Sunday Brunch

By Greg LaRose

State Sen. Blake Miguez dropped out of the U.S. Senate field after U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow’s entry into the Republican field and will instead run for the House seat she’s vacating. Miguez’s home is New Iberia, which is well outside the 5th Congressional District, but he is legally allowed to enter the race.

By Piper Hutchinson

LSU has signed a data-sharing agreement with the University of New Orleans that will allow students applying to the Baton Rouge flagship campus for the fall semester to be offered a spot at what is soon to become LSU New Orleans.

Two drug manufacturers asked a federal judge if they can intervene in a Louisiana-led lawsuit seeking to stop a key abortion drug from being mailed to patients. The filings come less than a week after the Trump administration sought to pause the case until the Food and Drug Administration completes a review of mifepristone.

Food stamp recipients and small business owners in parts of North Louisiana are eligible for federal disaster assistance to cover their losses from the recent severe winter weather. The additional SNAP support covers approximately 51,500 people.

Judge William “Billy” Burris will run for the Louisiana Supreme Court seat representing the Northshore that Associate Justice William Crain vacated to join the federal bench in December.

The partial government shutdown that began last weekend ended Tuesday when President Donald Trump signed the funding package that both chambers of Congress approved. It is supposed to give leaders in Congress and the administration a bit of time to find consensus on changes to how immigration officers operate.

The U.S. Department of Education exhausted millions in taxpayer dollars trying to eliminate a chunk of its Office for Civil Rights, a government watchdog found. Between roughly $28.5 million and $38 million were spent on salaries and benefits of the hundreds of Office for Civil Rights employees who were not working between March and December 2025, according to the Government Accountability Office.

For years, many states competed aggressively to land data centers, sprawling campuses full of the computer servers that store and transmit the data behind apps and websites. But many officials are now scrutinizing how those power-hungry projects might affect the electric bills of households, small businesses and other industries.