Mississippi

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Politicians should stop wasting taxpayer money on ‘bullet trains’

Grover Norquist · July 5, 2019 4:52 pm

Visitors stand outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018. The U.S. Senate is expected to approve a sweeping revamp of financial rules this week. Some big banks are lobbying right up to the vote in hopes of salvaging a victory because the legislation probably marks the last time lawmakers with full plates will take up financial regulations before November's crucial midterm elections.

Mississippi death row inmate who claimed racial bias wins new trial

Melissa Quinn · June 21, 2019 3:54 pm

CORRECTS JOHN MILKOVICH TO D-SHREVEPORT - Sen. John Milkovich, D-Shreveport, left, and Rep. Valarie Hodges, R-Denham Springs, speak outside the State Capitol, after the House passed Milkovich's 'fetal heartbeat' bill that would ban abortions at about six weeks of pregnancy, if upheld by the courts, sending it to the governor's desk without exceptions for victims of rape and incest, on Wednesday, May 29, 2019, in Baton Rouge, La. Hodges handled the bill on the House side for its passage. Gov. John Bel Edwards, the only Democratic governor in the Deep South, supports the ban and intends to sign it into law.

Democrat: Abortion is ‘modern-day genocide’

John Gage · June 3, 2019 7:26 pm

In this Oct. 29, 2014, file photo, Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., responds to the crowd's applause following his short campaign speech at Hobnob, a casual gathering of business people at the Mississippi Coliseum in Jackson, Miss.

Longtime Mississippi senator Thad Cochran dead at 81

Naomi Lim · May 30, 2019 3:21 pm

An abortion rights advocate holds signage at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., voicing her opposition to state legislatures passing abortion bans that prohibit most abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, Tuesday, May 21, 2019. In addition, there are no provisions for rape or incest. Mississippi is among the states that have passed and signed into law such legislation.

Federal judge blocks Mississippi 6-week abortion ban

Kimberly Leonard · May 24, 2019 8:55 pm

This photo shows Doug McLeod in Mississippi.

Lawmaker arrested after punching wife in face for undressing too slowly

Zach Halaschak · May 22, 2019 5:41 pm

In this Oct. 24, 2011 file photo, political pundit Keith Olbermann leaves a taping of the "Late Show with David Letterman," in New York.

Olbermann calls open season on the rural South

Salena Zito · April 2, 2019 1:03 pm

The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court gather for an official group portrait to include new Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, top row, far right, Thursday. June 1, 2017, at the Supreme Court Building in Washington. Seated, from left are, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, and Associate Justice Stephen Breyer. Standing, from left are, Associate Justice Elena Kagan, Associate Justice Samuel Alito Jr., Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch.

Justice Clarence Thomas asks a question in court for first time since 2016

Zach Halaschak · March 21, 2019 4:21 am

LAUREL HIGHLANDS, Pennsylvania - Photo of Andrea Rodiâs phone buried in the snow around mile marker 47 along the Laurel Highlands Hiking Trail.

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From the rubble of a church rises a spirit of love

Salena Zito · March 15, 2019 4:00 am

A police officer grabs a man holding a Confederate flag during a rally regarding the recently vandalized Confederate monument known as Silent Sam at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

Kneeling for the Union’s national anthem isn’t a great way to protest a Confederate rally

Tom Joyce · February 25, 2019 5:50 pm

Six Mississippi basketball players take a knee during the national anthem before an NCAA college basketball game against Georgia in Oxford, Miss., Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019.

Ole Miss coaches stand behind basketball players’ decision to take a knee before Saturday game

Dominick Mastrangelo · February 25, 2019 4:18 pm

Dog shoots man

Vaishnavee Sharma · January 9, 2019 4:57 pm