Aug 07 Watch 5:23 Louisiana’s high Medicaid reliance places state on frontlines of health care cuts By Lisa Desjardins, Sarah Clune Hartman President Trump's big budget law is expected to make the largest cuts ever to Medicaid, a program that currently provides health insurance for some 70 million Americans. As Lisa Desjardins reports, those impacts will be felt in House Speaker Mike… Continue watching
Jul 23 9 of 10 men who broke out of New Orleans jail plead not guilty to escape charges By Sara Cline, Associated Press Nine men accused of breaking out of a New Orleans city jail in May after slipping through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a barbed wire fence pleaded not guilty to escape charges on Wednesday. Continue reading
Jul 10 Democratic leader Jeffries heads to Speaker Johnson’s home state to decry cuts in Trump’s megabill By Jack Brook, Associated Press The top Democrat in the U.S. House is holding a town hall Thursday in Louisiana, home to Republican Speaker Mike Johnson and his deputy, to rally against the health care cuts in the GOP bill that President Donald Trump signed into law. Continue reading
Jun 27 Supreme Court calls for new arguments in case on Louisiana’s second majority Black congressional district By Associated Press The case is being closely watched because at arguments in March several of the court’s conservative justices suggested they could vote to throw out the map and make it harder, if not impossible, to bring redistricting lawsuits under the Voting… Continue reading
Jun 20 Federal appeals court blocks Louisiana law requiring Ten Commandments in classrooms By Sara Cline, Jack Brook, Associated Press A panel of three federal appellate judges has ruled that a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in each of the state’s public school classrooms is unconstitutional. Continue reading
May 22 This Louisiana community preps for hurricane season as questions linger about federal storm response By Joshua Barajas “These hurricanes are coming at us faster and they’re coming for a longer time of the year. They’re producing more rain, higher winds. And they’re going to places that may never have experienced that before."… Continue reading
May 17 Authorities search for escapees after 10 break out of New Orleans jail through hole in cell wall By Jack Brook, Jim Mustian, Sara Cline, Associated Press Ten men broke out of a New Orleans jail Friday in an audacious overnight escape by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a wall while the lone guard assigned to their cell pod was away getting food,… Continue reading
Apr 20 15 years after Deepwater Horizon oil spill, lawsuits and coastal restoration have stalled By Jack Brook, Associated Press Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons of crude gushing into the ocean, the effects of the nation's worst offshore oil spill are still being felt. Continue reading
Mar 24 Watch 5:00 What justices said during a critical Supreme Court hearing on redistricting and race By Geoff Bennett, Ali Schmitz The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a key redistricting case that could reshape how states draw districts by race. A group of voters identifying as "non-African American" argues Louisiana's congressional map, which created two majority-Black districts after a federal… Continue watching
Mar 24 WATCH: Trump says he knew ‘nothing’ about report on officials texting war plans to journalist By Associated Press The plant is part of an overall $20 billion investment by Hyundai, the Korean automaker. Continue reading