Attorney General of Mississippi will defend lawsuit over Confederate-themed flag
Mississippi attorney general Carlos Moore said he will defend his state's flag against a lawsuit that endeavors to eliminate its Confederate battle emblem.
Mississippi attorney general Carlos Moore said he will defend his state's flag against a lawsuit that endeavors to eliminate its Confederate battle emblem.
The U.S. Supreme Court took up a major new abortion case on Friday, agreeing to hear a challenge by abortion providers to parts of a restrictive, Republican-backed Texas law that they contend are aimed at shutting clinics that offer the procedure.
An eight-mile convoy of pickups, motorcycles and cars wound through a central Florida town on Sunday in a show of support for the Confederate flag, as a backlash against its banishment from public landmarks across the South picks up steam.
A man and woman in Mississippi were arrested and charged with murder on Sunday after two police officers were shot dead a day earlier while conducting a routine traffic stop in Hattiesburg, officials said.