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Stacey Abrams Launches Second Campaign to Become Georgia’s Governor—and the First Black Woman to Hold the Office

(ATLANTA) — Stacey Abrams, the Georgia Democrat and leading voting rights activist, said Wednesday that she will launch another campaign to become the nation’s first Black woman governor. Without serious competition in a Democratic primary, the announcement sets up a

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Stacey Abrams launches 2nd campaign for Georgia governor

The 47-year-old Abrams was a state lawmaker with little profile outside Georgia when she stepped in to the 2018 race, looking to become the state’s first Black and first female governor.

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Women’s Tennis Association suspends tournaments in China over concern about Peng Shuai

WTA Chairman Steve Simon said he is “greatly concerned” about the risks players and staff would face after the treatment of tennis star Peng, who says she was sexually assaulted by a Chinese official. (Image credit: Michael Owens/AP)

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Supreme Court Signals It’s Ready to Limit Abortion at Historic Arguments

The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed ready to uphold a Mississippi law that bars abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, a move that would significantly curtail the right to abortion in the United States. The law in question directly contradicts

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Trump sold his Beverly Hills mansion for twice its value to an Indonesian media baron he was in business with: Book

Among the many things that David Cay Johnston ties together from former President Donald Trump’s finances, is the strange profit he was able to obtain for his Beverly Hills mansion where he had the affair with adult film star Stormy

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WATCH LIVE: Biden and Harris attend a White House menorah lighting in celebration of Hanukkah

President Joe Biden’s staff has dispatched invitations to a “Menorah Lighting to be held at the White House” on Dec. 1, the evening when the fourth candle of the eight-day festival of Hanukkah will be lit.

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Trump biographer details how being elected to the presidency made it hard for him to conduct ‘business as usual’

Biographer of former President Donald Trump, David Cay Johnston, wrote in his new book that the kind of business practices in the Trump Org. couldn’t exactly happen under the radar if he was the president. “Maintaining such long-term business relationships

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The mystery of where omicron came from — and why it matters

How did this new strain of the novel coronavirus evolve? Researchers are investigating various possibilities. One leading theory involves … just one person. (Image credit: Uma Shankar sharma/Getty Images)

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WTA suspends tournaments in China over concerns for tennis star Peng Shuai’s safety

All WTA tournaments have been suspended in China over concerns for the safety of player Peng Shuai.

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First confirmed US case of Omicron coronavirus variant detected in California – CNN

First confirmed US case of Omicron coronavirus variant detected in California  CNN 1st confirmed U.S. case of Omicron variant detected in California  Yahoo News First Omicron case detected in U.S. addressed at White House press briefing  CBS News CDC confirms first U.S. case

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