Protesters emphasized that the presence of federal officers on city streets was instilling widespread fear, including among U.S. citizens and lawful residents.

Louisiana's surgeon general Dr. Ralph Abraham, who has praised Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s tenure as health secretary and called COVID vaccines "dangerous," will become the second-highest ranking official at the CDC.

The state's food banks say food insecurity is growing. Meanwhile, they've lost some federal support.

The Department of Homeland Security is reportedly deploying 250 Border Patrol agents to the New Orleans area, echoing recent operations in Chicago and North Carolina.

Officials expect less than a third of schools to receive As and Bs when new standards take effect this spring, down from more than half this year.

Former University of New Orleans guard Dae Dae Hunter said on ABC's “Good Morning America” that he participated in point-shaving. Hunter said on the show he was trying to get money to take care of his newborn son.

Federal agents are set to conduct a two-month immigration crackdown starting Dec. 1. The operation aims to arrest around 5,000 people across southeast Louisiana and Mississippi.

The vote showed the pressure mounting on lawmakers and the Trump administration to meet long-held demands that the Justice Department release its case files on Epstein.

Waste has been stored and recycled at other sites, but LDEQ grants an emergency exemption for River Birch.

A task force Gov. Jeff Landry assembled is recommending that Louisiana’s colleges and universities join six other university systems from Southern states in a new conservative accrediting body.