Politics Jan 22 Brexit leader to head Mississippi public policy center A leader of the Brexit movement is now the head of a conservative think tank in the American South. Carswell was a member of Parliament in Britain for 12 years.
Education Sep 09 Teacher deaths from COVID-19 raise alarms as new school year begins Teachers in at least three states have died after bouts with the coronavirus since the dawn of the new school year. A teachers’ union leader worries that the return to in-person classes will have a deadly impact across the U.S.
Economy Sep 03 Some Americans unlikely to quailfy new $300 federal jobless benefit The administration rolled out the new $300-a-week benefit, using money from a $44 billion disaster relief fund, after Congress and the White House failed to agree to extend the $600 payment. Yet because of a raft of restrictions and bureaucratic…
Nation Aug 05 Mississippi's only federally recognized Native American tribe bears brunt of state's outbreak COVID-19 has ripped through Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indian families. Almost 10% of the tribe’s roughly 11,000 members have tested positive for the virus. More than 75 have died.