Exterior view of Super 8 by Wyndham hotel at 4979 Old National Highway, on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, in College Park. A woman who says she was sex trafficked at this hotel when she was a minor in 2020 and 2021 won a $164 million jury verdict in a federal trial in Atlanta against the company that owned and operated the hotel at that time. (Hyosub Shin/AJC)

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Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson (left) at a rally in Columbus on Aug. 13, 2026, and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Keisha Lance Bottoms at a rally in Atlanta on May 31, 2026. (Abbey Cutrer for the AJC; Arvin Temkar/AJC)

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