Delta to hire 25,000; CEO meets with Trump

Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian announced after a meeting of airline chiefs with President Donald Trump that the carrier plans to hire 25,000 people over the next five years.

Atlanta-based Delta has about 80,000 employees around the world, and hires regularly in some areas due to turnover. The 25,000 figure includes a combination of growth and backfilling attrition, but Delta did not specify the breakdown.

And, the hiring could be contingent on other factors, including an issue Delta is pushing for action in Washington related to competition

Conrad Gelot does not want Gwinnett County Commissioner Tommy Hunter to resign or otherwise be forced out of office.

“He is not a racist,” Gelot, who is black, said Tuesday afternoon in front of Hunter, his fellow commissioners and dozens of sign-carrying protesters. “I have no problem calling him a friend.”

The comments from Gelot — who said he knows Hunter from his own time as a Gwinnett County employee — were the first and only expression of support for the commissioner on Tuesday, the third volatile board meeting that has been held since The Atlanta Journal-Constitution first published the Facebook post in which Hunter, who is white, called civil rights leader and U.S. Rep. John Lewis a “racist pig.”

Gelot’s words were also the only bright spot in another tumultuous day for Hunter — one that included more talk of the ethics complaint filed against him and two more hours of protesters angrily calling for him to resign.

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Teen, 17, found shot to death in Roswell

A 17-year-old boy was found shot to death outside his Roswell apartment early Tuesday. But no details have been released yet on what led to the shooting and who was responsible.

It was the sound of gunshots that prompted a resident of the Nesbit Ferry Crossing Apartments

Georgia has settled a federal lawsuit that accused Secretary of State Brian Kemp of disenfranchising minority voters because of a requirement on registration forms that critics said blocked thousands of them from voter rolls.

The state will no longer reject applications that don’t exactly match identification information in state and federal databases as part of the agreement, which was finalized late Thursday.

Advocacy groups filed the suit in September, alleging that black, Latino and Asian-American applicants were far more likely than whites to be rejected due to mismatches with state and federal databases.

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