Tag: Louisianna
15 dead and dozens injured after terrorist attack on New Orleans’...
Tragedy strikes Bourbon Street as terrorist attack claims lives on New Year’s Day.
A history of success drives the ongoing struggle to clean up...
Cancer Alley communities in Louisiana are still fighting for a healthier environment for everyone.
EPA calls out environmental racism in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley
The Environmental Protection Agency said in a letter it sent last week to state regulators in response to civil rights complaints about air pollution in the region known as Cancer Alley.
Tribal leaders raise ‘serious concerns’ about plans to turn their shrinking...
After a long state and federal push to relocate the Indigenous people of Isle de Jean Charles from their threatened homeland, new recreational development around the island risks further colonial displacement.
Former correctional officers plead guilty to causing woman’s death in custody
“The FBI New Orleans Field Office, in coordination with the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney’s Office, remain committed to protecting the rights of all Americans, to include those incarcerated.”
Supreme Court denies cert in Planned Parenthood case, lower court rulings...
Planned Parenthood was pleased with the Supreme Court's ruling and called it a "win for patients in Louisiana and Kansas."
Special needs school fires educators for mocking autistic child on audio...
Instead of expressing a modicum of compassion for the special needs student, his teacher and a teacher’s aide incessantly derided the boy and his condition with open disdain.
Two Former Police Chiefs Plead Guilty to Violating Civil Rights
Two former Louisiana police chiefs were jailed for tasing inmates after they admitted they knew their actions were unlawful, but continued to deprive inmates of their rights under color of law. How corrupt!
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What else but seething, punitive MAGA grievance explains its undying loyalty – absent real-world...
Whatever MAGA lives lack, brutalizing the even less powerful won’t resolve their miseries.
Seven children killed in Israeli strike on Gaza water site amid growing evidence of...
As Israel admits to a “technical error” in a drone strike that killed children waiting for water, new reports detail a systemic campaign of targeting Gaza’s basic survival infrastructure under U.S. and Western-backed military operations.
Nuclear reactors stoke the climate they claim to cool
Heatwaves force European reactors offline while solar keeps the lights on.
‘Unforgivable’: FEMA failure during Texas floods tied to Noem’s contract purge and Trump-era sabotage
More than 80% of survivor calls went unanswered after DHS Secretary Kristi Noem abruptly cut FEMA’s contractor workforce—days after deadly flooding devastated Texas.
Common weedkiller ingredient diquat linked to organ damage and gut harm as EPA resists...
New research shows diquat, used in place of glyphosate, is more toxic and banned abroad but widely sprayed in US agriculture.