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NYC Billionaire Suggests Black NY Senator is Worse than KKK
A billionaire hedge fund manager has apologized for an online post saying that a black New York state senator has "done more damage to people of color than anyone who …
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National
Rebel Yell: Southern Nationalists Again Crying 'Secede'
As 21st century activists seek to topple monuments to the 19th century Confederate rebellion, some white Southerners are again advocating for what the Confederates tried and failed to do: secede …
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Person of the Day
Brandi Herrington
Brandi Herrington, who is a science teacher at Armstrong Middle School in Starkville, and her mom, Deborah Duncan, who is a retired high-school science teacher, say they have always been …
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National
Trump Warns US 'Locked and Loaded' as North Readies Missiles
President Donald Trump tweeted Friday that the U.S. military is "locked and loaded" if North Korea acts "unwisely," escalating an exchange of threats between the nuclear-armed nations.
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Health Care
Trump-McConnell Feud Does Little to Jumpstart Stalled Agenda
President Donald Trump has spent much of the week feuding with his top Senate partner, suggesting that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell might have to rethink his future if he doesn't …
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Health Care
Poll: Most Say Time to End Effort to Repeal Obama Health Law
Message to President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans: It's time to make the Obama health care law more effective. Stop trying to scuttle it. That's the resounding word from a …
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Education
School Choice Program Raises Questions About Accountability
More than a third of U.S. states have created school voucher programs that bypass thorny constitutional and political issues by turning them over to nonprofits that rely primarily on businesses …
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Business
Coal Mine Layoffs Latest Fallout at Kemper Power Plant
The company that supplies lignite coal to Mississippi Power Co.'s Kemper County power plant says it will lay off 75 workers at the mine.
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Crime
A Sterling Closer, Failed Maury Povich Quip Closed Out Hinds DA Smith's Second Trial
The mostly female and predominately black jury raised their hands Tuesday evening to confirm that they unanimously had decided that Hinds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith was not guilty …
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Civil Rights
Democrats, Republicans Honor Robert Clark's 'Striving and Working' Legacy
In the midst of Mississippi's turbulent reckoning with the Civil Rights Movement, Holmes County residents elected Robert G. Clark to the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1967. He was the …
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Sean Payton
Saints head coach Sean Payton came to New Orleans at one of the lowest points in the franchise's history.
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North Korea Details Plan to Fire Missile Salvo Toward Guam
North Korea has announced a detailed plan to launch a salvo of ballistic missiles toward the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam, a major military hub and home to U.S. bombers. …
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Health Care
Trump Escalates Feud with Senate GOP Leader Over Health Care
President Donald Trump resumed his taunts of his party's Senate leader on Thursday, expressing disbelief that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell couldn't persuade a Republican majority to pass a health care …
