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A New Orleans woman has taken up residence atop a decades-old tree in her yard to protest its removal after city officials informed her it was permanently damaged during street construction. -
The state has been granted a temporary restraining order to cease the transfer and release of ICE detainees who were potentially exposed to tuberculosis, until they are medically cleared by state health. -
The strike is coinciding with a busy tourist weekend because of a trio of Taylor Swift shows. -
Louisiana is projected to have tens of millions of extra dollars to spend after the state ended its last budget year with a $590 million surplus, according to the latest calculation. -
This week, the race for Mayor-President of East Baton Rouge took a hostile turn when incumbent Sharon Weston Broome’s campaign released an attack advertisement on challenger Ted James. The radio ad, also sent by text message to voters across the Parish on Wednesday, presents two edited recordings of James seemingly caught on a hot mic. -
Lincoln University in Missouri is heading a USDA-funded project researching the commodity, but its prohibition created high hurdles for getting the crop off the ground. -
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Two politically pointed statues have mysteriously appeared in the nation’s capital in the leadup to the election: a pile of poop on the former House speaker's desk and a hand holding a tiki torch. -
The cleric takes over after Israel killed Hezbollah's longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in an airstrike in a Beirut suburb in late September. -
Here's a costume that won't take a lot of fuss — and will earn you the title "world's scariest animal" this Halloween. -
In the rural, red parts of Pennsylvania, young Democratic organizers have a plan to lose by less to win the state for Vice President Harris. But former President Donald Trump's campaign isn't worried. -
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