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The State of Texas gave Planned Parenthood final notice on Tuesday that it would no longer allow it to participate in the Medicaid program in the Lone Star State. The letter from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) said it was “not qualified to provide medical services in a professionally competent, safe, legal, and ethical manner.”

The University of Mississippi Student Body Senate has pulled a resolution which would have created a “sanctuary campus” for illegal immigrant students and banned federal immigration officials from stepping foot on campus after an overwhelming backlash.

The Ole Miss College Democrats and a social justice organization are asking the Student Senate to pass a resolution that would transform the campus into a “sanctuary campus” in order for illegal immigrants to escape deportation.

After the Mississippi NAACP made accusations that a black high school student had a noose thrown around his neck by white students, others are now speaking out refuting the broad claims of racism.

JACKSON, Mississippi – Community organizers’ efforts to purge the Mississippi State Flag for its use of Confederate iconography see a path to victory in a Hillary Clinton presidency.

A Mississippi teacher has been caught on camera hitting a special needs student and dragging her by her hair in a school gym.

An alleged illegal immigrant living in Tishomingo County, Mississippi, was arrested by police for allegedly attempting to sell over $2,000 worth of cocaine. The arrest followed a months-long investigation into the reported illegal drug activity.

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – Prescription pain-killers are more prevalent than people in Louisiana; according to a new report that shows widespread opioid issues across eight states.

An Ole Miss student was arrested during the University’s football game against the University of Memphis Tigers where he was heckled for carrying the Mississippi State Flag.

In an apparent move to censor supporters of the Mississippi state flag, University of Mississippi officials confiscated signs and flags from attendees at the Ole Miss/Alabama football game.

A Mississippi man who originally suffered injuries in a deadly bus caused by illegal immigrant workers has now become the third fatality of the incident.

LAPLACE, Louisiana – A bus driven by an illegal immigrant full of foreign workers headed to aid the Baton Rouge, Louisiana flood victims crashed in a horrific accident that killed at least two people and left 41 injured.

A Mississippi woman, who was arrested last summer for attempting to fly to Syria to join the Islamic State and then pleaded guilty to federal terrorism charges has been handed a twelve-year prison sentence.

Terry McAuliffe is now Democratic governor of Virginia. GreenTech was financed in part by EB-5 visas granted to Chinese investors helped through the political approval process by Tony Rodham, Hillary Clinton’s brother.

California Parents saw the institution of a new vaccine mandate on Friday barring new students from entering or seventh graders from advancing in school unless they have a list of shots required by the state pushing some parents to move out of state.

The only Planned Parenthood clinic in Hattiesburg does not perform abortions, and has taken less than $1,000 in Medicaid funding in each of the past five years. However, Mississippi Senate Medicaid Committee chairman Brice Wiggins (R) said after the state Senate voted to approve the defunding measure, “You are the company you keep and by Mississippi reimbursing Planned Parenthood through Medicaid, we are keeping that company.”

Mississippi-born rapper Genesis Be wrapped herself in a Confederate flag, hung a noose around her neck and ordered fans to rip up a Confederate flag during a recent performance to protest Gov. Phil Bryant’s decision to designate the month of April as Confederate Heritage Month.

Mississippi held county conventions Saturday to elect county delegates who will compete to become Republican National Convention delegates at the upcoming state convention.

President Barack Obama finally addressed the bathroom laws passed by states like North Carolina and Mississippi to ban members of the opposite sex from entering a bathroom of their choice, calling them “wrong” and recommending that they be overturned.

Comedian Tracy Morgan canceled a stand-up performance in Tunica, Mississippi on Tuesday to protest the state’s “Religious Accommodations Act” — which allows private businesses to refuse service to gay people.

The chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party is threatening to use armed state law enforcement agents to forcibly remove Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz supporters at the next round of delegate elections. Breitbart News has obtained text messages sent

The executive vice president of Planned Parenthood says a new Mississippi law banning dismemberment abortion in which an unborn baby is extracted one piece at a time from his or her mother’s womb is an “attack on women’s health care.”

The passage of North Carolina’s HB2, Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act, also known as the “bathroom bill,” has caused several progressive entertainers to boycott that state in protest of the legislation.

State legislators from across America are fighting back against the LGBT agenda and their activist’s retaliation against states over religious liberty legislation. Forty Texas state legislators joined with over one-hundred legislators nationally in writing to business leaders who are threatening action against states who have passed such bills.

Sharon Stone has canceled plans to shoot a short film in Mississippi to protest the state’s recent passage of its “anti-LGBT” religious liberty bill.

Canadian rocker Bryan Adams canceled a planned concert in Mississippi this week over the state’s recent passage of what he called the “extremely discriminatory, anti-LGBT” Religious Liberty bill.

The Mississippi House concurred with the Senate by passing legislation on Tuesday to abolish the requirement for a concealed carry permit in the state.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s governor signed a law Tuesday that allows religious groups and some private businesses to refuse service to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people based on religious beliefs. Republican Gov. Phil Bryant signed the bill without

Mississippi’s new policy requiring food stamps (SNAP) recipients to work or volunteer at least 20 hours a week has resulted in an increase in the number of people volunteering.

As of this writing, 92% of Mississippi is counted and Marco Rubio sits in last place with just 5% support. Third place John Kasich almost doubles Rubio with 9%. Donald Trump is running away with 48%. Ted Cruz is in

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has won the Mississippi Democrat primary, widening her delegate count over self-avowed socialist Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.

Just ahead of the Mississippi primary, Republican Governor Phil Bryant announced his endorsement of Texas Senator Ted Cruz for the GOP nomination for president.

The Mississippi Senate has voted to block state Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood.

“You have a movement going on like we haven’t seen, they say ever in our country,” GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump told a sea of sign waving supporters from an airport hanger in New Orleans, Louisiana on the eve of the state’s presidential primary election.

Governor Phil Bryant declared April to be Confederate Heritage Month, saying he hopes to encourage “reflection” on his state’s history.

New Hampshire is now the least religious state in the United States, edging out Vermont, according to a new Gallup survey, while Mississippi retains its spot as the nation’s most religious state.