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ireboats pour water on the flames of the Deepwater Horizon drilling structure on April 21, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven crew members on the rig died in the offshore drilling disaster that coated the Gulf Coast with oil from the resulting underwater leak. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)
By Greg LaRose
Louisiana has agreed to a lump-sum payment for the remainder of what BP owes from the Deepwater Horizon disaster settlement. It will also bring to an end the remaining lawsuits that parishes have brought against the company for related coastal damages, according to a news release BP issued Friday.
One of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy side boosters launched at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 30, 2026, returns to land at nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. (Photo courtesy of NASA)
By Piper Hutchinson
The University of Louisiana System Board of Supervisors has approved a lease agreement that would allow SpaceX to access UL Lafayette-owned property at minimal cost ahead of an anticipated purchase.
Louisiana could see more than half of its immigrants with protected status lose that safeguard by 2028. These projections come from a group in the thick of policy battles with the Trump administration over immigration enforcement. It predicts more than 14,000 people will be removed from the Louisiana workforce. We'll talk with the group’s leader in this week’s podcast episode.
By Verite News & Mississippi Today
Immigrants who enter the United States without appointments with immigration officials can be detained indefinitely and are not entitled to bond hearings, regardless of how long they have lived in the country, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday.
By Anna Claire Vollers
The readability of 2026’s ballot questions — which ask voters to weigh in on issues as varied as property taxes, voter ID, firearms and abortion — varies by state, Ballotpedia found in its newest report. Read to find out what reading level it says is needed to grasp Louisiana’s proposed constitutional amendments at face value.
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