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Another major singer is canceling a concert to protest a religious freedom law
Canadian singer Bryan Adams has canceled a show in Mississippi this week to protest a new state law that lets people with religious objections deny services to same-sex couples, the rocker said in a...
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Mississippi governor signs law allowing guns in church
A holstered gun sat on top of a Bible on Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant's desk Friday when he signed a law allowing guns in churches, which he said would help protect worshippers from potential...
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3 killed, one wounded in shootings in Mississippi
(Reuters) - Three people were killed and one critically wounded in shootings early on Wednesday in north-central Mississippi, a Mississippi Bureau of Investigation official said.Multiple crime scenes...
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A Mississippi man has been stuck in jail for 11 years because of a legal...
Steven Jessie Harris has been incarcerated in the Clay County Jail in West Point, Mississippi, for over a decade without a trial, The Clarion-Ledger reports, and the case appears to be in violation of...
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This is what happens to Americans who can't afford internet access
I trekked more than 1,000 miles across Mississippi with Mic's video team to talk to people about the digital divide in the state. During the trip, I visited the Stone Elementary School in Wiggins,...
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A judge in Mississippi struck down a law saying government clerks can claim...
(Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday ruled that clerks in Mississippi may not recuse themselves from issuing marriage licenses to gay couples based on religious beliefs, despite a bill passed by the...
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Other states are already feeling the effects of the Supreme Court's landmark...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Reverberations from the U.S. Supreme Court's major ruling backing abortion rights were felt on Tuesday as the justices rejected bids by Mississippi and Wisconsin to revive...
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Both sides of the Mississippi gay rights battle think they are losing
JACKSON, MISS. — It had rained hard all morning with the kind of intensity that might convince folks to stay home on a dark and cloudy Sunday afternoon.But as a group of protesters began to assemble...
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Sheriff's office: Mississippi man hunted down ex, kidnapped her, murdered 5
A 27-year-old Mississippi man murdered five people, including a pregnant woman, at a home in rural Alabama early on Saturday before kidnapping his estranged girlfriend and a 3-month-old, authorities...
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People in Mississippi are mad about new rules over who can visit people in...
Family and friends of Mississippi state prisoners were surprised and alarmed by a new policy announced Wednesday that bans all but immediate family members from visiting.According to a memo posted in...
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In some states, raising the age for adult court is the easy part
It has become a national trend: raising the age at which teenagers are tried in adult court.In just the last few years, Connecticut, Illinois, Mississippi, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire have all...
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The level of religiousness has huge effects on how much men and women are paid
The level of religious activity in a state can have a significant effect on the wage gap between men and women in that state, according to a report released by the Economic Policy Institute last...
View ArticleAnimated map of the Mississippi River will completely change your perspective...
The Mississippi River is a giant river that provides abundant resources. But, how big is it, exactly? This animated map shows the scale of the Mississippi River and its drainage system in...
View Article'We’re investigating this as a hate crime': Black church in Mississippi...
A black church in Mississippi was burned and spray-painted with "Vote Trump" and authorities said on Wednesday they were probing the incident as a hate crime committed one week before the U.S....
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Historically black Mississippi church burned, spray-painted with 'Vote Trump'...
A historically black church in Greenville, Mississippi, was burned and spray-painted with the words “Vote Trump” late Tuesday evening.Firefighters and police officers responded to an emergency call at...
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The Trump administration could boost the 'personhood' movement among abortion...
The push to confer full “personhood” status on every fertilized human egg has been rejected by voters and lawmakers in state after state, including deep-red Mississippi.But activists are cautiously...
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Suspect in 'Vote Trump' vandalism and burning of black Mississippi church...
Mississippi authorities arrested a man Wednesday in the burning of an African-American church that was also spray-painted with the words, "Vote Trump."Andrew McClinton of Leland, Mississippi, was...
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A strong tornado killed at least four people in southern Mississippi
(Reuters) - A strong tornado killed at least four people in southern Mississippi and left many others trapped in their homes after touching down in the hours before sunrise on Saturday, state officials...
View ArticleThe Mississippi River is larger than you think
The Mississippi River is a giant river that provides abundant resources. But, how big is it, exactly? This animated map shows the scale of the Mississippi River and its drainage system in...
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Mississippi may bring back firing-squad executions
Concerned by recent court challenges and practical constraints that make execution by lethal injection increasingly precarious, Mississippi is taking preemptive action.The state legislature introduced...
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