The progressive Georgia district attorney who was prosecuting Jose Antonio Ibarra, Georgia nursing student Laken Riley’s killer, has triggered outrage after the suspect dodged the death penalty and was instead sentenced to life without parole. Athens-Clarke District Attorney Deborah Gonzalez refused to seek the death penalty for the defendant even after she removed herself from…
The race to 270 is officially underway, and former President Donald Trump is currently in the lead to get the Electoral College votes that either candidate needs to take the White House. None of the seven battleground states in the 2024 presidential election—Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin—have been called yet. As…
Herschel Walker, the retired NFL running back and failed GOP Senate candidate, stumbled over his words in his first political appearance of the 2024 election cycle, asking voters to cast their ballots for Donald Trump Jr. before quickly realizing his error and urging voters to vote for Trump Jr.‘s father instead. “Let us not let…
Home News ‘From Kremlin to White House: Putin’s Calculated Influence in Trump’s Political Rise’ Russia’s secret operation involved hacking emails and documents and spreading false information on social media. New Delhi: George Papadopoulos, who was a foreign policy adviser for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, shared with Australian diplomat Alexander Downer that Russia had harmful information about…
Donald Trump is leading Kamala Harris in just one swing state, according to the final Sienna College/New York Times poll before the election. The poll, released on Sunday, shows Harris leading in Nevada, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Georgia. The candidates are tied in Pennsylvania and Michigan, while Trump leads in Arizona. It surveyed 7,878 likely…
Georgia’s top election official on Thursday night blamed “likely foreign interference” for a video that is quickly racking up views on social media and purports to show a newly-arrived Haitian migrant claiming he voted for Kamala Harris just six months after arriving in the United States. The video is “targeted disinformation,” Secretary of State Brad…
Edward Lucas is a longtime journalist and commentator who specializes in security and geopolitics. He has authored books on topics from spy craft and cybersecurity to Putin’s Russia and its perceived threat to the West. Lucas spoke with RFE/RL’s Georgian Service about the October 26 national elections in Georgia. He talked about what the process…
A week after Minelys Rodriguez was last seen, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation says they’ve found the body of a woman they believe is her. Rodriguez, 25, went to the Walmart in Cornelia, Georgia last Tuesday and no one had seen her since. The only communication anyone had with her was a text sent from…
Opposition parties cried foul after Georgia’s ruling party, Georgian Dream, claimed victory with 54 percent support in a vote on Saturday. Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili said her country had fallen victim to a “Russia[n] special operation,” and vowed she wouldn’t accept the election results, demanding a re-run. She also called on Georgian citizens to take…
Text size US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday said he supported calls for investigations into “election-related violations” in Georgia, where legislative elections were won by the ruling party, seen as close to Russia. Citing reports from international and local observers, the top US diplomat said the pre-election environment was marked by “vote buying…