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Atlanta Bites: New menu items, new restaurants & special event | July 2025
Zaxby's now offering a lemon pepper dry rub. Photo courtesy of Zaxby's ATLANTA - Here is the latest information about Fourth of July dining deals, special foodie events, new menu items, new restaurants, and more in the metro Atlanta area. Special...

Georgia Republicans back Trump tax bill despite deep cuts to programs
To finance a portion of the bill’s cost, the legislation slashes $1 trillion from Medicaid and cuts the federal food stamp program. Roughly 310,000 Georgians could lose insurance under the bill, according to a forecast by the health research...

GOP's new landmark bill forces states to pay for costly food stamp errors
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, reacts to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries' criticism of the 'big, beautiful bill' and the secretary of agriculture's remarks on migrant farm workers possibly facing deportation. Republicans' One Big Beautiful Bill...

FESTIVAL: 4th Annual Jazz, Health And Food Truck Festival 2025 In Orange New Jersey on July 12
We are setting the stage for an unforgettable day at Monte Irvin Orange Park— the 4th Annual Food Truck and Jazz Festival 2025 is going to be the best one yet! With the City of Orange rolling out a mouthwatering fleet of food trucks, Three Doctors...

Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff criticizes passage of 'Big Beautiful Bill,' warns of financial disaster
The Georgia Democrat spoke Tuesday after the U.S. Senate passed President Donald Trump's signature budget legislation. ATLANTA — Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff (D) warned the 'Big Beautiful Bill' will push hospitals and nursing homes to "the financial...

Georgia Senators criticize Senate passage of spending bill
The US Senate passed the budget proposed by Republicans Tuesday. The bill passed along partisan lines, with US Vice President JD Vance casting the tie-breaking vote. Both Democratic Georgia Senators criticized the bill after its passage. Senator...

Buxton’s availability is most important superpower for Twins
MINNEAPOLIS -- For all the evidence that Byron Buxton has had an All-Star season, the supporting statistics start and end with this simple number: 73. That's the total of games in which the Minnesota Twins have had their dynamic center fielder in...

Healthy Returns: What to know about a CDC vaccine panel's votes against a mercury preservative in flu shots
Biostatistician and epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff, MD, PhD, and Dr. Mina Zadeh, ACIP Executive Secretary, CDC, look on as people present their information to members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, as the U.S. Centers for...

Availability is Buxton’s best ability amid All-Star season
Let us read it for you. Listen now. Your browser does not support the audio element. MINNEAPOLIS -- For all the evidence that Byron Buxton has had an All-Star season, the supporting statistics start and end with this simple number: 73. That's the...

Welcome To Plathville’s Moriah Plath reveals ‘extremely hard’ health diagnosis that caused drastic change in appearance
WELCOME To Plathville star Moriah Plath has revealed her ‘extremely hard’ health diagnosis. The reality star took to social media to give a huge update to her fans online. 5 Moriah Plath has given fans an update about her alopeciaCredit:...

Laura Loomer, Trump’s blunt instrument
Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. After her presentation, Trump barked to Waltz, “I want all of them fired.” He dismissed the group and hugged Loomer on her way out. Wong...

Family of man crushed by bulldozer during homeless encampment sweep sues city
ATLANTA (WANF/Gray News) - The family of a man killed during the clearing out of a homeless encampment in Atlanta has filed a civil lawsuit against the city, according to the attorneys representing them. Cornelius Taylor, 46, was unhoused and...

With threats of Medicaid cuts looming, SPLC releases report on necessity of Medicaid expansion in the Deep South
JANS – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has released a report highlighting the urgent need for Medicaid expansion in the Deep South as a pressing matter of racial and disability justice. “At a time when Republicans in Congress and President...

Mental health evaluation ordered for ex-UGA student’s convicted killer
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Jose Ibarra - the man who was convicted of killing a former University of Georgia nursing student and whose trial and conviction set off a national immigration debate during a presidential election year - has...

New book exposes Jill Biden's power grab amid husband's political demise
Fox News' Brooke Singman reports as former Jill Biden aide Anthony Bernal refused to appear at a House hearing investigating former President Biden's decline. Michael LaRosa, former press secretary for Jill Biden, weighs in. NEWYou can now listen...

Bangladesh's LDC graduation: risks & readiness
Bangladesh is at a landmark in the nation’s life—one of jubilation and an invitation to strategic contemplation. Bangladesh. With its anticipated graduation from the United Nations’ List of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) by 2026, the nation is...
Clark Hunt’s 9-year-old relative dies in the Texas floods
Janie Hunt, the 9-year-old cousin of Chiefs owner Clark Hunt, died in the fatal floods in Texas last week. According to the Dallas Morning News, Janie Hunt of Dallas was one of the missing campers from Camp Mystic in the Texas Hill Country. Her...

‘Married to Medicine’ Star Dr. Heavenly Kimes Enters Politics With Bid for Georgia State Legislature
“Married to Medicine” star Dr. Heavenly Kimes is ready to add another title to her résumé, as the popular reality TV star has announced her run to become Georgia State Representative in the state’s 93rd district. “I’m Dr. Heavenly Kimes. A mother....

Atlanta to get Shriners children’s medical research facility
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Bambara’s reincarnation
The moniker “noise rock” has been applied liberally to the New York-via-Georgia trio Bambara — twin brothers Blaze and Reid Bateh, along with William Brookshire — for nearly two decades of their ascendance. But sanding the burrs off their boots...