Tag: Mississippi

Former Mississippi State chemistry major Jaelyn Young of Starkville, Miss., had converted to Islam in March 2015. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

National Security

20-year-old U.S. woman gets 12 years in prison for attempting to join ISIS

Anna Giaritelli · August 12, 2016 12:07 am

Legislation sets up a new religious liberty battleground, could set precedent for the nation. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Calif. bill would open religious colleges to LGBT lawsuits

Robert King · July 30, 2016 4:18 pm

Mississippi flag taken down at Democratic convention

Ryan Lovelace · July 27, 2016 5:41 pm

"Members of Congress have described the project as more boondoggle than boon," the newspaper reported. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Energy and Environment

Obama’s clean coal dream goes ‘off the tracks’: NYT

John Siciliano · July 6, 2016 12:55 am

The Supreme Court declined to consider new abortion doctor regulations in Mississippi and Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Supreme Court declines to consider Mississippi, Wisconsin abortion regs

Paige Winfield Cunningham · June 28, 2016 2:28 pm

Brokaw: Alabama slam just a ‘joke’

Pete Kasperowicz · May 17, 2016 1:49 pm

The judge stated the town's decision to send African-American and Caucasian students to separate schools has "deprived generations of students of the constitutionally guaranteed right of an integrated education." (AP Photo/The Kalamazoo Gazette, Mark Bugnaski, File)

Mississippi town’s schools desegregated 62 years after Brown v Board of Ed.

Anna Giaritelli · May 16, 2016 9:46 pm

The ACLU argues the Mississippi law, HB 1523, violates the 14th Amendment by "creating a separate and unequal set of laws applying only to the marriages of same-sex couples." (AP Photo)

ACLU files lawsuit against Mississippi religious freedom law

Kelly Cohen · May 9, 2016 5:53 pm

Caitlyn Jenner uses women’s bathroom at Trump Hotel

Kelly Cohen · April 28, 2016 12:44 pm

According to the Charlotte Observer, North Carolina added $220 million to its economy in 2011 off projects filming within its borders. Even if that number has doubled, maybe tripled in recent years, that would be a drop in compared to North Carolina's GDP in 2014 was $481.9 billion, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (AP Photo/Jerry Wolford, News & Record)

Hollywood can’t pressure states into repealing controversial laws

Joshua Axelrod · April 19, 2016 4:01 am

Neither the North Carolina law nor the Mississippi law places new burdens on anyone or deprives them of rights they enjoyed hitherto. Rather, each merely preserves a status quo to which opponents have principled objections. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Freedom for me but not for thee

Washington Examiner · April 18, 2016 4:02 am

The Church Protection Act allows some members to undergo firearms training so they can carry guns into church buildings to provide armed security. (AP Photo)

Mississippi governor signs bill allowing church members to carry guns

Kelly Cohen · April 15, 2016 5:29 pm