Voters prepare to head to the polls in Georgia’s high stakes Senate runoff election, a state of emergency is declared in Moore County, North Carolina, after power stations were targeted with gunfire, and the Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a same-sex marriage discrimination case.
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