The biggest fight of the legislative session will resume in public this week over car insurance legislation. It pits Gov.

President Donald Trump and Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry have discussed U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow challenging U.S. Sen. Bill ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff, has Creole roots. That is raising awareness about the complexity of the Creole ...

The recent election of Pope Leo XIV, né Robert Francis Prevost, marks a significant moment in history, not only because he is ...

National Democrats are trying to lure former Gov. John Bel Edwards into next year's U.S. Senate race. Columnist Stephanie ...

The Catholic Church has entered a new historic era with the election of American-Peruvian Robert Francis Prevost as the 267th ...

As 18-year-old Bobby Gumpright rode his bike home from his bartending job in New Orleans in 1999, he began to concoct a story ...

The pope's maternal grandparents are described as Black or a person of mixed white and Black ancestry in historical documents ...

Peter Dutton was full of bravado at the final question time before the election, but hiding in plain sight was a campaign about to go off the rails. Labor figures played down the prospect of ...

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