Atlanta-based CDC funding potentially spared massive cuts; Georgia's congressional delegation unites in criticism over some Israeli actions in Gaza; and a Southwest Atlanta laundromat ensures area kids have clean clothes for first day of class. 

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20k DACA recipients in Georgia told they need to self deport; No free rides to the polls, state election board rules; and resiliency in a Decatur kitchen. 

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Freight railroad giant Union Pacific announced Tuesday it is set to acquire Atlanta-based Norfolk Southern, another major rail operator in an 85 billion dollar deal; Senator Raphael Warnock is among the Democrats in Congress this week reintroducing the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act; For a decade, the Fulton County Public Defender's Office and non-profits have helped people recently released from jail find housing, but now the program faces a difficult path forward as federal funding dries up. 

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Most of Georgia is under a heat advisory or extreme heat warning and climate change is fueling this kind of brutal heat; As temperatures soar, a nonprofit says it's deeply concerned about the people being held in Georgia prisons who have little to no access to air conditioning; Veterans who get health care at the VA say they’re worried federal cuts will erode working conditions and quality of care -- especially in Atlanta.

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Georgia education officials are scrambling to disburse funds after they were held up by the Trump Administration; Another figure connected to a failed lending firm in Newnan has been subpoenaed; The city of South Fulton is placing its police chief Keith Meadows on-leave, as it plans to start an independent investigation into his department. 

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Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms began her statewide tour in DeKalb County as she campaigns for governor; Republican State Insurance Commissioner John King is ending his campaign for U.S. Senate; The search is on for millions of missing dollars from an alleged Ponzi scheme connected to the now-closed lending firm founded and run by a prominent Georgia Republican.

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Republican activist Kelvin King, the husband of a controversial State Election Board member, says he’s running for Secretary State of Georgia; The highly-anticipated trial of the father of the accused Apalachee High School shooter will be rescheduled; Unionized workers and labor advocates across the South are rallying for support. 

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Advocates and lawyers for a Spanish-language journalist fighting deportation from Georgia aren't mincing words about what they believe is retaliation for his work; Atlanta beverage giant Coca-Cola says it will make a new product this fall that is made with U.S. cane sugar; MARTA is without a permanent leader after CEO Collie Greenwood announced he was stepping down, but some civic leaders and transit advocates had already soured on his leadership.

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Concerns are growing over the prolonged detention of a Georgia-based, Spanish-language journalist by federal immigration authorities; Immigration and Customs Enforcement will use medicaid enrollment data to look for people without legal status; and a local scientist's analysis of the meteorite that streaked across the Atlanta sky last month. 

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Congress has agreed to President Donald Trump’s request to rescind more than 9 billion dollars in previously appropriated funding for international development and public broadcasting; The state of Georgia is fining BioLab for a chemical fire last September that caused evacuations in Conyers and several days of shelter in place orders; and WABE health reporter Jess Mador takes a look at how work requirements for Medicaid are going in Georgia, now that the policy is set to be expanded.

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