The Brief from WABE

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump will both campaign in Georgia the weekend before Election Day; More than 3,000 Cobb County voters will have an extra three days to return absentee ballots after a delay in receiving them; and WABE.org supervising digital editor Patrick Saunders explains what voters can find on the site's Election Hub.

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Highest-profile defendant in YSL trial, Young Thug, agrees to a plea; As early voting nears its end in Georgia, the state passes the 50% mark; and no TB, little transparency, at Walton High School.

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A key deadline for absentee ballots passes; housing becomes a primary topic this election cycle; and an effort to oust a College Park city official intensifies.

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An armed standoff at the Four Seasons Hotel leaves two police officers injured; Trump says he's not a Nazi at Atlanta rally; and Atlanta sees four more eateries added to its list of coveted Michelin-star rated restaurants.

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Early voting passes the three-million mark in Georgia; a Southeast Georgia news editor talks about how Hurricane Helene caught the region off-guard; and home prices continue to increase across the state as sales continue to slow.

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The last-minute push for votes brings both presidential candidates back to Georgia; Robots roam Cobb County's jail under a pilot program that's touted as the first in the nation; and a status check of Georgia's college football teams as the season reaches the halfway point.

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The three Georgia men serving life sentences for killing Ahmaud Arbery in 2020 want a new trial; Former President Donald Trump says if he wins this November he will initiate mass deportations of undocumented people, including nearly 348-thousand in Georgia; Two constitutional amendments and a statewide referendum on the ballot in Georgia -- WABE's politics team explains what they mean.

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Former President Donald Trump is holding a campaign rally Wednesday in Gwinnett County; The Georgia Secretary of State has removed 20 non-citizens out of the more than 8.2 million registered voters in Georgia after an audit; WABE’s Southside Reporter DorMiya Vance sits down with a few of Atlanta's mayors for a conversation about Black women's leadership in light of this year’s presidential election. 

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The student charged alongside his father for the shooting that killed four people at Apalachee High School in Georgia is pleading not guilty; The FBI is warning local and state officials, including in Georgia, that domestic extremists motivated by “election-related grievances” could turn to violence in the coming weeks; and just three days after chemical company Biolab announced the emergency was over following a fire at its plant in Rockdale county... county commissioners announced they will be filing a federal lawsuit.

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Rockdale County officials said Monday they will sue the chemical company which owns a plant where a large chemical fire caused a public health emergency; Georgia is one of the most important states this election, and both parties preparing legal challenges to follow November 5th; Georgia has some of the highest rates of pregnancy related death in the U.S., particularly in rural areas.

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