By Piper Hutchinson | Reporter
Be sure to visit our site today for our coverage from New York and Washington, D.C., commemorating the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
FBI Director Kash Patel, center, speaks at a gathering of law enforcement officials Tuesday in Lafayette, accompanied by Gov. Jeff Landry, right and U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins. (Photo courtesy Congressman Clay Higgins’ Facebook page)
By Julie O’Donoghue
President Donald Trump’s controversial FBI director was a guest this week at Gov. Jeff Landry’s annual alligator hunt in the Atchafalaya Basin. Kash Patel’s travel has been under a significant amount of scrutiny. FBI directors are required to use government planes, even for personal travel because it allows them to maintain secure communications wherever they go, according to several news reports.
A fleur de lis sculpture is the centerpiece of the quadrangle fountain at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. (Greg LaRose/Louisiana Illuminator)
By Piper Hutchinson
A survey of higher education faculty in the South found professors are concerned about the political environment around higher education, with some fearing for their physical safety.
An explosion of data center facilities, including the one pictured here in northeast Oregon on May 18, have been built along the Columbia River Gorge during the last few years. (Photo by Jordan Gale/Oregon Capital Chronicle)
By Elise Plunk
Former federal environmental officials are sounding an alarm in a new report about potential health impacts from data center pollution amidst what they see as a breakdown in oversight.
By Amanda Watford
Twenty-five years after 9/11, the surveillance infrastructure built and expanded in its aftermath has become part of a far larger digital ecosystem — producing tools that can collect and analyze information on a scale unimaginable in 2001.
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