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Atlanta Falcons face backlash over social media logo resembling Nazi imagery

According to NBC, the profile picture is likely to honor the expansion 1966 Atlanta Falcons ahead of their game against the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday.

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Atlanta Falcons social media profile picture.
An immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent raises a finger moments after detaining a man during an immigration raid, on Sunday in Minneapolis.

Incendiary device reportedly thrown at ICE building in Georgia, FBI agents investigating

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) personnel and evidence response technicians are on site collecting evidence, the agency's Atlanta public affairs department said in an emailed statement.

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An American Airlines Airbus A321 airplane departs from Los Angeles International Airport en route to Dallas on October 17, 2025 in Los Angeles, California; Illustrative.

Passenger burned after laptop computer catches fire aboard American Airlines flight to Dallas

The incident comes as the FAA continues to warn about the dangers lithium-ion rechargeable batteries pose to aircraft, including those found in laptops, cell phones, and other common devices.

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A Georgia Democratic candidate for the state Senate, Nathalie Kanani, came under ridicule after a Passover ad published in the Atlanta Jewish Times reportedly featured challah, a leavened bread traditionally avoided during the holiday. April 5, 2026.

Georgia political candidate apologizes for Passover ad that featured challah

The ad quickly drew ridicule online, particularly after Greg Bluestein, a Jewish Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter, tweeted about it on Saturday, writing, “It’s the thought that counts, I guess.”

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Escort error derails U.S. half marathon leaders

After a police emergency shifted deployments, the lead convoy took race leaders roughly 1,000 meters off the route, resulting in finishes of ninth, 12th, and 13th.

MARCH 6, 2026ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Athletics - London Marathon - London, Britain - April 27, 2025 General view of runners on Tower Bridge during the London Marathon, April, 2025.

Atlanta Jewish Film Festival apologizes on selecting anti-Zionist juror to judge human rights films

The Israeli Consulate withdrew its support for the annual festival Friday after learning one of the student jurors in the human rights category “shared antisemitic and anti-Israel content."

FEBRUARY 25, 2026ByJACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA
PANELISTS FROM the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival speak onstage.

Jewish education organization targets program at adults with intellectual disabilities

The program, called What’s Mine is Yours: Jewish Adult Learning for All., aims to provide Jewish academic resources for adults with disabilities, who have few options for Jewish educations.

FEBRUARY 25, 2026ByJACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA
GRADUATES FROM a What's Mine is Yours class at Keshet in Chicago.

Jewish Atlanta showed how communities confront institutional failure on Israel - opinion

The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival faced backlash for retaining a juror who publicly delegitimized Israel, prompting the film festival to reverse course.

FEBRUARY 24, 2026ByDAVID ZALIK, HELEN ZALIK
Panelists speak onstage during the 25th Atlanta Jewish Film Festival’s ‘Bad Shabbos’ opening night premiere at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta, Georgia, last week.

FBI searches Atlanta election office, chasing Trump 2020 vote fraud claims

This comes a week after Trump said at the World Economic Forum in Davos that people will be prosecuted for what they did in the 2020 election, which he again falsely claimed was "rigged."

JANUARY 28, 2026ByREUTERS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
ILLUSTRATIVE: A member of the FBI removes items from a home in Dearborn, Michigan, on October 31, 2025.

Navigating workplace injuries in Atlanta: How lawyers are stepping up

JANUARY 27, 2026ByDAVID RABINOWICZ
A workplace injury in Atlanta doesn’t have to limit your future.

Legal strategies that can make or break personal injury claims in Atlanta

JANUARY 27, 2026ByTAMI DEMSKY
The strategy behind winning Atlanta injury cases.

Georgia man arrested at Atlanta airport with AR-15 rifle, planned mass shooting

Billy Joe Cagle's family called police early on Monday, alerting them that he had posted on social media that he was headed to the airport and was "going to shoot it up,"

OCTOBER 21, 2025ByREUTERS
A flight crew member walks through a terminal at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia on July 2, 2025

Emory University shooter likely targeted CDC over COVID conspiracy, suspected shooter's family says

A police officer was killed, leaving behind a pregnant wife two children.

AUGUST 9, 2025ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
A sign of the CDC is seen on a podium during the meeting of the members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) advisory panel for vaccines convenes in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. June 25, 2025.

10-year-old girl screaming at a bug caused stampede after Beyoncé concert, officials say

11 people were hospitalized due to injuries sustained in the stampede.

JULY 28, 2025ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Beyoncé wears an outfit designed by Alon Livné