In Robert Jones Jr.’s debut novel, two enslaved teens fall in love on a Mississippi plantation in the antebellum South.

NASA's SLS rocket made for taking astronauts back to the moon fired its main engines Saturday afternoon, but the test in Mississippi was cut short.

“The stakes are high when there’s a delay in getting the vaccine out,” a public health expert said. "The worst outcome is people dying that didn’t need to die."

Storms battered the South on Easter Sunday, killing at least 19 as several tornadoes spun up from Mississippi to South Carolina. Hundreds of homes were damaged, and the storms left nearly 750,000 without power.