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Mississippi House Republicans have nominated Rep. Jason White, R-West, to serve as the new House speaker in the 2024 legislative session. He has expressed an
Another election year is over, but our work interrogating Mississippi’s election systems—from ballot shortages to database errors—certainly is not.
U.S. House Rep. Michael Guest, a Mississippi Republican, will introduce a resolution to expel Rep. George Santos from Congress, his office said on Nov. 16.
Lynn Fitch, the antiabortion Mississippi attorney general who led the Dobbs case that overturned Roe v. Wade, won reelection Tuesday night.
At least nine Hinds County polling places ran out of ballots over the course of Election Day as voters headed to the polls to elect a governor and to vote for other statewide, legislative, regional and local offices. Hinds County includes Jackson, the nearly 83%-Black capital city.
The polls reported on now will mean little after Nov. 7. But the leaders voters elect that day will determine the future of health care, voting rights, taxes, criminal justice and myriad other issues that affect our daily lives for years to come.
After searching for her missing son Dexter Wade for months, JPD told Bettersten Wade an officer had struck and killed him six months earlier.
The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is investigating reports that someone fired gunshots outside U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s home in Brookhaven, Miss., on Sunday afternoon. No injuries have been reported.
Mississippi Sen. Joey Fillingane, the Republican who authored Mississippi’s trigger law that banned nearly all abortions in the state, is falsely claiming that a new effort to enshrine a right to birth control in state law will legalize “morning-after abortions.” But morning-after abortions do not exist.
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