Georgia

ATLANTA —  The Southern battleground state of Georgia is headed, once again, for a bitterly contested Senate runoff election as results show Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock narrowly leading his Republican challenger, Herschel Walker, according to state election officials. Neither candidate is on track to secure 50% of the overall vote in the election that included Libertarian Chase Oliver.Warnock and Walker are now set to face off in a Dec. 6 runoff, less than two years after Warnock became the first Black senator from…

The US authorities have seized around 50,676 Bitcoin worth $3.36 billion stored in a circuit board hidden in the bottom of a popcorn tin in a bathroom closet.The 32-year-old James Zhong from Georgia fraudulently obtained the Bitcoin from The Silk Road -- a site on the dark web once called "the Amazon of drugs" -- in 2012.Zhong has now pleaded guilty to committing wire fraud in September 2012, when he unlawfully obtained over 50,000 Bitcoin from the Silk Road dark web internet marketplace, the US Department of Justice said…

An auto parts manufacturer plans to hire 630 workers at a new factory in southeast Georgia to supply Hyundai Motor Group's first U.S. electric vehicle plant that's under construction nearby, state officials said Monday. Joon Georgia will invest $317 million to produce parts in Bulloch County, Gov. Brian Kemp's office said in a news release. The supplier will open shop roughly 30…

Chung Eui-sun, left, executive chairman of Hyundai Motor Group, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, and Jose Munoz, president and COO of Hyundai, celebrate with a champagne toast during the official groundbreaking for the Hyundai Meta Plant on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022 in Ellabell, Ga. Credit: Richard Burkhart/Savannah Morning News via AP A robotic dog delivered a champagne toast and Georgia's governor and junior U.S. senator shared a…

Monitoring jobs that run in a Databricks production environment requires not only setting up alerts in case of failure but also being able to easily extract statistics about jobs running time, failure rate, most frequent failure cause, and other user-defined KPIs.The Databricks workspace provides through its UI a fairly easy and intuitive way of visualizing the run history of individual jobs. The matrix view, for instance, allows for a quick overview of recent failures and shows a rough comparison in terms of run times…

WASHINGTON —  Christian Walker has long been one of my favorite online personalities. Since I first saw him dancing in front of a “gays for Trump” sign, he’s unafraid to bash liberals xx. While his approach as a conservative commentator is not novel, he does stand out in one important way—he’s very good at it. While he did at least once stomp for his father Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker, he began distancing himself from politics. Though he still bashes liberals, he rants have Main section text Check out…

Georgia Senator Reverend Warnock introduced a new bill that would expand which electric vehicles qualify for a tax credit through the Inflation Reduction Act. The Affordable Electric Vehicles for America Act would give automakers like Hyundai a “grace period” to build and assemble EVs in North America, allowing them to qualify for the tax credit. Senator Warnock’s new bill aims to lower the costs of owning an electric vehicle while working with foreign automakers planning to manufacture in the US, notably…

Where are the spicy nuggets Chick-fil-A?!Image: Cindy Ord (Getty Images)Chick-fil-A is the ultimate morality test for millennials and Gen Z. While their waffles fries are easily the best fast food fries in existence and their chicken sandwiches are second to none, the company does orchestrate a well known financial relationship with anti-LGBTQ+ groups. With this elephant in the room, some already skeptical Twitter users were understandably quick to hop on the franchise’s questionable response to a Black user.Chick-fil-A’s…

The race to build electric vehicles in the U.S. is heating up as fresh rounds of investment come out of Washington. Workers at the former heart of the auto industry fear being left behind."When we look carefully at what goes on on the factory floor, it won't be less workers," Keith Cooley, former head of Michigan's Labor Department, told CNBC. "There will be different people building the cars."Researchers believe modern factory jobs will require more education and could be less available than they were in the past. They…

Florida Georgia Line has reached the end of its line. Country stars Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard, who comprise the Grammy-nominated duo, played their final show together Wednesday at the Minnesota State Fair, where they thanked the crowd of 11,700 for their success and “the closing of an incredible chapter.”“This is our last official concert as Florida Georgia Line,” Hubbard said when he greeted the crowd, Minnesota’s Star Tribune reported. “Let’s see what we got left in the tank.”“You’ve enabled us to chase this crazy…