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President Trump said Wednesday that he is endorsing Clay Fuller in a special election for former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) seat in Georgia’s 14th congressional district. “As District Attorney for the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit, and Air National Guard Officer, Clay knows the Wisdom and Courage required to Defend our Country, Support our Brave Military/Veterans, and Ensure PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post, offering Fuller his “Complete and Total” endorsement.

A surprise new candidate has entered Georgia's 2026 governor's race, and he's bringing serious money with him. Here's everything Georgians should know. Who is Rick Jackson? Rick Jackson, 71, a Republican health care executive and billionaire founder of Jackson Healthcare, formally announced his candidacy for governor on Tuesday, Feb. 3, immediately shaking up the GOP primary field. Jackson Healthcare, based in Alpharetta, has grown into one of Georgia’s largest health care staffing firms. Jackson’s business profile and financial success have helped make him a well‑known figure in both the state's business community and Republican donor circles. According to the AJC,...

A former Atlanta Housing Authority executive pleaded guilty Monday in a federal court to collecting more than $300,000 in federal housing and pandemic funds. Channel 2 Investigative Reporter Ashli Lincoln was in the courtroom as former senior vice president Tracy Jones pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit theft of government funds, wire fraud and credit application fraud. She could face more than 20 years in prison. Jones spoke softly, answering mostly yes-or-no questions. In the end, she told the judge she agreed with the facts laid out in a 16-page plea agreement and told the court she was guilty of...

Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard detailed her ongoing election security assessment in a letter to congressional lawmakers Monday, saying President Donald Trump "specifically directed" her to be present for the execution of a search warrant in Fulton County, Georgia, last week as part of the probe. Gabbard sent a letter, exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital, addressed to Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chair Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., and House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn. The letter was also sent to House and Senate leadership, as well as GOP leadership on both committees. The letter is...

An official in Fulton County, Georgia, has announced the county will challenge the legality of the FBI’s search and seizure of 2020 election records. Commissioner Marvin Arrington Jr. said the effort will seek to “force the government to return the ballots taken.” Arrington said that the county’s attorneys are expected to file a motion in federal court in the Northern District of Georgia to fight the action of Trump’s Justice Department and the FBI. The FBI served a warrant last Wednesday at the Fulton County election office, near Atlanta, Georgia, taking 700 boxes of election materials as it probes alleged...

ATLANTA (AP) — A third Georgia lawmaker has been accused of lying to collect federal unemployment benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic. Federal prosecutors announced Friday they were charging state Rep. Dexter Sharper, a Valdosta Democrat, with making false statements to collect $13,825 in unemployment benefits. It’s the latest example of a growing wave of charges against Georgia lawmakers that U.S. Attorney Theodore Hertzberg warned of in December. Prosecutors allege Sharper, who represents a South Georgia district, indicated in his application for benefits that he was employed only by his party rental business but hadn’t worked there since March 13, 2020....

The illegal alien convicted of killing nursing student Laken Riley is seeking a new trial — evoking an uncomfortable flashback to the brutal homicide that helped drive the illegal immigration debate and led to a federal law named after his victim. Jose Antonio Ibarra, a Venezuelan, is serving life in prison without the possibility of parole. He was set to appear Friday in Athens-Clarke County Superior Court in Georgia, where post-conviction attorneys will present arguments requesting a new trial. Judge Patrick Haggard, who handled the original case and sentenced Ibarra, will hear the motion. Such a motion is typically the...

A contest to determine the most smug, contemptuous, repellent female Democrat would feature too many entrants to count. Nonetheless, Dana Barrett, a Democrat serving as commissioner in Fulton County, Georgia, has made a case for herself. In a video recorded Wednesday outside the Fulton County elections office and then posted to the social media platform X, Barrett tried desperately to evade independent journalist David Khait, who was asking her about cleaning up the state’s corrupted voter rolls.

WASHINGTON — When President Donald Trump watched a live feed of the U.S. military operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, was not in the room. Just two days earlier, she had posted photos of herself on a beach in Hawaii at sunset practicing yoga, sending out a new year’s greeting for “peace.”That she appeared to be on vacation in the run-up to such a high-stakes, ultra-sensitive military operation seemed to underscore the extent to which she has been sidelined by the administration.But there she was on Wednesday, at an election center in...

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents executed a search warrant at Fulton County's elections office in Georgia on Wednesday. We're now getting a glimpse of what was targeted and what was seized in a search reportedly related to the 2020 presidential election.The search warrant included a list of "particular things" that were to be seized during the raid. The document specifies that "all physical ballots from the 2020 general election," ballot images, tabulator tapes, and "all voter rolls" are to be targeted.The warrant, signed by federal magistrate judge Catherine Salinas, states that an affidavit from a special agent about "concealed"...

FBI agents executed a court-authorized search warrant on Wednesday at a Fulton County, Georgia, election facility, investigating a state that was at the center of voter fraud complaints and election litigation following the 2020 presidential election. Agents were seen entering the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center at 5600 Campbellton Fairburn Road in southwest Atlanta. The facility, which opened in 2023, was designed to consolidate and streamline the county’s election operations. “Yes, I can confirm FBI Atlanta is executing a court-authorized law enforcement action at 5600 Campleton Fairburn Rd.,” an FBI Atlanta spokesperson told the Washington Examiner. “Our investigation...

FBI agents were seen Wednesday carrying out a search at an election hub in Fulton County, Georgia, a location that became ground zero for concerns and complaints about voter fraud beginning in 2020. Agents were seen entering the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center, a new facility that state officials opened in 2023 that was designed to streamline their election processes. It was not immediately clear what the FBI agents were investigating, but Fox News Digital is told the probe is related to the 2020 election. The bureau said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital that FBI...

A Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen franchisee that operates more than 130 locations filed for bankruptcy to rightsize itself after facing mounting debt. Sailormen Inc., a Miami-based franchisee that operates locations in Florida and Georgia, filed for bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida, according to its legal counsel. The company, represented by Cole Schotz, is attempting to renegotiate or resolve the $129 million that it owes to lenders so it can emerge as a healthier franchisee. The company blamed "various macroeconomic factors" for disrupting the business and forcing it to file for bankruptcy protection. "Those...

Attallah Williams is accused of using her roles at the SBA and IRS to bypass security checks and approve $3.5 million in fraudulent COVID-19 relief. The suspect allegedly used Instagram to recruit "accomplices" who submitted fake business applications for a share of the stolen funds. Williams faces federal charges for conspiracy to defraud the government following a multi-year investigation. ATLANTA - A Henry County woman has been charged with stealing millions in COVID-19 pandemic relief funds through an elaborate insider fraud scheme. What we know Attallah Williams, 32, of Hampton, was arrested and arraigned in federal court on charges of...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The killing of a Minnesota woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer is reverberating across Capitol Hill where Democrats, and certain Republicans, are vowing an assertive response as President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation operations spark protests nationwide.Lawmakers are demanding a range of actions, from a full investigation into Renee Good’s shooting death and policy changes over law enforcement raids to the defunding of ICE operations and the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, in what is fast becoming an inflection point.“The situation that took place in Minnesota is a complete and total disgrace,” House Democratic...

ATLANTA — President Donald Trump has filed a motion in Fulton County Superior Court asking to be reimbursed for more than $6.2 million in attorneys’ fees from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Prosecutor Pete Skandalakis announced in November that he would not pursue charges against the president or more than a dozen of his allies. Skandalakis, who heads the state’s non-partisan Prosecuting Attorneys Council, took charge of the case on Nov. 14. Willis was removed from the case after a romantic relationship with her special prosecutor was revealed.

STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. — A second Georgia lawmaker has been charged with defrauding taxpayers by receiving pandemic unemployment assistance that she was not entitled to. A federal grand jury indicted State Rep. Karen Bennett (D-Stone Mountain) on Monday. Prosecutors say she received $13,940 for her in-home physical therapy company, Metro Therapy Providers, which she says could not operate during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, investigators say the company was only briefly closed, and remained open through the majority of the pandemic. On her application, Bennett only reported receiving income from Metro Therapy and the Georgia General Assembly. But she failed to...

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — An Uber driver was shot in the back and killed early New Year’s morning in what police say was a carjacking by a 15-year-old suspect. 58-year-old Cesar Tejada, of Grayson, a father of two, picked up Christian Simmons on Rangewood Drive in Lilburn around 4 a.m. on Thursday, according to Lawrenceville Police. Simmons requested a ride to Groveland Parkway in Lawrenceville. Surveillance video captured Tejada’s black SUV in the neighborhood just before the shooting. According to the arrest warrant, Simmons exited the back seat and shot Tejada in the back. Tejada’s body was left in the...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) did not leave Washington as a martyr to principle. She left as a case study in how rank opportunism masquerades as populism, and how loudly proclaimed integrity can coexist with some of the most cynical behavior the D.C. swamp has on offer. Greene entered Congress in January 2021, branding herself as a sworn enemy of the political class, promising to drain the swamp and to stand shoulder to shoulder with working Americans. Five years later, she timed her exit to meet the minimum service threshold for securing a taxpayer-funded congressional pension. That benefit was locked...

More than $1 million worth of illegal drugs, including a large amount of fentanyl, has been taken off metro Atlanta streets after a months-long investigation that led to 10 arrests, authorities said. Investigators with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation's Northwest Georgia Drug Task Force, working alongside the FBI's Atlanta and Cartersville offices, executed multiple search warrants on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. The searches uncovered a large amount of illegal drugs, weapons and cash tied to drug trafficking impacting several Georgia counties. Authorities seized around 8.2 kilograms of suspected fentanyl, along with about 3 ounces each of suspected heroin and cocaine....