As crime rates continue to rise across the state, the numbers are looming large over the hotly contested Senate race between incumbent Sen. Rafael Warnock, a Democrat, and his Republican challenger Herschel Walker.
In an op-ed for the New York Post, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions claims the U.S. has seen a significant increase in violent crime, and new FBI crime data and survey data from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) found violent crime and the murder rate both increased in 2021. Reuters sees the GOP taking the House and Senate because of the statistics on crime.
As the nation spiraled into the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdowns and stimulus checks enabled households across the United States to build up a large cache of savings.
Following a sudden plant-shutdown of giant baby formula producer Abbott Nutrition in February, the entire nation is being plagued by a formula shortage, which comes on the wake of allegations that the FDA dragged its feet on a whistleblower report from late last year.
In the wake of a 2020 general election that sparked unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud, several states are reforming their election laws, with critics claiming they are suppressing voters’ rights.
With the U.S. Supreme Court standing behind two election integrity laws in Arizona, the U.S. Department of Justice is unlikely to have any success in its efforts to overturn a similar law in Georgia, conservative observers note.
A new Georgia law aims to expand domestic-violence protections in the state to include people who are dating, the target of a stalker or relationships that include a pregnancy.
While the nation's economy, after more than a year in the grip of the pandemic, is rebounding differently from state to state, it seems that Georgia and South Carolina share many similarities.
As states emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, recoveries are occurring at different rates across the country and there often are subtle differences to the comeback from region to region.