Florida’s governor plans to sign an executive order giving election officials in 13 counties greater flexibility in administering early and absentee voting.
The vice president said federal money would play a major role in storm recovery efforts as she met with local officials in Augusta, Ga., and helped hand out food and snacks.
At one facility, the body of an inmate, possibly strangled in his cell, was so decomposed that the coroner concluded he had been dead for two days without being discovered.
Georgia, one of the most important battleground states in the country, finds itself back in the news after Democrats sued the Georgia State Election Board on Monday.
In Valdosta, Ga., Donald Trump made a false claim about President Biden’s responsiveness and demonstrated his long-held instinct to view disaster response through the prism of his personal politics.
The ruling is unlikely to be the final word on abortion access in the state, with the expectation that the case will ultimately be decided by the Georgia Supreme Court.
The president, who plans to travel to North Carolina this week, said he might need to call Congress in for a special session after it did not include additional disaster relief in its spending bill.