

Politics Mar 11

In our news wrap Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives opened a drive for the first major gun control measures in 20 years, activists in Myanmar say 12 more protesters were shot dead, China’s ceremonial legislature moved to tighten control…
Nation Mar 11

Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill Thursday to ban transgender athletes from competing on girls or women’s sports teams.
By Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press
Nation Mar 09

Much of Mississippi's largest city is beginning its fourth week without safe drinking water coming out of faucets. Jackson residents, about 80 percent of whom are Black, remain under a system-wide order to boil water, and some don't have any…
By John Yang, Courtney Norris, Lynsey Jeffery
Nation Mar 08

It's been three weeks since the majority of Jackson homes and businesses lost service during a winter storm that coated parts of the South in snow and ice.
By Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press
Mar 05

By Leah Willingham, Associated Press
Fewer than 5,000 water customers were still without service Friday afternoon in Mississippi's capital city of Jackson. Public Works Director called the development "positive progress."…
Mar 04

By Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves says he'll sign a bill to ban transgender athletes from competing on girls’ or women’s sports teams in the state’s schools and universities.
Mar 03

By Jeff Martin, Leah Willingham, Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press
Mississippi's largest city is still struggling with water problems, more than two weeks after winter storms and freezing weather ravaged the system.
The blues is a quintessentially American art form, yet one whose early masters have mostly passed away. The genre relies on each succeeding generation to renew and reinvigorate it. In Clarksdale, Mississippi, 21-year-old guitarist Christone “Kingfish” Ingram is taking up…

By Joshua Barajas, Tom Casciato
The 21-year-old guitarist and singer has been bringing the blues to a new generation of fans.
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