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Divided Vote Foreshadows Obama Challenge on Syria

A Senate panel's deep divide over giving President Barack Obama the authority to use U.S. military force against Syria underscores the commander in chief's challenge in persuading skeptical lawmakers and …

Stinker Quote of the Week: 'Never Seen'

Attorney Gipson could use a refresher course on the law, it seems.

Ex-Chevron Lobbyist Joins PSC

Steve Renfroe, a former lobbyist for Chevron Corporation, will take over as one of Mississippi's top public-utilities regulators.

BP Expands Challenge to Gulf Spill Settlement

On Friday, BP's lawyers argued in a court filing that Barbier's more recent interpretation of settlement terms has allowed businesses to receive hundreds of millions of dollars for inflated or …

Miss. High Court Upholds Open-Carry Gun Law

The Mississippi Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously upheld the state's open carry-gun law, allowing it to take effect after a circuit judge's order had kept it on hold about two …

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Rika in Rome

I never fully understood the context of the phrase "When in Rome, do as the Romans do" until I went there myself.

Miss. to Appeal Injunction in Abortion Clinic Case

Mississippi will ask a federal appeals court to overturn a ruling that has temporarily blocked authorities from closing the state's only abortion clinic.

Mississippi Weighs a Nuclear Option

Building a facility to reprocess spent nuclear-fuel rods to make new nuclear energy could take as much as two decades, but the ball started rolling Monday with a hearing at …

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F.A.Q. on U.S. Aid to Egypt: Where Does the Money Go, and How Is It Spent?

Questions about the United States' aid to Egypt have intensified in the wake of last month's military coup. More than 1,000 Egyptians have been killed in the last week, most …

Bradley Manning Says he Wants to Live as a Woman

Bradley Manning plans to live as a woman named Chelsea and wants to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible, the soldier said Thursday, a day after being sentenced to …

Report: Unsafe Welding Led to Fatal Gulf Accident

A consultant's report for a Texas-based company says a deadly 2012 explosion on its Gulf of Mexico oil platform off the Louisiana coast happened when workers for a subcontractor used …

Egypt Court Orders Release of Mubarak

An Egyptian court ordered Wednesday the release of ousted President Hosni Mubarak, but it is not yet clear if the ailing ex-leader will walk free after over two years in …

City Saving Bundles On Overtime

City officials believed switching to electronic monitoring of city employees' work hours would pay off, and now they have proof.

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Iran Foreign Ministry to Handle Nuclear Talks

An Iranian diplomatic official said Tuesday that the country's foreign minister will lead nuclear talks with world powers, taking over from the country's national security council.

Snowden Reporter: Won't Be Silenced by Detention

An American journalist who has written stories based on documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden said Monday he'll publish with more fervor after British authorities detained …

Unfair Share: How Oil and Gas Drillers Avoid Paying Royalties

Manipulation of costs and other data by oil companies is keeping billions of dollars in royalties out of the hands of private and government landholders.

Sun Herald Adds Miss. Auditor to Records Lawsuit

The Sun Herald is asking a judge to add state Auditor Stacey Pickering and his office as defendants in a public records lawsuit the newspaper filed against the Mississippi Department …

2014 Trial Set for Challenge of Miss. Abortion Law

A federal judge has set a jury trial next spring for a lawsuit filed by Mississippi's only abortion clinic.

Inmate Pleads Guilty in Deadly Miss. Prison Riot

An inmate suspected of participating in the fatal beating of a guard during a prison riot in Mississippi last year has pleaded guilty to rioting.

Hosemann Trashes SEC

Mississippi is once again locking horns with the federal government, but this time it's about neither guns nor affordable health-care insurance—it's about securities fraud.