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By Rich McKay
ATLANTA (Reuters) -Georgia overhauled a Civil War-era law Wednesday that allowed residents to arrest anyone they suspected of committing a crime - a citizens arrest law invoked by the defense of the three men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery last year.
The Arbery case garnered international outrage with civil rights activists saying it marked yet another example of a targeted attack on Black man.
The Georgia General Assembly approved the bill across party lines by wide margins in both the House and Senate, and now it is headed to Republican Governor Brian Kemp, who has said he will sign it.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he would support moving MLB's July All-Star Game from Atlanta as a protest agai.
Rubio Faults Delta on China After CEO Critiques Georgia Law Bloomberg 2 hrs ago Kathleen Miller
(Bloomberg) Republican Senator Marco Rubio urged Delta Air Lines to speak out on China’s “ongoing genocide,” after the company’s CEO Ed Bastian said in a note to employees that Georgia’s new voting law “does not match Delta’s values.”
“You are business partners with the Communist Party of #China,” Rubio said in a tweet early Thursday addressed to Delta. “When can we expect your letter saying that their ongoing genocide in #Xinjiang is ‘unacceptable and does not match Delta’s values’???”