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ATLANTA (AP) — In Georgia's governor's race, Democrat Stacey Abrams and Republican Brian Kemp have condemned an automated telephone call filled with racist and anti-Semitic statements as Abrams aims to become the nation's first black female governor. A top Abrams aide says both Kemp and Trump have contributed to a poisonous atmosphere. Tensions over issues of race have been high since an AP report last month showed that nearly 70 percent of Georgia's "pending" voter applications are from black applicants.
LAKE HALLIE, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say three Girl Scouts and one woman picking up trash on the side of a western Wisconsin road have been killed in a hit-and-run crash. Sgt. Daniel Sokup of the Lake Hallie Police Department says that the driver of the pickup that hit the group fled the scene of the crash Saturday morning but later turned himself in. A fourth girl struck by the pickup was in critical condition Saturday evening.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The man who shot and killed two people in a Tallahassee yoga studio appears to have made a series of racist and misogynistic videos four years ago. In a series of videos that were posted to You Tube in 2014, a man who looks like Scott Paul Beierle criticized how black people dress and speak and called women who date black men "whores." In another video he ranted about the women who he said had caused him to become a misogynist.
IMPERIAL, Mo. (AP) — National Rifle Association President Oliver North is campaigning for Missouri's Republican U.S. Senate candidate Josh Hawley. North spoke to several dozen Hawley supporters during a Saturday rally in Imperial, about 30 minutes south of St. Louis. The NRA endorsed Hawley and ran ads against McCaskill in the contentious race that Republicans view as a prime opportunity to flip a Senate seat. The election is Tuesday.
ISLA, Mexico (AP) — Hundreds of Central American migrants from a 4,000-strong caravan winding its way through southern Mexico and toward the U.S. border splintered off on their own Saturday after broken promises of bus transportation. The group said that some migrants branched off on their own Saturday in the belief that they were near the metropolises of Puebla and Mexico City.
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