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Mahmoud Khalil is being held at the Central Louisiana ICE processing facility in Jena, La.

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Immigration judge to rule Friday on detained activist Mahmoud Khalil

An immigration judge in Louisiana has ordered the government to turn over its evidence against Mahmoud Khalil. She says she will rule Friday on whether the Pro-Palestinian activist can be deported.

April 09, 2025
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By:
  • Adrian Florido
Badar Khan Suri, Rumeysa Ozturk and Mahmoud Khalil were arrested by immigration officials and, in a matter of hours, were sent to detention centers in Louisiana and Texas — more than a thousand miles from home.

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  • National

Why is Trump sending immigrant university scholars to Louisiana and Texas?

Lawyers say the government is trying to gain a legal advantage as it tries to expel noncitizens over their pro-Palestinian activism.

April 08, 2025
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz and
  • Adrian Florido
The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case Monday involving Louisiana's congressional redistricting after the 2020 Census.

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  • Law

Supreme Court confronts another challenge to the Voting Rights Act

The case is nearly identical to a case the court ruled on two years ago from Alabama, though the outcome could make it more difficult for minorities to prevail in redistricting cases.

March 24, 2025
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
Clotilde Poujade practices French pronunciations with students at École Pointe-au-Chien, a new public French immersion school in Terrebonne Parish, La.

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  • Education

Louisiana has a long history with French. This immersion school aims to keep it alive

Most Louisianans no longer speak French, but a growing number of schools are now immersing kids in it. At École Pointe-au-Chien, the focus is on teaching local French dialects first.

March 19, 2025
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By:
  • Aubri Juhasz
Second graders Serena Lacour, Luke Busby and Dylan Poche work on a word-identification reading game, while other groups work with their teacher, Cady Caskey, on sounding out words.

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  • Education

Five years since COVID, Louisiana's readers are thriving. This is their secret.

In 2019, Louisiana's fourth graders ranked 50th in the country for reading. Now, they're 16th. Here's how the state, and one rural district, pulled it off.

March 14, 2025
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By:
  • Jonaki Mehta
Isaiah Brown comforts his younger brother Malachi after their power went down in the Polk Street neighborhood on Sept. 11, 2024 in Houma, Louisiana.

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  • National

Francine weakens as it moves inland after winds cause widespread blackouts

Hundreds of thousands of power outages were reported in Louisiana and Mississippi early Thursday as residents in the region braced for possible flooding as Tropical Storm Francine moved inland.

September 12, 2024
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By:
  • Bill Chappell,
  • Jonathan Franklin,
  • and 1 more
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry speaks during the start of a special session in Baton Rouge, La., on Jan. 15, 2024. Landry signed a bill in June allowing surgical castration to be a potential punishment for certain sex offenses against children.

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  • National

What to know about Louisiana's new surgical castration law

Louisiana’s governor signed a controversial bill that will make his state the first to allow surgical castration for people found guilty of certain sex crimes against children.

July 01, 2024
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
A copy of the Ten Commandments is seen along with other historical documents in a hallway of the Georgia Capitol on June 20 in Atlanta. Civil liberties groups filed a lawsuit on June 24 challenging Louisiana’s new law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom.

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  • National

How will Louisiana's Ten Commandments classroom requirement be funded and enforced?

It's unclear whether the new law that requires a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in Louisiana classrooms has any teeth to enforce the requirement and penalize those who refuse to comply.

June 30, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
The U.S. Supreme Court

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  • Law

The U.S. Supreme Court upholds Louisiana's redistricting plan

A federal district court ruled that the new map drawn by the state legislature violated the Voting Rights Act by diluting the Black vote. A group of conservatives challenged the legislature's map.

May 16, 2024
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday on the role of the First Amendment in the internet age.

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  • Law

Supreme Court examines whether government can combat disinformation online

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are Missouri, Louisiana and five individuals who were either banned from social media during the pandemic or whose posts, they say, were not prominently featured.

March 18, 2024
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
In this Aug. 18, 2011 photo, a prison guard rides a horse alongside prisoners as they return from farm work detail at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La. After the Civil War, the 13th Amendment's exception clause, that allows for prison labor, provided legal cover to round up thousands of mostly young Black men. They then were leased out by states to plantations like Angola and some of the country's biggest privately owned companies, including coal mines and railroads.

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  • News

Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands

In a sweeping two-year investigation, The Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from Frosted Flakes cereal and Ball Park hot dogs to Gold Medal flour and Coca-Cola. The prisoners who help produce these goods are disproportionately people of color.

January 30, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, a Republican backed by former President Donald Trump, won the Louisiana governor's race outright, avoiding the need for a runoff.

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  • Elections

Louisiana Democrats analyze big defeat in gubernatorial race

Jeff Landry's victory marked a huge win for Republicans in Louisiana. The Democratic Party, which held the office for the past eight years, is going back to the drawing board.

November 11, 2023
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By:
  • Molly Ryan
The Supreme Court

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  • Law

Supreme Court ducks, leaving Louisiana redistricting stuck in uncertainty

The case has been widely watched, not just because it could produce an additional Democratic House seat, but because the Fifth Circuit's actions are seen as a challenge to the high court's authority.

October 20, 2023
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg and
  • Annie Gersh
Aaron Bowman cries during an interview at his attorney's office in Monroe, La., on Aug. 5, 2021, as he discusses his injuries resulting from a Louisiana State trooper pummeling him during a traffic stop in 2019.

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  • National

Jury acquits a white Louisiana trooper caught on camera beating a Black motorist

The federal jury acquitted a state trooper charged with violating the civil rights of Aaron Bowman despite body-camera footage that showed the officer pummeling him 18 times with a flashlight.

August 03, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
This photo provided by Louisiana State Police shows police body cam video of Shreveport Police Officer Alexander Tyler after shooting Alonzo Bagley on Feb. 3, in Shreveport, La.

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  • National

A white Louisiana police officer is charged with killing an unarmed Black man

After reviewing evidence and bodycam footage, state troopers charged Shreveport Police Officer Alexander Tyler, 23, with negligent homicide in the Feb. 3 shooting death of Alonzo Bagley, 43.

February 17, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
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