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A pregnant mother in ICE detention says she’s bleeding — and hasn’t seen a doctor in weeks
Cecil Elvir-Quinonez, who is still breastfeeding her youngest child, is awaiting deportation in a Louisiana ICE facility states away from her family and children.
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11mFrank Perez, founder of LGBT+ Archives Project, was a pillar of the queer community in New Orleans
Frank Perez, who helped catalog the history of queer communities throughout Louisiana, died after a bout with cancer at 57.
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8mTrump’s ‘energy emergency’ could fast-track massive expansion of Plaquemines LNG export terminal
$18 billion project could damage 470 acres of wetlands in a parish already losing land at a rapid pace
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3mWilliam G. Brown, Louisiana's first black state education superintendent, helped reform a failing system
Brown exposed problems with how Louisiana's public school system operated, then called for reform
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7mLouisiana among states losing the most film industry jobs in the country
Louisiana ranked fourth in total job loss in the film and television industry from 2024 to 2025.
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7mHow might the 2026 U.S. House midterms affect New Orleans?
Qualifying for all U.S. House races in Louisiana concluded this past week.