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Lawmakers: Obama Wooing Might Break Budget Logjam

Republican lawmakers said Sunday they welcome President Barack Obama's courtship and suggested the fresh engagement between the White House and Congress might help yield solutions to the stubborn budget battle …

Feds Now Back Morning-After Pills for All Girls

After setting off a storm of criticism from abortion rights groups upset that a Democratic president had sided with social conservatives, the Obama administration said it will comply with a …

Will Last-Minute Shoppers See Massive Discounts In Final Holiday Shopping Week?

This holiday shopping season, many stores haven't been offering the same blockbuster deals as they have in years past. Instead, they've dangled offers of free shipping and no-fee layaways to …

Obama Nominates Senator John Kerry to be Secretary of State

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday nominated Sen. John Kerry as his next secretary of state, elevating the longtime lawmaker and foreign policy expert to the top diplomatic …

Obama: Truth, Tone and the Democratic Party

Jackson Ordinance Seeks to Curb State Gun Law

City Council President Charles Tillman has introduced a gun ordinance that would ban handguns from most public places.

The NSA machine: Too Big for Anyone to Understand

The National Security Agency set it in motion in 2006 and the vast network of supercomputers, switches and wiretaps began gathering Americans' phone and Internet records by the millions, looking …

Lisa Marie Grows Up

Lisa Marie Presley really doesn't need an introduction. Most people know she's the only daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley. She's also been releasing music of her own since 2002.

No Cutoff in U.S. Aid to Egyptian Military, for Now

The Obama administration signaled Monday that U.S. national security interests will trump its promotion of Egypt's budding democracy.

With Pot Legal in Washington State, The Work On Regulation Begins... If the Feds Wll Let It

People openly lit joints under the Space Needle and on Seattle's sidewalks — then blew the smoke at TV news cameras. To those looking to "get baked," the city's police …

Obama's Fixer-Upper Website Races to Catch Up

It looks like President Barack Obama's fickle health insurance website is finally starting to put up some respectable sign-up numbers, but its job only seems to have gotten harder.

[Music] The Suitors Come Calling

"So, be honest—is this, like, gonna make us famous?" Chaz Lindsay, lead vocalist of The Suitors, asks jokingly.

Newly Leaked Dossier on Trump Circulated in DC for Months

It was a bombshell story, emerging on the eve of Donald Trump's first news conference as president-elect: U.S. intelligence officials had presented Trump with unsubstantiated claims that Russia had amassed …

Entrepreneur Quarterly at Sal & Mookie's, Metrocenter Closing and Shipley Do-Nuts

Sal & Mookie's New York Pizza & Ice Cream Joint is partnering with Mantle. City Club to launch a series of meetings and networking opportunities for local entrepreneurs titled Entrepreneur …

Father’s Day: Things to Do

You'll have no shortage of great things to do in the Jackson metro for Father's Day this year. Here's just a few that the JFP has picked out.

Trump Voting Commission Criticized for Lack of Transparency

President Donald Trump's advisory commission on election integrity has integrity questions of its own—with some of its own members raising concerns about its openness.

Russia Wins Team Figure Skating, 1st Gold of Sochi

A master showman and four-time Olympic medalist, Evgeni Plushenko knows brilliance on the ice. He saw it Sunday night inside the Iceberg at Sochi's Olympic Park from a countrywoman half …

Through Fog of Complaints, Sochi's Light Shines

Unfinished hotels, packs of stray dogs with a price on their heads, warnings not to drink the strange-colored water. Westerners coming to Sochi for the Winter Olympics seemed surprised by …

Trans Children in the Balance in Mississippi

On Tuesday, May 24, the nine-member Mississippi Board of Education decided unanimously to disregard the federal government's Title IX guidelines to protect transgender students from discrimination just days after the …

Confederate Monuments Removed Overnight in Baltimore

Confederate monuments in Baltimore were quietly removed and hauled away on trucks in darkness early Wednesday, days after a violent white nationalist rally in Virginia that was sparked by plans …