Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, a former physician who has spent his career touting the safety of vaccines, will likely determine whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, becomes ...

Kennedy Jr., whose nomination to health and human services secretary poses an equally consequential moment for the ...

Forecasters have predicted that severe thunderstorms could hit Texas this week. Why It Matters Texas has been hit with severe winter weather this month, including snowstorms. Meteorologists are now ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — A Louisiana man accused of murdering a well-known therapist has entered a not-guilty plea in court. Terryon Thomas, 20, has been formally arraigned at the ...

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Although the skies were bright blue and temperatures had inched above freezing by Wednesday afternoon, much of Interstate 10 and many other major south Louisiana thoroughfares remained closed ...

The latest closure means that nearly three-quarters of Louisiana’s portion of the coast-to-coast highway is shut. A rare winter storm brought record snowfall to the state on Tuesday. By Yan ...

“It’s not right. People who assault police officers — if they do the crime, they should do the time,” Cassidy said. Cassidy described himself as a “big ‘Back the Blue’ guy ...

The parishes affected by the warnings, as shown in the map above, include: Acadia Parish The NWS, in its update on Louisiana's winter storm warnings: "If you must travel, keep an extra flashlight ...

Jasmine Laws is a Live News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K. Her focus is reporting on U.S. politics, crime and global ... Landry warned the people of Louisiana to "stay off the roads ...