The Latest Breaking News from Mississippi

WASHINGTON — There’s a pair of member versus member primaries in Illinois, incumbents facing elimination in Mississippi runoffs and an empty seat being filled in Nebraska on Tuesday as seven states hold elections.

Republican Reps. Michael Guest and Steven M. Palazzo face potential elimination in primary runoffs on Tuesday in Mississippi.

Mississippi has runoffs, Nebraska a special election, and Colorado, Illinois, New York, Oklahoma and Utah have primaries.

Seven states are set to host primary elections Tuesday as the nation comes to terms with last week’s stunning Supreme Court ruling eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion

Although the chief justice's incrementalism did not sway his colleagues, his observations about the meaning of a "right to choose" could be relevant in state legislatures.

Congressional primary runoffs are rare in Mississippi

The court decided by a 6-3 majority to uphold Mississippi’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy

The US Supreme Court on Friday abolished a landmark case that was the basis of legal abortions in the states for nearly 50 years. Ruling in favor of a Mississippi abortion law, the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade. With this ruling, 50 years of reproductive rights in the…

The Supreme Court on Friday stripped away women’s constitutional protections for abortion, a fundamental and deeply personal change for Americans’ lives after nearly a half-century under Roe v. Wade. The court’s overturning of the landmark court ruling is likely to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.

The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in American history — and remains relevant

The "Dobbs" in the case title refers to Thomas Dobbs, an infectious diseases doctor who became Mississippi's top health officer the same year the state adopted new abortion restrictions.