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On Friday’s “MSNBC Live,” Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (D) said that part of the reason homicides in the city have increased from pre-pandemic levels is because Georgia “opened up before the rest of the country, even before the CDC

Ken Blackwell said a court order for Major League Baseball (MLB) to return its All-Star Game to Atlanta “would be a win-win for everyone.”

Today’s feel good story comes from the Deep Blue city of Atlanta, Georgia, where a city councilman who voted to defund the police had his car stolen in broad daylight.

Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of major U.S. cities on Saturday, attacking Israel while voicing support for a string of pro-Palestinian demands.

Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed House Bill 286 into law on Friday that prevents law enforcement from being defunded in the state.

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced on Thursday evening in an open letter that she would not seek reelection this year.

Officer Garrett Rolfe of the Atlanta Police Department has his job back — even though he still faces eleven criminal charges, including felony murder, in the death of Rayshard Brooks, whom he shot and killed during a confrontation on June 12, 2020.

Twelve people were shot, two fatally, during the weekend in Democrat-controlled Atlanta, Georgia.

Stacey Abrams was once floated by Biden’s team as a possible running mate, but she publicly turned him down.

Atlanta and other Democrat-run large cities are seeing an increase in violent crime due to Democrats’ undermining of law enforcement, Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA) said on Thursday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with special guest host Jerome Hudson, author of 50 Things They Don’t Want You to Know.

Greater Georgia, a grassroots organization headed by former U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), announced Monday that it would be placing billboards around Truist Park in Atlanta, Georgia, to call out the “strike out squad” responsible for Major League Baseball’s decision to pull its All-Star Game out of Atlanta.

Major League Baseball (MLB) Commissioner Robert Manfred was apparently worried about relocating the All-Star Game from Atlanta because it would balloon into a “political event.”

The vast majority of U.S. likely voters believe voter ID is necessary and disagree with Major League Baseball’s (MLB) decision to pull the All-Star game and Draft from Atlanta over the state’s election integrity law, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Tuesday found.

On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Velshi,” Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (D) said that it’s very clear that “the threat of an economic boycott is a driving factor” in the corporate opposition to Georgia’s election law. Host Ali Velshi asked,

Republicans slammed Major League Baseball (MLB) for canceling their All-Star Game in Atlanta over a new Georgia state law requiring voter identification.

Over 100 companies joined to condemn the law, including Facebook, Google, Bank of America, Apple, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, American Express, Delta, and the Home Depot.

Democrat Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms plans to hire 250 new police officers amid a reelection campaign after homicides surged 58 percent in 2020.

President Joe Biden will headline the reelection fundraiser for Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on Friday.

British comedian John Oliver, the host of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight,” scolded Joe Biden for saying racism against Asians is “un-American,” and proclaimed “anti-Asian racism” is a “fact of American life.”

People across the country are raising money to help the families of the victims of the deadly spa shootings in Atlanta, raising more than $2.7 million as of Sunday morning.

Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that it is a “distortion in values” that the Georgia legislature is attempting to eliminate same-day voting registration when you can buy a gun and fire it on the same day.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that the “epidemic of violence against Asians is horrible and we have to do something about it,” and the Atlanta shootings are likely not a part of that. Maher

Actress Olivia Munn said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office Captain Jay Baker was “racist” and should be fired for his comments about the shootings at Atlanta-area spas, killing eight people.

Actress Julianne Moore responded to the March 16, 2021, Atlanta shootings by pushing for passage of background check gun control. The Atlanta shooting suspect reportedly bought his gun at retail, which means a background check for the gun sale was part of the process.

Shannon Lee, the daughter of the late martial arts star Bruce Lee, is blaming the Atlanta mass shootings on the term “kung flu,” claiming without evidence that the words lead to “fear and contempt” and inevitably to acts of violence.

New York Magazine reacted to the Tuesday shootings in Atlanta by wondering aloud if the heinous acts would put gun control over the top.

Representative Judy Chu (D-CA) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “All In” that the three shootings at Atlanta-area spas, killing eight people, was a “culmination of a whole year’s worth of hate that was stoked by the xenophobia of Donald Trump.”

President Joe Biden avoided connecting the motives of the Atlanta mass shooter to racism on Wednesday, despite Democrats around the country blaming a growing anti-Asian sentiment in the country for the attack.

A report from NBC News notes that the gunman who killed eight people in Atlanta Tuesday used a 9mm handgun that was “purchased legally.” 

Former President Barack Obama on Wednesday urged for an “alarming rise” in anti-Asian violence to come to an end after a white man confessed to killing eight people, six of which were Asian, at massage parlors in Atlanta metro area. 

Eight people are dead and a suspect is in custody after a gunman opened fired in three different Atlanta-area massage parlors. 

Rapper Killer Mike’s Atlanta, Georgia, barbershop was struck by several stray bullets during a shootout last weekend, according to reports.

Entertainment mogul Tyler Perry says he applied for a mail-in ballot for January’s Georgia Senate runoff elections, but it never arrived, and he had to fly back home to vote.

Murder surged in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, New Orleans, and numerous other Democrat-controlled cities during 2020.

As Atlanta, Georgia’s rate of homicides skyrockets to a two-decade high, Democrat Senate candidates Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff have remained silent after previously suggesting their commitment to cutting funds for law enforcement agencies. 

A homeless man risked his life to rescue several cats and dogs trapped inside an Atlanta, Georgia, animal shelter after it caught fire.