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The Trump administration proposed revoking Obama-era discrimination protections for transgender people in health care on Friday.

A House GOP conservative complaining of Washington's free-spending and opaque ways blocked a long-overdue $19 billion disaster aid bill on Friday, extending a tempest over hurricane and flood relief that has left the measure meandering for months.

Democratic presidential candidate John Delaney is the latest 2020 contender to introduce a climate change plan.

Louisiana's annual debate over whether to abolish the death penalty appears to have ended, after a House lawmaker shelved his proposal Thursday without a vote.

Lawmakers in the Louisiana House agreed to roll back the state sales tax passed in 2018 earlier than its planned mid-2025 expiration date.

The Louisiana House has unanimously agreed to boost the amount the state pays parish sheriffs for housing state inmates in local jails, an increase that would eventually cost $30 million per year.

A court has scheduled a July 9 hearing on a Texas-based judge's ruling that former President Barack Obama's signature health care law is unconstitutional.

Facebook removed more than 3 billion fake accounts from October to March, twice as many as the previous six months, the company said Thursday.

The Atlantic hurricane season is off to yet another early start, but U.S. weather officials say it should be a near normal year.

Residents of an island near Louisiana that's sinking into the Gulf of Mexico are working with legal representatives and case managers hoping to help them relocate.

Louisiana won't raise its legal smoking age from 18 to 21.

It's been no secret that opponents of President Donald Trump have wanted his financial documents.