The United States Senate ratified the treaty to transfer the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States on Oct. 20, 1803.

About 800,000 low-income Louisiana residents won't receive food stamp benefits in November unless Congress reaches a deal to end the government shutdown.

Mahmoud Amin Ya’qub Al-Muhtadi gained entry to the United States last September after allegedly falsifying his U.S. visa application.

Mahmoud Amin Ya'qub al-Muhtadi allegedly took part in the attack on Israel and lied on a visa application, court documents say.

Prosecutors say cell phone location data places Lafayette, Louisiana, resident Mahmoud Amin Ya’qub Al-Muhtadi, 33, at the scene of the attacks.

Sunset Middle School student Christopher Mares, 11, walks his dairy Holstein commercial heifer through the cattle barn during the 4-H/FFA Acadiana District Livestock Show Thursday, January 27, 2022, at Blackam Coliseum in Lafayette, La. The show continues through Saturday.

Mahmoud al Muhtadi, a reported member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), was arrested by federal authorities in Louisiana for his alleged participation in the Hamas-led October 7 massacre in southern Israel.

A Gazan native living in the United States on a fraudulent visa reportedly armed himself and assembled a group of fighters to invade Israel after learning that the terror group Hamas had broken