Sergio Santos
/
Creative Commons
Women’s health got a boost from lawmakers this year, much of it focused on pregnancy and birth and domestic abuse. But a handful of measures with significant implications for women's safety and access to care failed.
Paula Burch
/
Tulane University
-
A bill that would bar COVID-19 vaccine requirements at public agencies, including colleges, universities and schools, is headed for the governor’s signature. -
State lawmakerspassed three anti-abortion bills during the last week of the legislative session in Baton Rouge. All now await Gov. John Bel Edwards’s signature or veto.
-
Despite widespread support from faculty at LSU to require students to be vaccinated, GOP lawmakers are close to passing a bill prohibiting publicly-funded agencies from mandating vaccines. Gov. John Bel Edwards has not said whether he’ll sign the bill.
-
Criminal Justice Watchdog Highlights Handling Of Attorney-Client Calls From Jail In Annual Report
-
Reopening Lincoln Beach: New Orleans Activists, Officials Working To Revive Once Popular Black BeachThe city has released an initial plan to reopen Lincoln Beach to the public. The price tag? $10 million.
Arts & Culture
NPR News
-
The sortie was the biggest of its kind since the Taiwanese government began publishing information about the frequent incursions last year. They have followed actions that Beijing disapproves of.
-
Juneteenth is an annual celebration held on June 19 to commemorate the end of chattel slavery in America.
-
Intelligence agencies from the U.S. and Russia are both trying to figure out what the other side is going to say, a longtime CIA operative says. China is probably trying to listen in, too.
-
Shelby Houlihan says her positive test for the steroid nandrolone followed a visit to a food truck for a pork burrito, and is pointing to studies that show nandrolone occurs naturally in some pigs.
-
Texas Democrats last month staged a dramatic walkout that successfully — if temporarily — blocked Republicans from passing a restrictive voting measure for the state.
