BREAKING: U.S. #SupremeCourt blocks #Louisiana's congressional map. Lower courts found that the map dilutes the voting power of Black voters. Louisiana will have to redraw its congressional map to add a second majority-Black district. #legalhttps://t.co/rHe3TWE8X3
UPDATE: #Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) vetoed this power-grabbing bill.
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NEW: Louisiana Legislature sends bill to the governor requiring all election-related rulemaking to go through the Legislature. The bill would remove local officials' power to implement federal election guidelines.
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🚨New: Dog Food Recall Sparks Warning For Pet Owners
Certain Pedigree Adult Complete Nutrition grilled steak and vegetable flavored dry dog food sold by #Walmart in #Arkansas, #Louisiana, #Oklahoma and #Texas, and online~contains metal pieces
PRODUCT 44 lb. bag PEDIGREE® Adult Complete Nutrition Grilled Steak & Vegetable Flavor Dry Dog Food
NOW: #Federal judge in #Louisiana has denied #DoJ's request to pause his injunction barring a wide swath of the Biden admin from contacting social media companies while the government appeals. DoJ expected to seek #emergency action in the #5th Circuit
11:47am CT: Louisiana federal judge denies DoJ request to pause injunction barring many federal agencies and officials from communicating with social media companies
1:49pm CT: DoJ files emergency stay motion in the 5th Circuit
DoJ says that if the 5th Circuit also refuses to put Judge Doughty's injunction (barring many fed agencies from communicating w/ social media companies re: content) on hold while they pursue the appeal, the govt will consider emergency action at #SCOTUS
The short-term #drought blend shows intensely dry conditions in #Louisiana, #Texas, the Southwest, the Pacific Northwest and the Dakotas, Minnesota and #Iowa.
On a longer timescale (several months to years), pockets of #Nebraska, Iowa, Colorado to Louisiana and the Pacific Northwest remained dry. https://ndmcblends.unl.edu/
Union Pacific Fired Him Rather Than Heed His Warnings of Dangerous Rail Conditions
Time and again, Johnny Taylor’s duty to keep the #rails safe from disaster conflicted with his employer’s desire to keep its #trains running as fast and as frequently as possible, putting his career and #family in peril.
Just in: Priscilla Villarreal, the controversial journalist known as La Gordiloca, says she'll appeal her case to the Supreme Court after a ruling by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals which could threaten journalists across three states.
Wait, where does the idea come from that the 10 commandments are the foundations of the USA law? The first four of the commandments are about worship. That last commandment and capitalism aren't compatible with each other.
"Guidry asked him to estimate how many turtles weighing more than one hundred pounds he had caught in Toledo Bend. Without hesitation, Colo answered 'five hundred.'"
9 Times the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Miscalculated Badly at the Expense of #Taxpayers, #Wildlife
The agency has a history of diving into big #construction projects that exceed projected costs, fall short on projected benefits and, in some cases, create new problems that #engineers hadn’t bargained for.
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