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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – Georgia’s top political leaders are speaking out ahead of the first and highly anticipated presidential debate of the 2024 election season.Former President Donald Trump narrowly lost Georgia to President Joe Biden in 2020, but some predict Georgia could be a close race again in November.”Despite our history, I have a vested interest in Georgia staying in Republican hands,” Gov. Brian Kemp said Wednesday.Biden Trump debate coverageKemp said he did not vote for the former president in the primary but would support him in November’s election.Trump and Biden are scheduled to face off in the…
With a five-member Pakistani delegation currently touring power projects in Jammu and Kashmir along with neutral World Bank experts, the BJP on Thursday called for the scrapping of the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) between India and Pakistan. “We hope that the Indian government will intensify efforts to scrap the treaty in the larger interest of the country as a whole and Jammu and Kashmir in particular,” Devender Rana, a senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, said in Jammu.Rana reiterated the BJP’s stand on reviewing the treaty, which was signed under the Indian National Congress government in 1960. “The treaty is…
Zachary Lisacher was the top pick in the 2024 NBA Draft. (Aurélien Meunier/Getty Images)The NBA season ended with the Celtics’ win over the Mavericks, but NBA action continues this week with the 2024 NBA Draft. The Atlanta Hawks took the coveted No. 1 pick this year with their top pick, Frenchman Zachary Lisacher. Fellow Frenchman Alexandre Sarr was selected No. 2 by the Washington Wizards. Are you ready to watch Day 2 of the 2024 NBA Draft? Here’s everything you need to know, including the time, channel, where to stream it, and draft order.How to watch the 2024 NBA Draft:date:…
The U.S. Men’s National Team will return to action in the second match of the 2024 Copa America tournament, taking on Panama on Thursday, June 27 at 6 PM ET at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.In the first match against Bolivia, the U.S. team put in a strong performance, with Christian Pulisic putting the team ahead early and Folarin Balogun scoring in the 44th minute to secure a 2-0 victory. The win was a testament to the team’s unity, with Pulisic, now the face of the national team, leading the team with 30 goals in 69 international appearances.Now, the U.S. Men’s National Team…
China has announced that it has retrieved a submarine-detecting sonar device that the United States allegedly dropped in a disputed area of the South China Sea.An undated video uploaded on Wednesday by “Yuyuan Dantian,” a social media account affiliated with state-run China Central Television, shows what appears to be a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon reconnaissance plane dropping several cylindrical objects.One of the vessels reportedly crashed in waters near Second Thomas Reef in the Spratly Islands, known in Beijing as Ren’ai Reef, the hotly contested site of the current territorial dispute between China and the Philippines and the site of violent…
Nike shoes and logos are seen at a store in Nice, France, on May 28, 2024.Jakub Polzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesSneaker giant Nike now expects its fiscal 2025 sales to decline by a mid-single digit percentage, compared with analysts’ expectations of a 0.9% increase. Nike had previously expected sales to increase. The company also now expects first-half sales to decline by a high-single digit percentage, up from its previous forecast of a low-single digit decline.”A comeback of this magnitude takes time,” the retailer’s chief financial officer, Matthew Friend, said on a conference call with analysts. “The coming quarters will…
Greek domestic politics is currently in a state of quicksand where everyone is threatened, and a lot will depend on how party leaders manage the political situation in the coming weeks. For the first time in recent years, there is growing uncertainty across the ideological spectrum. Within the parties, personal and political attacks are being launched from different directions. Within the government camp, there is the discontent recorded by voters in the European elections, as well as internal conflicts expressed at the highest level by the two former leaders of the New Democracy party, which also served as prime minister…
June 25th has come and gone, summer has just begun and Christmas is less than six months away, which also means that small business owners need to start planning for the holiday season. Small businesses need to start planning now for the all-important holiday shopping season.Getty The importance of holiday shopping for retailers cannot be underestimated. According to a December 2023 survey from American Express, the holiday season is crucial for small businesses in terms of annual profitability. The AMEX Small Business Trendex survey found that two-thirds of small businesses rank the holiday season as important to their overall financial…
The National Hurricane Center is monitoring two areas of the Atlantic Ocean for possible tropical development over the next few days, including a system currently in the Atlantic that could strengthen into the second tropical storm of the season this weekend as it moves toward the Caribbean.Forecasters estimate there’s a 70 percent chance that the disturbance, currently halfway between South America and Africa, will develop into a tropical depression or storm, and weather models are optimistic about its long-term outlook, with some suggesting it could develop into a hurricane as it moves slowly westward toward the Caribbean.Another storm in the…
Investors are doubling down on technology, whether they realize it or not.The annual reconstitution of the Russell Index, a leading benchmark for index funds, will take place after the close of trading on Friday. Russell 3000, well known Russell 2000 Small and medium-sized enterprises Russell 1000 The conglomerate group is set to further increase its exposure to many of the top technology stocks with a presence in the fast-growing artificial intelligence market. According to figures from index provider FTSE Russell, the Magnificent Seven in the technology industry are Microsoft , apple , NVIDIA , alphabet , Amazon , Meta Platform…