It was on this date in 1976 that the US spacecraft Viking 2 landed on Mars. The unmanned spacecraft took the first close-up, color photos of the planet’s surface. If 2020 keeps on, it may be time for a few of us to organize a plan to go back.
Peaches
- Augusta monument protest delayed due to cost, threats.
- Georgia runner seen slapping reporter’s bottom on live TV pleads guilty to sexual battery.
- Georgia county at center of Ahmaud Arbery shooting sues state to stop vote on abolishing police department.
- Brookings: Georgia’s latest 1332 proposal continues to violate the ACA.
- Forbes names ‘Best Employer in Georgia’.
- Feds to seek trade investigation following Georgia farmers’ complaints.
- Thousands of Georgia voters report never receiving absentee ballots.
- MCSD plans tiered furloughs.
Jimmy Carter
- Court rules NSA phone snooping illegal — after 7-year delay.
- The New Southern Strategy.
- Moderators announced for presidential debates.
- “Trump will be ‘stacking sandbags’ to stay in White House after defeat.”
- CDC’s Eviction Moratorium Threatens Landlords With $100,000 Fines, a Year in Jail for Noncompliance.
- Survivor And Descendants Of 1921 Tulsa Massacre Seek Reparations In Lawsuit.
- Legal challenges swirl around Kanye West’s attempt to mount an independent presidential bid.
- New Federal Court Rulings Find Geofence Warrants Unconstitutional.
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