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The Georgia prosecutor building a criminal election interference case against Donald Trump holds a powerful bargaining chip very likely “terrifying” the former U.S. president, a legal expert said.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Nick Akerman on Monday applauded Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for using the same tactic that led to the resignation of former President Richard Nixon. What’s more, Akerman used the words of Trump’s own attorney to do it.

“This so-called RICO case is nothing more than a bargaining chip for DA Willis,” Steven Sadow said last week. ...

The suspect in a mass shooting that killed one person and injured four others in Midtown Atlanta on Wednesday has been arrested, culminating an hour-long manhunt, the Atlanta Police Department said.

Deion Patterson, 24, is accused of opening fire in the waiting room of Northside Hospital Medical before escaping in a stolen vehicle, CNN reports.

The fatal shooting victim has been identified as a 39-year-old woman and the other shooting victims – all women – range in age from 25 to 71, the report said....

Actor Jamie Foxx remains hospitalized in Georgia a week after suffering a mystery “medical complication.” The Oscar winner experienced the issue last Tuesday but wasn’t taken to the hospital in an emergency vehicle and was not on set at the time of the incident. Foxx, 55, is currently filming Netflix’s comedy “Back in Action” in Atlanta with Cameron Diaz, Glenn Close and Kyle Chandler. The production resumed later last week with a stunt double and photo double standing in for Foxx. Multiple reports state that the movie is scheduled to wrap this week, but it’s unknown if Foxx will return to sho......

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., for a period of 13 years, was one of the most scrutinized and filmed figures in American history, from the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 to his assassination in Memphis in 1968. But it wasn't just the press watching him. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, which J. Edgar Hoover led, took a keen interest in King as he became the de facto leader of the civil rights movement. As King became ever bigger, Hoover's obsession grew as well. As documented in a new film, "MLK/FBI," out Friday in theaters and on video on demand, Hoover expended untold amounts of money a......

ATLANTA — A pair of new developments underscored President Donald Trump’s insistent attempts to overturn Georgia’s election results just as Democrats accelerate their push to impeach the Republican for inciting a mob to attack the U.S. Capitol. Weeks before Trump pressured Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger “find” enough votes to flip the election, it was revealed Saturday that he also called a Georgia elections investigator with a similar demand, prompting questions about possible obstruction of justice. Separately, White House officials urged U.S. Attorney BJay Pak to resign before the co......

ATLANTA — A few weeks after Stacey Abrams narrowly lost her bid for governor, she spoke to a sold-out crowd in Nashville about her journey from despondency to determination. "Revenge," she said, "can be very cathartic." As Georgians awoke to a new political landscape on Wednesday, Abrams can claim payback against Gov. Brian Kemp, her once-and-probable-future rival. Abrams spent much of the past decade constructing the statewide apparatus that laid the groundwork for Democratic successes, including Joe Biden's victory in November. She built the Fair Fight voting rights group into one of Georgia......