Arizona’s political leaders and residents are asking why crews allowed a fire to burn for days in hot, dry conditions before it exploded beyond containment lines and tore through the heart of the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. Read more: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...

DOJ fires Maurene Comey, prosecutor involved in Epstein, Diddy cases There was no specific reason provided for why Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James B. Comey, was fired.

Federal prosecutor Maurene Comey, who worked on the criminal cases of Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, and also a prosecutor in the recent trial of Sean Combs, was fired Wednesday, according to people familiar with the matter.

hmm, 2017 ish onward!

Repost please! I'm a reporter looking to hear from expats who moved away from Jackson, Mississippi to live in Texas. Please message me if you'd be interested in sharing your experience!

JPD called ICE on Miss. father, who faces deportation ICE is seeking to deport an immigrant with work authorization for alleged "illegal dumping" in Jackson.

ICE is seeking to deport an immigrant with work authorization for alleged "illegal dumping" in Jackson.

Mississippi executes Richard Jordan Richard Jordan, Mississippi's oldest and longest serving death row inmate, died by lethal injection Wednesday.

Mississippi executes Richard Jordan

Richard Jordan, Mississippi's oldest and longest serving death row inmate, died by lethal injection Wednesday.

Criminalizing pregnancy: A record number of women were prosecuted the year after Dobbs They were targeted for substance use, miscarriages, and stillbirths, largely driven by fetal personhood laws.

Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

What's happened since?

A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.

These Los Angeles tenants are saying no to rent hikes How one complex organized to take on their landlord—and the city's housing crisis.

How one Los Angeles complex organized to take on their landlord—and the city’s housing crisis.

“I didn’t know how to explain it to her. I just said, ‘No, we aren’t going to move.'”

and i agree, it always scratches my car!

i know PJ's when i see it

2 bears escape wildlife park enclosure, devour a 7-day supply of honey, then fall asleep Mish and Lucy got out of their enclosure and made a beeline for their food store where they scoffed snacks, including a seven-day supply of honey.

Relatable www.cbsnews.com/news/bears-e...

Children stand on a road in Syria. A man on a motorbike carrying wood rides toward them.

New York Times journalists traveled the length of Syria to see the country's hopes and scars as it emerges from 13 years of civil war. See photos from their journey: nyti.ms/44mcfNG

Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assemblyman, declared victory in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary after Andrew Cuomo conceded the race.

“Tonight we made history,” Mamdani said, addressing his supporters. wapo.st/44yMVoI

How Police Let One of America’s Most Prolific Predators Get Away When a prosecutor began chasing an accused serial rapist, she lost her job but unravelled a scandal. Why were the police refusing to investigate Sean Williams?

One of the most prolific and notorious rapists in American history may have operated unchecked because of police corruption. @ronanfarrow.bsky.social on the case of Sean Williams.

Pulitzer Prizes: 2025 Winners List Here is the full list of winners and finalists.

Here is the full list of this year's Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists.

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Pulitzer Prizes Public Service Winner: ProPublica. Image (right) displays headline that reads: Their States Banned Abortion. Doctors Now Say They Can't Give Women Potentially Lifesaving Care.

JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

White unearned advantage: How DEI challenges comfortable ignorance - Mississippi Today Essay: Eliminating DEI would preserve the luxury of ignorance, enabling those in power to remain comfortably unaware while marginalized communities suffer the consequences.

Essay: Eliminating DEI would preserve the luxury of ignorance, enabling those in power to remain comfortably unaware while marginalized communities suffer the consequences.

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT DAVID ERMOLD; DAVID MOORE, Plaintiffs-Appellees, No. 24-5524 V. KIM DAVIs, individually, Defendant-Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky at Ashland. No. 0:15-cv-00046-David L. Bunning, District Judge. Argued: January 30, 2025 Decided and Filed: March 6, 2025 Before: WHITE, READLER, and MATHIS, Circuit Judges.

OPINION HELENE N. WHITE, Circuit Judge. Defendant-Appellant Kim Davis, in her capacity as the clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky, refused to issue a marriage license to Plaintiffs-Appellees David Moore and David Ermold. Plaintiffs sued Davis under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming that Davis violated their constitutional right to marry. After several interlocutory appeals, the district court entered judgment for Plaintiffs on liability and a jury awarded them compensatory damages. Davis now appeals, arguing that she is entitled to qualified immunity, that she has affirmative defenses to liability under the Free Exercise Clause and the Kentucky Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and that Plaintiffs' evidence of their emotional distress was insufficient to support the jury's award. We AFFIRM.

BREAKING: Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who refused to issue same-sex couples' marriage licenses, loses her appeal at the Sixth Circuit of a lawsuit she lost at trial that was brought by same-sex couples whose constitutional right to marry she violated. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

JXN Water, running out of operating cash, will raise rates again JXN Water is losing money at a rate it can't sustain as federal dollars to run day-to-day operations are set to run out next month.

JXN Water is losing money at a rate it can’t sustain as federal dollars to run day-to-day operations are set to run out next month.

It’s Mardi Gras in New Orleans — and in this small, southeastern Dutch village Like New Orleans, the small village of Schaijk in the Netherlands is also celebrating Carnaval on Tuesday — and making an update to a centuries-old tradition.

It was Mardi Gras in the Netherlands too!

"Carnaval" celebrations date to the 14th century there, @wadrewhawkins.bsky.social reports. He met a princess in a small Dutch village. Listen🎧 or read here: www.wwno.org/wwno/2025-03...

miss u orlando! thanks for reading :)

In a city without a plan, anti-public sleeping bills pop up at Jackson City Hall and state Capitol - Mississippi Today Multiple bills that target homeless encampments in Jackson have moved out of their respective houses. Advocates worry about the impact on one of the most vulnerable populations in a city without a hom...

In Mississippi, bills take aim at unhoused people and the practice of sleeping outdoors, @mayalmiller.bsky.social reports: mississippitoday.org/2025/02/20/h...

In a city without a plan, anti-public sleeping bills pop up at Jackson City Hall and state Capitol - Mississippi Today Multiple bills that target homeless encampments in Jackson have moved out of their respective houses. Advocates worry about the impact on one of the most vulnerable populations in a city without a hom...

I miss working with @mayalmiller.bsky.social every day, but so thrilled to see her first story for @mississippitoday.org post today!

Despite Mississippi’s low homelessness rate nationally, multiple bills that target homeless encampments in Jackson have moved out of their respective houses.

L.A. County hit with record number of lawsuits amid flood of child sex abuse claims The amount the county paid to outside attorneys rose 18% from the previous year to $75 million — nearly double what the county spent four years ago.

Last year, the county spent ~$100 million on LA Sheriff's Department legal costs -- settlements, judgements and lawyer fees -- making it again the most expensive county dept to defend.

BUT that was actually an improvement! The year before it was around $150 million

www.latimes.com/california/s...

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
-Angela Davis

Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis.

"If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory."
--Angela Davis

*_ Pam Hemphill said she planned to refuse Trump's pardon. (PHOTO: KYLE GREEN FOR WSJ) Pam Hemphill, of Idaho, who served 60 days in prison after pleading guilty to misdemeanor charges, said she planned to refuse the presidential pardon.

"It'd be an insult to the Capitol Police and the rule of law, and to our nation," she said. "I pleaded guilty because I was guilty. I don't want to be a part of contributing to them trying to rewrite history-that January 6 was not an insurrection. It was, it was a riot. And I think taking a pardon is like a message that what happened that day was OK."

This is an amazing quote, from a Jan 6 prisoner who is refusing Trump’s pardon.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Traditional New Orleans architecture under the snow. #sneauxday