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Georgia committee discusses physician-assisted death for terminally ill patients
For Jennifer Bullard, the decision to seek a physician-assisted death was not an act of wanting to die but of taking control over how and when she died, said Bullard's sister, Jamie McNeil.
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CDC director vows to restore trust in agency after shooting, latest layoffs
Newly appointed Director Susan Monarez voiced support for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workers in a media event nearly two weeks after a shooting at the agency's Atlanta headquarters.
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Blue states that sued kept most CDC grants, while red states feel brunt of Trump clawbacks
The Trump administration's cuts to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funding for state and local health departments had vastly uneven effects depending on the political leanings of a state, according to a KFF Health News analysis.
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Aerospace is a top Georgia industry. A new group plans to keep it that way.
From military cargo planes and crop dusters to Gulfstream jets, hypersonic aircraft and future air taxis, they're all made or developed in Georgia as part of the state's sprawling mix of aerospace companies.
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Former President Jimmy Carter to be honored by USPS with commemorative Forever stamp
The late President Jimmy Carter will be honored with a commemorative Forever stamp on what would have been his 101st birthday.
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Man fired 180 shots, breaking 150 windows, in CDC attack
The man who attacked the CDC headquarters in Atlanta on Friday fired more than 180 shots into the campus and broke about 150 windows, with bullets piercing "blast-resistant" windows and spattering glass shards into numerous rooms, according to information circulated internally at the agency.
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Georgia lawmakers to return this winter to Capitol chambers refreshed with 19th century details
Lawmakers may be gone, but work is still being accomplished underneath Georgia's Gold Dome this summer. With legislators away, architects have started to give both the House and Senate chambers a makeover.
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Georgia authorities identify suspect in CDC shooting as a 30-year-old man from suburban Atlanta
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has identified the man who opened fire at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as 30-year-old Patrick Joseph White of Kennesaw, Georgia.
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Suspected gunman and police officer dead in shooting near the CDC and Emory University, police say
A man opened fire outside the headquarters of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta on Friday, leaving bullet marks in windows across the sprawling campus and killing a police officer before he was found dead in a nearby building, authorities said.
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English proficiency rules spark concern among foreign-born truckers
Khadar Hassan sat down at a Clarkston restaurant for his favorite meal of rice and goat meat, recouping his energy before an overnight drive to Baltimore.
