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With a Monday trial date looming, time is running out for BP and the U.S. Department of Justice to reach a settlement.

"And it is that section of the act that has allowed Mississippi to be a more inclusive democracy."

"But they did jobs without the safety precautions that American workers would have insisted upon."

"As people come out of poverty there is a positive impact for the taxpayer who has been subsidizing programs such as food stamps and earned income tax credit. So it could be a sizable impact on the public coffers to not have to pay for those programs."

" Pope Benedict the sixteenth has taken a position that the church has adopted in past years."

George F. Will, Pulitzer-prize winning author, conservative political commentator and journalist, discusses national and Mississippi politics.

But then on the other side you see United States citizens being trafficked in our own country in our own backyards. Particularly in the sex trade and our young girls and boys are particularly vulnerable in that arena."

Quite a few Mississippians were part of Monday's 57^th presidential inauguration.

Opponents and supporters of abortion in Mississippi took to the streets yesterday for the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

"They look at a crime like larceny and they say ok instead of sending this person to prison let’s put this person on house arrest, electronic monitor where we can watch them every time he takes a step."

Mississippi gun enthusiasts are lining up by the thousands to buy firearms as tougher gun control measures loom in Washington.

The number of Mississippians applying for permits have more than doubled in the past five years. MPB's Daniel Cherry reports... 

This winter has seen the earliest flu outbreak in more than a decade. Since early October at least 18 children across the U.S. have died from the flu, none were from Mississippi.

Nearly three thousand Mississippi community college students lost their Pell Grants in Fall 2012. MPB's Daniel Cherry reports, a higher education researcher says that could put a college education out of reach for many students.