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A Brief History of Dogs in Minnesota
Mpls.St.Paul Magazine - Minnesota
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August 25, 2025
1750 Chief Black Dog brings his band of Mdewakanton Dakota from their ancestral Mille Lacs Lake to the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers. The band establishes a permanent village on the isthmus between the Minnesota River and...
Bluesky Blocks Mississippi Users Instead of Making Them Prove They’re Over 18
PC Magazine
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August 23, 2025
Don't miss out on our latest stories. Add PCMag as a preferred source on Google. Bluesky has walked off the stage in the birthplace of the blues rather than comply with a new Mississippi law that the social network says would have required it to...
Mississippi Dogs Lead Nation in Deadly Heartworm Infections
Mississippi Free Press
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August 22, 2025
HATTIESBURG, Miss.—When Gleppy, a 2-year-old chihuahua mix, was found as a stray in Forrest County, she was full of energy and eager to greet anyone nearby. But at Southern Pines Animal Shelter in Hattiesburg, staff discovered her biggest...
Bluesky blocked in Mississippi over age verification laws
Mashable
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August 23, 2025
People in Mississippi no longer have access to Bluesky — one of the primary alternatives to Elon Musk's X — because of burdensome age verification laws. A new law in Mississippi requires age verification to access social media sites. This landmark...
How Hurricanes Are Reshaping the Cotton Industry
Live Insurance News
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August 23, 2025
If you’re a farmer in the Midwest, you’d probably be shocked at how much your peers down in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi pay for crop insurance. Try four to six times more. That’s right. Farmers in the Mid-South are shelling out...
DEEP DIVE: The Farmington Push for Responsible Hyper-Scale Data Centers
Minnesota Women's Press
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August 26, 2025
Coalition co-founder Cathy Johnson offers some concluding remarks at the forum about responsible data center development in Farmington, which is the subject of a lawsuit by neighbors against city leadership. At a recent public meeting hosted by...
Ingalls Worker Killed, Another Facing Murder Charge After Shooting at Mississippi Shipyard
Military.com
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August 23, 2025
An Ingalls Shipbuilding employee was arrested on a murder charge Friday after an early-morning shooting killed his coworker and sent thousands across the sprawling shipyard into tense lockdown, authorities said. Police described an urgent search...
Bluesky blocks Mississippi due to its new age verification law
Engadget
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August 23, 2025
Users with Mississippi IP addresses can no longer access the Bluesky app. The decentralized social media network has explained in a post that Mississippi's new age verification law for social networks "would fundamentally change" how it operates,...
Emmett Till lynching records unveil government response
BBC
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ShareSave Emmett Till's death was a key galvanising moment in the US civil rights movement Thousands of pages of records have been released in the US detailing the government's response to the lynching of black teenager Emmett Till in 1955. The US...
Mississippi Lottery Mississippi Match 5, Cash 3 results for Aug. 21, 2025
The Clarion Ledger - Mississippi
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The Mississippi Lottery offers several draw games for those aiming to win big. Here’s a look at Aug. 21, 2025, results for each game: Winning Mississippi Match 5 numbers from Aug. 21 drawing 01-14-18-23-26 Check Mississippi Match 5 payouts and...
After Katrina, this Mississippi Coast cafe brought the community together. It still does today.
Nola - Louisiana
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Almost 20 years ago, as Hurricane Katrina barreled toward the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Alicein Schwabacher was one of thousands who were forced to leave everything behind — her personal possessions, her business, her home. She was 35 and pregnant,...
Mississippi Infant Mortality Hits Decade High, Prompts Emergency Declaration
Twin States News - Mississippi
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Health officials say urgent action is needed... and they’re calling on communities, providers, and policymakers to come together to save lives. In a statement released today, the Mississippi Department of Health said: “Improving maternal health is...
SBA offers disaster relief to Tennessee small businesses, nonprofits and residents
Hartsville Vidette - Tennessee
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In response to an Presidential disaster declaration issued June 19, 2025, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced the availability of low interest disaster loans for Tennessee small businesses, private nonprofits and residents...
2032 Projections Show Conservative States Gaining Electoral Votes as Democrats Continue into a Death Spiral
[your]NEWS
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August 25, 2025
Democrats are facing a perilous future in the Electoral College, as the population growth in red states such as Texas, Florida, Utah, and Idaho could provide Republicans with a greater advantage by 2032. Democrat strongholds such as California,...
The business of C-sections
Business Insider
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August 23, 2025
Kelsey Birch remembers the crushing pressure, the sharp jerks, and the feeling of hands inside her abdomen. "I felt like I was being torn apart," she said. "I couldn't handle it." Birch, a then 28-year-old emergency dispatcher in Colorado, hadn't...
Food and Beverage News and Trends - August 2025 #2
JD Supra - California
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August 26, 2025
This regular publication by DLA Piper lawyers focuses on helping clients navigate the ever-changing business, legal, and regulatory landscape. The leaked MAHA draft strategy. The Administration was expected to release its MAHA strategy document in...
Mississippi DEI law hit by federal judge: Classrooms granted a temporary shield for free expression
The Times of India
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A federal judge has delivered a significant rebuke to Mississippi’s controversial law curtailing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in public schools, citing constitutional concerns and the potential suppression of free expression....
WATCH: DNC opens summer meeting in most virtue-signaling way possible
WorldNetDaily
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August 25, 2025
Lindy Sowmick The Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting opened Monday, with one of the first items on its agenda being a “land acknowledgement.” The DNC’s meeting comes weeks after a Quinnipiac poll showing only 19% of respondents...
Mississippi’s Age Verification Law Could Impact Us All
Cato Institute - Washington D.C.
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August 21, 2025
Jennifer Huddleston William Faulkner once wrote, “To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.” Recently, the Supreme Court refused to pause a Mississippi law that would require age verification for social media....
Bluesky Withdraws from Mississippi Following Court’s Approval of Age-Check Law
Arabian Post
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August 23, 2025
A US Supreme Court order permitting Mississippi’s social media age-verification law to be enforced has prompted Bluesky to block access across the state. Critics warn the measure infringes on free speech and user privacy, while proponents contend...