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A Quitman County, Ga. man could spend the next decade in prison after pleading guilty to making false threats against schools in east Alabama and west Georgia.

If the protests had driven an explosion in cases, experts say, the jumps would have started to become apparent within two weeks.

The ceremony will be held at the state capitol at 3:00 p.m.

The run-up in cases — blamed in part on “knucklehead behavior” by Americans not wearing masks or obeying other social-distancing rules — has raised fears that many states could see the same phenomenon if they reopen too,

Dr. Michael Saag, an infectious disease doctor at UAB, believes Governor Kay Ivey should have taken a few steps back Tuesday in order to get the current coronavirus situation under control.

U.S. companies added nearly 2.4 million jobs in June, according to a private survey, a large gain that still leaves total employment far below its pre-pandemic levels.

Boston’s arts commission voted unanimously Tuesday night to remove a statue that depicts a freed slave kneeling at Abraham Lincoln’s feet.

Federal authorities in New York on Wednesday seized a shipment of weaves and other beauty accessories suspected to be made out of human hair taken from people locked inside a Chinese internment camp.

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and Department of Public Health officials are making a stop in the Fountain City on their “Wear a Mask” Tour.

The Senate Armed Services Committee approved Warren’s measure to force the bases to be renamed within three years by a voice vote last month.