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Sister of Mississippi man who died after police pulled him from car rejects lawsuit settlement
San Francisco Chronicle· 6 hours agoA woman who sued Mississippi's capital city over the death of her brother has decided to reject a...
Mississippi lawmakers move toward restoring voting rights to 32 felons as broader suffrage bill dies
Houston Chronicle· 2 days agoMississippi legislators advanced bills Monday to give voting rights back to 32 people convicted of...
Other states, like Arizona, could resurrect laws on abortion, LGBTQ+ issues and more that have been...
Houston Chronicle· 6 days agoIf the Supreme Court overturns legal precedents on these and other issues, old state laws that haven’t been enforced, possibly for centuries, can suddenly spring back to life. This is what happened ...
The Biggest Expenses for Retirees in Every State
GOBankingRates via Yahoo Finance· 4 days agoNo matter where you retire in the U.S., the two largest expenses for the typical retiree are housing and healthcare. Additionally, transportation and...
Billions of cicadas are about to emerge from underground in a rare double-brood convergence
WCSH 6 Portland· 2 days agoFrom late April through June 2024, the largest brood of 13-year cicadas, known as Brood XIX, will...
Salter: After Wayfair, collecting (and paying) sales tax across state lines remains confusing
McComb Enterprise-Journal· 4 hours agoColumnist Sid Salter looks back on the 2018 SCOTUS ruling that changed the way remote sales tax was assessed and collected. Back in 2018, the Supreme Court changed the way remote sales tax was ...
How zombie abortion bills are influencing 2024 fight
WJZY via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThat ruling was the fruit of a decades-long conservative push to overturn Roe v. Wade and was made possible after former President Donald Trump appointed...
Today in History: May 2, Nelson Mandela claims victory in first democratic South Africa elections
San Francisco Chronicle· 3 days agoToday is Thursday, May 2, the 123rd day of 2024. On May 2, 1994, Nelson Mandela claimed victory in the wake of South Africa’s first democratic elections; President F.W. de Klerk acknowledged ...
Playbook PM: Will Dems’ bailout of Johnson turn bitter?
Politico· 6 days agoSupreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, federal documents obtained by The Associated Press reveal. The cases raise alarms about the state of emergency pregnancy care in the ...
Idaho Perpetuates a Living Nightmare for People Who Need Gender-Affirming Care | Connecticut Law...
Law.com· 3 days agoA 2023 Idaho law, HB 71, Idaho Vulnerable Child Protection Act, criminalizing gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth, was recently challenged in federal court by two transgender ...