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Republican John Kennedy has been declared the winner of Louisiana's runoff election for the U.S. Senate, defeating Democrat Foster Campbell and thwarting one of the last opportunities in 2016 for Democrats to gain a seat in the upper chamber. Kennedy's win on Saturday night, the first GOP win since Trump's election, gives Republicans a 52 seat majority in the U.S. Senate, making it that much harder for Democrats to make any headway in Washington.
Speaking to supporters, Kennedy said "Washington insiders" have taken the country in the wrong direction. But he added: "That's about to change, folks."
Like most Americans, I was shocked when I saw President Obama fail to condemn protesters who wouldn't accept the election results. " I would not advise people who feel strongly a to be silent ," he said while visiting Germany in November, taking no action to stop protests like those that caused $1 million in damages in Portland, Ore.
President-elect Donald Trump, right, greets Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, left, as he welcomes him to the stage during a rally at Hy-Vee Hall, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, in Des Moines. Branstad has accepted Trump's offer to become U.S. ambassador to China.
Gerald Faulk casts his ballot during early voting Monday, November 28, 2016, at the Lafayette Parish Government Building in Lafayette, La. Early voting for the Dec. 10 runoff elections began Saturday and will continue through Saturday, Dec. 3. John Kennedy and Foster Campbell are the two candidates vying for a U.S. Senate seat while Scott Angelle and Clay Higgins are in a runoff in Louisiana's 3rd Congressional District.
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Derwyn Bunton, the Crescent City's public defender, has refused to accept serious felony cases, claiming that underfunding means his office can't do its job. Here's the way it can go down in New Orleans, especially if you're black, don't have much money, and find yourself crossways with the law.
President-elect Donald Trump speaks to supporters after winning the election on Wednesday at the Election Night Party at the Hilton Midtown Hotel in New York City. President-elect Donald Trump speaks to supporters after winning the election on Wednesday at the Election Night Party at the Hilton Midtown Hotel in New York City.
Stocks closed with mixed results in trading Oct. 21, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average retreating 0.09% to 18,145.71 and the S&P 500 dipping 0.01% to 2,141.16, while the Nasdaq composite index gained slightly, adding 0.30% to end at 5,257.40. revealed Oct. 20 that the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and the Louisiana Office of Financial Institutions gave the company a "troubled condition" designation.
Candidates for Louisiana's Senate seat did not pull punches in their first televised debate of the election cycle. The event was hosted by the Louisiana Public Broadcasting and the Council for a Better Louisiana in Ruston.
The Federal Reserve gave two indications last week that one of its next structural pushes will be toward incorporating more diversity into how it conducts its business. For a variety of reasons, this evolution is likely to lead to a monetary policy with a more dovish bias than the institution has had in the past.
Louisiana's worst-flooded parishes will receive more than 87 percent of $500 million that Congress allocated for housing repairs, HUD announced Thursday . when the federal government announced the Pelican State would receive more than 87 percent of that first tranche of community development block grants.
The 6-year-old girl turned to her mother and asked, "What does it mean to grab somebody by the p---y?" Then she saw the television screen. "You know, I'm automatically attracted to beautiful - I just start kissing them," Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, was saying in a 2005 recording.
U.S. Rep. Charles Boustany of Louisiana filed a defamation lawsuit Monday against the author and publisher of a book that alleges the Republican congressman was involved with prostitutes who were later killed. The lawsuit claims author Ethan Brown and Simon & Schuster , which published Brown 's book "Murder in the Bayou," have made statements that "were known to be false when made or were made with malicious intent and reckless disregard for the truth."
As FEMA administrator Craig Fugate, left, watches, President Barack Obama gives Gov. John Bel Edwards a hug after visiting the flood damaged area on August 23. In just eight months in office, Gov. John Bel Edwards has been through two catastrophic flood events, two deadly shootings involving law enforcement that grabbed national headlines, a bitter battle over the state budget and ongoing sparring with the state's attorney general. Fifty-six of the state's 64 parishes have received federal disaster declarations.
President Barack Obama shakes hands with Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, accompanied by Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., after making a statement about the flooding following a tour of Castle Place, a flood-damaged area of Baton Rouge, La., Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016. Obama is making his first visit to flood-ravaged southern Louisiana as he attempts to assure the many thousands who have suffered damage to their homes, schools and businesses that his administration has made their recovery a priority.
There's nothing new about flooding in southeast Louisiana. But in the Baton Rouge area, at least, the devastation wreaked by heavy rains is getting worse.
For a state accustomed to explosive sex scandals, the one dominating a U.S. Senate race here simmered for a long time before boiling over into public view last week. In a new book, " Murder in the Bayou ," author Ethan Brown cites multiple anonymous sources who claim that Rep. Charles W. Boustany Jr., a top Republican candidate for the Senate race, had been the client of three prostitutes who were later murdered.
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries enforcement agents rescued two stranded boaters Monday evening. Agents were notified about 9:15 p.m. of two boaters who were stranded in between Manchac Pass and Frenier Landing on Lake Pontchartrain.
Here, the arrival of the maids as wives for the settlers at Jamestown in 1619 is shown in this engraving from the collection of the Library of Congress. "To have and To Hold" the novel, was based on this incident in the story of the first permanent English settlement in America, which began at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607.