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Two Georgia Democrats were sworn in Wednesday as the newest members of the US Senate, handing their party control of the upper chamber just hours after President Joe Biden took office. With Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock — who ousted two Republicans in a pair of January 5 run-offs — being formally seated, the body
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Joe Biden’s Democratic Party took a giant step Wednesday towards seizing control of the US Senate as they won the first of two Georgia run-offs, hours before Congress was set to certify the president-elect’s victory over Donald Trump. Reverend Raphael Warnock’s victory, projected by multiple US networks overnight, capped a grueling nine-week runoff campaign and puts Georgia’s other
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A leaked phone call between Donald Trump and Georgia’s secretary of state Brad Raffensperger in which the US president appeals for the official to help overturn the state’s election result has triggered demands for a criminal investigation. The call, which was first published by The Washington Post on Sunday, finds Mr Trump – who has
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Georgia has recertified its presidential election results after a second recount – requested by Donald Trump – confirmed Joe Biden won the state. President-elect Biden took the state by more than 12,000 votes in last month’s ballot, becoming the first Democratic presidential nominee to win there in nearly three decades. Georgia’s secretary of state Brad Raffensperger, who, like Mr
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The US state of Georgia said Friday it will recount votes from the election in which Joe Biden has eked out a razor-thin lead over President Donald Trump. “With a margin that small, there will be a recount in Georgia,” Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told reporters in Atlanta. Raffensperger, the top elected official
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Based on how close the count is, Georgia’s secretary of state said Friday there will be a recount in the Peach State, CBSnews reports. “There will be a recount in Georgia,” said Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. READ ALSO: Biden leads as US vote count lingers Biden has inched ahead in Georgia, taking just
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Georgia pushed ahead with its plan to become the first U.S. state to allow an array of merchants to reopen on Friday following a month-long shutdown to stanch the coronavirus outbreak, even though both U.S. President Donald Trump and health experts voiced disapproval. Gyms, hair salons, tattoo parlors, and some other businesses have been given
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Georgia on Saturday declared a nationwide state of emergency over the novel coronavirus pandemic, allowing the government to regulate prices for food and medicines if needed. “The situation is grave and is expected to worsen,” President Salome Zurabishvili said in a televised address to the nation, saying the state of emergency is effective immediately and
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The first of seven Nigerians convicted of targeting people on dating websites and swindling them out of more than $1.8 million has been sentenced in Georgia, United States (US). The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Atlanta said in a statement Tuesday that 35-year-old Olu Victor Alonge had been sentenced to 10 years in prison and ordered
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Like people on sickbeds, Nigerians are once again getting ready to toss from side to side, without asking if the problem is with the beds or themselves. Pity.
Do we need a National Conference, sovereign or not? The answer is neither “yes” nor “no” for the simple reason that we have failed woefully as a nation to raise a set of politicians who would make any form of government work. We had tried three forms of government since independence – parliamentary, military and presidential. None of them had been able to develop this nation to its full potentials – not at the national, regional or state levels. None.
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