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Democrats have used President Donald Trump’s unpopularity to expand the midterm map, and analysts project the party carries momentum heading into the final two weeks of the election cycle.
Louisiana allocated $3.2 billion in state funding to nonprofit groups over a four-year period that straddled Govs. John Bel Edwards and Jeff Landry’s time in office, according to a Louisiana Legislative Auditor report released this month.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday establishing a Women’s Health Division within the National Institutes of Health. The new division is set to work with the agency’s existing Office of Research on Women’s Health, which was established in 1990 and “has served as the focal point for…
Louisiana’s early voting period opens Tuesday and closes a week later on Oct. 27 for the Nov. 3 election. Early voting locations will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day except Sunday.
The agreement is just one piece of the puzzle in understanding how the detention facility for the so-called repatriation program, a program that authorities say helps immigrants voluntarily departing, will operate.
Across much of the United States, a warm winter and persistent drought have decimated the natural foods that black and brown bears rely on.
While immigrants with TPS from El Salvador, Sudan and Ukraine will have deportation protections, it places more than 300,000 people in limbo because it’s not clear how long the protections will last.
A restraining order and firearms restrictions are legal boundaries available to survivors of domestic abuse, but they are not sufficient when an abuser is determined to punish, control, stalk or kill their victim.
Six years after a national sexual assault scandal roiled the state’s flagship university, Louisiana lawmakers question if the reporting system implemented in its wake provides enough information. In 2020, LSU became engulfed in controversy following a USA Today investigative report that revealed how the university…
With the general election just 16 days away and early voting underway in dozens of states, people across the nation took to the streets Saturday to urge their friends and neighbors to get out and vote. The No Kings: Vote Early Day of Action held more than 2,500 events in all 50 states and the
The No Kings movement dialed down its usual animus for President Donald Trump at thousands of gatherings across the country Saturday to instead emphasize voter participation for the Nov. 3 congressional midterm elections.
Even as the Davis Pond diversion demonstrates the land-building potential of Mississippi River sediment, Louisiana has abandoned its most ambitious attempt to put that approach to work.
Voting rights advocates fear the Trump administration is violating a court order blocking it from rooting out noncitizens with states’ voter data.
Federal officials are investigating letters containing an unidentified white powder that were mailed to elections offices and capitol buildings in multiple states this week, including Louisiana.
The LSU Board of Supervisors Friday approved the creation of the Prosperity Institute, a research center in its business college that the founding donor hopes will definitively prove the superiority of capitalism. Roger Ogden, a New Orleans real estate developer and former LSU board chairman, has been a major donor to…
Louisiana lawmakers renewed state contracts Thursday with four private managed care organizations that provide Medicaid coverage, calling on state health officials to ensure the money results in better health outcomes.
Ukrainians first received Temporary Protected Status after Russia invaded their country in 2022. Sudanese nationals were granted the designation several times, most recently in 2022, because of an ongoing civil war.
President Donald Trump has a flurry of travel on deck in the final frantic weeks leading up to the end of the midterm elections, in which the GOP is vying to maintain its control of both the U.S. House and Senate.
Party control is up for grabs in 15 state legislative chambers across the country as Republicans are increasingly on the defensive this midterm election cycle, a new analysis found.
Railroads in the 19th century consumed about $173 billion in today’s dollars and created more than 2% of the nation’s annual economic output over 20 years. Today’s data center buildout will dwarf that amount.
Two women have filed a federal civil lawsuit accusing former Florida U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz and two others of participating in an sex trafficking scheme involving young women, drugs, and travel across state lines.
The Trump administration sought a federal court order Thursday to force California to purge 20,000 people from its voter rolls over claims they are not U.S. citizens, a major development less than three weeks before the midterm elections.
Suddenly there’s hope for cutting the reams of red tape that can make getting new energy projects a seemingly endless slog.
Over the past 14 months, liquefied natural gas companies have proposed new expansion projects at seven gas export terminals along the Gulf Coast, encouraged in part by wars in the Middle East and Ukraine that have boosted the market for U.S. LNG shipments.
Louisiana voters will decide Nov. 3 whether public money can be used to remove potentially harmful lead pipes from private property. Its approval would immediately give New Orleans access to more than $150 million to tackle a small portion of the city’s outdated drinking water system.
The ninth-grader was one of 52 students from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and American Samoa who put their civics knowledge to the test at the third annual nonpartisan civics championship.
Last week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision to make Hasan’s execution public garnered bipartisan backlash, and members of Congress urged the Trump administration to reconsider.
Editor’s Note: This story is part of Gen Z at the Ballot Box, a collaboration between States Newsroom and The 19th. Boise State University senior Cade Syvock opposes abortion. As president of the school’s chapter of the conservative group Turning Point USA, the organization founded by the late activist Charlie Kirk…
Imagine a 17-year-old boy on a prison bus being taken nearly 200 miles from his home in East Baton Rouge Parish because its jail cannot house him separately from adults as required under federal law. He is innocent until proven guilty but still sent away to a jail in Jackson Parish, far from his family,
Healthy Blue, offered by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana and Elevance Health, is pulling out of Louisiana’s Medicaid program at the end of the year.
he No Kings movement that has brought millions to the streets across the United States three times since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term is staging its next event at the polls.
Some issues, while surging to the forefront, likely will provoke internal divisions, such as “Medicare for All,” a movement popular among progressives to extend single-payer national health care to all Americans.
Overall, there are only about 100 Ursulines of the Roman Union remaining in the United States. With a sharply-declining population, the sisters have been preparing Ursuline schools for their absence, training laypeople to become spiritual leaders and carry on traditions.
The U.S. Department of Justice is demanding California not count ballots from voters it says are suspected noncitizens, a move by the Trump administration to apply last-minute pressure as voting begins in the midterm elections.
With voters already fed up with higher prices, September’s number was the highest since May, when it was 4.2%.
The report came after multiple high-profile cases of federal immigration officers shooting and killing people during interactions and enforcement actions, prompting calls for wider body camera use.
Eight families sued the Alabama Department of Corrections, alleging that the department harvested the organs of their loved ones who died while in prison.
Nearly every candidate running in Louisiana’s 6th Congressional District said the local petrochemical industry needs to be reined in more during an event Tuesday night in Gonzales.
Tax rates to fund the program will stay virtually unchanged, at 6.2% of income up to a certain amount. The cap will increase slightly from $184,500 this year to $192,300 in 2027.
Throughout many states, the rosters of public defenders have been shrinking at an alarming rate, often leaving defendants in jail for days, weeks or months without access to an attorney.
A federal judge late Tuesday extended a block on a Trump administration ban of press passes for three news organizations, which will allow them to continue to enter the White House grounds while a legal challenge to the ban plays out.
A flood reduction project on an island off Alabama’s coast is helping Louisiana researchers understand how coastal restoration can decrease both risk and insurance prices in other Gulf Coast communities.
An unknown white powder was found Tuesday afternoon in a letter sent to the Louisiana Secretary of State’s office in Baton Rouge.
Interim Southern University President Orlando McMeans wants the task force studying how to revamp the state’s higher education funding formula to take underfunding of Louisiana’s largest historically Black college into consideration. McMeans asked the task force, which met Monday at the State Capitol, to take into…
Louisiana voters could remove the power of judges to grant bail to persons convicted of certain crimes with minors as victims. Constitutional Amendment 3, one of 10 proposed changes on the Nov. 3 ballot, was proposed by Rep. Debbie Villio, R-Kenner, who chairs the House Criminal Justice Committee. Post-conviction bail…
Greater amberjack season will close in Louisiana waters overnight for recreational fishermen after anglers caught over 335,000 pounds in 43 days.
Three weeks before Election Day, the Trump administration’s sprawling project to send sensitive personal information on millions of voters to the Department of Homeland Security has been declared illegal by a federal judge.
WASHINGTON — As partisan tensions rise in advance of the fast-approaching midterm elections, students will test their knowledge Wednesday in a field that’s long enjoyed bipartisan support: civics. Fifty-two middle school students hailing from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and American Samoa, will compete at the…
As the nation’s physician shortage worsens, some fear the Trump administration’s immigration policies will dissuade or prevent doctors who earned their medical degrees in foreign countries from practicing in the United States.
For two hours, Pecan Island residents peppered SpaceX representatives with questions about the incoming impacts of the company’s planned spaceport.
One of Louisiana’s four Medicaid plans might no longer cover treatment at the state’s largest healthcare network, Ochsner Health System, after Dec. 1, potentially affecting 70,000 people.
As candidates debate public safety ahead of the midterm elections, a new assessment of the nation’s historic homicide decline suggests there is no single explanation for the drop — and that some widely discussed enforcement strategies may have played little role.
The Trump administration’s order to allow import of Russian diesel violates a 2022 law banning Russian energy imports while the country’s war with Ukraine is ongoing, according to a bipartisan group of U.S. senators.
The 16 executions to date in Florida are more than all the other states in the country this year combined, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
Democratic leaders in the U.S. House condemned a “deeply disturbing” raid early Monday at the District of Columbia home of Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat who has long been a target of verbal attacks by President Donald Trump and Republicans.
Voters are focusing on the high price of gas, groceries and other affordability issues ahead of the Nov. 3 election, according to political experts and national polling. Democrats and Republicans running for Congress in Louisiana have different approaches to bringing down the cost of living.
President Donald Trump this week will journey out West in an effort to galvanize support for Republican candidates three weeks before the midterm elections and convince voters to support his party amid low presidential approval ratings.
The documents highlight the vast surveillance dragnet the federal government created alongside the immigration crackdown.
In the course of a single election cycle, the backlash against data centers has grown from an issue at local planning commission and city council meetings to become a flashpoint in state and federal races across the country.
Louisiana is joining 18 other states that provide federal government-supported healthcare access to incarcerated people near the end of their prison terms, with hopes it eases their reentry process.
Road diesel users don’t necessarily have easy access to the tax-free fuel made available to farmers. It’s not typically offered at the truck stops where 18-wheelers and most fleet vehicles fill up their tanks.
It took Christa Pike nearly a week to regain consciousness after the Tennessee Department of Corrections failed to kill her with two doses of the barbiturate pentobarbital.
The rainy remnants of Hurricane Isaias didn’t deter Tennessee Republicans from turning out Saturday to hear President Donald Trump decry state Democrats as “communists” and “socialists,” and praise Tennessee’s federal delegation and the success of the Memphis Safe Task Force.
At least four deaths in Florida and Alabama have been attributed to the storm, which made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane.
The candidates are running to replace U.S. Rep. Cleo Fields, D-Baton Rouge, who decided not to seek another term after the Louisiana Legislature redrew his district lines to favor a Republican over a Democrat.
The Trump administration faces a wave of criticism over plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan, a former Army major convicted of killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009.
While the federal government has offered states more funding to combat measles, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy moved forward this week on plans to emphasize vaccine injury.
The three-member committee will seek evidence that Cook made false statements in obtaining a mortgage.
For decades, anti-abortion extremists have mobilized at the national and state levels to strip away our bodily autonomy. That is why those of us in the reproductive justice movement have always said that Roe v. Wade was never enough to protect our communities.
Prediction markets have emerged as a flashpoint in state and federal relations, as a host of states struggle with the Trump administration over who has authority to regulate the platforms and whether state laws restricting gambling apply to them.
Whether a person is considered legally incapable of consenting can depend on the state and, in some cases, on how the person became intoxicated.
Researchers found that closures increased by 4% year over year, while new hospital openings decreased 3% year over year.
Terrebonne Parish is working to clear castaway and derelict vessels from its bayous to improve environmental and safety conditions.
The judge said he intends to issue his decision on a preliminary injunction in the press freedom case before Tuesday.
The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee is demanding his colleagues across the aisle apologize to former special counsel Jack Smith after Missouri Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt launched false accusations at a recent hearing and called the former Justice Department official a “dirtbag.”
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said late Wednesday that it expects to complete its long-awaited safety review of abortion pills by mid-December and issue a report evaluating the results by March 2027.
Some Louisianians could see their tax bills triple — the biggest increase in the country — following the expiration of a law that kept forgiven student loan debt from being treated as income, according to a new report. Student loan debtholders in Louisiana and the rest of the South are expected to be the hardest
A growing number of voters are taking their anger about affordability to the polls this midterm election and blaming President Donald Trump’s tariffs as a culprit for rising expenses.
A perfect storm of harsh immigration enforcement, aging journeymen and a building boom for data centers is wreaking havoc on the nation’s supply of skilled trade workers.
The U.S. Department of Justice has sued 24 states, Washington, D.C., and the University of Delaware since President Donald Trump retook office over laws or policies that allow noncitizen students who meet certain requirements access to in-state tuition, regardless of their immigration status.
After President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act more than a year ago, enrollment in the federal food assistance program dropped rapidly across the nation as states enforced new restrictions and prepared to take on more of the costs.
After first giving its official support to state Rep. Pat Moore of Monroe, the Louisiana Democratic Party is now backing Antonio Wilson of Tallulah.
Fishermen and property owners in lower Plaquemines Parish are optimistic about a plan for how to rebuild lost wetlands at the Mississippi Delta, though state officials still need to line up more than $150 million to pay for the project.
Every child in the United States with a valid Social Security number is now enrolled in a tax-advantaged investment account, titled a “Trump Account,” President Donald Trump announced Wednesday.
Very few candidates in competitive races have policy proposals on their campaign websites. When contacted by States Newsroom, many declined to share details about which changes they’d support if elected.
The June 1 report describes the potential for undercover operations, and refers to efforts across Homeland Security to identify organizations that “may be predatory in nature, particularly those suspected of illegal alien registration and voter encouragement.”
Anti-abortion activists plan to push more states to require women to visit a doctor’s office, get an ultrasound or wait before they can get abortion pills.
The number of women in the U.S. Senate is unlikely to increase and may decline following the November midterm elections, though there are still opportunities for candidates to make history in the upper chamber.
The Louisiana Secretary of State’s office expects to restore the correct status for thousands of voters by Wednesday after a mishap during routine maintenance earlier this week switched them to inactive.
New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, announced that the state would join 15 other Democratic-led states in suing the Trump administration over its decision to scale back the childhood vaccination schedule.
Senate Majority PAC, which is run by allies of Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, has bought ad time, or has commitments to do so, in nine states.
New preliminary research from the University of Michigan shows women living in states with post-Dobbs abortion bans may be more likely to shoulder costs for employer-sponsored health insurance premiums.
As President Donald Trump refuses to rule out taking extreme action in the midterm elections, voting rights advocates and civil rights leaders are bolstering their voter protection efforts in anticipation of possible federal interference.
With Election Day less than a month away, lawmakers in several states are suspending gas taxes or rolling back regulations on diesel fuel as voters grow increasingly frustrated with rising fuel costs amid President Donald Trump’s war with Iran.
The analysis projects that costs will rise further as climate-change driven drought and natural disasters threaten water supplies.
As the political prospects for Republicans worsen ahead of November’s midterm elections, the GOP is increasingly playing defense over its yearslong grip on state governments.
Democrats are more motivated to vote in November’s midterm elections than Republicans, potentially giving the party an advantage to flip at least one chamber of Congress, according to a KFF poll.
Three transgender women who have been detained for months at a male-only central Louisiana immigration detention center allege that they have faced abuse and transphobia at the hands of staff and other detainees. In interviews with Verite News, they allege that they have been assaulted by officers, forcibly…
The White House has also sent emails through a government account promoting voter registration in recent days and Trump is continuing a string of campaign rallies in typically conservative states.
GRAMBLING — Grambling State’s Martin Lemelle is Louisiana’s youngest university president — and one of the most ambitious. Lemelle, 41, was hired to lead North Louisiana’s only historically Black university two years ago. Since then, he’s set big goals for the university. His plan is to transform Grambling into just…