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Annual 'Latino Day at the Legislature' takes serious tone amid ICE raids; City of Atlanta and Chattahoochee Riverkeeper settle Clean Water Act lawsuit; and the end of a 50-year era. Art Papers announces it will cease publication at the end of the year.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ten-thousand gallons of jet fuel leaked from Hartsfield-Jackson, EPA says; AJC to cut 15% of workforce, half from its newsroom; and a fourth GOP U.S. Representative from Georgia will not be running for re-election to the House.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Memorial details are released for slain Gwinnett County officer; a Georgia billionaire inspired by Donald Trump enters race for governor; and a push for metal detectors for all Georgia schools advances under the Gold Dome.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A Gwinnett County police officer is dead, another seriously injured, after a shootout inside a local hotel room; the latest between President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney puts Savannah-based Gulfstream Aerospace at the center of the controversy; and who's at fault after decades of toxic PFAS releases directly into water sources for parts of North Georgia and Alabama?   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Students at schools and colleges across Metro Atlanta are ‘walking out’ as part of a nationwide strike — which calls for a day of “no work, no school, no shopping”; The Venezuelan man convicted of killing a Georgia nursing student in 2024 is in court Friday requesting a new trial; the commissioner of Georgia's behavioral health agency talks about the state being released from a 2010 federal settlement agreement to improve treatment conditions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Local lawmakers react to FBI raid of Fulton Co. election office; a judge rules against the federal government's stripping of EV charger funding from Georgia and half the other U.S. states; and WABE Arts asks, "What's feeding you?" See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

FBI raids Fulton Elections office over 2020 ballots; ICE quietly opens satellite office in College Park; and outgoing GOP Public Service Commissioner Tim Echols reflects on his 15 years in the job.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Court rules challengers to 2021 Georgia voting law lack standing; more Georgia schools to get funding to test for lead; and a candidate for Georgia Lt. Gov. pushes to change name of local mountain to honor Donald Trump.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Atlanta is among dozens of US cities that have seen homicides drop to levels not recorded since before the pandemic; public health giant Dr. William Foege died over the weekend in Atlanta at the age of 89; and a Georgia-based app helps people cut back on drinking, whether for "dry January" or beyond.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Meteorologists at the National Weather Service are expecting a major ice storm to hit the Atlanta area this weekend, potentially creating long lasting travel and power interruptions; Officials with Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport are incorporating some new equipment in preparation for this weekend’s winter storm; A group of 26-year-old Georgia Southern Graduates are helping Atlanta’s Unhoused express themselves — through music. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dangerous ice storm setting up for North Georgia over the weekend and could linger into the workweek; Atlanta's airport bolsters efforts to combat human trafficking in advance of FIFA 2026 World Cup; and do you fancy a jennie? Here's a 'hen't: grab your gun.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Forecasters say a winter storm is likely to hit North Georgia over the weekend and residents should prepare now; State lawmakers pump the brakes on new data centers; and how a Georgia college student's efforts are helping foster children across the U.S. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Georgia opts-in to new federal tax credit for "school choice"; Students from a dozen metro high schools and colleges walk out of class in protest of ICE arrests; and UGA researchers uncover what's making monarch butterflies sick. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Senator Jon Ossoff is calling again for the Trump Administration to change its tariff policies as a recent report found that it could push Georgia’s economy towards a recession; State lawmakers are reacting to Georgians' growing frustration with data centers with bipartisan legislation going after a major tax break; and federal policy changes have shifted the way ICE operates in Georgia. We hear from WABE immigration reporter Emily Wu Pearson about what she's focusing on in 2026 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In his final State of the State address, Gov. Brian Kemp proposes several new ways of spending  the state's surplus; East Point temporarily pulls the plug on any potential new data centers; and Delta employees to get profit-sharing bonus equal to about one month of pay.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.