Sam Gringlas
Sam Gringlas is a journalist at ½ûÂþÌìÌÃ's All Things Considered. In 2020, he helped cover the presidential election with ½ûÂþÌìÌÃ's Washington Desk and has also reported for ½ûÂþÌìÌÃ's business desk covering the workforce. He's produced and reported with ½ûÂþÌìÌà from across the country, as well as China and Mexico, covering topics like politics, trade, the environment, immigration and breaking news. He started as an intern at All Things Considered after graduating with a public policy degree from the University of Michigan, where he was the managing news editor at The Michigan Daily. He's a native Michigander.
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The Voting Rights Act was signed 60 years ago today. It was the culmination of a hard-fought campaign by civil rights activists in the South. Now, a Georgia Democrat in Congress is leading the push to renew it.
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Questions remain over this week's school shooting that killed two students and two teachers, as the father of the 14-year-old shooter is charged with manslaughter.
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The judge overseeing Donald Trump's Georgia election interference case is running for reelection this month. So is the case's top prosecutor. It's a unique subplot to an unprecedented case. -
The Georgia Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments after former President Trump appealed a decision allowing Fulton County DA Fani Willis to stay on the criminal case involving him and others. -
The decision bolsters the chances that 15 defendants including former President Donald Trump will face trial this year for attempting to overturn the 2020 election result. -
The judge overseeing the Georgia racketeering case against Donald Trump and his allies has quashed a number of charges related to soliciting officials to violate their oaths of office. -
More Southern states are talking about expanding Medicaid to cover low-income residents. They've resisted the option for a decade, but are now running into competition for healthy workers.
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Even though two 2020 election workers in Fulton County, Ga., endured an onslaught of threats and harassment following baseless fraud claims, people there are eager to serve as poll workers this year. -
Democrats and civil rights groups in Georgia say Republicans' newly revised political maps still violate the Voting Rights Act. One key issue in this fight: so-called "coalition districts." -
A special legislative session begins in Georgia to redraw the state's political maps after a federal judge ruled that the current district lines illegally dilute the power of Black voters.
