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Advanced Breast Cancer Edges Up in Younger Women

Advanced breast cancer has increased slightly among young women, a 34-year analysis suggests. The disease is still uncommon among women younger than 40, and the small change has experts scratching …

Economy

Budget Battle Guide: This Time May Be for Real

America's leaders have threatened to shut the government down, drive it over a cliff and bounce it off the ceiling. Now they're ready to smack it with a "sequester." And …

National

Hagel Takes Helm at Pentagon After Bitter Fight

Chuck Hagel took charge Wednesday of the Defense Department with deep budget cuts looming and Republican opponents still doubtful that he's up to the job.

Economy

Obama, Top Lawmakers to Meet Friday on Budget Cuts

The meeting will come after Congress has officially missed the deadline for averting the cuts.

Politics

Miss. Senate Passes Secretary of State Budget

The Mississippi Senate on Tuesday approved $695,000 for the secretary of state to defend a proposed voter identification law, and the budget bill moves on to the House for more …

National

First Witness Testifies in Gulf Oil Spill Trial

BP failed to implement a new safety plan on the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon drilling rig even though the company realized a blowout in the Gulf of Mexico was its greatest …

Crime

Court Appears Conflicted Over DNA Sampling Issue

The Supreme Court on Tuesday struggled with what one of the justices called its most important criminal procedure case in decades, whether to let police take DNA without a warrant …

World

Benedict to Be Called 'Emeritus Pope,' Wear White

Two pontiffs, both wearing white, both called "pope" and living a few yards from one another, with the same key aide serving them.

Immigration

Bipartisan Agreement on Need for More Farm Workers

Republicans and Democrats said Tuesday that farmers should be allowed to hire foreign workers more easily as Congress reworks U.S. immigration laws. But there was some disagreement on how it …

Immigration

DHS Releasing Illegal Immigrants Before Sequester

A week before mandatory budget cuts go into effect across the government, the Department of Homeland Security has started releasing illegal immigrants being held in immigration jails across the country, …

National

Senate Confirms Hagel for Defense Secretary

The Senate has voted to confirm Chuck Hagel to be the nation's next defense secretary.

World

Fiery Balloon Accident Kills 19 Tourists in Egypt

Nineteen people were killed Tuesday in what appeared to be the deadliest hot air ballooning accident on record. A British tourist and the Egyptian pilot, who was badly burned, were …

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Council Rejects Street-Repair Proposal

Mayor Harvey Johnson's biggest election-year project hit a dead end Monday when an overwhelming majority of the Jackson City Council's Budget Committee voted against a $10-million bond issue for street …

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Nissan, SBA Video Contest and New Legislation

Nissan and employees at the company's vehicle assembly plant in Canton pledged to contribute $354,400 to the United Way in 2013, beginning with a $25,000 donation to United Way of …

Tease photo Person of the Day

David Banner

Education holds importance to record producer and rapper David Banner. This week, he will be a keynote speaker at two separate events about education in Jackson.

National

Kerry Pushes Trans-Atlantic Free Trade in Germany

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pushed Tuesday for a free-trade agreement between the United States and Europe, saying it is a priority for President Barack Obama's second term that …

World

New Talks On Iran Nuclear Program Offer Slim Hope

World powers began a new round of high-level talks with Iranian officials Tuesday, trying to find a way out of a yearslong tussle over Tehran's nuclear program and its feared …

National

Senate to Vote On Moving Ahead On Hagel Nod

A deeply divided Senate is moving toward a vote on President Barack Obama's contentious choice of Chuck Hagel to head the Defense Department, with the former Republican senator on track …

National

Email, Voicemail, Text, No Response. What Gives?

Technology is supposed to make us easier to reach, and often does. But the same modes of communication that have hooked us on the instant reply also can leave us …

National

Koop, Who Transformed Surgeon General Post, Dies

With his striking beard and starched uniform, former Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop became one of the most recognizable figures of the Reagan era—and one of the most unexpectedly …