Aldi is buying 400 grocery stores in Florida and the southeast as it continues its rapid US expansion

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An Aldi store in London.

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Lawyers successfully argued that a Jim Crow-era law banning felons from voting is cruel and unusual punishment

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Two people filling out their ballots inside cardboard voting booths.
Mississippi's lifetime voting ban for those with certain felony convictions dates back to the 1890s.

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A 16-year-old boy died while working in a Mississippi poultry plant. An unscrupulous hiring agency may be to blame, a workplace expert says.

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Duvan Tomas Perez, 16, died on July 14.

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NAACP sues Mississippi over its expanded control of law enforcement in the state's capital, which the organization says will create 'separate and unequal policing'

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Officers from the state-run Capitol Police and the city-run Jackson Police Department stand watch outside a Jackson, Miss., church where a community meeting was held to address youth crime issues on Feb. 14.

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A Mississippi meteorologist prayed on-air for small-town residents as a deadly tornado barreled toward them: VIDEO

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The aftermath in Amory, Mississippi after a tornado and severe weather hit the area.

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