Federal prosecutors charged more than 40 Georgians with participating in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. President Donald Trump granted clemency to all of them.
A retired Columbus lawmaker is received a high honor from his former Colleagues on Tuesday afternoon in Atlanta. That service was honored when Smyre’s portrait was
Andrew Clyde posted a video online from inside the Capitol calling this an incredible ... as the 47th President and 50th Vice President of the United States!" Opioid crisis:University of Georgia gets $1.2 million grant from opioid settlement.
A Georgia state senator who was previously banned from the state House chamber has been arrested after he tried to enter the chamber for the governor’s state of the state speech.
Defendants from Georgia in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot have received full pardons from President Donald Trump.
A right-wing Republican state senator was arrested Thursday morning while attempting to enter the House chambers to attend the State of the State address by GOP Gov. Brian Kemp. Controversial Trenton legislator Colton Moore was handcuffed and removed from the Capitol by state police following an altercation with staff members and law enforcement as Moore
The Democratic Party has so far been splintered in responding to President Donald Trump’s push against illegal immigration.
Donald Trump took the presidential oath of office for the second time Monday during an inauguration ceremony inside the U.S. Capitol rotunda. The swearing-in marked the culmination of a four-year journey for Trump,
Senators Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) and Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) introduced a resolution on Monday condemning pardons granted to individuals convicted of assaulting law enforcement officers Jan. 6.
Retired state Rep. Calvin Smyre of Columbus poses next to his portrait before it was hung in the Georgia Capitol. Columbus artist Steven Tette painted the oil-on-canvas portrait. Moments later, he helped pull the cover off the portrait, which hangs next to a passage to the chamber.
President Donald Trump codified the bill named after a Georgia woman who was killed by an undocumented Venezuelan immigrant in February of 2024.
The Laken Riley Act requires federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to arrest, detain and deport illegal immigrants who commit nonviolent crimes including theft, burglary, larceny or shoplifting.