One year since Kevin McCarthy was booted from the House speaker's office after Congress voted in a bipartisan way to prevent a federal government shutdown, the new House Speaker Mike Johnson finds himself courting, but so far avoiding, a similar political fate.

Louisiana legislators, particularly those in the Senate, want more information about Gov. Jeff Landry’s plan to overhaul the state’s tax system before they commit to a special legislative session in November to pass new tax laws.

The ceremony was one part of a two-day stretch of events marking Morial’s life. On Sunday, the community was invited to a public visitation. Monday’s ceremony was followed up with a traditional second line and private family mass and burial.

New Orleans City Council members plan to investigate the impacts of a new Louisiana law that will restrict common pregnancy medications that can also induce abortions.

President Joe Biden has approved Louisiana’s request for a major disaster declaration in the wake of Hurricane Francine, Gov. Jeff Landry announced Tuesday.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to ER physician Jennifer Avegno, who heads the New Orleans Health Department, about a law classifying abortion drugs misoprostol and mifepristone as controlled substances.

Former President Trump was the target of what the FBI said “appears to be an attempted assassination” at his West Palm Beach golf club. President Biden said he was briefed and a person has been detained.

Condolences from New Orleans political and civic leaders poured in on Wednesday following the death of a former First Lady of New Orleans, Sybil Haydel Morial.

Sybil Haydel Morial, a civil rights activist, widow of New Orleans’ first Black mayor, Ernest “Dutch” Morial, and mother to former Mayor, Marc Morial, has died at age 91.

Special counsel Jack Smith filed a new indictment Tuesday against Donald Trump over his efforts to undo the 2020 presidential election that keeps the same criminal charges but narrows the allegations against him following a Supreme Court opinion that conferred broad immunity on former presidents.