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Georgia is widely considered open season for a political power shift this election season, and the fate of the state may rest in the hands of 90,000 newly registered voters, many of whom are minorities and people under the age of 25. Registered by the New Georgia Project, these new additions to the voter rolls help accurately reflect the increasing diversity of Georgia's population. So very naturally, there's now a court case pending after nearly 50,000 registrations — predominantly from Democratic leaning regions — simply vanished.

Speaking at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, President Obama provides an update on the U.S. plan to help combat the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. President Obama says the U.S. will lead on fighting the ebola outbreak. He also says the probability of ebola spreading to the U.S. is low, but the country is ready to deal with it.

Like police departments in so many other U.S. cities and towns, the Ferguson Police Department eagerly snapped up military-grade equipment — and the images of its use has looked downright un-American. At least one legislator thinks so, too. Democratic Congressman from Georgia, Hank Johnson, is drafting a bill to cut back on Pentagon transfers of military equipment to local police forces. He plans to introduce the bill in September, when Congress finally returns from its summer vacation.

Last Monday, workers at an Atlanta-area Staples fulfillment center seeking to organize with the Teamsters union showed up to work wearing union buttons as a sign of solidarity. By the end of the week, they were being forced to attend a mandatory captive-audience meeting in which they were read the company’s anti-union script. The meeting was secretly recorded and has now made it to the Internet.

The national reproductive rights advocacy organization NARAL Pro-Choice America is ramping up its campaign against Judge Michael Boggs, a nominee to be a federal district judge in Georgia.

A Georgia man terrifies a Little League game with a gun and it's all legal thanks to Georgia's new insane gun law. What's wrong with bringing guns into bars, churches or public parks?

Under a law just signed by Georgia's governor, people with a license can carry a gun into bars, some government buildings and places of worship if religious leaders say it's OK. Also under the law passed this session, school districts would now be able, if they choose, to allow some employees to carry a firearm under certain conditions.

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, who had previously dodged questions about the plate, told Atlanta’s Channel 11 today that he wasn’t “concerned about” the plate and that “hopefully those who take offense at it will look at the fact that it is part of a cultural heritage of our state.”

Jason Carter, grandson of former President Jimmy Carter, is planning a bid for governor of Georgia. State Democrats are excited at the prospect and need the boost it brings, especially after Republicans claimed every statewide office in 2010.

What makes Germans so sensitive about their data? Many have pointed to Germany’s history: Both the Nazi secret police Gestapo and the East German Stasi spied extensively on citizens, encouraging snitching among neighbors and acquiring private communication.

The Georgia Department of Community Health voted 5 to 3, with one abstention, at a meeting last Thursday to approve a new benefit plan that eliminates abortion coverage from the insurance plans of over 650,000 state employees, bypassing a legislature that refused to pass a similar measure during the 2013 legislative session.

Last week the Tea Party Patriots helped push a proposal through Georgia’s Public Service Commission that requires the state’s largest electric utility to more than double the amount of solar power it uses.