Recent editorials from Louisiana newspapers:
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Feb. 18
The Advocate on parishes raising taxes to help increase teachers' pay:
When Gov. John Bel Edwards drew fire for his failure to fund a new teacher pay raise in the proposed new state budget, his political opponents were quick to cry ...
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China on Wednesday ordered three reporters from American newspaper the Wall Street Journal to leave the country over what Beijing deemed a racist headline, in one of the harshest moves against foreign media in years.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday faced what appeared to be a rare unscripted grilling from a Russian woman who asked him how much he earns and whether he could live on her income of $170 a month.
EARTH’S greatest hot desert was once “rich in water and life”. The remains of thousands of fish have been uncovered in the hot and arid Sahara Desert, dating back just a few thousand years. These ancient sea creatures will have swam across huge lakes once common across the Sahara region. That’s because the Sahara isn’t […]
There is little indication that the Japanese public will change and allow the reforms required to put Japan's economy on a more stable footing and ...
As a changing climate dried out the Sahara desert, ancient humans transitioned from eating lots of tilapia and catfish to more mammal-heavy meals
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The speedster must either make the MLB team out of spring, or move to another organization.
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Chadian soldiers have repelled an incursion into a volatile northern gold-mining region from neighbouring Libya, the army says.
Zimbabwe has given an ultimatum to holders of mining licences to pay an annual renewal fee by April, or face losing their licenses, mines Minister Winston Chitando announced on Wednesday.
"It is a lot of work to arrange the vote here. A lot of bureaucracy, handling all the lists, we hope it's really going to be the last time."
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Morning sickness is an extremely common side effect of pregnancy. But what does it mean if it goes way beyond a couple hours during your first trimester and starts to take a severe toll on your daily health? Chances are you aren’t experiencing morning sickness anymore. You might actually have Hyperemesis Gravidarum. What is Hyperemesis […]
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The partnership marks Macquarie Telecom's formal entry into public cloud and gives the Aussie company a global presence.
Twenty villages to be the focus of awareness initiative; villagers to be informed of dos and dont’s
By Tuvan Gumrukcu and Suleiman Al-Khalidi ANKARA/AMMAN (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday a military operation by his forces to push back a Syrian government offensive
Even if you have oily skin, you have to moisturize.
A group of Russian and German palaeontologists have described a previously unknown genus and species of prehistoric salamanders. The new amphibian is named Egoria malashichevi—in honor of Yegor Malashichev a talented scientist and associate professor of the Department of Vertebrate Zoology at St Petersburg University, who passed away at the end of 2018.
Michael Bloomberg will face off against five other Democratic presidential candidates on the debate stage in Las Vegas tonight for the first time. As CBS News' Laura Podesta reports, the other candidates in the field are taking aim at the billionaire's entry into the race.
"The quantity of fish we have found and studied are unprecedented in the central Sahara," researcher Savino di Lernia told Newsweek.
A 26-year-old man was arrested for allegedly kidnapping a businessman after posing as an officer of the Delhi Police Crime Branch and demanding Rs 25-lakh ransom in west Delhi's Hari Nagar area, police said on Wednesday. The businessman, Aman Kumar, was rescued a few hours after he was kidnapped on Tuesday evening. The accused has been identified as Haripal, a resident of Najafgarh, they said, adding that efforts were on to nab his three associates. Deepak Purohit, Deputy Commissioner of Police (West)... Читать дальше...