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President Donald Trump addresses the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. His roughly hourlong speech was both grievance-filled and self-congratulatory as he used the platform to applaud his second-term achievements and lament that some of his fellow world leaders’ countries were ‘going to hell.’ Story, Page 4A.
Cassidy wants to see data on Tylenol FDA recommendations don’t match studies, many researchers say
Trump was unveiling new and medical associations who guidance from the FDA that argued that Trump’s adminisurges mothers to talk with their tration is misrepresenting the doctor and minimize the use scientific evidence and potenof acetaminophen, the active tially giving bad advice. ingredient in the popular pain “HHS should release the reliever. The guidance points to new data that it has to support BY MATTHEW ALBRIGHT some studies that have found a Cassidy this claim. The preponderance Staff writer link between the drug and neuof evidence shows that this is In a news conference Monday, Presi- rological conditions like autism and not the case,” said U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, the Louisiana Republican who dent Donald Trump repeatedly gave ADHD. The announcement swiftly drew critmedical advice to pregnant mothers: ä See TYLENOL, page 7A “Don’t take Tylenol.” icism and concern from many doctors
Baton Rouge officials violated the First Amendment rights of activists who were thrown out of a Metro Council meeting in 2017 for speaking about the police shooting of Alton Sterling after being warned not to, a federal judge ruled. The lawsuit stemmed from a meeting held about a year after Sterling, a Black man, was killed by a Baton Rouge police officer. The week before the meeting, federal prosecutors had decided not to pursue a civil rights case against the officers involved, prompting civil rights activists to organize a protest during the meeting. Michael McClanahan, head of Louisiana’s NAACP, and Eugene Collins, a Baton Rouge resident who later joined the group, sued in December 2017 after being among six people forcibly removed during the chaotic Metro Council meeting. The plaintiffs did not seek any compensation as part of the suit, but will be awarded compensation for attorneys fees and costs. U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles ruled in favor of the plaintiffs’ claims that their First Amendment rights were violated. A third plaintiff in the suit, activist Gary Chambers, did not prevail on the same claims. During a three-minute period of public comment about the city’s sewage system, McClanahan approached the podium. Scott Wilson, who as mayor pro-tem at the time presided over the Metro Council, warned McClanahan about speaking off topic. “I oppose the sewer item because on July the 5th, 2016, Alton Sterling was killed,” McClanahan then said, after which he was immediately removed from the meeting and building, according to court records.
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Abandoned oil platforms along La. coast remain untracked 6, 2024. more than 1,113 offshore strucState’s oversight of Feb. Now, the platform sits rusting tures within 3 miles of Louisiana’s empty in the waters of Black coastline in state waters. Of those, structures questioned and Bay, northeast of Buras, just one only 234 appear to be near active
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BLACK BAY — The anonymous log, found months later in an oil platform’s living quarters, documented a worker’s tasks: He pumped oil, cleaned sludge and repaired the structure. Then, abruptly: “Shutting in field prepping to leave Wednesday morning. We have red or orange flagging tape on every valve that we closed,” reads an entry dated
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of at least 879 offshore structures abandoned in Louisiana’s state waters, according to a new analysis by True Transition. The nonprofit compiled its report after discovering a gap in state data: While Louisiana tracks oil wells, it does not track the platforms built to service them. Using satellite images from Skytruth, another environmental nonprofit, and data from the state’s Department of Energy and Natural Resources, the report identifies
oil and gas wells. The rest — 879 — are likely idle or abandoned. Unlike other states and the federal government, Louisiana does not know where oil and gas platforms in its state waters are located. “We contacted everyone — DENR, the Oil Spill Coordinator’s Office, the Coast Guard — and no one could provide a map or a count,” said Megan Biven, the founder of
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ä See PLATFORMS, page 8A Damaged inshore oil platforms and rigs stand in the Gulf south of Venice.
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