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President Joe Biden speaks at Atlanta University Center Consortium, Jan. 11, 2022, in Atlanta. President Biden, on Sunday, jan. 30, 2022 is calling for the release of U.S. Navy veteran Mark Frerichs, who was taken hostage in Afghanistan nearly two years ago. Frerichs is a civil engineer and contractor from Lombard, Illinois. He was kidnapped in January 2020 from the capital of Kabul. He is believed to be in the custody of the Taliban-linked Haqqani network. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, file)

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Biden calls for release of US hostage in Afghanistan
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Sun,01/30/22-2:42PM , 358 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Sunday called for the release of U.S. Navy veteran Mark Frerichs, who was taken hostage in Afghanistan nearly two years ago.
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Mayor of Ridgeland withholds library funds over LGBTQ books
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Fri,01/28/22-2:00AM , 649 Reads
RIDGELAND — The director of a Mississippi library system says a mayor is withholding $110,000 from his city’s library because LGBTQ books are on the shelves.
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Senate passes bill to honor Till and his mother
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Wed,01/12/22-2:00AM , 763 Reads
WASHINGTON — The Senate has passed a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to Emmett Till, the Chicago teenager murdered by white supremacists in the 1950s, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, who insisted on an open casket funeral to demonstrate the brutality of his killing.
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State sets patient transfer order; system to direct people to suitable locations
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Wed,01/12/22-2:00AM , 453 Reads
JACKSON — The Mississippi Health Department on Tuesday ordered all hospitals in the state to allow the transfer of critically ill patients, an effort to help people in rural areas receive care as the state continues to see a rapid increase in COVID-19 cases.
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