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Close In this Oct. 17, 2018, file photo, former NFL quarterback Brett Favre speaks with reporters in Jackson, Miss., about his support for Willowood Developmental Center, a facility that provides training and assistance for special needs students. Favre has yet to pay back $600,000 in welfare money he received from the state of Mississippi for multiple speaking events he never showed up to, according to a spokesperson for Mississippi Office of the State Auditor Logan Reeves, Tuesday, May 11, 2021. Rogelio V. Solis I AP By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press/ Report for America

In the summer of 1980, Antony Blinken, then 18 and about to matriculate at Harvard, interned for the U.S. senator who brought to Congress the most mental bandwidth since Rep. James Madison. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.), an empiricist in an arena –government – that often is inhospitable to such, said this: “The social sciences do not tell us what to do, they tell us the consequences of what we are doing.” It is in that empirical spirit that Secretary of State Blinken surveys a globe that has no time zone without a test for U.S. policy. The most challenging, China, ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi lawmakers grabbed national headlines this year by banning transgender athletes from competing on girls' or women's sports teams. They walked away from some other divisive issues during their three-month session. Republican Sen. Angela Hill of Picayune argued in favor of the transgender sports bill, and she stood behind Republican Gov. Tate Reeves as he signed it into law. Hill filed a separate bill that would have prohibited hormone treatments or surgery from being performed on transgender minors. Senate Bill 2171, the "Transgender 21 Act," died because ...

Close This file photo shows the Supreme Court in Washington. After more than a decade in which the Supreme Court moved gradually toward more leniency for minors convicted of murder, the justices have moved the other way. The high court ruled 6-3 Thursday along ideological lines against a Mississippi inmate sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for fatally stabbing his grandfather when the defendant was 15 years old. The case is important because it marks a break with the court’s previous rulings and is evidence of the impact of a newly more conserv...

HATLEY • Donnie Williams and his wife, Amy, were awake in the early morning hours Wednesday, tracking the storm front as it passed through Hatley, when they lost television service to their Weaver Creek Drive home. “When the lightning got continuous, I knew the storm was getting worse and there was no doubt we were in a mess,” Williams said. “It was roaring, and stuff was breaking.” The couple quickly took shelter underneath the stairs. When they emerged, they discovered their house largely untouched. “I think we’re blessed to be in the shape we’re in,�...