late civil rights icon leader and Georgia congressman John Lewis was installed Friday, at the very spot where a contentious monument to the confederacy stood for more than 110 years in the town square before it was dismantled in 2020. Work crews gently rested the 12-foot-tall…

Georgia’s divide: Seniors wary of angering Russia as youth want change | Politics News

Georgia’s divide: Seniors wary of angering Russia as youth want change | Politics News

Tbilisi, Georgia – Georgia is in flux. Protests erupted in the mountainous nation in the Caucasus region in mid-April over a “foreign agents bill” that requires organisations receiving more than 20 percent of their funding from overseas to register as “agents of foreign influence”. Critics see the measure as resembling…

Georgian parliament overrides presidential veto of ‘foreign agent bill’ | Politics News

Georgian parliament overrides presidential veto of ‘foreign agent bill’ | Politics News

Critics say the bill will restrict media freedom and obstruct Georgia’s chances of joining the European Union. Georgia’s parliament has overridden a presidential veto of the “foreign agents” legislation that has fuelled Western concerns and set off weeks of street protests. The legislature, controlled by the governing Georgian Dream party,…

Georgia’s president vetoes controversial ‘foreign agents’ bill | Protests News

Georgia’s president vetoes controversial ‘foreign agents’ bill | Protests News

President Salome Zourabichvili says the law is ‘Russian in its essence’, but parliament is expected to overturn veto. Georgia’s President Salome Zourabichvili has vetoed the “foreign influence” bill that has sparked unprecedented protests in the country and warnings from Brussels that the measure would undermine Tbilisi’s European Union aspirations. But…

Georgia’s ‘foreign agents’ bill: What’s the controversy about? What’s next? | Protests News

Georgia’s ‘foreign agents’ bill: What’s the controversy about? What’s next? | Protests News

Georgia’s Parliament passed its new “transparency of foreign influence” bill – also known as the “foreign agents” law – on Tuesday despite mass protests that have rocked the capital, Tbilisi, for the past few weeks. After the bill was passed, thousands of protesters clashed with the police outside the parliament…

Thousands of Georgians defy warnings to join protest against ‘Russia’ bill | Politics News

Thousands of Georgians defy warnings to join protest against ‘Russia’ bill | Politics News

Protesters are angry at government efforts to pass a law against ‘foreign agents’ which mirrors repressive Russian legislation. Thousands of Georgians have joined new protests in Tbilisi against a Russian-styled “foreign agents” bill, as the government insisted it would push ahead with the legislation even after some of the largest…