The 85-year-old French widow of a U.S. military veteran shares her experience in U.S. immigration detention.

The U.S. Supreme Court has set the stage for Alabama to get rid of one of two largely Black congressional districts before this year’s midterm elections.

A funeral has been held in Louisiana for eight children who were killed in a mass shooting last month.

Alabama lawmakers have approved a plan for new U.S. House primaries if courts allow the state to use different congressional districts in this year’s elections.

Tennessee has enacted a new U.S. House map that carves up a majority-Black district in Memphis.

A 60-year-old civil rights law, effectively gutted. Now, Republicans across the South are racing to redraw congressional maps — and Florida just became the first state to act, passing new lines that could flip four seats. Democrats are promising to fight back. Sean Freeder, a political scientist and analyst, joins News4JAX anchor Bruce Hamilton to discuss the pushback and the legal fights ahead.

Lawmakers in several southern states are meeting this week to consider redistricting plans in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that weakened the Voting Rights Act.

A federal appeals court has restricted access to one of the most common means of abortion in the U.S. by blocking the mailing of mifepristone.

A Supreme Court decision striking down a majority Black congressional district in Louisiana has amplified an already intense national redistricting battle.

Louisiana’s congressional primaries are not going forward as scheduled in May as a result of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

Black members of Congress are bracing for a crippling shake-up of their ranks after a Supreme Court ruling gutted a key section of the Voting Rights Act that had protected minority communities in political redistricting and helped boost their representation.

Several states already are taking steps to respond to a U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down a majority Black congressional district in Louisiana.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority has handed Republicans their biggest victory yet in the battle to control the House of Representatives and statehouses across the country.

The Supreme Court has weakened a landmark Civil Rights-era law that has increased minority representation in Congress and elsewhere.

A 17-year-old has been charged with murder following a deadly shooting at a Louisiana mall that injured five and killed a high school girl, authorities announced on Friday.

Police say one person died and five more were wounded after a shooting inside the food court at the Mall of Louisiana in Baton Rouge.

A Florida county sheriff's office says they arrested a former law enforcement officer whom federal authorities say planned a mass shooting targeting Black people at a large festival in New Orleans.

Democrats are celebrating an election win in Virginia that could put them slightly ahead in the national redistricting competition that President Donald Trump triggered in an attempt to preserve his party’s House majority in this year’s midterms.

A U.S. appeals court says Texas can require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms.

The owner of the gun that was used by a gunman to kill eight children in Louisiana on Sunday says the firearm was stolen from his truck, according to court documents.

Advocates say recent high-profile cases of domestic violence are a reminder: domestic violence doesn’t always look the same—but the warning signs are often there.

After leading the Jacksonville University women’s basketball team to the ASUN title and the NCAA tournament, head coach Special Jennings is staying put.

The Jaguars are shipping off disappointing draft pick Maason Smith to the Falcons in exchange for Ruke Orhorhoro, according to multiple reports.

The Supreme Court is handing a win to oil and gas companies fighting lawsuits over coastal land loss and environmental degradation in Louisiana.

Abortion opponents are increasingly frustrated with the Trump administration's reluctance to restrict access to abortion pills.

A federal judge has ruled that the abortion drug mifepristone can continue to be dispensed by mail to people with prescriptions, at least for now.

A judge has ruled that the government can convene a meeting next week to seek an exemption from the Endangered Species Act on the basis of national security for expanded oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

Louisiana officials warn that the state's $300 million crawfish industry faces dire economic consequences because of a shortage of temporary seasonal workers via the H-2B visa program.

Around 120 Louisiana National Guard members will remain deployed in New Orleans through August.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has cleared the way for a Louisiana law requiring displays of the Ten Commandments in public classrooms to take effect.

Smalls Sliders can build out its first Northeast Florida location, according to our news partners at the Jacksonville Daily Record. The Louisiana-based chain counts former New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees among its investors.

A strong storm system has brought tornado watches and damage in parts of the Southeast just as the Northeast starts to warm up.

Thousands of flights have been canceled for the weekend across the U.S. as a monster storm began wreaking havoc across much of the country.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he is blocking Louisiana's effort to extradite a California doctor accused of mailing abortion pills out of state.

Documents obtained by The Associated Press show that federal border agents are pulling out of a Louisiana immigration crackdown and heading to Minneapolis.

The Trump administration and Louisiana officials have lifted another decades-old school desegregation order, part of a campaign to end court orders they describe as outdated.

Pipeline safety regulators have imposed their largest fine ever on the company responsible for leaking 1.1 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast in 2023.

New Orleans ended 2025 with its third year of declining violent crime rates even as armed National Guard troops patrolled the city's streets on the orders of President Donald Trump.

The Trump administration is deploying 350 National Guard troops to New Orleans ahead of the New Year.

A Brazilian woman with family ties to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will be released from immigrant detention while she fights potential deportation.

Authorities are hunting for the last of three inmates who escaped from a Louisiana jail after removing concrete blocks from a deteriorating wall.

President Donald Trump says National Guard troops will be deployed to New Orleans, an announcement coming on the eve of a planned federal immigration crackdown in and around the city.

The Trump administration’s effort to overturn decades-old school desegregation orders is facing pushback from a federal judge in Louisiana.

Federal agents are set to conduct a major immigration crackdown called “Swamp Sweep” in New Orleans in the coming weeks.

The Supreme Court is wrestling with whether a former Louisiana inmate can sue prison officials who shaved his dreadlocks in violation of his Rastafari religious beliefs.

A handful of states rolled out plans to use their own funds to provide benefits as the SNAP federal food aid program runs dry.

A national battle over redistricting is advancing in more states.

The American Civil Liberties Union is alleging that pregnant detainees being held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities in Louisiana and Georgia are being mistreated and receiving inadequate care.

A Louisiana judge has tossed out a key permit for a liquefied natural gas facility that won approval from President Donald Trump’s administration.

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is the primary way plaintiffs can challenge racially discriminatory election practices.

The Supreme Court appears ready to gut a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that's helped root out racial discrimination in voting for more than a half century.

A Republican attack on a core provision of the Voting Rights Act that's designed to protect racial minorities comes to the Supreme Court this week, more than a decade after the justices knocked out another pillar of the 60-year-old law.

The U.S. Marshals say the only escaped inmate who remained on the run after breaking out of a New Orleans jail in May has been captured.

The American Civil Liberties Union is accusing the Trump administration of unlawfully punishing immigration detainees for past crimes by transferring them to a notorious Louisiana prison.

A group of countries in the OPEC+ alliance has agreed to a small boost in oil production, citing a steady global economic outlook.

A top New Orleans police official is welcoming the idea of working with federal troops deployed to Louisiana’s largest city.

Republican Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has asked for National Guard deployments to New Orleans and other cities, saying his state needs help fighting crime and praising President Donald Trump’s decision to send troops to Washington and Memphis, Tennessee.

Louisiana has issued a warrant to arrest a California doctor accused of mailing abortion pills.

911 systems across Mississippi and Louisiana are back online after going down Thursday afternoon, an AT&T spokesperson said.

Meta is racing to construct its largest data center yet, a $10 billion facility in northeast Louisiana as big as 70 football fields and requiring more than twice the electricity of New Orleans.

The Jaguars are thinning out their running back room, trading Tank Bigsby to the Eagles on Monday night.

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has agreed to pay a $900 fine for failing to disclose a free trip to Hawaii and other complimentary trips while serving as the state’s attorney general.

Federal authorities say they've deliberately chosen a notorious Louisiana prison to hold immigration detainees as a way to encourage people living illegally in the U.S. to self-deport.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi will hold a news conference in Louisana Wednesday to announce the opening of a new immigration detention facility dubbed ‘Camp 47′.

Louisiana has abandoned its defense of a political map that elected two Black members of Congress and instead called on the Supreme Court to reject any consideration of race in redistricting in a case that could bring major changes to the Voting Rights Act.

The wins and losses don’t matter in the preseason, but how you get there does, and this was a much better ride for the Jaguars. Not perfect, but better.

Coastal communities nationwide are ramping up efforts to restore and protect their shorelines as climate change causes more intense and destructive storms and leads to sea-level rise that puts tens of millions of people at risk.

Louisiana is officially canceling a $3 billion coastal restoration project funded by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement.

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Democrats are using a Louisiana town hall to preview one of their main strategies for attempting to retake the U.S. House next year, ripping into the health care changes in the just-passed Republican tax and spending bill.

The Supreme Court is putting off ruling on a second Black majority congressional district in Louisiana, instead ordering new arguments in the fall.

Louisiana is the latest state to redefine natural gas as green energy, even though it’s a fossil fuel that emits planet-warming greenhouse gases.

The National Transportation Safety Board says roughly 1.1 million gallons of crude oil spilled from a pipeline into the Gulf of Mexico in November 2023 because operators failed to shut it down for nearly 13 hours after their data first hinted at a problem.

Louisiana accused pharmaceutical giant CVS of using its dominant market position to abuse customer information, drive up drug costs and unfairly undermine independent pharmacies.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a former Louisiana prison inmate whose dreadlocks were shaved by guards in violation of his religious beliefs.

Edward McClamma sent pictures and video to News4JAX on Sunday of an alligator in his pool, showing the gator swimming around before eventually resting on the pool’s entry steps.

A panel of three federal appellate judges has ruled that a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in each of the state’s public school classrooms is unconstitutional.

Louisiana state Sen. Blake Miguez, a conservative Republican, has officially launched his bid to run for U.S. Senate in 2026.

Louisiana soon could raise taxes on sports betting to help finance the athletic departments at many of its public universities.

Louisiana lawmakers have approved a measure that targets out-of-state doctors and activists who prescribe, sell or provide pregnancy-ending drugs to residents in the reliably red state.

Authorities have arrested a former New Orleans jail employee and accused her of aiding in a 10-inmate escape at the facility last month.

State legislatures are passing bills to ban weather modification and geoengineering based on decades-old “chemtrails” conspiracy theories, moving the fringe theory from online into actual public policy.

Authorities are investigating an Instagram photo showing a man who identifies himself as Antoine Massey, a fugitive still at large after escaping more than two weeks ago from a New Orleans jail.

Louisiana lawmakers have for the third consecutive year rejected a bill that would have added some rape cases to the narrow list of exceptions to the state’s abortion ban.

A community event showcasing crawfish and much more

A push to put the Ten Commandments on display in all Texas public school classrooms is closer to reaching Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's desk.

A Louisiana bill that would have carved out a path for incarcerated people convicted by now-banned split juries to ask for a new trial has failed.

A federal judge in Louisiana on Wednesday struck down government regulations requiring most employers nationwide to provide workers with time off and other accommodations for abortions.

Authorities have arrested an Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office maintenance worker in connection with the escape of 10 jail inmates.

A Louisiana judge has ruled that a legal challenge to a first-of-its-kind reclassification of two abortion-inducing drugs as “controlled dangerous substances" can move forward.

A petrochemical plant in Louisiana accused of increasing cancer risks for a majority Black community has indefinitely suspended its operations in part due to the high cost of reducing toxic pollution.

A Tufts University student from Turkey has returned to Boston after being released from a Louisiana immigration detention center.

President Donald Trump and Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry have discussed the possibility that Julia Letlow, a congresswoman elected in 2021 after her husband died of COVID, might challenge Sen. Bill Cassidy in next year's Republican primary.

The election of Pope Leo XIV, who is the first U.S. pope and has Creole roots, is raising more awareness about the complexity of the Creole identity.

An ambitious project to restore a rapidly vanishing stretch of Louisiana coast devastated by the 2010 Gulf oil spill has been thrown deeper into disarray amid claims by Gov. Jeff Landry that his predecessor concealed an unfavorable study that could imperil the $3 billion effort.

The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggesting that others across the South should be eliminated.

A man who has served nearly three decades on death row in Louisiana has had his conviction overturned by a judge.

PGA Tour rookies Isaiah Salinda and Kevin Velo shot a 3-under 69 in alternate-shot play Friday to remain atop the leaderboard in the Zurich Classic, and leave defending champions Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry six strokes back.

Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster off the Gulf Coast, the effects of the largest oil spill in U.S. history are still being felt.

The world's largest immigration detention system is on the cusp of explosive growth as President Donald Trump pursues his signature campaign promise of mass deportations.