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Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, a Democrat, an early supporter of President Joe Biden who was touted as a potential running mate, said Friday she would not seek reelection this year because she no longer has the fight in her heart to continue in the job for another four years.

China has urged the United States to bring to justice the suspect who last week killed eight people－including six women of Asian descent－in a shooting spree in Atlanta, Georgia.

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden has sought to blunt a reported surge in anti-Asian bias incidents by ordering the federal government not to use xenophobic language to describe the coronavirus and calling accounts of "vicious hate crimes" during the pandemic "un-American."

As Helen Kim Ho learned that a White man with a self-described sex addiction was charged with killing eight people - including six Asian women - at spas in the Atlanta area on Tuesday, she imagined the stereotypes of Asian women that must have run through his head.

Shootings at three Atlanta-area massage parlors that unfolded within an hour on Tuesday left eight people dead, and authorities said a 21-year-old man in at least one incident has been arrested.

ATLANTA - Relatives of Rayshard Brooks - the 27-year-old man fatally shot by an officer outside a Wendy's here last week - called for law enforcement policy changes during an emotional news conference Monday as hundreds of demonstrators marched in the streets to protest another black man's death at the hands of police.

Atlanta's airport, the busiest in the world, was hit by a power outage on Sunday that caused hundreds of flights to be delayed or canceled.