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President Donald Trump’s second term has been marked by a trade war, stock market swings and Elon Musk’s DOGE and its attempts to slash the federal workforce. The administration has moved fast, drawing praise from supporters and criticism and lawsuits from opponents.

But what does the American public think of Trump, and how do those views compare to opinions of Joe Biden and other past presidents?

Find out below. NBC News has tracked presidential approval for more than 30 years. The charts below show Trump’s current approval rating, as well as historical approval ratings for Presidents Biden, Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. This page will be updated as new NBC News polls are released.

The World Food Programme has run out of food, the United Nations agency said Friday, 54 days after Israel imposed a complete blockade on the Gaza Strip.

“Today, WFP delivered its last remaining food stocks to hot meals kitchens in the Gaza Strip. These kitchens are expected to fully run out of food in the coming days,” it said in a statement on Friday.

Since Israel imposed its blockade on March 2, stopping the entry of humanitarian aid and commercial goods into the enclave, WFP has been the only steady source and the largest provider of hot meals in Gaza.

Only a few smaller agencies are still providing food in Gaza, including the World Central Kitchen, which said in a post on Facebook Saturday that it was “working nonstop to stretch flour supplies and bake as much bread as possible” inside its bakery, the last one still operating in Gaza.

With all border crossings closed, no humanitarian or commercial supplies, including more than 116,000 tons of food from WFP waiting at aid corridors, have entered Gaza in more than seven weeks, the aid agency said.

“This is the longest closure the Gaza Strip has ever faced, exacerbating already fragile markets and food systems,” it said, adding, “People are running out of ways to cope, and the fragile gains made during the short ceasefire have unravelled.”

The news comes after WFP in late March said that all of its 25 bakeries in the Gaza Strip had shut down because of the lack of fuel and flour in the territory.

Israel says its blockade is crucial to its goal of weakening the militant group’s control over the population, while Israeli officials have repeatedly stated there is “no shortage” of aid in Gaza and accused Hamas of withholding supplies.

After a meeting at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate with senior Republican Party officials, Israeli national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said on X Wednesday that, “They expressed support for my very clear position on how to act in Gaza and that the food and aid depots should be bombed in order to create military and political pressure to return our hostages home safely.”

The Israeli government has been accused of using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare in the Gaza Strip, which the UN said could amount to war crimes under international humanitarian law.

With essential food commodities including safe water and cooking fuel in short supply, more than 2 million people in Gaza now face an acute risk of starvation, epidemic disease, and death, WFP warned.

The extreme food insecurity has also raised serious nutrition concerns for vulnerable populations, including children under the age of five, pregnant women, and the elderly.

The Global Nutrition Cluster, a coalition of humanitarian groups, warned that in March alone, 3,708 children were identified for acute malnutrition, out of 84,000 children screened — a marked increase from February, when 2,053 children were admitted from a total of 92,000 screened, OCHA said in a report on Thursday.

Video footage posted by WFP showed depleted stocks of food supply in a warehouse in Gaza, and children lining up at food stands to receive hot meals and bread. The agency said that despite providing a “critical lifeline” to those in need, it had reached just half the population in Gaza.

With food prices inside the strip also skyrocketing to 1,400% compared to during the ceasefire, people are now being forced to scavenge for items to burn to cook a meal, the WFP said.

More than 51,000 people have been killed in Gaza, including thousands of children, according to the local health ministry, since Israel launched its offensive in the enclave following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks.

Some 1,200 people were killed during the attacks in southern Israel and around 250 taken hostage, marking a major escalation in a decadeslong conflict.

The situation has raised widespread concerns among international NGOs and UN agencies working in Gaza, with the CEOs of 12 major aid organisations in mid-April warning of aid systems collapsing as the humanitarian crisis in Gaza reached the worst levels in 18 months.

“Famine is not just a risk, but likely rapidly unfolding in almost all parts of Gaza,” the CEOs said in a statement posted by Oxfam, adding, “Let us do our jobs.”

On Thursday, the foreign ministers of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom also urged Israel to restart the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza. “Palestinian civilians — including one million children — face an acute risk of starvation, epidemic disease and death. This must end,” they said in a statement.

They added, “We urge Israel to immediately re-start a rapid and unimpeded flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza in order to meet the needs of all civilians.”

Several district attorneys have considered charging former death row prisoners whose sentences were commuted by former President Joe Biden months after a White House executive order called on them to do so.

So far, a Louisiana prosecutor successfully sought a first-degree murder charge against Thomas Steven Sanders in the death of a 12-year-old girl who was killed in Catahoula Parish in 2010. While Sanders’ federal death sentence was commuted to life without parole by Biden’s order just a few months ago, a Louisiana jury could reimpose a death sentence on him under state law if he’s found guilty.

Catahoula Parish prosecutor Brad Burget did not respond to requests for comment about the grand jury’s indictment two weeks ago, but told NBC affiliate KALB in Alexandria that he disagreed with Biden’s decision in December to grant clemency for those death row inmates.

“It just disrespects the victim,” he said.

Burget’s decision comes after President Donald Trump issued an executive order on the death penalty that both broadly declared that the U.S. should “ensure that the laws that authorize capital punishment are respected and faithfully implemented,” and also took specific aim at “each of the 37 murderers whose Federal death sentences were commuted by President Biden.”

Trump’s order specifically calls on the U.S. attorney general to take two specific actions related to those recently resentenced inmates: to “ensure that these offenders are imprisoned in conditions consistent with the monstrosity of their crimes and the threats they pose,” and secondly, to “further evaluate whether these offenders can be charged with State capital crimes and shall recommend appropriate action to state and local authorities.”

NBC News has learned that several other district attorneys have considered weighing charges against these former death row prisoners after contacting prosecutors’ offices in seven other cases.

The prosecutor in Horry County, South Carolina, has two separate cases involving the recently commuted death row inmates: one involving Brandon Basham and Chadrick Fulks, whose 2002 crime spree included the abduction and murder of a 44-year-old woman in Conway, and another involving Brandon Council, who was convicted of the murders of two bank employees in Conway in 2017.

“We have not made any decisions on those cases yet,” 15th Circuit Solicitor Jimmy Richardson said. “We have met with the families and are in the process of reviewing the evidence, but no decisions have been made.”

South Carolina only began resuming executions in September after a 13-year pause, and for the first time last month, put a condemned inmate to death by firing squad.

Meanwhile, two other district attorneys’ offices confirmed they have similarly reviewed their cases involving death row inmates whose sentences were commuted by Biden. It’s unclear whether Trump’s order prompted the reviews.

The St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office in Missouri said it had evaluated the case of Billie Allen and Norris Holder, who were convicted in separate federal trials in the death of a security guard during an armed bank robbery in 1997.

With both men now serving federal life sentences without the possibility of parole, “additional charges at the state level would not enhance public safety in the St. Louis region,” the attorney’s office said in a statement, adding further prosecution “is not in the public interest.”

The Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office in Texas said it had also looked into the case of a former federal death row inmate, Julius Robinson, who was convicted in 2002 in the killing of three men in drug-related incidents.

“We have discussed the facts and circumstances of Julius Robinson’s case with both former and current federal prosecutors familiar with the case. This case is not viable for a capital murder prosecution in Tarrant County,” prosecutors said in a statement, without elaborating further.

Bringing state charges in cases that were already federally prosecuted — and vice versa — is not uncommon, experts say, but doing so in an effort to reinstate death sentences may be complicated if not impossible.

For 15 of the 37 former federal death row inmates, their crimes occurred in states that either abolished the death penalty, such as Illinois and Virginia, or have either formal or informal moratoriums on executions, such as California, North Carolina and Ohio.

Then, for 11 other inmates, the crimes for which they were sentenced to death transpired on federal lands, such as a national park or in a U.S. government-run prison.

In those cases, prosecutors could still attempt to bring charges as long as they show the state has jurisdiction as well, said Barry Wax, a Florida defense attorney.

In 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the long-standing idea that prosecuting someone for the same crime in state and federal courts doesn’t violate their protection against double jeopardy because states and the federal government are “separate sovereigns.”

“When a state looks to prosecute someone for murder that they’re already doing life in a federal penitentiary for, it’s a roll of the dice,” Wax said. “The only difference is if you can get a jury to agree on a death sentence, and that’s not guaranteed. Otherwise, is it worth going through all of that again?”

Louisiana defense lawyer Cecelia Kappel, an attorney for Jessie Hoffman Jr., who last month became the first inmate in the state to be executed by nitrogen gas, said it is “extremely unusual” that a prosecutor in Catahoula Parish would want to seek another trial in a case that had already won a conviction for federal prosecutors.

Kappel said the parish, which is rural and has fewer than 9,000 people, does not typically hold capital trials and doubted it has the necessary resources to put one on. Capital trials can be costly because of the need to house and feed jurors if they are sequestered and potential payment for expert witnesses and their travel expenses. In 2014, it reportedly cost DeSoto Parish, which has three times the population of Catahoula, $105,209 for one capital trial.

Kappel said there are other factors to consider in trying cases many years later, such as the availability of witnesses and evidence, as well as the defendants themselves, who may be older and in declining health. She added that another murder trial against Sanders, who is now 67, could take years to begin.

A federal defender in Sanders’ case did not respond to requests for comment.

“They’re playing games with taxpayer money and playing games with people’s lives,” Kappel said. “And especially playing with the state public defense system.”

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, who supports the death penalty, had thanked Burget, the local prosecutor, in a social media post for seeking an indictment against Sanders. Her spokesperson said in an email that the office “will offer any assistance they may need in handling this death penalty case, like the AG has offered to every other DA in our state.”

When asked for comment about Louisiana’s efforts, a Justice Department spokesman referred NBC News to a February memo issued by Attorney General Pam Bondi on her first day in office that says the federal Bureau of Prisons would ensure states “have sufficient supplies and resources to impose the death penalty.”

Since then, the Justice Department announced it would seek a death sentence against Luigi Mangione, the man suspected of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last year. Three others currently remain on federal death row.

A federal grand jury has indicted a Maryland man on charges of making threatening communications to kidnap and injure Cameroon citizens and providing material support to separatist groups, federal prosecutors announced Friday.

Eric Tataw, 38, of Gaithersburg, who allegedly refers to himself as the “Garri master” a term he coined referring to mutilation, ordered violent groups to murder, kidnap and maim civilians in support of the violence separatist fighters use against the Cameroonian government, prosecutors said.

A Cameroonian national, Tataw surrendered and was set to make his initial court appearance on Friday, the department said.

“The defendant is alleged to have ordered horrific acts of violence, including severing limbs, against Cameroonian civilians in support of a violent secessionist movement,” said Matthew Galeotti, head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, in the release.

Tataw allegedly referred to the dismemberment as “Garriing,” using the phrase “small Garri” for smaller appendages and “large Garri” for limbs or murder, prosecutors said.

He allegedly referred to himself as the “Garri master.”

The separatist fighters, referred to as “Amba Boys,” are calling for the Northwest and Southwest regions to form a new country called “Ambazonia,” prosecutors said. The Amba Boys’ strategies include attacking the Cameroonian military and civilians in efforts to pressure the government into allowing the regions to secede.

The violence in the western regions of Cameroon sparked in 2016, when French-speaking judges and teachers were sent to English-speaking regions, sparking Anglophone demonstrations and protests that Francophones were attempting to reduce their political and cultural significance, according to the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants.

Cameroon inherited two legal systems — English common law and French civil law — following split colonial rule in the early 20th century.

When military forces violently broke up the protests in 2016, the current “Anglophone crisis” began.

The indictment alleges that Tataw began to raise funds in April 2018 to finance the Amba Boys’ attacks in the western regions.

Prosecutors said Tataw, with a large social media following, wrote hundreds of posts across Facebook, YouTube and Twitter calling for the civilian attacks and seeing funds to arm the Amba Boys.

The posts regularly received tens of thousands of views, and the Amba Boys, and Tataw allegedly directed other third parties to circulate the posts further, the department said.

“From about September 2018 through December 2020, Tataw and his co-conspirators raised more than $110,000,” the release stated. “Tataw and co-conspirators transferred portions of these funds — either directly or through intermediaries — to Amba Boys located in Cameroon and neighboring Nigeria.”

Any alleged co-conspirators were not named in the release.

The “National AK Campaign” sought to arm each Amba Boy with an AK-47 rifle in Cameroon, the department said. Prosecutors said funds supplied Amba Boys with explosive materials and items for enforced lockdowns or “ghost-town” orders.

Tataw is alleged to have communicated with the Amba Boy leaders directly, repeatedly taking personal credit for the group’s murders and kidnappings, the release stated.

Tataw allegedly threatened and targeted people he believed were cooperating with the Cameroonian government, such as municipal officials and traditional chiefs, the release stated. Employees of the Cameroon Development Corporation, a public company that grows, processes and sells products like bananas and rubber, were also target, prosecutors said.

Tataw also called for public, educational and cultural properties to be destroyed, according to the release.

“Tataw and his co-conspirators masterminded and financially supported a vicious scheme to overthrow a foreign government,” said U.S. Attorney Kelly O. Hayes for the District of Maryland in the release. “They resorted to an unthinkable level of violence while instilling fear in innocent victims to advance their political agenda.”

Tataw is charged with four counts of interstate communication of a threat to harm and one count of conspiracy to provide material support.

If convicted, he could face a maximum penalty of five years on each count of communication of threat to harm, and up to 15 years on the material support count.

It’s morning in Khan Younis, and the Al-Zurai family wakes up in a tent pitched on the rubble of the cement house they once shared. The tiles that used to be the floor of their home are loosely laid across the sandy ground, marking the space of what is now a makeshift outdoor kitchen.

“Today, God sends us cans, so we’re cooking them for the children,” Suad Al-Zurai, 57, said of the canned beans that she stirs in a simmering pot. It’s the 558th day of the war, and the children, along with the adults, are hungry, covered in dust, haunted by death and facing another day of scraping together a life from the ruins of the Gaza Strip.

NBC News’ crew on the ground spent a day with the Al-Zurai family, from early morning to sunset, to see how they, and thousands of families across the enclave, are living after the ceasefire broke, and Israel began a blockade in early March, barring the entry of food, water, medicine and other supplies into the enclave.

There are 16 members of the Al-Zurai family to share the single pot of beans, eight of them children. At least five more should be there with them, Suad says.

One of her sons was killed along with two of her grandchildren, while another, Khaled Al-Zurai, has been missing for days after an explosion that killed one of his sons. Suad is now taking care of his wife, who has cancer, and their four surviving children. Her third son, Hamed Al-Zurai, and his four children also live with her. Other relatives are displaced to other parts of Gaza.

Suad’s exhaustion is palpable as she stirs the pot under a blazing sun.

For her, enduring survival has begun to feel like death. “We all die one hundred times, every day,” she said, “we die one hundred times daily from fear and horror.”

Her slain loved ones are among more than 51,000 people who have been killed in Gaza, including thousands of children, according to the local health ministry, since Israel launched its offensive in the enclave following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks.

Some 1,200 people were killed during the attacks in southern Israel and around 250 taken hostage, marking a major escalation in a decadeslong conflict.

Throughout the course of the day, worries over food, water and other necessities dominate the family’s discussions, and finding those supplies takes up much of the rest of their time as humanitarian groups warn that aid is running out.

At one point, Hamed Al-Zurai’s 3-year-old daughter, Anwar, throws herself to the floor, crying out for rice, but there isn’t any more to give her.

“My children are constantly crying,” he said. “They want to eat. And I answer them, ‘How? There are no open crossings, so how can I get you food, my love?’”

Before the war, most of the children spent their mornings at school. Now, they dedicate hours each day to trying to find food and water.

Pushing their fears for their missing father aside, Khaled Al-Zurai’s children, Mohammed, 13, and Suad, 12, dutifully pick up their pots and pans and head to the soup kitchen with their cousin, Shadi, 7, taking NBC News’ crew with them on the roughly 30-minute walk.

At the soup kitchen, there’s already a crowd of other children, along with some women and men, waiting for food under the hot sun. The younger Suad stands with her empty pot in her hands, gazing into the distance, bored and exhausted, as she waits, later joining her brother and sister and sitting in a ditch in the shade before they try again.

On offer is rice — and after waiting for an hour, they fill their pots, carrying it back to their tent.

While they’re getting food, Hamed and young Anwar are out to get water for the family. Anwar walks swiftly as she carries two water jugs, each nearly half the size of her small body.

Before the war, Hamed Al-Zurai had a cart and a donkey that he would use to rent out transportation services, but after the donkey died in the war and he lost his cart, he no longer has a way to make money. Unable to buy food or water, the family is left dependent on swiftly dwindling aid.

“The situation is dire,” he said.

But even at a time of incredible darkness, there are moments of light for the Al-Zurais: smiles as they gather together in their tent, finally sharing their hard-won lunch.

After eating, Mohammed gives his younger siblings and cousins old rubber tires to play with. Anwar grins as she wheels one across the sandy ground.

As the sun goes down, the children huddle in a circle outside, laughing as they play hand-clapping games. And for a moment, they look just like any other children anywhere else in the world.

Then, they return to their makeshift tent to eat a meager dinner of more rice and beans, before eventually settling down for bed, huddling together on the ground, wrapped in blankets.

“We hate the nighttime,” Suad Al-Zurai said. And, she added, “the daytime.”

Wrexham AFC is just one step away from English soccer’s Premier League after being promoted into the system’s second tier — the Red Dragons’ third straight promotion.

The Welsh soccer team, owned by Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, advanced to the top tier of the English Football League — or the Championship — after beating Charlton 3-0 on Saturday.

Reynolds and McElhenney celebrated the win alongside thousands of fans who stormed the home field, despite police warnings for those who invaded the pitch.

“It just seemed like an impossible dream,” Reynolds said after the win, according to the Associated Press, reflecting on his team’s third promotion in three seasons. “We said five years ago our goal was to make it to the Premier League. There were understandably a lot of laughs, but it feels like a thing that could make it to fruition right now.”

Wrexham kicked off Saturday’s game with two goals in three minutes, leaving them with a comfortable lead early on. Striker Sam Smith sealed the deal with the third goal in the 81st minute of play.

The team — the oldest in Wales and third-oldest soccer team in the world — will spend next season sitting just below the coveted Premier League.

When Reynolds and McElhenney took the reins in 2021, Wrexham was in the National League, making it seem unlikely that the team would so quickly be within spitting distance of the top tier of English soccer.

“The owners have come in and done an amazing job. I’m so pleased for them because they deserve it,” manager Phil Parkinson said, according to the AP. “They’re invested in all the decisions, but they trust us in in our decision making and that’s why we’ve had success over the last three years.”

There was no president. There was no comedian. What remained at the White House Correspondents’ Association’s annual dinner on Saturday night were the journalists and the First Amendment.

The stripped-down festivities were a reflection of the somber tone in Washington at the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term, in which he has battled with the press on multiple fronts and wrested from the correspondents’ association the power to decide which outlets have the most access to Trump.

Trump’s deeper involvement in politics began after then-President Barack Obama roasted the New Yorker’s presidential ambitions during the 2011 correspondents’ dinner. He skipped the annual gala during his first term, and his absence had been widely expected this year.

The association scrapped a scheduled appearance at this year’s dinner by comedian Amber Ruffin after she referred to the new administration as “kind of a bunch of murderers” on a podcast last month. The organization, a nonprofit that helps White House journalists provide robust coverage of the presidency, decided to forgo the event’s traditional levity and focus on celebrating journalism.

Association President Eugene Daniels said in an email to the organization’s 900 members last month that the dinner was meant to “honor journalistic excellence and a robust, independent media covering the most powerful office in the world.”

The event, which raises money for journalism scholarships, remains a highlight of the Washington social calendar. The ballroom at the Washington Hilton was still packed with journalists, newsmakers and even a few celebrities. Daniels singled out Debra Tice, whose son Austin has been missing for a decade since disappearing in Syria.

“We’ve been tested and attacked. But every single day our members get up, they run to the White House — plane, train, automobile — with one mission, holding the powerful accountable,” Daniels said.

He later showed a video of past presidents, from Ronald Reagan to Joe Biden, who addressed the dinner, saying that the association invites the president to demonstrate the importance of a free press in safeguarding democracy.

Trump counter-programmed the last dinner during his first term, holding a rally to compete with the event in 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic canceled the 2020 dinner. This year, Trump had just flown back from Pope Francis’ funeral in Rome and had no events Saturday night.

The Trump administration has had multiple skirmishes with the press in recent months. The FCC is investigating several media companies, the administration is working to shut down Voice of America and other government-run outlets, and The Associated Press has sued the administration for reducing its access to events because it has not renamed the Gulf of Mexico in line with Trump’s executive order.

A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction ordering the administration to stop blocking the AP from presidential events. In response, the White House adopted a new press policy that gives the administration sole discretion over who gets to question Trump and sharply curtails the access of three news agencies, including AP, that serve billions of readers around the world.

For many years previously, the correspondents’ association determined which news organizations had access to limited space events.

Alex Thompson of Axios, who won The Aldo Beckman Award for his coverage of the coverup of Biden’s decline while in office, addressed complaints from some on the right that the press had gone too soft on the Democrat.

“We — myself included — missed a lot of this story, and some people trust us less because of it,” Thompson told the room of journalists. “We bear some responsibility for faith in the media being at such lows.”

Saturday’s dinner also recognized the winners of a number of journalism awards, in addition to Thompson. They included:

—The Award for Excellence in Presidential Coverage Under Deadline Pressure (Print): Aamer Madhani and Zeke Miller of the AP, for reporting on the White House altering its transcript to erase Biden calling Trump supporters “garbage.”

—The Award for Excellence in Presidential Coverage Under Deadline Pressure (Broadcast): Rachel Scott of ABC News, for her coverage of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.

—The Award for Excellence in Presidential News Coverage by Visual Journalists: Doug Mills of the New York Times, for his photograph of Biden walking under a painting of Abraham Lincoln.

—The Katharine Graham Award for Courage and Accountability: Reuters, for its series on the production and smuggling of the deadly narcotic fentanyl.

—Collier Prize for State Government Accountability: AP for its series, “Prison to Plate: Profiting off America’s Captive Workforce.”

—Center for News Integrity Award: Anthony Zurcher of the BBC for his coverage of the fallout from Biden’s handling of the Gaza War.

Multiple people were killed and injured when a driver plowed into a crowd at a street festival in Vancouver, Canada, Saturday night, police said.

The driver was in custody following the crash on East 41st Ave. and Fraser Street shortly after 8 p.m. local time, the Vancouver Police Department said in a post on X.

Police did not immediately provide a number of victims or a possible motive.

The site of the crash is near the posted location of the Lapu-Lapu Day block party, a celebration of Filipino culture.

Deana Lancaster, a spokesperson for Vancouver General Hospital, the region’s top trauma facility, said it was receiving multiple patients from the incident, which she understood to be the Lapu-Lapu Day party.

“I am shocked and deeply saddened by the horrific incident at today’s Lapu Lapu Day event,” Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim said, adding that more information would be forthcoming as soon as it is available.

“Our thoughts are with all those affected and with Vancouver’s Filipino community during this incredibly difficult time,” Sim said.

British Columbia Premier David Eby said his team was in contact with Vancouver officials and would provide any needed support.

Jagmeet Singh, the leader of Canada’s New Democrat Party, said on X that he was “horrified.”

“As we wait to learn more, our thoughts are with the victims and their families — and Vancouver’s Filipino community, who were coming together today to celebrate resilience,” he said.

EVANS, Ga. — Two Georgia deputies were shot during a traffic stop Saturday evening and one of them is dead, law enforcement officials said.

The Columbia County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the deputy’s death around 6:30 p.m. and said the other deputy was taken to a hospital, WRDW-TV reported.

The suspect was identified as James Blake Montgomery, who was believed to have been in a camper near Mile Marker 194 off Belair Road, near Augusta, Columbia County deputies told WRDW.

Helicopters and drones were in the air as part of the effort to capture Montgomery, the deputies said.

Communication over police radio told officers to take a photo of the suspect “in the trailer.” The focus was the Arrowood Mobile Home Community.

Gov. Brian Kemp issued a statement on X about the shooting.

“Marty, the girls, and I are praying for the loved ones and colleagues of the Columbia County sheriffs deputy that has fallen in the line of duty, as well as his fellow law enforcement officer injured tonight while protecting his fellow Georgians,” Kemp said. “As they remain in our hearts and prayers, we’re also painfully reminded of why those who wear a badge have more than earned our enduring respect and appreciation.”

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