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Education

Senate Republicans Block Student Loan Bill

Senate Republicans have blocked an election-year attempt by Democrats to let people refinance their student loan debt at lower rates.

State

Water Projects Bill Includes Mississippi Projects

President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed a bill that includes authorization for $693.3 million for the Mississippi Coastal Improvement Program in Hancock, Harrison and Jackson counties.

Health Care

House Votes to Ensure Speedier Care for U.S. Vets

United and eager to respond to a national uproar, the House overwhelmingly approved legislation Tuesday to make it easier for patients enduring long waits for care at Veterans Affairs facilities …

National

Senator: Bergdahl Deal Sealed Day Before Swap

The Obama administration only finalized the exchange of the last remaining U.S. prisoner of war in Afghanistan for five Taliban detainees at Guantanamo a day before the swap, a top …

National

Report: Social Security Judges Rubber-Stamp Claims

Amid complaints about lengthy waits for Social Security disability benefits, congressional investigators say nearly 200 administrative judges have been rubber-stamping claims, approving billions of dollars in lifetime payments from the …

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Family: U.S. Rep. Nunnelee's Brain Surgery Went Well

A Republican congressman from north Mississippi is recovering from brain surgery.

Business

Up to $400M Could Spur Oil Drilling in La., Miss.

A private equity firm will invest up to $400 million to support efforts by Houston-based Halcón Resources Corp to drill for oil on the 314,000 acres that Halcón has leased …

Health Care

Healthy Seniors Tested in Bid to Block Alzheimer's

In one of the most ambitious attempts yet to thwart Alzheimer's disease, a major study got underway Monday to see if an experimental drug can protect healthy seniors whose brains …

Education

Obama Moves to Extend Student Loan Payment Relief

Aiming to alleviate the burden of student loan debt, President Barack Obama expanded a program Monday that lets borrowers pay no more than 10 percent of their income every month, …

Crime

Police Probe Ties Between Vegas shooters, Bundy

Investigators are looking into whether the husband and wife who shot and killed two Las Vegas police officers over the weekend had been at Cliven Bundy's Nevada ranch during a …

Health Care

Audit: More Than 57,000 Await First VA Appointment

More than 57,000 U.S. military veterans have been waiting 90 days or more for their first VA medical appointments, and an additional 64,000 appear to have fallen through the cracks, …

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Summer Flounder Stirs North-South Climate Change Battle

Northern and southern states are in conflict over the summer flounder, the population of which has been migrating north as climate change warms the Atlantic Ocean.

City & County

Gregory to Keynote Freedom Summer Banquet

Former NAACP leader and civil rights pioneer Julian Bond will join actor and activist Danny Glover and activist and comedian Dick Gregory at a banquet in Jackson to close out …

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New K-9 Unit Targets Contraband at 4 Miss. Prisons

Management & Training Corporation, which operates four prisons in Mississippi, will use dogs to combat contraband entering its facilities.

National

Texas GOP Advances 'Reparative Therapy' for Gays

The Texas Republican Party would endorse psychological treatment that seeks to turn gay people straight under a new platform partly aimed at rebuking laws in California and New Jersey that …