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White House backs away from Beijing Olympics boycott after Republicans say it is hypocritical to compete in China after pulling the All-Star game from Georgia The White House backed away from boycotting the Beijing Olympics after a State Department official suggested it was something the U.S. was considering  China accused the United States of 'politicising sports' on Wednesday after the State Department said it would discuss an Olympics boycott with allies Republican have led calls for a boycott of the Olympics over the mass incarceration and indoctrination of more than a million Uyghurs T...

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Issues Administrative Order to Counter Effects of Georgia’s Restrictive New Elections Laws Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is taking steps to diminish the voter restrictions imposed by SB 202, a controversial elections bill signed into Georgia law last month. In an administrative orders issued Tuesday, April 6, Bottoms directed the city’s chief equity officer to implement actions her office says are intended to “to mitigate the impact of new voting restrictions imposed.” “The voting restrictions of SB 202 will disproportionately impact Atlant...

The headline said that Mr. Manfred “politicized baseball over a law he likely hadn’t examined.” MLB moved the Midsummer Classic from Atlanta to Denver spurred by the Democratic outcry over Senate Bill 202, which requires voter registration for absentee ballots and bans electioneering, including passing out food and drinks, within 150 feet of a polling entrance, but also expands early voting. The move came with Democrats decrying the Georgia Election Integrity Act as racist. President Biden has repeatedly compared the measure to the Jim Crow laws of the segregation era. Atlanta, where ne...

  Share Source: AP Photo/Tony Avelar Major League Baseball’s image-driven decision to pull the All-Star game from Georgia could cost the local economy over $100 million, according to one tourism official. In reaction to an election integrity bill recently passed in the Georgia state legislature, the MLB has announced that Truist Park, home of the Atlanta Braves, will no longer host the league’s summer All-Star festivities.  "The 8,000-plus MLB contracted hotel room nights that will not actualize as a result of the MLB All-Star Game relocation will have a negative impact on Cobb's hospi...

The acrimony between Republicans and large companies over Georgia underscores the party’s increasingly fraying relationship with corporate America over social and cultural issues as GOP leaders grapple with the direction of the party after the 2020 election.