The Georgia Star News

September 29, 2023

California Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Longest-Serving Woman in the Senate, Dies at 90

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, longest-serving woman in the Senate, dies at age 90, according to news reports Friday morning. The California Democrat has over the past several months and years struggled with health issues and was planning to retire at the...

September 29, 2023

Fulton County Sheriff’s Office Confirms Ex-Guard Accused of Strangling Detainee Is ‘Biologically a Female,’ Mug Shot Shows Person with Beard and Receding Hairline

The Fulton County Sheriff's Office confirmed to The Georgia Star News that a former guard at the Fulton County Jail, who was charged on Thursday after allegedly strangling a detainee to the point of losing consciousness, is a biologically female...

September 29, 2023

Greater Georgia Partners with the Georgia Center for Civic Engagement to Launch New Voter Registration Contest for High School Students

Greater Georgia, a nonprofit organization focused on voter engagement in the state, announced Thursday it is partnering with the Georgia Center for Civic Engagement to launch a new voter registration contest for high school students across the Peach State.

September 29, 2023

Impeachment Memo: Biden Family Collected $15 Million in Foreign Money, DOJ ‘Obstructed’ Probe

The three House chairmen leading the impeachment inquiry against Joe Biden told fellow lawmakers Wednesday night that the president’s family collected at least $15 million in foreign funds and that there is evidence the Justice Department “obstructed” federal agents from...

September 29, 2023

August Border Encounters of More than 322,000 Highest Monthly Total in U.S. History

Total encounters reported at both the northern and southwest land borders in August was 304,162, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data. It is the greatest total number of illegal entries of any month in recorded U.S. history, according to...

September 29, 2023

Retailers Lost Billions of Dollars to Shoplifters in 2022, Survey Shows

Retailers lost more than $112 billion to crime in 2022, a roughly 19% increase in losses from 2021, a survey from the National Retail Federation (NRF) and the Loss Prevention Research Council found. At least 28% of businesses who responded...

September 29, 2023

Georgia GOP Chairman Josh McKoon Appoints Dennis Futch to Chair New Initiative, Serve as Vice Chair of the Finance Committee

Chairman of the Georgia Republican Party (GAGOP) Josh McKoon recently announced his appointment of Dennis Futch to serve as vice chairman of the GAGOP Finance Committee and chairman of a new initiative launched by the party. “As we remain laser...

September 29, 2023

Commentary: ‘High Election Worker Turnover’ Is the Left’s Newest Ploy to Federalize Elections

There’s a crisis in American democracy, all right, and the Left created it. Last week, Democrats fired the latest salvo in a long war to radically transform American elections by eroding state and local control, replacing ballot-counters with a centralized,...

September 29, 2023

Georgia Senate GOP Caucus Votes to Remove State Senator Who Wants to Defund, Impeach Fani Willis

The Georgia Senate Republican Caucus voted on Thursday to oust State Senator Colton Moore (R-Trenton) after he circulated a legislative petition calling for a special session to impeach or defund Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and sent activists to...

September 29, 2023

Senate Unanimously Approves Suit-and-Tie Dress Code

The Senate unanimously approved a suit-and-tie dress code in a resolution that came a week and a half after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that the decades-old unofficial policy would be relaxed. Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney and West Virginia...

September 29, 2023

CCP-Linked TikTok’s Personnel Can Allegedly Access Politicians’ Private Networks: Report

TikTok and its Beijing-based parent company ByteDance’s personnel can allegedly view the private connections of a vast array of politicians, Forbes reported on Wednesday. TikTok has a social graph tool that reveals connections of individuals including members of President Joe...

September 29, 2023

Commentary: The Answer to American Electric Grid Reliability Is Fuel Cells

In 1932, Americans were doggedly trudging through year three of the Great Depression when a candidate for president spoke of “the human importance of electric power in our present social order … It lights our homes, our places of work...

September 29, 2023

CIA Creates Its Own Version of ChatGPT to Rival Chinese AI

Amid the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has developed its own AI tool in the same vein as ChatGPT, in an effort to combat the Chinese military’s AI advances. As Just The News reports, the CIA plans...

September 28, 2023

Comer at First Impeachment Hearing: Biden’s Home Listed as ‘Beneficiary Address’ for Hunter Payment

The first impeachment inquiry hearing of President Joe Biden is underway on Thursday in the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. During the hearing, Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, a Kentucky Republican, said Biden "abused" his public office for his...

September 28, 2023

Second GOP Presidential Debate Turns Into a Rhetorical Brawl as Candidates Jockey for Position in Trump-Dominated Race

In a second GOP presidential debate that often seemed more like a disorderly reality TV show, the Babylon Bee’s satirical news headline may have best captured the mood of viewers: ‘Mute Button’ Wins GOP Debate.

September 28, 2023

America First Legal Asks Education Department to Investigate Alleged Georgia Tech Discrimination Against Men

Conservative litigation group America First Legal (AFL) asked for a federal investigation into the Georgia Institute of Technology, better known as Georgia Tech, over alleged discrimination against men in its new Rising Stars program that only accepts students who are...

September 28, 2023

Number of Illegal Migrants in Border Patrol Custody Surges to New High

The number of illegal migrants in Border Patrol custody nationwide surpassed 22,000 on Tuesday evening, according to internal Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Border Patrol across all sectors had almost 17,000...

September 28, 2023

TikTok Employees Raise Concern over CCP Influence as China Execs Move In

Some employees at the popular social media platform TikTok are concerned about the influence the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has on the company as executives from its parent, ByteDance, take on new positions, according to The Wall Street Journal. A...

September 28, 2023

Anti-Trump Lawyer Slams ‘Unnecessary’ and ‘Partisan’ Indictments from Fani Willis

A lawyer and author renowned for his critiques of former President Donald Trump publicly criticized Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her case against the former president, calling it "unnecessary" and "partisan" in a podcast appearance on Tuesday. Elie...

September 28, 2023

Commentary: It’s Time for President Biden to Lead on Securing Our Borders

Here is the headline that could have dominated the news two months ago – on July 25, 2023 – but didn’t: “President Biden announces new rule to secure borders – will appeal federal court decision overturning it, if necessary all...

September 28, 2023

AGs Ask Supreme Court to Overrule Restrictions on Enforcing Homeless Camping Bans

A group of 20 attorneys general want the U.S. Supreme Court to overrule a lower court's restrictions on local governments enforcing homeless camping bans. In their petition regarding Johnson v. City of Grants Pass, the attorneys general wrote that the...

September 28, 2023

DHS Stonewalls on Legal Basis for Policing ‘Misinformation, Disinformation, Malinformation’

The Department of Homeland Security is not only hiding the purported legal basis for its authority to police misinformation, disinformation and malinformation – the latter sometimes jeered as "true but inconvenient" – but also any explanation for invoking an unexpected Freedom...

September 28, 2023

Report: Dr. Fauci ‘Played a Role’ in the CIA’s Cover-Up of COVID-19 Lab-Leak Origins

During the early days of the pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci was secretly “escorted” to CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., where he worked to “influence” the agency’s investigation into the origins of COVID-19, according to new information gathered by the Republican-led...

September 28, 2023

Commentary: Biden’s Margin of Error Is Gone

Comparing current polling to 2020’s results, President Joe Biden cannot win reelection in 2024. To win in 2020, Biden had to roll up a big popular-vote margin to squeak to victory in the Electoral College. If current polls are correct, or...

September 28, 2023

FBI Refuses to Release Documents in Probe into Possible Nationwide Voter Registration Fraud

The FBI took over a 2020 probe into voter registration fraud that began in Michigan but has denied a Freedom of Information Act request regarding the investigation, citing an exemption in that law regarding ongoing investigations. According to the dozens of pages of police...

September 27, 2023

Tucker Carlson Interviews Bill O’Reilly in Latest Episode of ‘Tucker on X’

In episode 26 of his newest production, “Tucker on X,” Tucker Carlson sat down with former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly.

September 27, 2023

‘A Hit Job on Michigan and on Detroit’: Trump Calls Biden EV Push a ‘Government Assassination’ of Auto Jobs

Former President Donald Trump ripped President Joe Biden’s push for electric vehicles, calling it a “hit job” on Detroit and the auto industry.

September 27, 2023

District Attorney Fani Willis Tells Atlanta Hip Hop Festival She’s Been ‘Threatened’ over Trump, Young Thug

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) told the audience at the Atlanta-based hip hop festival, Revolt World, that she and members of her family have received threats as a result of her office's prosecutions of former President Donald Trump...

September 27, 2023

U.S. Regulators Sue Amazon for Allegedly Inflating Prices Through Monopoly

The Federal Trade Commission and 17 state attorneys general sued Amazon on Tuesday for allegedly using its power as a monopoly to illegally block competition and inflate prices. "The complaint alleges that Amazon violates the law not because it is...

September 27, 2023

Nearly Half of Homeschool Parents Cite ‘Liberal’ Public Schools as Motivating Factor: Poll

Almost half of parents turning to homeschooling today say they are concerned about their children being “influenced by liberal viewpoints,” according to a Washington Post and George Mason University poll released Tuesday. The number of American families that are homeschooling...