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In the Mississippi Delta, one of the poorest places in the nation, some counties are without a single obstetrician or pediatrician.

The fight over the constitutional right to an abortion reached its zenith, with the Supreme Court overturning Roe.

Congressional primary runoffs are rare in Mississippi.

Congressional primary runoffs with incumbents are rare in Mississippi. U.S. Rep. Steven Palazzo is seeking a seventh term and was considered vulnerable after being accused in a 2021 congressional ethics report of abusing his office by misspending campaign funds. U.S. Rep. Michael Guest is seeking a third term.

Mississippi is one win away from its first national championship in baseball after beating Oklahoma 10-3 in Game 1 of the College World Series finals.

Because of the Supreme Court decision, Mississippi will soon outlaw abortions.

A day after the Supreme Court’s bombshell ruling overturning Roe v. Wade ended the constitutional right to abortion, emotional protests and prayer vigils are turning to resolve as several states enact bans and both supporters and foes of abortion rights map out their next moves.

The vote was 6-3 to uphold the Mississippi law, but Chief Justice John Roberts didn't join his conservative colleagues in overturning Roe.

The vote was 6-3 to uphold the Mississippi law, but Chief Justice John Roberts didn't join his conservative colleagues in overturning Roe.

A disproportionately high share of abortion patients are women of color — a result of systemic inequities, advocates say.

The "Dobbs" in the case title refers to Thomas Dobbs, an infectious diseases doctor who became Mississippi's top health officer the same year the state adopted new abortion restrictions.

The Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade to end constitutional protections for abortion hews closely to the leaked draft opinion that was published in May.

The vote was 6 to 3 to uphold a restrictive Mississippi law, but Chief Justice John Roberts criticized fellow conservatives for overturning Roe v. Wade.

The Supreme Court overturned the decades-old precedent of Roe v. Wade, allowing states to determine abortion access.

The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that made abortion legal nationwide. In May, a leaked draft opinion in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization regarding a Mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks signaled that the court would strike down nearly 50 years of legal precedent upholding legal abortion. With a post-Roe America now becoming reality, Yahoo News explains what comes next as abortion laws return to the states.

The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday's outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states. The decision, unthinkable just a few years ago, was the culmination of decades of efforts by abortion opponents, made possible by an emboldened right side of the court that has been fortified by three appointees of former President Donald Trump.

Brady Slavens’ home run to the deepest part of the park gave Arkansas the lead and the Razorbacks held on for a 3-2 win in the College World Series after Mississippi loaded the bases with none out in the bottom of the ninth inning.

Lynn Fitch says she wants to empower women. Her next step is to repeal Roe v Wade.

Dylan DeLucia allowed one run and struck out 10 in 7 2/3 innings and Mississippi continued its postseason roll with a 5-1 win over Auburn in its College World Series opener.

Sen. Roger Wicker, who had COVID in August 2021 and February 2022, previously told Insider that the mandate should've been lifted in April 2021.

“What kind of loopholes will we be able to jump through, that we’re not putting either ourselves or the women at risk?”

Miracle Allen used her last tank of gas to drive an hour and 15 minutes to the closest clinic that would care for her and her unborn baby. Allen, 29, was four months pregnant when Hurricane Ida ripped through her Houma, Louisiana, community.

Polling in the Lone Star State shows a similar trend, where the majority of Texans don’t support a total abortion ban if Roe v. Wade is overturned.

Fighting for civil rights and three decades in the House have primed Mississippi's Bennie Thompson for the most high-profile moment of his career — leading this month's hearings on Jan. 6.

In Montana, the top contest is for the brand-new 1st Congressional District.

In New Mexico, five Republicans compete to take on Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. The 2nd Congressional District is also a notable contest.

In California, there are a number of competitive U.S. House races to watch.

Here are the key primary election results from South Dakota, where notable races include governor and U.S. Senate.

Here are the key primary election results from New Jersey, where notable races include U.S. House districts.

Democrats vie to take on longtime U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, and three Republicans face off to challenge Rep. Cindy Axne in the 3rd Congressional District.

Here are the key primary election results from Mississippi, where notable races include U.S. House districts.

"He's notorious for not paying," said City Councilmember Martavius Jones, who doesn't want Memphis eating the costs of an upcoming Trump rally.

The states voting Tuesday include California, Iowa, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota and Montana.

"I'm angry because I don't understand why my son got the monkey award when he received an award that he completed Pre-K," Shemekia Ellis told WMC.

Shemekia Ellis’s pre-k son Braylen received an end-of-the-year award from his teacher in Batesville, Mississippi, leaving Ellis speechless.

A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit accusing Mississippi of using a discriminatory proof-of-citizenship requirement for some new voters under a law dating back to the Jim Crow era. The dismissal came weeks after the state repealed a 1924 law that required naturalized citizens, but not people born in the U.S., to provide proof of citizenship when registering to vote. A new law enacted in its place has also drawn opposition but is being grudgingly accepted by voting rights groups who say it ultimately should protect naturalized citizens from being incorrectly marked as noncitizens when they register to vote.

Swimming pool was packed with guests, and a lifeguard was on duty, police say

A look at three common beliefs about the Supreme Court's expected ruling about Roe vs. Wade.

A recent medical school graduate reflects on the intersection of race and reproductive rights.

The Mississippi Department of Human Services sued retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre and three former pro wrestlers along with several others to try to recover millions of misspent welfare dollars.

The lawsuit says the defendants "squandered" more than $20 million in money from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families anti-poverty program.

The lawsuit says the defendants "squandered" more than $20 million in money from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families anti-poverty program.

Republican leaders are looking ahead to what the overturn of Roe v. Wade could entail for their states.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says drought during the growing season has made farmers in most of Texas, all of Louisiana and parts of Arkansas and Mississippi eligible to apply for federal aid.

Debates about abortion often center around the issue of when life begins. Some religions say it's at conception. Another says it's with the baby's first breath.

In churches and nonprofit organizations, these Black women in central Mississippi take care of families and children throughout their communities.

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Police carrying out no-knocks have killed at least 22 people since 2015. The Post’s investigation revealed that these warrants can be easy for police to obtain from judges.

A draft Supreme Court opinion suggesting the right to abortion will be overturned is highlighting the risk to Black and Hispanic women.

Meteorites are turning up in Mississippi following a fireball over the state on April 27.

Abortion clinics in Republican-led states, like Jackson Women's Health Organization in Mississippi, are scrambling to prepare for an uncertain future.

This Mississippi abortion clinic is at the center of the Supreme Court case that could strike down Roe v. Wade.

In conservative states that already limit access to abortions, Black and Hispanic women are far more likely than White women to have an abortion.

In a leaked draft, the Justice points to “history and tradition” but ignores the context of both the past and the present.

The Supreme Court confirmed the authenticity of the draft opinion from Justice Samuel Alito but said it doesn't represent members' final positions.

The Supreme Court confirmed the authenticity of the draft opinion from Justice Samuel Alito but said it doesn't represent members' final positions.

People on both sides of the abortion divide have been anticipating that the Supreme Court this summer would reverse the landmark 1973 Roe v.

The concept of “fetal viability” is at the center of the U.S. Supreme Court case that could undercut or even eliminate the constitutional right to abortion. Under the court’s precedents, states can’t impose significant restrictions on abortion access before the point of fetal viability. Defending its attempt to ban abortion starting at 15 weeks of pregnancy, Mississippi is asking the court to discard the fetal viability line and give states broad power to restrict abortion at earlier stages. Abo

For nearly 50 years the constitutional right to abortion has been protected by Supreme Court decision in the Roe v. Wade case. An imminent decision could upend that.

The U.S. Justice Department has released the findings of its two-year investigation of a Mississippi prison.

Mississippi is ditching a state song that’s based on the campaign tune of a former governor who pledged to preserve segregation.

Florida will soon ban abortions after 15 weeks.

Mississippi is the latest Republican-led state to ban election offices from accepting donations from private groups for voting operations.

Mississippi is on the verge of retiring a state song with racist roots, two years after it surrendered a Confederate-themed state flag.

The history of racial violence in the U.S. is the backdrop as President Joe Biden signs the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act into law.

President Joe Biden has signed a bill into law to make lynching a federal hate crime, more than 100 years after such legislation was first proposed.

Kentucky lawmakers have taken another step toward banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

The history of racial violence in the U.S. is the backdrop as President Joe Biden is expected to sign the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act into law.

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a bill to limit how race can be discussed in classrooms.

South Carolina finished the season where it started — at No. 1 in The Associated Press women’s college basketball poll.

Relatives of Emmett Till are asking authorities to reverse their decision to close an investigation of his 1955 lynching and instead prosecute a white woman at the center of the case.

The stars of HGTV’s “Home Town” appeared at the Mississippi Capitol with others from their community to support a possible increase in a local tourism tax.

The Republican-controlled Mississippi House has divided largely along lines of race and party in passing a bill that would limit how race can be discussed in classrooms.

Mississippi is accustomed to being first in worsts.

Roads were being cleared and crews were restoring power to thousands of customers after severe storms and possible tornadoes tore through several Alabama communities.

Funds that raise money to aid women get abortions say they would need more donations this year if the U.S. Supreme Court makes seismic changes to the nationwide right to abortion.

Mississippi will join the majority of states in allowing medical marijuana.

The Mississippi Supreme Court is ordering a trial court judge to determine if a Mississippi death row inmate truly wants to request an execution date and if the inmate is mentally competent to waive his appeals in the case.

The Michigan women's basketball team is now ranked sixth in The Associated Press Top 25.

Auburn coach Bruce Pearl has agreed to a contract extension to remain on the Plains.

Mississippi's capital city struggles with an unreliable water system that has problems with both quality and distribution.

Mississippi is in The Associated Press women’s basketball poll for the first time in 15 years, coming in at No. 24.

West Virginia lawmakers have introduced a bill to ban abortion after 15 weeks — a proposal that's nearly identical to the Mississippi law currently under review by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Al Walcott set a Sugar Bowl record with a 96-yard interception return, Monaray Baldwin raced 48 yards for the go-ahead score on an end around, and sixth-ranked Baylor beat No. 8 Mississippi 21-7 as injured Rebels quarterback Matt Corral looked on from the sideline.

Mississippi quarterback Matt Corral injured his right leg while being sacked by Baylor’s Cole Maxwell during the first quarter of the Sugar Bowl.

A photographer is trying to trademark a “New Miss” logo that's nearly identical to the Ole Miss logo used by the University of Mississippi.

As 2021 comes to a close, Roe v.

The Supreme Court has turned away a request by Johnson & Johnson to halt a Mississippi lawsuit over its talcum power products.

The investigation into the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till in Mississippi nearly 70 years ago ended as it began, with a mystery that might never be solved.

The Justice Department has closed its investigation of Emmett Till’s slaying, yet agents are still probing as many as 20 other civil rights cold cases.

The commission tasked by President Joe Biden with studying potential changes to the Supreme Court has released its final draft report.

If the Supreme Court decides to overturn or gut the decision that legalized abortion, some fear that it could undermine other precedent-setting cases, including civil rights and LGBTQ protections.

The U.S. Justice Department is ending its investigation into the 1955 lynching of the Black teenager Emmett Till.

As the Supreme Court weighs the future of the landmark Roe v.

We’ve been here before, with the fate of abortion rights throughout the United States in doubt and awaiting a decision by the Supreme Court.

The state of Texas is offering a glimpse in real time of what would be a striking new national landscape if the Supreme Court drastically curtails abortion rights: GOP-led states allowing almost no access to abortion, and women traveling hundreds of miles to end their pregnancies.

After hours of public arguments, the Supreme Court's justices will now embark on a private debate over what to do about possibly drastic abortion limits for pregnant women in the U.S. The justices will talk it over this week and hold a preliminary vote.

The Supreme Court has been asked in arguments to overturn a nationwide right to abortion that has existed for nearly 50 years.

It's a crowded scene outside the Supreme Court, where hundreds of abortion debate partisans are trading chants while justices hear highly anticipated arguments inside.

Abortion activists are protesting in Mississippi’s capital as the state takes center stage in a pivotal U.S. Supreme Court case that could end a nationwide right to abortion.