The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal over Louisiana’s more Democratic-friendly congressional districts, ...

Graves' District 6 was reconfigured to create the second majority-minority district. It now stretches from Shreveport, in ...

"Rafael is forecast to become a hurricane in the northwestern Caribbean," the NHC said. "With further strengthening before it makes landfall in Cuba." ...

Monday's decision puts the spotlight back on an enforcement provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act, Section 2. While Louisiana's majority-Black District 6 will stand for Tuesday's election, the ...

"The system is forecast to become a hurricane by Tuesday night and there is a risk of dangerous impacts from hurricane-force winds," the NHC said.

At its most basic level, the current map gives Louisiana Democrats a chance to ... in the northwest of the state to Baton Rouge in the southeast for some 250 miles to create a district where ...