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A special election was held Saturday in six parishes to fill five vacancies in the Louisiana Legislature, including three seats representing New Orleans. Two of the contests will be decided in a runoff next month, but the outcomes won’t alter the overall party makeup of the state house where Republicans continue to hold a super majority in both chambers. Senate District 3 The March 14 runoff in Senate District 3 will pit the son of a former New Orleans mayor against an attorney with a background in the public sector. Sidney Barthelemy II, a construction company owner, led the four-person field with 44% of the vote. That was double the share received by Kenn Barnes, a special counsel to the Louisiana Supreme Court and former public defender and city attorney. Chad Lauga, a St. Bernard Parish electrician and union lobbyist, finished third with 19%. Former state lawmaker Jon Johnson finished last in the all-Democrat field. Barthlemey and Barnes want to replace Joe Bouie, D-New Orl...
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News24 | 3 Doors Down lead singer Brad Arnold dead at 47

Brad Arnold, a founder and lead singer of American rock band 3 Doors Down, died on Saturday, nine months after disclosing that he had kidney cancer, the group said. from News24 News24/TopStories/rss https://ift.tt/sV8q2fW via sinceretalk
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News24 | Implicated in Madlanga Commission, Pretorius, suspected to have died by suicide

Wiandre Pretorius, who was implicated in the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry, is suspected to have died by suicide on Saturday, two days after he survived a hit at his Boksburg home on Thursday. from News24 News24/TopStories/rss https://ift.tt/dp7bowl via sinceretalk
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News24 | What’s in City Press: Steenhuisen’s message to his successor | Groenewald’s successful prison shake-up

A selection of the top stories in this week’s edition of City Press, all in one convenient place. from News24 News24/TopStories/rss https://ift.tt/Iy6DXlp via sinceretalk
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Former Trump chief of staff says Republicans can 'kiss the midterms goodbye'

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It may already be too late for Republicans to keep both chambers of Congress under their control after this November's midterm elections, according to one of President Donald Trump's former chiefs of staff. In a Friday interview with NewsNation's Connell McShane , Mick Mulvaney — who served as acting White House chief of staff in President Donald Trump's first administration for more than a year — said the racist AI-generated video Trump posted to his Truth Social account on Thursday night may be the final nail in the coffin for Republicans' midterm hopes this fall. In the video, former First Couple Barack and Michelle Obama are depicted as apes while the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" is heard in the background. The post was eventually deleted 12 hours after it was posted to Trump's Truth Social account following massive bipartisan blowback, but Mulvaney said the Trump administration's bungling of the resulting fallout could lead to a signif...
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Fascism expert warns Trump may use emergency powers to cancel the election

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President Donald Trump , his team, and his allies are "saboteurs" who are "wrecking" all the institutions that brought America prosperity and prestige, says a fascism expert who warns that the president may take action to disrupt — or even cancel —a future election. Dr. Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a professor of history and a scholar of fascism, is an expert on authoritarianism and strongmen. She spoke with Politicon's James Carville and Al Hunt on Friday. When asked whether it is "accurate" to call Trump a fascist, Dr. Ben-Ghiat replied, "He's got many fascist qualities, and they're recycling Nazi slogans now," she observed. Trump, she continued, "made a campaign video that said that he was going to — he was going to create a 'unified Reich.'" "They're taking from the fascist playbook," she added, noting that they "love" Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and "all ...
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'I can clear that up!' CNN's Jake Tapper torches Trump in scathing monologue

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While addressing the annual National Prayer Breakfast, President Donald Trump once again doubled down on the disproven claim that he won the 2020 election — particularly in Georgia. CNN host Jake Tapper spent part of his latest show taking apart the president's argument piece by piece. In a Thursday segment , Tapper noted that Trump remained " laser-focused on rewriting his 2020 election loss" in spite of overwhelming evidence that he lost both the popular vote and the Electoral College. He then observed that Trump used his captive audience at the National Prayer Breakfast — which is typically a non-partisan event — to defend his controversial FBI raid of an election facility in Fulton County, Georgia and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's presence at the raid. "Georgia was central to Trump's false, debunked claim that the 2020 election was rigged, which it was not," Tapper said. "... W hy send G abbard? It's a questio...
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