Emma Hurt
[Copyright 2024 NPR]
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Indoor dancing in the German capital's world-renowned club scene has been shut down since early 2020. As an experiment, six clubs opened to patrons who had tested negative for the coronavirus.
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All over the country, a rise in crime is influencing messaging behind political runs. In Atlanta, Kasim Reed, a former two-term mayor, is running again saying that he can lower the city's crime rate.
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The U.S. Agriculture Department is sending aid for debt relief to struggling farmers of color beginning this month. But many Black farmers distrust the department after decades of failed promises.
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They represent two closely contested Sun Belt states. But Georgia's Democratic senators are taking more progressive positions, while Arizona's are opting for a more centrist approach.
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Georgia's Republican governor, Brian Kemp, signed a law repealing the citizen's arrest law. The men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery are using it as part of their defense in the murder case.
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One provision in Georgia's controversial law that particularly worries many officials is a new ability for the State Election Board to take over a county's election management.
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Georgia's governor has signed an elections overhaul into law. It includes new restrictions but is less restrictive than some original proposals.
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"They had thousands more staffers, thousands more volunteers," the former Georgia Republican senator says of Democratic groups, including Stacey Abrams' Fair Fight.
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Roughly 225,000 people who voted in January runoff elections didn't vote in November. A disproportionate number of them were people of color, a sign of where Democrats' political future lies.
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Sources close to the campaigns say people in and around the White House put near-constant pressure on Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler to shape their runoff campaigns around Trump's demands.