Patrick Saunders
Supervising Digital News Editor at WABE-FM (Atlanta, GA)
Supervising Digital News Editor for Atlanta NPR Affiliate @wabenews | Past: @projectqatlanta @thegavoice | Atlanta Native | [email protected] | he/him 🏳️🌈
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wabe.org | Patrick Saunders
It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The resulting Juneteenth holiday — its name combining “June” and “nineteenth” — has only grown in one-and-a-half centuries. In 2021, President Joe Biden designated it a federal holiday — expanding its recognition beyond Black America.
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wabe.org | Patrick Saunders
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia man accused of leaving threatening voicemails for two Republican U.S. senators appeared in federal court to face charges Monday. Robert Davis Forney, 25, of Duluth, Georgia, was arraigned in Atlanta on two federal counts of communicating threats in interstate commerce, according to court records. A grand jury indicted him last week.
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wabe.org | Patrick Saunders
Thousands of demonstrators marched in cities throughout Coastal Georgia Saturday in protest of the Trump administration’s policies. The “No Kings” gatherings nationwide were part of a mass mobilization effort timed for the same day as a military parade planned for Washington, D.C., to honor Flag Day, the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army, and the president’s birthday.
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wabe.org | Patrick Saunders
All 50 states as well as the District of Columbia and U.S. territories have approved a $7.4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma, maker of Oxycontin, over the company’s improper marketing of opioids. The deal was filed with a federal bankruptcy court by Purdue Pharma officials in March after negotiations with state attorneys general and other stakeholders. If this plan is finalized, payouts will occur over the next 15 years.
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wabe.org | Patrick Saunders
A rally to protest President Donald Trump’s policies took place on Saturday morning in downtown Atlanta, one of dozens planned across the state and hundreds more taking place nationwide. Thousands of people crowded into Liberty Plaza across the street from the state Capitol. “I feel it’s my patriotic duty to be here this morning,” protester Ann Clay Adams told WABE.
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