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Bernie Sanders' Health Care Plan Puts Democrats on the Spot
Sen. Bernie Sanders rode his impassioned liberal army of supporters through a tumultuous 2016, fighting to snatch the Democratic presidential nomination from Hillary Clinton. Now he's disrupting the party anew, …
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National
Senate GOP Struggles With Deficit in Work on Budget, Taxes
Senate Republicans are struggling with how many billions of dollars President Donald Trump's tax code overhaul will add to the deficit as they work on a GOP budget plan that's …
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FEMA Estimates One-Fourth of Keys Homes Could be Destroyed
Search-and-rescue teams made their way into the Florida Keys' farthest reaches Tuesday, while crews labored to repair the single washed-out highway connecting the islands and rush aid to Hurricane Irma's …
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Immigration
Chicago Asks for National Halt to Trump Immigration Rules
Attorneys for Chicago on Monday asked a federal judge for a nationwide halt to Trump administration requirements that cities enforce tough immigration laws in order to receive some federal grants, …
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Politics
UN Approves Watered-Down New Sanctions Against North Korea
The U.N. Security Council on Monday unanimously approved new sanctions on North Korea but not the toughest-ever measures sought by the Trump administration to ban all oil imports and freeze …
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Education
Analysis: Pickering's School Funding Ideas Cut Against Grain
Legislative leaders recently said that they'd still like to rewrite Mississippi's public school funding formula, and urged people with ideas to speak up.
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Hurricane
Irma Loses Hurricane Status but Keeps Spreading Misery
Hurricane Irma weakened to a still-dangerous tropical storm Monday as it pushed inland, triggering record flooding in Florida's northeastern corner, while rescuers in its soggy, wind-battered wake mobilized to reach …
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State
AG Warns: It's a Felony to Sell Flood-damaged Vehicles as New
Attorney General Jim Hood cautioned Mississippians who are in the market to purchase vehicles in the next few months to be wary of flood damage.
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Education
Sanford Out, Adams in at JSU, Mississippi Dance Festival and Dr. Jermaine Gray
Jackson State University fired O'Neill Sanford, director of the Sonic Boom of the South marching band, on Wednesday, Aug. 30, following an incident in which the band allegedly traveled with …
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Music
John De Chiaro
As a child, John De Chiaro often traveled with his stepfather, a shoemaker in New Jersey, into New York City to buy supplies, but on one trip, at about 5 …
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Art
Redefining Royalty: A Look Inside Jackson’s Drag Culture
Zachary Salter, who performs as Tara Shay Montgomery, says his drag persona is an extension of his own personality.
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Hurricane
Gas Prices Surge Higher as Drivers Rush to Fill Their Tanks
Gasoline prices rose several cents overnight amid continuing fears of shortages in Texas and other states in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey's strike on the Gulf Coast.
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Gasoline prices rose several cents overnight amid continuing fears of shortages in Texas and other …
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Business
US Job Growth Slows to 156K; Unemployment Up to 4.4 Pct.
U.S. job growth slowed in August as employers added 156,000 jobs, still enough to suggest that most businesses remain confident in an economy now in its ninth year of recovery …
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Immigration
A Torn Trump Still Weighing Fate of Young Immigrants
With a deadline looming, President Donald Trump remains torn over the fate of hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who were brought into the country illegally as children — a …
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Hurricane
Fewer Houston Residents Had Flood Insurance Before Harvey
Houston's population is growing quickly, but when Harvey hit last weekend there were far fewer homes and other properties in the area with flood insurance than just five years ago, …
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All Hands on Deck: Showing Up for Childhood Literacy in Mississippi
Almost two-thirds of American children cannot read proficiently at the beginning of the fourth grade, the benchmark used in most public schools. That means that those children are unable to …
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Israeli Leader's Settlement Vow Complicates Trump's Task
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's vow to never evacuate Jewish settlements from occupied land drew outrage Tuesday from Palestinians and complicated matters for the Trump administration's would-be peace envoys as …
