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The Table is a campus ministry that serves about a hundred University of Georgia students. On March 28th, the Table will accept donated firearms during an event called Guns2Gardens.
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TedxUGA is an annual event dedicated to the exchange of ideas in the University of Georgia and Athens communities. Mary Rathbone is an Athens resident who will speak at this year’s event on March 27th.
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The demolition of Legion Pool got underway on Thursday. The University System of Georgia approved the plan in January.
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Ryan Millsap, a Georgia film executive, announced that he will run for United States Congress in a video posted to his social media and campaign website on Wednesday.
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A bill that would allow homeowners to sue for losses due to homelessness is heading to the state Senate.
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In her new book, Darkology, historian Rhae Lynn Barnes writes about how blackface and minstrel shows became one of the most popular forms of entertainment in 19th- and 20th-century America.
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Two men have been charged with allegedly providing support to a foreign terrorism organization and using a weapon of mass destruction. New York City NYPD Commissioner says the explosive devices "could have caused serious injury or death."
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A new lawsuit accuses the administration of violating the First Amendment by threatening the visas of researchers for work on disinformation and content moderation of social media.
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The Taliban has released a video of an interrogation of a girl who passed as a boy. It's an age-old practice in this patriarchal society but now appears to be happening with some frequency.
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