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Manchin said he would support Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination after he broke with President Biden and his party on some major issues.

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Carson Daly announced the news on TODAY Friday that his wife, Siri, is pregnant with their fourth child! “We couldn’t be happier to share the news that our family is growing by one this spring,” the couple told TODAY. “We are continually amazed by God’s blessings in our lives. Our entire family is grateful and so excited!” The baby, who...

The end of the hit Starz series “Power” is the beginning of several planned spinoffs, the first featuring Mary J. Blige. The Grammy-winning singer and actress said the announcement was probably the most exciting thing that would happen to her this year. Blige’s casting in the new show, titled “Power Book II: Ghost,” was announced Friday at a TV critics’...

Members of POWER (People Organizing for Women’s Empowerment and Rights) House stood on the steps of the Alabama State House on Thursday morning to protest HB314, a bill that amounts to a near total ban on abortions. As lawmakers showed up to vote, the women held up signs that read, “Abortion Is A Human Right,” NBC News reports. Under the...

The Michael Jackson estate has sent a letter to the U.K.’s Channel 4 warning that a documentary on two men who accuse the singer of molesting them as boys violates the network’s programming guidelines.

It was a fun and competitive weekend for a young group of all-stars as they visited Texas and represented Memphis, Tennessee, in a weekend football tournament. The players, some venturing outside of Memphis for the first time in their lives, built bonds on the field and off, says one of their coaches, Matt King. “They had a blast,” said King.

An East Bay mother is frustrated and wants answers after her 5-year-old was allowed to walk 2.6 miles from his school to his home alone.

In a campaign stop that was both political and personal, President Donald Trump targeted Democrat Jon Tester on Thursday in a bid to get more Republicans elected to the Senate but also to punish the lawmaker he blames for derailing his nominee to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs. Trump unleashed a vigorous campaign-season attack on some of his most...

When the call went out for a doctor on board, the U.S. surgeon general says he gladly stepped in to help with a medical emergency on a commercial flight. Dr. Jerome Adams, an anesthesiologist, said he assisted someone on a Delta Air Lines jet as he prepared to fly Wednesday to Jackson, Mississippi.

The August Wilson play “Two Trains Running” is coming to Arena Stage in D.C. Actor Eugene Lee spoke with News4’s Molette Green about the play and his role. “This play is about people looking for justice,” he said.

Blige said she spent the morning “yelling and screaming and about to cry.” The 47-year-old called the nominations beautiful.

After his decision to attend stirred controversy and prompted plans of protests and boycotts, President Donald Trump will not speak publicly this weekend at the opening of a new civil rights museum in Jackson, Mississippi. Instead, Trump will participate in a separate private event at the museum Saturday morning, NBC News reported. Several people who worked on the museum told...

In an unprecedented move, North Carolina’s state child welfare agency will participate in reviewing every new allegation of abuse and neglect involving a controversial church that has been the focus of an Associated Press investigation exposing years of physical and emotional mistreatment of congregants, including children. Under North Carolina’s child welfare system, county agencies are responsible for investigating abuse allegations....

Investigators picked through debris across a fire-blackened soybean field Tuesday to try to determine why a U.S. military plane slammed into the ground, killing all 16 people aboard in the deadliest Marine crash anywhere in the world in more than a decade. The KC-130 air tanker was carrying members of an elite Marine unit cross-country for training in Arizona when...

A U.S. military plane used for refueling crashed into a soybean field in rural Mississippi, killing at least 16 people aboard in a fiery wreck and spreading debris for miles, officials said. Leflore County Emergency Management Agency Director Frank Randle told reporters at a briefing late Monday that 16 bodies had been recovered after the KC-130 spiraled into the ground...

The Justice Department will help 12 U.S. cities develop long-term strategies to decrease violent crime, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday. The department will help local authorities study crime patterns and create specially tailored plans to reduce gang and gun violence, he said. Federal authorities will help cities find “data-driven, evidence-based strategies” that can be measured overtime. “This program will...

A police chief says the slaying of a barber in front of customers and the discovery of a severed head on the porch of a home the next day have left “gaping wounds in the psyche” of Mississippi’s capital city. Jackson Chief Lee Vance said Monday that authorities don’t know if the two crimes are related, but he called them...

An actress who starred in the 1994 award-winning movie “Clerks” has died. Lisa Spoonauer was 44.

Paper? Pencils? Laptops? Robots? Teachers are increasingly relying on crowdfunding efforts to stock their classrooms with both the mundane and sometimes big-ticket items.