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Congress sent $600 million to Jackson to help fix its water system. Some are warning that new legislation could funnel the money out of the city.

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Open season on protesters, but the fight to defend rights is on

This morning, as the Supreme Court heard the most serious challenge to abortion rights in decades, Justice Sonia Sotomayor delivered a stirring series of questions challenging the attempt to upend a person’s right to choose to terminate a pregnancy.

A thousand kinds of crazy in a convulsing world

The U.S. now has an average of about 129,000 new COVID-19 cases per day, a rate that has doubled in a little over two weeks, and an average of 600 people are dying each day of COVID-19, double the death rate seen in late July.

It is the cardinal sin of the American health system in a single surgery: save on preventive care, pay big on the backend, and let the chronically sick and underprivileged feel the extreme consequences.

To pay off fines and other debts, inmates in Mississippi’s little-known restitution centers must work grueling low-wage jobs, pay rent and endure strip searches. Caught between prison and freedom, they often don’t know when they’ll get to go home.

Understaffed and underfunded, Mississippi’s Parchman prison has received media attention for its grisly violence, gang control and subhuman living conditions. Lawmakers have known about these issues for years, and have done nothing to fix it.