ATLANTA — All votes have been counted and President-elect Donald Trump’s clear victory in Georgia is confirmed.

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger certified the election results Friday after two audits and unanimous approval by county election boards across the state.

The final count showed Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris by...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Miles Pfeffer, the man accused of shooting and killing Temple University Police Officer Christopher Fitzgerald in 2023, was stabbed multiple times in the Curran Fromhold Correctional Facility, where he has been held awaiting his murder trial.

Around 6:40 p.m. Thursday, another incarcerated man, Rafael Venegas, ran out his cell ...Read more

NEW YORK — Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan on Friday indefinitely adjourned President-elect Donald Trump’s punishment for covering up a hush money payoff to porn star Stormy Daniels after his first election victory.

In a brief order, the judge confirmed Trump’s sentencing would not go ahead next Tuesday and set a new schedule...Read more

DETROIT — A Midland man was arrested by federal agents this week on charges of sexual exploitation of minors for allegedly paying to watch livestreamed child pornography.

Nathaniel Ray Coady, a former real estate agent in Midland, made an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Bay City on Wednesday after agents with the Department of ...Read more

DETROIT — Police and school officials in Macomb Township are trying to understand how a middle school student was able to obtain a staff communication device to falsely report a shooting.

On Thursday around 1:40 p.m., staff initiated a lockdown after a report someone has been shot in the hallway of Clintondale Middle School, police said in a ...Read more

Officials in blue states are vowing to build a “firewall” of reproductive health protections as they anticipate federal and state attacks on abortion access under the Trump administration.

“We’re going on offense,” Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, a Democrat, told Stateline. “We are in an unprecedented war on American ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The unusual disclosures from two inspectors general at U.S. spy agencies that they are leaving their posts before Inauguration Day are raising concerns among some lawmakers about the independence that national security watchdogs will have in Donald Trump’s second term.

Thomas Monheim, the IG at the Office of the Director of ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump will bring legal baggage to the White House in January, even if he succeeds in pausing or getting rid of the four federal and state criminal indictments against him.

Trump’s reelection is expected to end the two federal cases, given the Justice Department’s policy against prosecuting sitting presidents. His ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Linda McMahon once claimed an unearned education degree from East Carolina University.

Now the New Bern native is nominated to lead President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Education.

Trump announced Tuesday that McMahon, best known as a founder of World Wrestling Entertainment, is nominated to be the next education ...Read more

BALTIMORE — April will mark nine years of state lawmakers pushing to transform education through an overhaul known as the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future. The reform plan includes a wide variety of initiatives, from publicly funding pre-K to attracting high-quality teachers to providing poverty grants for schools with a high share of low-...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Earlier this year, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson cut roughly $1 billion from the state budget, including millions for Kansas City-area highway work, health care and civic groups, frustrating local leaders and lawmakers.

Gov-elect Mike Kehoe will soon confront similar choices.

BoysGrow, which operates a Kansas City-area farm ...Read more

ATLANTA — Donald Trump’s dramatic gains with Latino voters, particularly among Latino men, have emerged as a huge talking point since his election win earlier this month.

But the surge in Latino support for Trump didn’t manifest equally across the electoral map.

Case in point: Latinos in Georgia appeared to have backed the Democratic ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland counties are sharply divided over whether to assist President-elect Donald Trump with what he says will be the largest deportation program in American history.

A Baltimore Sun survey found widely divergent responses to Trump’s proposal — from Harford County’s pledge to “fully support” his efforts to Anne Arundel...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A reputed member of the Mexican Mafia was wounded in a shooting Saturday that left a second man dead in Los Angeles County, authorities said.

At 11 p.m., Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies responded to a Veterans of Foreign Wars hall on Valley View Avenue in La Mirada, where they found two men with gunshot wounds in the ...Read more

More than a decade ago, I spent a week working in Gatineau, a city on the southern edge of Québec, with the Cree Board of Health and Social Services. I was helping train researchers to interview Iiyiyiu elders about traditional birthing knowledge, so they could develop resources for soon-to-be parents and health care workers.

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Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

Crossing the Divide

I developed the idea for this course in 2016 during an Amtrak writing residency program. I spent over two weeks crisscrossing the United States via train while working on my 2021 book ...Read more