Over 700,000 Georgians have cast their vote with nearly 3 weeks until runoff election

Republicans in Georgia say they’ve recruited more than 8,000 volunteers in the state to serve as poll watchers for next week’s twin Senate runoff elections, where the GOP majority in the Senate is at stake. The combined effort by the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which is the re-election arm of the Senate GOP; the Republican National Committee; the Georgia Republican Party and Sens.

President Trump’s last-minute about-face on the size of stimulus checks for most Americans to help deal with the economic harm caused by the coronavirus pandemic has turned Washington upside down only days before a new Congress is sworn in.  Trump’s negotiators had agreed to $600 per person in stimulus checks and had gotten that measure through both the Democratic-controlled House and the Republican-controlled Senate before Christmas.The bill the payments were wrapped into was a typically flawed

Simon Ward, from Amesbury, has raised another £1,050 for two charities through his Doorstep Snaps 2 campaign. As the country went back into a lockdown in November, Simon decided to bring back his project of taking socially distanced family photos.

coronavirus pandemic thanks to Stagehand‘s #ILoveLive prize draw.The #ILoveLive memorabilia prize draw launched last month, aiming to support the unsung heroes of the live music industry.

direct to your inbox Turkish authorities have placed almost 5,000 people arriving from the UK into quarantine over fears about the new variant of coronavirus.

direct to your inboxThis year hasn't been full of good news, that's for sure - but there's finally some positive news on the horizon for 60,000 households in the UK.Tens of thousands of people are owed their first Help to Save bonus payment, which averages at around £378, figures reveal.The payments are due just in time for Christmas, which should take a burden off many people struggling after a financially difficult year.

drug dealer who played a leading role in a gang planning to flood Central Scotland with heroin and cocaine was today ordered to hand over £75,000 crime profits. Anthony O'Hare, 34, made £650,000 from his criminal conduct but the available assets to be seized from him under a proceeds of crime action was £75,000.

direct to your inboxA shopping trip to Harrods in London was just one example of the 'lavish lifestyle' scrapyard boss Tommy 'Hot Dog' Smith and his wife Mary Smith enjoyed.In the iconic store, the couple browsed items by high end fashion designer Christian Louboutin.They were also found to have a Range Rover and jewellery, and had invested in property and land.Their extravagance was funded by crime.A court has found that the couple had each benefited from criminality to the tune of £1 million,

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorGrammy-winning singer Patti Austin has made a bid to get out the vote in Georgia with a new song posted by the political action committee MeidasTouch.The runoff vote, which takes place on Jan.

fraudsters were jailed for a £45,000 VAT scam which saw them submitting fake invoices.Company boss David Paterson and accountant Kevin Sinclair were locked up at Dundee Sheriff Court on Thursday.Paterson, 56, was jailed for two years and nine months, while Sinclair, 67, was sentenced to one year and nine months behind bars.The pair colluded to dupe the taxman by reclaiming VAT they were not entitled to.Sinclair, who ran finance firm GD Accounting, submitted bogus invoices for a company owned by

2 min read A US teen has found himself being supported by over 200,000 people after he was suspended from his Texas school for wearing nail polish. 17-year-old Trevor Wilkinson, a senior at Clyde High School in Clyde, Texas, found himself at the centre of controversy after he returned from Thanksgiving break with his nails painted.