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Acting U.S. Labor Secretary Julie Su says workers at southern auto plants should be free to unionize without employer or political interference, even as some southern states pass new laws meant to inhibit organized labor

Dau Mabil escaped war-torn Sudan as a child and built a new life in Mississippi

On the eve of a vote on union representation at Volkswagen’s Tennessee factory, Gov. Bill Lee and five other southern governors are telling workers that voting for a union will put jobs in jeopardy

A Maryland senator says a third channel will open this month at Baltimore’s port after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse two weeks ago

new bridge, Sen. Ben Cardin said Tuesday. Cardin gave the update after meeting with the state congressional delegation and Maryland Gov.

The town of Rolling Fork, Mississippi, has struggled to rebuild after a devastating tornado struck last year

Colorado State University's (CSU) inaugural forecast for the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season has predicted a busy season and named more than 20 storms. The predictions also include forecast for states, as per a report in Fox Weather. Name of these storms are — Alberto, Helene, Oscar, Beryl, Isaac, Patty, Chris, Joyce, Rafael, Debby, Kirk, Sara, Ernesto, Leslie, Tony, Francine, Milton, Valerie, Gordon, Nadine, and Wlliam, Fox weather reported.

book from Egypt that was written at the dawn of Christianity and is considered one of the oldest books in existence will go up for auction in June in London. The Crosby-Schoyen Codex — written in Coptic on papyrus around 250-350 AD, and produced in one of the first Christian monasteries — has an estimated sale value of $2.6 million to $3.8 million, according to Christie's. «It's right at that period, that transitional period, when papyrus scroll starts turning into codex form,» said Eugenio Donadoni, Christie's Senior Specialist, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts. «So, books as we know them today. And what we have in this book is the earliest known texts of two books of the Bible.»

Attorneys say two Mississippi catfish farms have settled a lawsuit over using immigrant workers and paying them more than they paid local Black farmworkers

The largest fresh egg producer in the U.S. says it has stopped production at a plant in the Texas Panhandle after bird flu was found in the flock

Kansas is poised to require internet pornography sites to verify that visitors are adults

Louisiana crawfish are in demand despite a shortage of the mudbugs driven by last summer’s drought, extreme heat, saltwater intrusion on the Mississippi River and a hard winter freeze

A fifth former sheriff’s deputy in Mississippi has been sentenced for his part in torturing two Black men

Percival Everett is poised for a big year. James, his twist on Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" told from the perspective of the runaway slave Jim, is racking up rave reviews and already making best-of 2024 lists. Publishing executives expect the book’s arrival on Tuesday to mark the veteran author’s long-awaited leap from literary cult favorite to commercial brand name.

Panama Canal has avoided the worst of a shipping crunch that threatened to upend the global economy — but at a cost to marine life and the Latin American country’s supplies of drinking water. After imposing strict limits on vessel traffic last year as drought left water levels languishing, the Panama Canal Authority is increasing the number of ships that can cross. Thanks to conservation measures, water levels fell just over a foot for the year through March 12, compared with three feet during the same period of 2023. Those measures, though, come with side effects. The canal recycles water from locks that vessels pass through, instead of simply flushing it into the ocean. This reused water gets saltier, and some of it infiltrates Lake Gatún, an artificial lake that forms part of the channel and is also Panama’s largest source of potable supply.

The largest industrial wood pellet supplier in the world has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

Donald Trump both clinched their parties' nomination on Tuesday, kicking off the first U.S. presidential election rematch in nearly 70 years. According to Edison Research, Joe Biden passed the necessary 1,968 delegates on Tuesday night as the results of the Georgia primary contest started to come in.

Donald Trump, whose single turbulent term in the White House transformed the Republican Party, tested the resilience of democratic institutions in the U.S. and threatened alliances abroad, will lead the GOP in a third consecutive presidential election after clinching the nomination Tuesday. With wins in Georgia, Mississippi and Washington state, Trump surpassed the 1,215-delegate threshold needed to become the presumptive Republican nominee. He'll formally accept the nomination at the Republican National Convention in July, by which point he could be in the remarkable position of being both a presidential candidate and convicted felon. Trump has been indicted in four separate criminal investigations and his first trial, which centers on payments made to a porn actress, is set to begin March 25 in New York City.

By James Oliphant and Nandita Bose

Amid a crawfish shortage in Louisiana, Gov. Jeff Landry has issued a disaster declaration for the impacted industry

A federal agency is asserting legal rights to waters that feed the Okefenokee Swamp and its vast wildlife refuge, setting up a new battle with a mining company seeking permits to withdraw more than 1.4 million gallons per day