4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (921+ words) Many party members, including those facing tight races, are skipping the two-day affair, citing conflicting obligations or balking at demands that they pony up for access. Others are hoping an appearance alongside Trump will put them in the national spotlight…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (576+ words) Seventy years ago, a 21-year-old Elvis Presley came home to Tupelo. He was no longer simply the shy boy from East Tupelo who sang in church and listened closely to the music he heard in his Mississippi hometown. By September…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (917+ words) Roughly 50 people provided their opinion during the second of several hearings taking place across Mississippi to gather public input on the potential for mid-decade legislative and congressional redistricting in the wake of the Callais decision. In response, the Joint Committee…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (691+ words) The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans heard arguments Monday over an indefinite injunction placed on Mississippi’s anti-DEI law by U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate. The law, HB 1193, was passed by the Mississippi Legislature during the 2025 legislative session…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (641+ words) In his first high-profile speech at the Fed’s annual conference at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Warsh acknowledged that recent U.S. data show inflation has cooled a bit, but “they do not tell me that underlying trends have meaningfully improved.” “We must…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (944+ words) Nearly $3.4 million in CARES Act grant funding has been approved to help renovate a foster care facility in Mississippi. The funding will be utilized to provide more modern care and calming surroundings to the state’s hardest to place foster children…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (875+ words) The Supreme Court’s conservative majority didn’t decide the legality of Trump’s order, instead ruling that states who sued did not have the legal right to challenge it. While the emergency order is not final, it does have the potential to…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (381+ words) The Mississippi Cattlemen’s Association and the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation are pushing back on President Donald Trump’s plan to allow 300,000 metric tons of government-subsidized ground beef into the U.S. supply chain. “As everyone knows, under President Biden, beef prices…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (367+ words) Governor Tate Reeves (R) announced the appointment of Amanda James Tollison of Oxford to the Mississippi Supreme Court on Monday. Tollison will fill the vacancy in District 3, Place 2 created by former state Supreme Court Justice James Maxwell’s confirmation to the U.S....