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A new study shows connection between cancer rates and air pollution in Louisiana's poorest and most industrialized neighborhoods.
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It's been three years since the last New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival took place in the New Orleans Fair Grounds due to the coronavirus pandemic canceling two years of festival activities. But event organizers said it's coming back in 2022. -
Louisiana Treasurer John Schroder is running for governor in 2023 to replace the term-limited Gov. John Bel Edwards, according to an announcement Wednesday.
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It takes Gary Chambers no time at all to get to the point in his newest, and unprecedented, campaign ad for a seat in Congress: the video opens with the Baton Rouge activist talking about — and smoking — marijuana.
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Louisiana reached a pandemic milestone on Tuesday, with the state health department reporting more than 1 million positive COVID-19 cases.
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COVID-19 hospitalizations are now twice as high in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama as they were two weeks ago, contributing to now record hospitalization numbers nationwide.
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Louisiana and Mississippi rank at the bottom nationally when it comes to the percentage of tech jobs in the state workforce. Alabama sits in the middle of the list, mostly because of Huntsville’s research park.
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But the court upheld a separate mandate for almost all employees at hospitals, nursing homes and other health care providers that receive federal funds.
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The U.K. said its claim is based on an intelligence assessment. Russia has massed tens of thousands of troops near the Ukraine border, stoking fears of an invasion.
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Data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics tells us more about how prisons were affected early on in the pandemic. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with researcher Wendy Sawyer about the new data.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Joshua Yaffa, Moscow correspondent for the New Yorker, about a major climate change threat confronting Russia.
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The new film is based on the bestselling memoir by Dana Canedy. She tells NPR's Michel Martin about the film's release and the story of love and devotion at the center of it.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with former National Security Advisor, General H.R. McMaster, about how climate policy can be used to counter Russian President Vladimir Putin's agenda.
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