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BREAKING: Gov. Tate Reeves is ending federal unemployment assistance for Mississippians.He informed the Biden administration today that the state will opt out of $300/wk in unemployment benefits provided under the

NEW: The "end times"are here, Mississippi's top election official, Secretary Michael Watson, declared today.And we need more Christian leaders to face the coming perils, he said.“If you’re a believer ...

NEW: Systemic racism built Mississippi. Gov. Tate Reeves claims it doesn't exist.But this isn't a report about what "both sides are saying." This is an in-depth look at the facts—which

My "Easy-Breezy Millennial" Timeline Age 1: 1st recession, 1st Iraq War8: 1st impeachment9: Columbine12: 2nd recession, 9/11, Afghanistan War13: 2nd Iraq War15: Katrina18: 3rd recession26: 201629: 2nd impeachment30: 4th recession,

I lost my white brother to police brutality when I was 14-years-old.I am goddamn tired of people who don't give a single damn about victims like him pretending they care

BREAKING from @DonnerKay: A year after Mississippi changed our state flag, a Confederate group is celebrating after Gov. Tate Reeves once again declared April as "Confederate Heritage Month."Story: https://www.mississippifreepress

NEW: After nationwide backlash for warning against registering "woke" and "uninformed" college students to vote, Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson is saying he regrets not wording his remarks better.But

NEW: Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves lashed out after four top doctors sent a letter pleading with him to reissue a statewide mask mandate."I get frustrated when so-called experts decide that

In 2005, George W. Bush read a book on the 1918 flu. He was shook."This happens every 100 years. We need a national strategy," he said.They forged a comprehensive pandemic

Don't reply to a story of mine about Mississippi racism with, "Well, it IS Mississippi, so..."I don't report these stories so smug Californians/Michiganders et al., can hop on a high

BREAKING: Election officials in Madison County quietly rezoned 2,000 Black & Hispanic voters out of a majority white precinct into an already-majority Black one.Now, 3,670 mostly non-white voters must share

NEW: Local Mississippi election officials have changed the polling locations for 5,000 Mississippians from where they were during the spring primaries, the secretary of state announced.Our map shows where to