1. Barack Obama makes the case against Trump-ism – and Donald fires back. Donald Trump fired off tweets and emails to reporters in response to President Obama's keynote speech to the DNC Wednesday night. [Read more]

2. Funds frozen, inquiry begun on homeless student's story. The woman who started a stunningly successful GoFundMe campaign for Fred Barley, the young man who said he rode his bike 50 miles to register for a Georgia college, said she now has "multiple questions about Fred's story." [Read more]

3. Keshia Knight Pulliam "blindsided" by divorce filing, claims Ed Hartwell cheated. Pulliam is expecting a girl and said the stress of the divorce proceedings isn't healthy for her body or the baby. [Read more]

4. Midtown medical tower to be anchored by Northside Hospital. Northside Midtown Medical will rise at 13th and West Peachtree streets and is expected to open in 2018. [Read more]

5. Ex-Hall County commission candidate, wife found dead. Hall County sheriff's deputies are investigating the shooting deaths of former commission candidate Troy Phillips and his wife Heather Phillips. [Read more]

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Fulton DA Fani Willis (center) with Nathan J. Wade (right), the special prosecutor she hired to manage the Trump case and had a romantic relationship with, at a news conference announcing charges against President-elect Donald Trump and others in Atlanta, Aug. 14, 2023. Georgia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, upheld an appeals court's decision to disqualify Willis from the election interference case against Trump and his allies. (Kenny Holston/New York Times)

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