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Trump tariffs have Georgia businesses nervous

ATLANTA - President Donald Trump's decision on Wednesday to pause a huge hike in tariffs on dozens of countries for 90 days gave the slumping stock market a bump. But that surge was short-lived amid investors' fears that tariffs remained historically high - 25% on...

Democrats pitch expansion of child tax credit

ATLANTA - The annual federal child tax credit will shrink in half at the end of the year, falling to $1,000 if Congress does not intervene. Most of the Democrats in the U.S. Senate, including Georgia's Raphael Warnock, are calling not only to prevent that from...

Ossoff, Georgia Republicans tout fundraising successes

ATLANTA - Democrats and Republicans are boasting of their fundraising success early in what is an off-year for elections in Georgia. U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., raised more than $11 million during the first quarter of this year, the most ever raised by a Senate...