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U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III issued an order that prevents the city of Jackson, Mississippi, from attempting to ban the open carry of firearms so long as such carry is legal at the state level.

Jackson, Mississippi, Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba (D) issued an order over the weekend temporarily prohibiting law-abiding citizens from openly carrying handguns during coronavirus crisis.

Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch announced that she is preparing to sue China to hold the nation accountable for the deaths, illnesses, and economic losses caused by the coronavirus.

Severe thunderstorms hit parts of the Deep South with hail, high winds, and torrential rain on Sunday as forecasters warned residents to brace themselves for overnight tornadoes and flooding across a region that was just hit with a deadly twister the week before.

The ACLU filed a lawsuit challenging the Iowa governor’s order to halt abortions to preserve medical equipment during the coronavirus crisis.

Gov. Tate Reeves a “one-size-fits-all approach” would be ineffective in Mississippi, calling for a “surgical” approach across cities.

The Oxford, Mississippi, Police Department is helping its senior citizens in any way they can — even if it is with a little bit of help with grocery shopping during the coronavirus pandemic.

Former Vice President Joe Biden easily won the Mississippi Democratic primary on Tuesday.

An elderly woman made the putt of a lifetime Saturday evening during a college basketball game in Oxford, Mississippi. 

A federal appeals court has upheld a block on Mississippi’s “heartbeat” abortion law that prohibits the procedure once an unborn baby’s heartbeat can be detected at about the sixth week of pregnancy.

Jackson State University President William Bynum Jr. was arrested over the weekend in a prostitution sting conducted by the Clinton, Mississippi, police department. Bynum has served as the president of Jackson State University since 2017.

Rapper Jay-Z is suing two Mississippi prisons on behalf of 29 prisoners who claim that prison conditions are dangerous and expose them to the type of constant violence that has already killed five prisoners.

A Mississippi family looking to adopt a baby had their dream come true after receiving baby bottles filled with spare change donated by friends, colleagues, and strangers.

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A swarm of tornadoes and other storms that left a trail of destruction across the Southeast killed four people, injured at least a dozen more and left victims to bundle up against the cold as they picked up pieces of their homes on Tuesday.

Voters will cast ballots in key off-year elections tonight. Republicans will try to win gubernatorial races in Kentucky and Mississippi after Trump campaigned in both states for Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin and Mississippi gubernatorial candidate Tate Reeves. In Virginia, Democrats are seeking to flip the state legislature. 

Stay tuned to Breitbart News throughout the evening for live updates of all of the key results. 

Two anti-Trump groups have raised enough money to bring the Baby Trump balloon to Lexington, Kentucky, for the president’s rally on Monday. 

President Donald Trump celebrated the successful mission that killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Friday but joked that the wounded canine unit that was part of the mission got more media attention than he did.

President Donald Trump at a Friday rally ripped House Democrats for their vote to begin an impeachment inquiry.
“Yesterday’s vote by the radical Democrats is an attack on democracy itself,” he said.

“He quit like a dog,” Trump said of Beto O’Rourke. “When he quit, I said, ‘See? People think this is easy, it’s not so easy.'”

President Donald Trump will hold a Friday evening rally in Tupelo, Mississippi, ahead of Tuesday’s gubernatorial election between Democrat Jim Hood and Republican Tate Reeves. Stay tuned to Breitbart News for live updates. All times eastern.

Nearly seven-in-10 Mississippi residents said they want the chicken plant employers who allegedly hired hundreds of illegal aliens over Americans prosecuted for doing so, a new survey finds. 

Earlier this week, establishment Republican candidates in the races for governor and attorney general in Mississippi proved successful as they defeated their primary challengers.

Two professionals in very different fields have teamed up to raise money for families affected by the recent ICE raids in Mississippi. 

Many of the illegal aliens arrested this month in the largest single-state raid by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Mississippi stole the identities of dead Americans to illegally work, federal prosecutors say.

ICE officials are denouncing the allegation by CNN, MSNBC and at least two Democrat 2020 candidates, that the agency detained a breastfeeding mother during the August 7 action against chicken processing plants in Mississippi.

Nearly two weeks after the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency raided five food processing plants in Mississippi for their hiring of hundreds of illegal aliens, no employers have yet been charged, federal records reveal.

Illegal workers fled a number of Georgia food processing plants this past week after highly-publicized raids by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency at five Mississippi plants.

O’Rourke expressed sadness at the raid, telling reporters that ICE raids had increased tenfold compared to former President Barack Obama’s administration.

Multiple Mississippi food processing plants raided by ICE “willfully” hired hundreds of illegal aliens over Americans, prosecutors say.

After the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency raided multiple Mississippi food processing plants for hiring illegal alien workers, President Trump’s support among Hispanic voters has remained solid and a record total of black Americans now support him. 

During his speech, O’Rourke scoffed at the “corn dogs and ferris wheels” campaign events at the Iowa State Fair and said he would campaign with immigrant communities instead.

The Republican primary elections in Mississippi proved to be difficult for many pro-Trump and anti-establishment candidates.

Roughly 150 locals attended a job fair to apply for jobs at the Koch Foods’ plants in Mississippi, following the August 7 removal of 243 alleged illegal migrants from two of the company’s chicken processing plants, according to local authorities.

Acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kevin McAleenan says “the timing” of the largest single-state raid in United States history in Mississippi last week “was unfortunate” in the wake of the El Paso, Texas mass shooting. 

A pizza shop in Oxford, Mississippi, is offering free food to immigrants and refugees after the recent ICE raids at seven of the state’s food processing plants on Wednesday. 

Eleven brothers raised on a farm in rural Alabama have served a combined total of 158 years of service in the U.S. military.