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16+ min ago (447+ words) As Georgia gears up for its College Football Playoff in teh Allstate Sugar Bowl, which opponent should the Dawgs prefer to face? The Georgia Bulldogs are in the midst of preparing for one of the biggest games of the season, as the team is set to play in the Allstate Sugar Bowl for the College Football Playoff quarterfinals. While the Dawgs are heavily preparing, there is still one major question to be answered about this matchup. Although Georgia knows where and when they will be playing in their next matchup, they do not know their opponent. The Bulldogs were awarded a bye week following their SEC Championship victory, and must await the winner of Tulane and Ole Miss in the first round. While there are only two possibilities for who Georgia's next opponent will be, which of the two teams…...

3+ hour, 35+ min ago (769+ words) COLUMBUS, Ohio " Miami's trip to Texas A&M will be appointment television for coach Ryan Day and his Ohio State football staff. The second-ranked Buckeyes will face either the Hurricanes or Aggies in the College Football Playoff quarterfinals on Dec. 31, giving those in Columbus plenty of reason to tune in for the first-round matchup. What should Day have his eye on in the game? Here are five things worth monitoring Saturday. Ohio State's run to a national title was fueled by two key pieces last year: Jack Sawyer and J.T. Tuimoloau. The defensive end duo made life miserable for opposing quarterbacks, allowing the Buckeyes to win their ninth championship in program history. Miami is built to keep Ohio State from doing that. The Hurricanes rank fourth nationally with a pass blocking grade of 86.2, according to Pro Football Focus. Among quarterbacks with…...

4+ hour, 35+ min ago (275+ words) Georgia Democrats believe they are coming into 2026 with momentum. The party picked up two seats on the Public Service Commission and a special election victory in a Republican-leaning district earlier this month. nehW" yllacitiloP" ew ew ot eht eht ees dias .tsacdop ,ytinutroppo no fo fo evom ",ti ni gniog edosipe riahc era na s'yadseuT ehT ,ytraP s'noitutitsnoC-lanruoJ "aigroeG aigroeG citarcomeD eilrahC ,yeliaB atnaltA ot eht eht kaeps gnitneserper ,tsacdop strap no fo ylwen stsilanruoj detcele .seitnuoc dna dna aicirtaP eenocO yhpruM gerG ,relsiG cirE tarcomeD ekralC nietseulB oslA CJA htiw retov taes nasitrap no tsaehtron woh htlaeh gnisucof deppilf eugitaf .semertxe denialpxe erac yb dna ,ytilibadroffa ssecca a esuoH relsiG aigroeG starcomeD er'eW" I" erehw tnaw ot ot ot eht troppus dnuos .dias thgir nosaer ,ytilaer etiuq evissergorp tniop ro ro ro evitcejbo ym htam ekil tfel .slebal s'ti…...

4+ hour, 35+ min ago (664+ words) This past weekend's massacre in Bondi Beach in Australia and the Oct. 2 attack outside a synagogue in Manchester, England " on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year " were a chilling reminder of how vulnerable Jewish communities remain worldwide. It also brought to mind something closer to home: Georgia's long, layered history of Jewish life, where moments of prejudice were real, but so too were traditions of civic belonging....

5+ hour, 35+ min ago (473+ words) That's because Georgia runs its own ACA marketplace exchange, GeorgiaAccess.gov. About 1.3 million people are enrolled in Georgia Access....

5+ hour, 35+ min ago (599+ words) Two Georgia universities have volunteered to join what is effectively a test run for a new accreditation agency. The Commission for Public Higher Education, an agency being formed by Georgia and five other Southern states, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution last month Columbus State and Georgia Southern are among the 10 members in the first cohort it will accredit. The CPHE must demonstrate that it can work with an initial cohort of schools before it is approved by the U.S. Department of Education....

5+ hour, 35+ min ago (526+ words) Conservation groups and their state and federal partners cheered the completion of a deal Monday they say will protect more than 10,000 acres of ecologically valuable and endangered forests straddling the Alabama-Georgia border. The Conservation Fund, a nonprofit specializing in acquiring at-risk lands, announced it has finalized a project called the Stateline Forest, aimed at safeguarding habitat for bats, rare plants and aquatic species in parts of both states....

5+ hour, 35+ min ago (629+ words) In March, at a hotel by Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, roughly a dozen people, including Georgia officials, met to discuss a shared mission: transforming accreditation, the quality-assurance system designed to protect the billions of taxpayer dollars that go to American universities. On the agenda were political lightning rods that align with President Donald Trump's priorities for higher education. One session looked at "the imposition of ideologies" around diversity, equity and inclusion. Another examined intellectual diversity. The meeting opened with a presentation titled, "What do you know, Trump won....

5+ hour, 35+ min ago (941+ words) Stephanie Contreras, the Health Navigation and Social Services Manager for the immigrant rights group, CASA, speaks at a know your rights workshop Escuelitas on Buford Highway conducted in partnership with CASA and the Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights. Photo Credit: Escuelitas on Buford Highway. In the Atlanta area, administrators have been telling teachers not to talk about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. We have heard this from teachers in JOLT Atlanta, a justice-oriented teacher collective, and from teachers in the Atlanta Association of Raza Educators. One teacher shared that an administrator at a DeKalb County school instructed them to remove from the board a hotline number for a community organization supporting immigrant families. This administrator told teachers to focus on teaching content, assuming that teachers were not teaching academic content through students" lived experiences. Part of the rationale was that…...

5+ hour, 44+ min ago (214+ words) Ohio has joined a multistate lawsuit against Uber, alleging deceptive practices related to the company's Uber One subscription service.The lawsuit, initially f ... Ohio joins multistate lawsuit against Uber over deceptive practices COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) " Ohio has joined a multistate lawsuit against Uber, alleging deceptive practices related to the company's Uber One subscription service. The lawsuit, initially filed by the Federal Trade Commission, is pending in a U.S. District Court in California. It accuses the rideshare giant of misleading customers with "free trials" that automatically converted into paid subscriptions, exaggerating potential savings, complicating the cancellation process, and charging some customers prematurely. "Uber took consumers for a ride " and it wasn't what they signed up for," Yost said. "A free trial shouldn't lead to a surprise bill, and canceling shouldn't become an exercise in frustration." Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced the…...