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February 2025

  • books on a shelf in a library

    ACLU sues on behalf of librarian fired after opposing book censorship effort

    Patty Hector lost job after being targeted by campaign urging restriction of books with race and LGBTQ+ themes

January 2025

  • people walking in snow

    Winter storm threatens 80m as US south faces heavy snowfall and closures

  • Icicles hang off a tree as a person walks down a suburban street in a neighborhood

    Winter storm to hit US south again, carrying in snow and freezing weather

  • A man skis through a snow-blanketed US main street.

    Bitter cold envelops US south as central states recover from freeze

  • Trump, wearing a suit, speaks at a podium, an American flag behind him

    Republican-run states see opportunity to push extreme policies under Trump

December 2024

  • woman wearing turquoise and sitting on chair gestures

    Part of Arkansas book ban law is unconstitutional, federal judge rules

    Ruling rejects part of governor-backed law that imposes criminal penalties on librarians for giving ‘harmful’ material to kids

October 2024

  • abortion clinic little rock illo ver 2

    Arkansas after Dobbs

    The day Roe died: inside Arkansas’s last abortion clinic

    Patients left behind accounts of their experiences at the Little Rock Family Planning Services clinic before it was shut down

  • A woman standing by a tree

    Arkansas after Dobbs

    How a rightwing machine stopped Arkansas’s ballot initiative to roll back one of the strictest abortion bans

    A Guardian investigation into the ballot’s demise reveals a confluence of rightwing actors working in parallel to ensure the measure was blocked before it ever reached voters

  • woman waves

    Harris hits back at Republican’s remarks about her lack of biological children

    Democrat responds on Call Her Daddy podcast to Arkansas governor saying she has nothing ‘keeping her humble’

September 2024

  • a person holding a yellow fruit in both their hands

    Could pawpaw, the US-native fruit, become the new kiwi or mango?

  • A man works on a clay sculpture of the musician Johnny Cash at his home

    Johnny Cash statue to be unveiled at US Capitol to represent Arkansas

August 2024

  • People wearing shorts, sneakers, hats, and carrying water bottles walk outside with the Washington monument visible in the distance

    Millions swelter as central and eastern US placed under excessive heat watch

  • white boxes with protesters carrying signs in the background

    Arkansas supreme court stops abortion rights initiative from going to voters

July 2024

  • Supporters and opponents of a proposed ballot measure to scale back Arkansas' abortion ban hold signs outside the old Supreme Court chamber at the state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark. Friday, July 5, 2024. Organizers submitted petitions to try and get the proposals on the November ballot. (AP Photo/Andrew DeMillo)

    Arkansas official rejected valid abortion ballot signatures, lawsuit claims

  • people hold signs in support of and against abortion

    Arkansas rejects initiative seeking to ease abortion ban despite over 100,000 supporters

June 2024

  • A bullet-scarred window and a police officer.

    Survivors of deadly mass shooting at Arkansas grocery store hid in freezer

  • White pick trucks outside a one-store shopping mall, under partly cloudy skies.

    Three people dead and 10 injured in mass shooting at Arkansas grocery

May 2024

  • a hand wearing yellow band touches a blue phonebox

    The US might restrict social media in prisons and inmates are worried: ‘I may lose my voice soon’

    Platforms like TikTok have helped inmates stay connected with family, share their stories online and shed light on prison abuse

  • A home damaged by a storm the night before is seen, Sunday, May 26, 2024, in Pryor, Okla. Powerful storms left a wide trail of destruction Sunday across Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas after obliterating homes and destroying a truck stop where dozens sought shelter in a restroom during the latest deadly weather to strike the central U.S. (Mike Simons/Tulsa World via AP)

    At least 21 people dead as storms leave path of destruction across central US

    Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas saw hundreds injured and homes obliterated as storms move into Georgia and South Carolina

  • A man looks over debris after a deadly tornado hit Texas

    At least 15 people dead after storms tear through Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas

    Storms obliterate homes, a truck stop and more across the central US as police report the dead include two children, ages two and five

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