Originally published by The 19th: Your trusted source for contextualizing Election 2024 news. President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him as the Democratic nominee on Sunday, 3-1/2 months out from Election Day on Nov. 5.ย Itโs unusual for a presidential candidate and presumptive nominee to drop out so soon before the election. But itโs not totally unprecedented in history and doesnโt necessarily spell chaos for how the 2024 election will be run and administered, election experts said Sunday.ย โA major partyโs presumptive nominee stepping down months before Election Day is…
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(The Hill) – When Brittany Mahomes, the co-owner of a professional soccer team and the wife of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, liked an Instagram post from former President Trump last month, a debate quickly picked up on social media about her game day-pal, Taylor Swift.ย How could Swift — who had endorsed Joe Biden in 2020 — be friends with someone who backs Trump? Mahomes eventually unliked the Instagram post amid the backlash. But she took to the social media site in the immediate aftermath to post a message seemingly addressing the controversy: โTo be a hater as…
NEW YORK (AP) โ Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor’s earliest return to New York’s lineup from a back injury likely is Tuesday night’s series opener at the Atlanta Braves. Lindor missed five straight games entering Saturday and had played only one inning in the past seven games. Mets manager Carlos Mendoza said Lindor felt better Saturday and hoped to run sprints, hit and take ground balls. Lindor received a numbing injection on Thursday for the facet joints on each side of the spine. Local Georgia team gives home schooled kids the chance to play varsity football Mendoza said he envisioned Lindor…
(The Hill) – A health advocacy group is launching a first-of-its-kind voting campaign to organize and engage people who are impacted by medical debt. ย The effort by Community Catalyst will launch with ads in key battleground states following the presidential debate on Tuesday night, according to plans shared first with The Hill. The campaign called โI Am A Medical Debt Voterโ will center around the stories of people impacted by the medical debt crisis, as well as medical debt resources and tools, through paid media, digital organizing, and in-person events in key states, the organization said. โNever before has anyone…
UNITED NATIONS (AP) โ The U.N. General Assembly adopted a โPact for the Futureโ to meet the challenges of the 21st century. Now comes the hard part: uniting the worldโs divided nations to move quickly to implement the agreement’s 56 actions. As Czech President Petr Pavel put it Monday at the summit meeting surrounding the pact: โOur work begins at home.โ The 193-member world body approved the pact Sunday. The document is meant to link nations in tackling challenges ranging from climate change and artificial intelligence to escalating conflicts and increasing inequality and poverty โ and improve the lives of…
Clarification: This article was updated on July 23, 2024 at 3:58 p.m. to clarify how Georgiaโs two main political parties qualify candidates for local and state races.Keith Padgett is no political novice.The south Savannah Republican, the partyโs candidate for the District 162 state House seat held by Democrat Carl Gilliard, ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the school board two years ago.Heโs active in the Chatham County Republican Party and 1st vice president of the Southeast Georgia Republican Assembly (SEGRA), an ultraconservative GOP faction.Yet in a recent fundraising letter to local Republicans, the 38-year-old Padgett misstates both state and federal…
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Commissioner Allison Clements | www.ferc.gov Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Commissioner Allison Clements | www.ferc.gov There were three gas stations in cities across Charlton County selling midgrade gas at the lowest price of $3.39 per gallon in the week ending Sept. 14, according to customer reports submitted to GasBuddy.com. The average reported cost of midgrade gas in cities within Charlton County was $3.42 per gallon. Of the 12 reported gas stations in cities within Charlton County, four offer midgrade gas. The average reported price of midgrade gas in Georgia was $3.37, compared to $3.46 the…
The defending champion Las Vegas Aces and Aโja Wilson will look to threepeat while sensation rookie Caitlin Clark makes her postseason debut when the WNBA playoffs begin Sunday. Those are just two of the storylines to follow when the leagueโs postseason tips off. This is the third straight postseason the league will use a best-of-three format in the first round with the better seeded team hosting the first two games. A decisive third game would be played at the home of the lower-seeded team. Many players and coaches weren’t thrilled with the format especially now that the league provided charters…
(NewsNation) โ Mammogram providers are now federally required to tell their patients about their breast density, which not only increases the risk of cancer but makes it harder to detect. The new U.S. Food and Drug Administration standards for the procedure were first released in March 2023, with an implementation deadline of Sept. 9, 2024. According to the FDA, around half of women 40 or older in the United States have dense breast tissue. “Dense breast tissue can make cancers more difficult to detect on a mammogram. Additionally, dense breasts have been identified as a risk factor for developing breast…
The co-founder of the company that owned the experimental submersible that imploded en route to the wreckage of the Titanic told a Coast Guard panel Monday he hoped the silver lining of the disaster would be that it inspires a renewed interest in exploration, including the deepest waters of the world’s oceans. โThis canโt be the end of deep ocean exploration. This canโt be the end of deep-diving submersibles and I donโt believe that it will be,โ said businessman Guillermo Sohnlein, who helped found OceanGate with Stockton Rush. Sohnlein ultimately left the company before the Titan disaster in June 2023.…