Tag: Mississippi

HARRISVILLE, Miss. (AP) — A kangaroo is on the run — or maybe the jump — in central Mississippi.

“Regrettably, we must cancel the planned Make America Great Again rally in Jackson, Mississippi this Friday,” Chief Operating Officer of Trump’s campaign Michael Glassner said in a release on Monday.

Multiple states along the Gulf Coast declared a state of emergency in anticipation of Tropical Storm Gordon, which is expected to strengthen and potentially hit the region as a hurricane Tuesday night.

Establishment politicians appear to be pushing President Trump to nominate a judge to the Fifth Circuit federal appeals court who could deflate the president’s base and deprive him of a historic opportunity to help make the Fifth Circuit the most conservative federal appellate court in the nation.

Five-year-old Kailyn Griffin, from Mississippi, was temporarily paralyzed last Wednesday by a neurotoxin from an egg-laying tick on her scalp.

A 16-year-old Ackerman, Mississippi, resident used a deer rifle to shoot and kill a home invader Tuesday. Choctaw County Chief Deputy Lee Upchurch said the invader tried to make entry into the home while holding a hatchet and then “made an aggressive move” toward the 16-year-old.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, signed a bill into law that bans abortion after 15 weeks.

Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant appointed recent Democrat turned Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith on Wednesday to replace retiring U.S. Senator Thad Cochran over the Republican candidate in the race to replace him.

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant has signed a bill into law making his state the first in the nation to ban abortions past 15 weeks of pregnancy.

Chris McDaniel, a candidate to replace retiring Sen. Thad Cochran, urged Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant during the weekend edition of Breitbart News Sunday on SiriusXM to prevent a Republican “bloodbath” and refrain from appointing a Mitch McConnell-approved candidate to the seat.

JACKSON, Mississippi — The Mississippi Legislature might authorize the state treasury to invest in Israel bonds.

GreenTech Automotive, the electric car company which former Democratic National Committee Chairman and long-time Clinton ally Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe served as CEO from 2010 to 2012, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

LGBT groups have filed a lawsuit against the town of Starkville, Mississippi, after the town council turned down a request for a permit for a gay pride parade last week.

Mississippi is poised to become the state with the earliest abortion ban at 15 weeks gestation.

A bill that would prohibit most abortions after 15 weeks of gestation has passed a Mississippi state House committee and is now headed to the full House for consideration.

A Mississippi mother of two has been arrested for allegedly sending text messages claiming that she choked her baby with a phone charger and left her in a wooded area.

In a now-deleted article at NBC News, Jonathan Allen and Keri Geiger wrote that Breitbart News Executive Chairman Steve Bannon is planning primary challenges to both of Mississippi’s incumbent establishment Republican senators.

A U.S. politician has criticised the European Union for trying to hold the United Kingdom to “ransom”.

Ryan Walters, author of the newly released book Remember Mississippi: How Chris McDaniel Exposed the GOP Establishment and Inspired a Revolution, told Breitbart Washington political editor Matt Boyle, host of Breitbart News Saturday on Sirius XM, that the 2014 Republican U.S. Senate primary in Mississippi set the stage for Donald Trump’s presidential victory in 2016.

According to a report published Thursday written by Alayna Treene, Tea Party Patriots co-founder wants President Donald Trump not to get involved in next year’s GOP primary for U.S. Senate in Mississippi. Treene wrote that even though Martin says Tea Party

Chris McDaniel is calling out establishment incumbent Sen. Roger Wicker for refusing to say whether he thinks Mitch McConnell should do more to confront Republicans standing in the way of the president

Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) has been part of former Governor Haley Barbour’s political machine for decades, a fact likely conservative Republican challenger Chris McDaniel is sure to highlight in the much anticipated rematch with that machine in 2018.

A Mississippi school district removed Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird from its curriculum because people felt uncomfortable with the book’s language.

Senator Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) continued absences from Washington have reignited long-standing concerns over his physical health — and set up the possibility that both seats in the United States Senate from Mississippi, currently held by establishment Republican allies of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), could be up for grabs in 2018.

Hurricane Nate made landfall late Saturday and now the storm is making its way up the Eastern Seaboard as those in the Gulf Coast are dealing with its aftermath. UPDATE 11 a.m. ET: Nate remnants now soaking the Mid-Atlantic. https://twitter.com/delawareonline/status/917378060097224704

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – Four states have declared a “state of emergency” as the Gulf Coast prepares to be hit by Tropical Storm Nate.

The number of people going hungry in the U.S. is at its lowest level since 2007, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

While our nation’s overall concealed carry landscape is a patchwork of frustrating laws many Americans struggle to navigate, it is heartening to know that 12 states makes things easy by allowing law-abiding residents to carry guns without any bureaucratic interference.

A Mississippi teenager has been charged after he allegedly stabbed a woman in the neck and chest, cut off her ear, and stole her car Tuesday evening.

Three Mississippi teenagers are facing charges after a “horrific” sexual assault broadcast through Facebook Live went viral, police said.

The Mississippi State Supreme Court ruled that a county court judge can call herself by the nickname “JudgeCutie” in one of the fastest decisions the court has made in years.

Police discovered a man’s severed head on the front porch of a home in Jackson, Mississippi Saturday morning.

Three Mississippi teenagers were arrested after a 6-year-old boy was killed in the back seat of a stolen car, police said.

A Latin Kings member was planning on having sex with his girlfriend – until he discovered that she was born male.

The Texas Attorney General is leading a coalition of 15 states defending President Donald Trump’s revised immigration order of March 6.