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Some proponents of abortion bans and restrictions say they are concerned about “supporting not just life,” but what they call “quality of life worth living,” saying they want to promote laws and policies that help families. Three authors from Brigham Young University, for instance, have noted that the overturning of…

The State Department is offering a $10 million reward for information leading to the capture of three Iranians, who it said have worked for tech companies linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps. The Iranians have been charged with trying to extort hundreds of thousands of dollars from organizations in…

At times of crisis like the water outage in Jackson, Mississippi, schools have applied lessons from the pandemic to pivot to remote learning

Three Iranians have been charged with trying to extort hundreds of thousands of dollars from organizations in the United States, Europe, Iran and Israel, including a domestic violence shelter, by hacking in to their computer systems, US officials said on Wednesday. Other targets included local US governments, regional utilities in…

New court documents show the Mississippi governor in 2017 knew of a plan for a nonprofit group to pay Brett Favre more than $1 million in welfare grant money so the retired NFL quarterback could help fund a volleyball facility

An independent watchdog in the Environmental Protection Agency says it is investigating the troubled water system in Mississippi’s capital

A boil water notice remains in majority-Black city and a long-term solution remains elusive

Seven states have tax policies on the books that could require them to treat student loans canceled by the federal government as taxable income.

The notion of states as "laboratories of democracy" is generally credited to Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis.

The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says he wants Mississippi’s capital city to receive “its fair share” of federal money to repair a troubled water system

City officials ‘taking this matter very seriously’ as detection comes amid water access problems in Jackson, Mississippi and New York