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Hosemann’s decision follows House Speaker Jason White’s recent announcement that he has created a select committee to study redistricting ahead of the 2027 legislative session. 

Republican senators in Louisiana have advanced a plan to eliminate one of two majority-Black U.S. House districts for this year’s elections. Meanwhile, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp announced that he is calling lawmakers back to work to consider redistricting. The Georgia session in June will focus on changes for the 2028 elections for both U.S. House and state legislative districts.

Restoring numbers of the endangered Pearl River map turtle would take about 60 years, under a proposal.

Mississippi showed negligible growth in students’ average reading scores from 2022 to 2025, new data analysis shows.

Last weekend’s rainfall put stress on the Jackson County sewer systems, causing a section of a line installed roughly 50 years ago to rupture.

Reeves said he wants Mississippi to redraw its congressional and legislative districts after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, but did not lay out a specific timeline for that.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has directed officials in all 50 states to share plans to swiftly revalidate high-risk Medicaid providers within 10 days and provide a two-year strategy for reviewing all providers within 30 days. 

President Donald Trump’s efforts to reshape U.S. House districts have seen mixed outcomes. South Carolina senators defied his push Tuesday, while Missouri’s top court upheld a new map backed by Trump that could benefit Republicans in the midterm elections. The national redistricting battle has been raging for 10 months. But it became more intense after the U.S. Supreme Court recently weakened the federal Voting Rights Act.

Mississippi quarterback Trinidad Chambliss says he’s looking forward to getting away after winning a long legal challenge and going through his first spring practice as the Rebels’ projected starting quarterback. Chambliss plans to return to his childhood hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he’s expected to make appearances and speeches at school functions.

Supreme Court justices have until Thursday to make a substantive decision about mail-order abortion pills or push back the deadline again.