In late April 1803, with the stroke of a pen and the exchange of just $15 million, the United States nearly doubled in size. With the Louisiana Purchase, the U.S. acquired nearly 827,000 square ...

One of the greatest features of the American system is that the states, or “the laboratories of democracy,” as coined by ...

U.S. Army units and the Jordanian Armed Forces completed a demanding training rotation at the Joint Readiness Training ...

Louisiana has the highest murder rate in the United States. There were 12.4 murders in the state for every 100,000 residents in 2017 – the only state where murders were more than twice as common ...

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The briny intrusion that has put paid to the Choctaw village is devastating southern Louisiana. Between 1932 and 2010 the state lost more than 1,800 square miles (470,000 hectares) of land to the ...

Fourteen of the 20 largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers in the United States are in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, across the nation’s “deportation alley.” ...

Louisiana is the only civil law jurisdiction in the United States, which was inspired by Napoleonic Code. Tong was born in Louisiana in 1985 but spent much of his life living out of state.