After more than two years of investigations, the New Orleans City Council plans to vote on a resolution to fine Entergy New Orleans $1 million for its “inaction and omissions in mitigating” the thousands of power outages the city experiences every year. | Read more|
Canadians voted in one of the closest and most contentious election campaigns the country has seen in decades. | Read more|
Local leaders felt targeted by state lawmakers even before the release of a secret recording that has imperiled the Texas House speaker's future. Bonnen says he was trying to convey a larger point about those officials and how they treat taxpayers. | Read more|
In the biggest blow yet to the House leader's political future, five fellow Republicans said they can't back him moving forward. Their statement comes days after the House GOP caucus condemned Bonnen. | Read more|
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The Supreme Court-appointed mediation panel submitted its report in a sealed cover. | Read more|
New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell’s administration is offering a compromise in the debate over whether to lower property tax rates in response to skyrocketing property assessments throughout the city. | Read more|
David v. Goliath: The October March to save lives in Louisiana’s ‘Death Alley’ | Read more|
NOLA Public Schools district Superintendent Henderson Lewis Jr.’s promised citywide audit of high school academic records will cover about 5 percent of high school students, The Lens confirmed Tuesday. | Read more|
The Prosper Republican revealed his decision Thursday, after he previously announced an exploratory committee to consider whether to run against the state's senior U.S. senator. | Read more|
The New Orleans City Planning Commission voted unanimously on Tuesday to deny a proposal by the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office that would increase the capacity of the New Orleans jail above the longstanding cap of 1,438 beds and pave the way for a new jail building, known as Phase III, that would add 89 new beds and | Read more|
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The Democratic presidential hopeful is the first non-Texan candidate to announce a hire in the state. | Read more|
Despite the months-long trend downward, the 2019 fiscal year’s total represents nearly a 90 percent increase from 2018. | Read more|
There’s a lot going on here. And Texas, accustomed to sitting in the back of the room in presidential election years, is getting a lot of attention. | Read more|
The former Republican congressman for Dallas made it official Thursday in Waco: He wants back in Congress, but not in his old district. | Read more|
Independent monitors overseeing the Louisiana Department of Education’s work under a federal consent judgment have identified a series of mistakes — ranging from calculation errors to what appears to be sloppy record-keeping — that led the state to monitor the wrong New Orleans schools for special education servi | Read more|
Sir Nicholas Soames, Winston's Churchill's grandson, is among those who defied the PM. | Read more|
New Orleans City Council members on Thursday criticized the ongoing practice of detaining juveniles at the city’s adult lockup, saying it goes against city ordinances designating the Juvenile Justice Intervention Center — formerly the Youth Study Center — as the appropriate facility for juveniles, including those | Read more|
The governor tweeted Monday night that Texas is “working on a legislative package” and that “expedited executions for mass murderers would be a nice addition.” | Read more|
David Turner says residents are still in shock. He’s unsure of the solution but is troubled that the gunman was able to obtain a firearm even after failing a background check. | Read more|
O'Rourke was most confident when bringing up his home state and his near victory in the 2018 Senate race in making his case for electability. | Read more|
‘I feel like I was robbed’: Kennedy HS graduate questions his class ranking as school recalculates GPAs | Read more|
The controversial "remain in Mexico" plan is becoming one of the Trump administration’s most successful strategies in keeping migrants from gaining entry into the U.S. Just ask the migrants who got released into cartel weary Nuevo Laredo this week. Many are headed home. | Read more|
The Washington governor says his state has proved putting workers first is good for the economy. | Read more|
The Texas Republican once called Democrat Sri Preston Kulkarni an "Indo-American who’s a carpetbagger.” | Read more|
The federal death penalty hasn't been carried out since 2003. Now the U.S. attorney general wants to adopt the method used in Texas executions to put five men to death. | Read more|
The reality star also spoke about a higher education initiative at the facility and filmed footage for a documentary on her criminal justice activism. | Read more|
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Tuesday it was proposing a new requirement for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The rule, which limits states' flexibility to set eligibility standards, could cut off thousands of Texans. | Read more|
India bans use of "last hope" antibiotic on farms | Read more|
The 2020 presidential candidate laid out the proposal along with Democratic House Whip James Clyburn. | Read more|
Kevin Dinnin, head of the San Antonio-based nonprofit that runs the Carrizo Springs shelter, said it was "too much, too late." | Read more|
Some Texans of color have spent much of their lives working through how racist attacks left them feeling less American. Now, those attacks are coming from the president. | Read more|
Stevens led the court's effort to provide legal protections for prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. | Read more|
All Democrats voted in favor of the resolution, which passed in a near party-line vote. Only one Texas Republican, U.S. Rep. Will Hurd, R-Helotes, joined Democrats in the vote. | Read more|