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Emily Merwin DiRico has been doing information design and news application development at the AJC since she arrived as a summer intern in 2009. Her mission is to help readers understand complex data and how it affects them.
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Trump’s Justice Department requests Fulton County’s 2020 election records
The Department of Justice letter to Georgia’s largest county suggests the Trump administration remains focused on the 2020 race.
He’s 24. Black. And nearly unseated a four-term mayor where most voters were white.
At 24, Sam Foster is a political newcomer who fell just short of unseating a four-term mayor.
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UGA to pay $100K H-1B visa fee only ‘in exceptional circumstances’
The University of Georgia could soon limit the number of foreign workers it employs, a result of the $100,000 fee imposed on some H-1B visas.
Georgia judges deal blow to ICE’s new mandatory detention policy
The ruling is a first-of-its-kind to come out of Georgia’s Middle District.
At the Cobb jail, a new kind of rehabilitation starts at the horse barn
Joshua Arp is one of two Cobb County jail detainees taking part of the sheriff’s office new equine therapy program meant to help him stay out of jail.