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Speaker Johnson gets warm welcome from Senate GOP - Roll Call

Senators at a closed lunch with Speaker Mike Johnson said the Louisiana Republican was willing to accept he needs to grow into the job.

Roll Call

Louisiana was open to Cancer Alley concessions. Then EPA dropped its investigation

The Environmental Protection Agency spent more than a year investigating whether Louisiana's oversight of industrial air emissions discriminated against Black residents

The Independent UK

A fiery new food tour across America’s Deep South

A week-long road trip on Louisiana’s new hot sauce trail sees Robyn Wilson travel across the Mississippi Delta’s rich swampland to test her spice tolerance

The Independent UK

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House Speaker Mike Johnson was once the dean of a Christian law school. It never opened its doors

Mike Johnson does not typically mention one aspect of his work before being elected to Congress

The Independent UK

Salt in paradise: What a Louisiana crabber is losing to saltwater intrusion

Drought has allowed sea water to advance up the Mississippi River, putting drinking water and other resources at risk.

Al Jazeera

First Thing: Israeli air force says it has struck 600 targets in a day

Military strikes include area near Al-Azhar University in Gaza City. Plus, Matthew Perry’s troubled life and foreshadowed death

The Guardian - UK

With Mike Johnson, incels seize the GOP

The Louisiana congressman's career has been centered around his bitter obsession with other people's sex lives

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‘Bloodiest prison in the US’: children detained in Louisiana’s Angola prison allege abuses

Juvenile prisoners were routinely punished by fellow inmates at the ‘Alcatraz of the south’, according to a new lawsuit

The Guardian - US

Saints not bringing up practice squad reinforcements for Week 8 at Colts

USA Today Sports Media Group

Video shows House Speaker blaming mass shootings on divorce and abortion

Mike Johnson has long opposed gun control measures

The Independent UK

Four tracts of federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico are designated for wind power development

The Biden administration has designated four tracts of federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas and Louisiana coasts for development of wind energy

The Independent UK

Louisiana Mother of Autistic Child Hit by Teacher Files Supreme Court Petition

School officials in three states are effectively immune from lawsuits over excessive corporal punishment. A Louisiana mother is asking the Supreme Court to step in.

Reason

New House speaker Mike Johnson praised ‘18th-century values’ in speech

Louisiana congressman told audience at 2013 anti-abortion event Americans should live by 250-year-old religious and moral values

The Guardian - US

‘These levels are crazy’: Louisiana tap water sees huge spike in toxic chemicals

Encroaching water from the Mississippi River has necessitated more thorough disinfecting, which leaves behind dangerous chemicals

The Guardian - US

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Judge orders Ivanka Trump to testify in family’s civil fraud trial - as it happened

Donald Trump’s daughter could appear on witness stand in New York civil fraud trial as early as next week

The Conversation

Louisiana's 'In God We Trust' law tests limits of religion in public schools

When Louisiana passed a law in August 2023 requiring public schools to post “In God We Trust” in every classroom – from elementary school to college – the author of the bill claimed to be following a long-held tradition of displaying the national motto, most notably on U.S. currency.

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Five state financial officers are on the ballot in November 2023

In November 2023, voters will elect five of the 105 state financial officerships (SFOs) nationwide (4.8%). Two auditor positions (Kentucky and Mississippi) and three treasurer positions (Kentucky, Louisiana, and Mississippi) are on the ballot. Republicans currently hold all five positions.

The Independent UK

Learner driver passes test with flying colours in middle of Louisiana super-fog crash

The student driver and her instructor Gisela Chevalier survived the 168-car Louisiana pileup on Monday that killed eight people

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Ukraine recap: future of US support for Kyiv in question as Israel conflict reshapes Washington's priorities

There was some worrying news for Volodymyr Zelensky this week when the US House of Representatives finally elected a new speaker. Mike Johnson, a Republican congressman from Louisiana, has consistently opposed US funding for the Ukrainian war effort. Now he’s the second most powerful man in US politics behind the…

The Independent UK

This is new Speaker Mike Johnson’s anti-LGBT+ record

‘Homosexual marriage is the dark harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy that could doom even the strongest republic,’ Mike Johnson wrote in 2004

Al Jazeera

Who is Mike Johnson, the new US Republican House speaker?

Mike Johnson was elected as House speaker after three other candidates were unable to secure enough votes.

The Guardian - US

The Maga-fication of congressional Republicans is now complete

Republicans have elected an obscure and extreme Trumpist, Mike Johnson, as speaker of the House

The Guardian - US

New House speaker pushed for ‘hard labor’ for abortion providers after fall of Roe

Mike Johnson of Louisiana has continued to champion anti-abortion bills even as some in his party beware US voter backlash

The Guardian - US

Trumpist Mike Johnson is the US House speaker. There’s plenty to fear

The newly elected speaker, Mike Johnson of Louisiana, had a leading role in trying to overturn the 2020 election

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