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Former State Rep. John Schroder, of Covington, answers a question. The Press Club of Baton Rouge hosted three of the four candidates for the office of Louisiana Treasurer Monday Sept.
In this July 12, 2017 photo, New Orleans attorney Derrick Edwards talks to reporters as he signs up as the only Democratic candidate to run for state treasurer in Baton Rouge. The major candidates vying to be Louisiana's next state treasurer are spending their final day ahead of Saturday's election trying to drum up interest for a low-interest race.
"MARSHALL" - 3 stars - Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad, Kate Hudson, Sterling K. Brown, James Cromwell; PG-13 ; in general release "Marshall" combines some decent courtroom drama with some compelling historical context to create a film that feels like more than the sum of its parts. Named for the first African-American justice to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, "Marshall" isn't a biopic so much as a snapshot of a key moment in Thurgood Marshall's evolution.
Firefighters gained some ground on a blaze burning in the heart of California's wine country but face another tough day ahead with low humidity ... . FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017 file photo, people walk past a fallen transformer and downed power lines on Parker Hill Road in Santa Rosa, Calif.
Until I came to the US last year, I had never met an Israeli, and only one American Jew. As a third generation Palestinian refugee living in a camp in Lebanon, such opportunities did not exist.
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is calling on the federal government to reverse a recent decision to delay the regulation of e-cigarettes. The New York Democrat said Sunday that the Food and Drug Administration should reconsider its decision announced earlier this year to put regulating electronic cigarettes on hold.
The California wildfires raced toward wineries and the historic town of Sonoma on Saturday, chasing hundreds more people from their homes and threatening to roll back firefighters' modest gains against fires that stretched across a 100-mile swath of Northern California. Propelled by stiff winds, the fires damaged or destroyed several buildings in the middle of the night before crews halted their advance at the edge of Sonoma, where firefighters spent days digging firebreaks to keep flames from reaching the city's historic central plaza built centuries ago when the area was under Spanish rule.
Votes across Louisiana went to the polls Saturday to elect a state treasurer and consider constitutional amendments. Meanwhile, New Orleans voters pick candidates in for mayor, City Council and other officers.
Alec Baldwin returned to Saturday Night Live to remind us all what a distracted seven days President Trump had last week. You know, unlike all the other weeks he's been president thus far.
With nearly $1.2 million in the bank and a laundry list of accomplishments he's touting to Republican voters that include tax cuts and several new abortion restrictions, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson at first glance should be in a comfortable position for the 2018 GOP primary as he ramps up his re-election bid. But a potential primary campaign against Hutchinson next year may test how much room, if any, there is to challenge his conservative credentials.
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters and members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Oct. 13, 2017. WASHINGTON - Frustrated with his inability to spur Congress to act on much of his agenda, President Trump is increasingly using his executive powers in a risky bid to gain leverage with lawmakers on an array of unfulfilled campaign promises.
On the mid-August day when President Donald Trump first called the nation's opioid epidemic a "national emergency," plaudits from the state's congressional delegation were quick to follow. Sen. Sherrod Brown, DOhio, said the designation was overdue.
As part of an effort to overhaul the federal tax code, House Republican leaders want to scrap a key section of the current code used by more than 40 million Americans to deduct their property taxes and state taxes from their returns. But because the tax plan also eliminates the $4,000 personal exemption, the combined changes could lead to higher taxes for as many as 15 percent of Ohio's taxpayers, according to a study by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonpartisan, nonprofit in Washington.
Saturday Night Live was back to its Donald Trump -inspired shenanigans this week, with Alec Baldwin returning to the fore to mock the president's involvement in a wide array of high-profile matters, ranging from the NFL "Take a Knee" protest controversy to his recent spat with Republican Senator Bob Corker . The cold open depicted Trump addressing a crowd in Harrisburg, Pa.
Jessica Jeanne Warren and Samuel Francis Callahan were married Oct. 14 at 514 Studios Event Center in Minneapolis. Lindy Hensley, a Universal Life minister and a friend of the couple, officiated.
Laura Frances Weyl and Richard Louis Kimmel were married Oct. 14 at the Elizabeth Street Garden in New York. Robert Kimmel, the groom's father, who is ordained by the Universal Life Church, officiated.
Stories of some people who lived through the inferno by standi... . Sonoma firefighter Pete Avencino launches an incendiary device during a backburn operation Friday, Oct. 13, 2017, in Glen Ellen, Calif.
California politician Maxine Waters said there is now sufficient evidence collected by the Russia probe that Congress "should be moving towards impeachment". An investigation is currently underway in the US examining the role, if any, Russia played in influencing the 2016 Presidential elections.
I won't say what made me think of this topic , but I was just thinking: what are the best movies and books about people losing their minds? There's various Poe short stories, John O'Hara's Appointment in Samara, what else? I don't mean stuff like Fight Club or I Am The Cheese, I mean stuff where the narrator or protagonist is not obviously insane at the beginning but is by the end.