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Mississippi capital: Water everywhere, not a drop to drink
Mississippi's capital city is grappling with multiple water problems — too much on the ground after heavy rainfall in the past week, and not enough safe water coming through the...

Minority women most affected if abortion is banned, limited
If you are Black or Hispanic in a conservative state that already limits access to abortions, you are far more likely than a white woman to have one.

March for Life, nationās largest abortion protest, could be last under Roe
Anti-abortion protesters began to gather Friday in the nation's capital with spirits high and a sense that the country has reached a pivotal moment that could lead to a sweeping...

Bannon indicted on contempt charges for defying 1/6 subpoena
Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, was indicted Friday on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress after he defied a subpoena from the House committee...

Mississippi could drop Jim Crow-era statewide voting process
Mississippi just ditched its Confederate-themed state flag. Later this year, the state's voters will decide whether to dump a statewide election process that dates to the Jim Crow era.

With a pen stroke, Mississippi drops Confederate-themed flag
With a stroke of the governor’s pen, Mississippi is retiring the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem — a symbol that’s widely condemned as racist.

Mississippi to remove Confederate emblem from its flag
Mississippi lawmakers voted Sunday to surrender the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag, more than a century after white supremacist legislators adopted the design a generation after the South...

Mississippi takes step toward dropping rebel image from flag
Mississippi has the last state flag with the Confederate battle emblem -- a red field topped by a blue X with 13 white stars. Many see the emblem as racist,...

Mississippi faces reckoning on Confederate emblem in flag
The young activists who launched a protest movement after George Floyd’s death are bringing fresh energy to a long-simmering debate about the Confederate battle emblem that white supremacists embedded within...

Brett Favre repaying $1.1 M for no-show speeches, auditor says
Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre is repaying $1.1 million in welfare money that he received for multiple speeches where he did not show up, the Mississippi state auditor said Wednesday.