By Elise Plunk | Reporter
Whether you’re marking Easter or Passover, be sure to have a safe and enjoyable weekend.
ttorney General Pam Bondi listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a lunch with the Kennedy Center board members in the East Room of the White House on March 16, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
By Ashley Murray
Attorney General Pam Bondi is leaving the Department of Justice and will be replaced for now by President Donald Trump’s former personal defense lawyer, the president announced Thursday. Bondi received heavy criticism for missing the legally mandated deadline to release the Epstein files, and for a botched rollout that disclosed the names of several victims.
Proposed state legislation would eliminate the position of Orleans Parish clerk of criminal court, which Calvin Duncan won in an election last year. (Gus Bennett/The Lens)
By Bernard Smith, The Lens
A legislative committee has advanced three bills focused on drastically overhauling New Orleans courts, cutting 10 judgeships across Orleans Parish judiciary and one clerk of court, incoming clerk Calvin Duncan, who was decisively elected to oversee records at Criminal District Court in December and slated to take office in May.
Idalia is the mother of a 23-year-old Honduran man detained in Louisiana — one of at least 25 people ICE has detained or deported in recent months despite their having legal status and protections granted by the child separation settlement. (Annie Flanagan for The Marshall Project)
By Cary Aspinwall, The Marshall Project
The 23-year-old Honduran man was legally living and working in the U.S. and had the documents to prove it. The U.S. government had allowed him to enter the country as part of a legal settlement for families who suffered under the first Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy that separated children from their parents at the border. Yet he’s spent the past five months locked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Louisiana, facing deportation.
Student borrowers enrolled in the federal Saving on a Valuable Education, or SAVE, plan must find a new repayment plan or be automatically enrolled in one. (Getty Images)
By Shauneen Miranda
A federal court order last month to effectively axe a Biden-era student loan repayment plan capped years of chaos for more than 7 million student borrowers enrolled in the program.
By Sheridan White, LSU Manship News Service
A bill aimed at protecting Louisiana teachers from student attacks is gaining traction after advancing through a legislative committee without opposition. House Bill 283, introduced by Rep. Candace Newell, D-New Orleans, would require schools to remove students who assault teachers, school employees or other students and place them in an alternative school setting.
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