1. Might as well jump! Stone Mountain Park will add "death-defying leaps into space" to its list of attractions in 2016. [Read more]

2. Smart: 'I couldn't live with myself' if he left Alabama before playoff: Imagine the No. 2 executive at Coke finishing out his duties for two months after he already has been named the No. 1 executive at Pepsi. Now add to this that the same executive had been recruiting for Coke and now is recruiting for Pepsi … while he is still being paid by Coke. Only in college football. [Read more]

3. GOP intelligentsia deeply offended and worried by Trumpism (opinion): The elite's disgust is not limited to Trump. It is also directed at those who support him. [Read more]

4. Atlanta renters are young, female and thinking about buying: Metro Atlanta renters are, on average, a solo-living, youngish-skewing, female-dominated bunch. More so than the United States as a whole. [Read more]

5. Reeves impressed with Falcons coach Dan Quinn: Former Falcons coach Dan Reeves has been impressed with how first-year coach Dan Quinn has navigated his team through some peaks and valleys over the course of the 2015 season. [Read more]

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D. (center) is flanked by GOP whip Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo. (left) and Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, as Thune speak to reporters at the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, July 1, 2025. Earlier Tuesday, the Senate passed the budget reconciliation package of President Donald Trump's signature bill of big tax breaks and spending cuts. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

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