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The Latest Breaking News from Mississippi

California governor’s ad campaign offers help to women in anti-abortion states

Billboards will be displayed in states including Texas, Mississippi and Ohio but have some questioning Gavin Newsom’s ambitions

The Guardian - US

Racism seen as root of water crisis in Mississippi capital

A boil-water advisory has been lifted for Mississippi's capital, and the state will stop handing out free bottled water on Saturday

The Independent UK

US charges man who threatened to crash plane into Walmart

An airport worker who flew a stolen airplane over north Mississippi and threatened to crash into a Walmart is now facing federal charges on top of state ones

The Independent UK

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In Mississippi, Dozens of Mentally Ill People Are Held in Jails While Awaiting Inpatient Treatment

While a new report highlights Mississippi's jailing of mentally ill people, the practice is common nationwide.

Reason

Weeks-long boil water notice lifted in Mississippi capital

A boil-water notice has been lifted in Mississippi’s capital city after nearly seven weeks

The Independent UK

Brett Favre Goes on Welfare

How the former NFL quarterback convinced Mississippi to spend its public assistance money on a volleyball facility.

Reason

In states where abortion is banned, children and families already face an uphill battle

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…

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US Offers $10 Million Reward for Information on 3 Iranians over Hacking Scheme

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…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Schools are going online in disasters, worsening disruption

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

The Independent UK

US Charges Three Iranians for Ransomware Attacks on Women’s Shelter, Businesses

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…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Text messages link Favre, welfare money, volleyball facility

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

The Independent UK

EPA inspector general probes Mississippi capital water woes

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

The Independent UK

Running water returns in Mississippi capital – but it’s still undrinkable

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

The Guardian - US

Borrowers in 7 states may be taxed on their student loan cancellation

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

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Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: If Mississippi is a 'laboratory of democracy,' we're in trouble

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

The Independent UK

EPA leader: Jackson needs 'fair share' of money to fix water

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

The Guardian - US

Baltimore residents urged to boil tap water after E coli detected

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

The Independent UK

White House says Biden ‘zeroed in’ on environmental justice despite not visiting Jackson, Mississippi amid water crisis

‘We have made this a priority’, White House says

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USA Today Sports Media Group

Mississippi State vs Arizona Prediction, Game Preview

Mississippi State vs Arizona game preview, prediction, and breakdown for the Week 2 game on Saturday, September 10

Tribune News Service

Texas’ Steve Sarkisian reminisces on how Nick Saban’s ‘discipline’ shaped his career

Back in his time as an Alabama assistant, no one may have taken more verbal abuse from Nick Saban than current Mississippi coach Lane Kiffin.

The Independent UK

Students return to campus amid water crisis in Jackson

Students in Mississippi’s capital were able to return to class for the first time in a week with assurances that the toilets and sinks in their buildings would finally work

Chicago Tribune

67 years after Emmett Till’s Chicago funeral, his best friend remembers him

CHICAGO — When the Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. thinks of Emmett Till, he sees him running toward home plate with the grace of a lumbering Pullman freight train. Emmett’s slow speed lost their team a softball game, he remembers.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: A Jim Crow law was designed to disenfranchise Blacks. A court just upheld it

What’s wrong with this picture? A federal appeals court in Mississippi, in recently considering whether to overturn an 1890 law that makes it almost impossible for ex-convicts to ever vote again, wrote that the law was “steeped in racism” from its very inception. Then that same court upheld the law…

The Independent UK

Mississippi pastor confessed to killing a father - after pretending to help family look for him, daughter says

James Eric Crisp walked into the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office last week and admitted to killing 48-year-old Roger Loyd Taylor in 2019. Taylor’s daughter tells Andrea Blanco why she doesn’t believe Crisp’s claims of being ‘reformed’ by becoming a minister after the murder

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Residents in Mississippi's capital city get "positive" news as water begins flowing again

The water crisis has upended life for the city of nearly 150,000 people.

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