Mississippi

The attorneys general of 18 states are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold Mississippi’s law that bans abortions after 15 weeks’ gestation.

The Democrat mayor of Moss Point, Mississippi, and his wife were indicted on over a dozen wire fraud charges Friday.

The Satanic Temple plans to sue the state of Mississippi if its new flag includes a reference to God but not to Satan.

The Jackson, Mississippi, city council voted Tuesday to take down a City Hall monument of its namesake — Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States —  by a vote of 5-to-1.

Gov. Tate Reeves (R) of Mississippi signed a bill into law Wednesday that bans abortions based on sex, race, or disability.

Country singer and Mississippi native Faith Hill on Thursday called on her home state to change its flag, claiming it’s “a direct symbol of terror for our Black brothers and sisters.” Hill’s plea comes amid growing calls to alter the flag’s design due to its Confederate battle emblem.

Mississippi AG Lynn Fitch said she is “open” to changing the state flag amid calls from left-wing activists to modify the design due to its Confederate battle emblem.

U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III issued an order that prevents the city of Jackson, Mississippi, from attempting to ban the open carry of firearms so long as such carry is legal at the state level.

GOP Senators from Mississippi told a local news outlet that statues representing states at the Capitol and a state’s flag is a state matter.

Jackson, Mississippi, Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba (D) issued an order over the weekend temporarily prohibiting law-abiding citizens from openly carrying handguns during coronavirus crisis.

Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch announced that she is preparing to sue China to hold the nation accountable for the deaths, illnesses, and economic losses caused by the coronavirus.

Severe thunderstorms hit parts of the Deep South with hail, high winds, and torrential rain on Sunday as forecasters warned residents to brace themselves for overnight tornadoes and flooding across a region that was just hit with a deadly twister the week before.

On Saturday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Cavuto Live,” Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) stated that the state “can’t wait” until there’s a cure for coronavirus or “every single person can get tested every single day to open up

The ACLU filed a lawsuit challenging the Iowa governor’s order to halt abortions to preserve medical equipment during the coronavirus crisis.

Gov. Tate Reeves a “one-size-fits-all approach” would be ineffective in Mississippi, calling for a “surgical” approach across cities.

The Oxford, Mississippi, Police Department is helping its senior citizens in any way they can — even if it is with a little bit of help with grocery shopping during the coronavirus pandemic.

CNN erroneously projected Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) won Tuesday’s Mississippi Democratic primary instead of former Vice President Joe Biden.

Former Vice President Joe Biden easily won the Mississippi Democratic primary on Tuesday.

An elderly woman made the putt of a lifetime Saturday evening during a college basketball game in Oxford, Mississippi. 

A federal appeals court has upheld a block on Mississippi’s “heartbeat” abortion law that prohibits the procedure once an unborn baby’s heartbeat can be detected at about the sixth week of pregnancy.

Jackson State University President William Bynum Jr. was arrested over the weekend in a prostitution sting conducted by the Clinton, Mississippi, police department. Bynum has served as the president of Jackson State University since 2017.

Rapper Jay-Z is suing two Mississippi prisons on behalf of 29 prisoners who claim that prison conditions are dangerous and expose them to the type of constant violence that has already killed five prisoners.

A Mississippi family looking to adopt a baby had their dream come true after receiving baby bottles filled with spare change donated by friends, colleagues, and strangers.

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A swarm of tornadoes and other storms that left a trail of destruction across the Southeast killed four people, injured at least a dozen more and left victims to bundle up against the cold as they picked up pieces of their homes on Tuesday.

Voters will cast ballots in key off-year elections tonight. Republicans will try to win gubernatorial races in Kentucky and Mississippi after Trump campaigned in both states for Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin and Mississippi gubernatorial candidate Tate Reeves. In Virginia, Democrats are seeking to flip the state legislature. 

Stay tuned to Breitbart News throughout the evening for live updates of all of the key results. 

Two anti-Trump groups have raised enough money to bring the Baby Trump balloon to Lexington, Kentucky, for the president’s rally on Monday. 

President Donald Trump celebrated the successful mission that killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Friday but joked that the wounded canine unit that was part of the mission got more media attention than he did.

President Donald Trump at a Friday rally ripped House Democrats for their vote to begin an impeachment inquiry.
“Yesterday’s vote by the radical Democrats is an attack on democracy itself,” he said.

“He quit like a dog,” Trump said of Beto O’Rourke. “When he quit, I said, ‘See? People think this is easy, it’s not so easy.'”

President Donald Trump will hold a Friday evening rally in Tupelo, Mississippi, ahead of Tuesday’s gubernatorial election between Democrat Jim Hood and Republican Tate Reeves. Stay tuned to Breitbart News for live updates. All times eastern.