Ken Stanford

The University of North Georgia (UNG) continues to actively monitor the ongoing Ebola virus situation and, ahead of the upcoming winter break, has issued an advisory to those considering travel to the West African countries affected by the outbreak.

U.S. stocks are opening slightly higher as the market bounces back from its biggest drop since October.

Gov. Nathan Deal today announced the establishment of an office for interagency coordination and management of water resources - ramping up the state team already in place for the Supreme Court water war case.

Growing opposition among Democrats and persistent opposition from the tea party Republicans has left a $1.1 trillion government-wide spending bill teetering as many lawmakers find more in the measure to dislike than like.

For more than two years, a U.S. agency secretly infiltrated Cuba's underground hip-hop movement, recruiting unwitting rappers to spark a youth movement against the government, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.

Senators Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., and Chris Coons, D-Del., are cautioning South African President Jacob Zuma that his country risks losing its favored trade status with the U.S. if he continues to refuse lift a ban on U.S. poultry products.

The federal government's deficit for the first two months of the new budget year is down 21 percent from the same period a year ago, although much of that improvement is due to quirks in the calendar.

One of the two psychologists paid millions for designing the CIA's post-Sept. 11 program of brutal interrogations defends the treatment of al-Qaida detainees and disputes a critical Senate report.