Met season to open with first-ever opera by Black composer
NEW YORK — Charles Blow recalls being in the audience at the premiere of the opera based on his memoir, “Fire Shut Up in...
Tesla builds 1st store on tribal land, dodges state car laws
NAMBÉ, N.M. — Carmaker Tesla has opened a store and repair shop on Native American land for the first time, marking a new approach...
Appeals court sides with Biden’s deportation priorities
NEW ORLEANS — An federal appeals court on Wednesday allowed the Biden administration's selective criteria on who should be deported to remain in effect,...
Hurricane battered Louisiana braces for Nicholas drenching
POINTE-AUX-CHENES, La. — Residents of southern Louisiana still recovering from Hurricane Ida just weeks ago were bracing Wednesday for expected heavy rains as Nicholas...
Britney Spears gets engaged with ‘lioness’ engraved ring
LOS ANGELES — Britney Spears announced her engagement Sunday to her boyfriend Sam Asghari with an exuberant post displaying a diamond ring engraved with...
Ida deals new blow to Louisiana schools struggling to reopen
LULING, La. — Tara Williams’ three little boys run shirtless, because most of their clothes were swept away, and they stack milk crates beneath...
Laine Hardy uses album release to help hurricane recovery
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana country artist Laine Hardy will celebrate his 21st birthday Sunday with the release of his first album in a...
TV’s Cartoonito aim: to help tots be ‘best humans’ possible
LOS ANGELES — It's a good time to be a preschooler with TV privileges.
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Crowded stadiums, pandemic create combustible mix this fall
More than 65,000 fans packed a stadium in Tampa to watch Tom Brady lead the Buccaneers to a win in the NFL's season opener,...
From COVID to Ida: Louisiana’s marginalized ‘see no way out’
CHALMETTE, La. — Darkness set in for Natasha Blunt well before Hurricane Ida knocked out power across Louisiana.
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