Rick Rojas

Some Democrats fear that Keisha Lance Bottoms, the front-runner in the primary, has vulnerabilities in what could otherwise be a good year for the party in Georgia.

Voters will cast primary ballots in six states. Representative Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican who has clashed with President Trump, faces a stiff challenge. Races for Senate and governor in Georgia will also be closely watched.

Mr. Massie, a Republican who frequently clashed with President Trump, lost to a Trump-backed challenger. The race was a closely watched test of the president’s power to punish his critics.

Keisha Lance Bottoms will be the Democratic standard-bearer, despite worries about her single term as mayor of the state’s biggest city.

The Republican-appointed incumbents had faced well-financed opponents who infused issues like abortion rights into the nonpartisan elections.

Larry Bushart sued a Tennessee sheriff who claimed he wanted to incite hysteria with a post after Mr. Kirk’s killing and jailed him for 37 days.

A Tennessee man who was jailed for 37 days over a Facebook post he shared after the killing of Charlie Kirk has agreed to a $835,000 settlement with the sheriff who detained him, his lawyers said Wednesday.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- It is a confusing moment to be a voter in the South.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — It is a confusing moment to be a voter in the South.

A federal judge has blocked Alabama from using nitrogen gas in an execution scheduled for this week, forcing the state to turn to an alternate method if it is going to carry out the death penalty against Jeffery Lee, a convicted murderer.