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2025 LEGISLATURE
Lawmakers hoping for speedy special session
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Everybody wants to just get in and get out. I think we’ll be done by Nov. 1.
SEN. CALEB KLEINPETER, R-Port Allen
Louisiana lawmakers will return to the Capitol on Thursday for a special session.
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U.S. puts more sanctions on Russia Two oil companies targeted over refusal to end ‘senseless war’
BY SUSIE BLANN and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced new sanctions Wednesday against Russia’s two biggest oil companies and blasted Moscow’s refusal to end its “senseless war” as U.S.-led efforts to end the war floundered and the Ukrainian president sought more foreign military help. The sanctions against Rosneft and Lukoil, as well as dozens of subsidiaries, followed months of bipartisan pressure on President Donald Trump to hit Russia with harder sanctions on its oil industry. “Now is the time to stop the killing and for an immediate ceasefire,” Bessent said in a statement. Given Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “refusal to end this senseless war, Treasury is sanctioning Russia’s two largest oil companies that fund the Kremlin’s war machine.” Bessent said the Treasury Department was prepared to take further action if necessary to support Trump’s effort to end the war. “We encourage our allies to join us in and adhere to these sanctions.” Bessent made the comments as NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte was in Washington for talks with Trump. The military alliance has been coordinating deliveries of weapons to Ukraine, many of
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Moving April closed primary date sole focus of Legislature BY ALYSE PFEIL Staff writer
The way Republicans tell it, the special session that begins Thursday afternoon is not complicated and, ideally, it won’t last very long. “Everybody wants to just get in and get out,” said Sen. Caleb Kleinpeter, RPort Allen, who will be carrying legislation that is likely to be the sole focus at the Capitol. “I think we’ll be done by Nov. 1.” The plan? Push Louisiana’s new closed primary elections in April back one month and hold them in May instead, to buy time for a potential Supreme Court
decision that could allow Louisiana to draw a new congressional election map. The session will be “pretty straightforward,” said Rep. Beau Beaullieu, R-New Iberia, who is spearheading the effort in the House. “We’re just looking to push the election dates back 30 days,” he said. The plan may appear simple, but the reason for the change — and what could happen next — is anything but. The U.S. Supreme Court last week heard arguments in a major voting rights case stemming from Louisiana. The justices’ eventual ruling could lead to major changes to the Voting Rights Act, a Civil Rights Movement era law
aimed at increasing Black political representation. It could also alter how race can be used as a factor when drawing voting maps. Louisiana’s congressional map is the crux of the Supreme Court case. The state has four majority-White districts that elected White Republican representatives, and two majority-Black districts that elected Black Democrats. A group of White voters has asked the Supreme Court to declare the map unconstitutional, arguing that race should not be used as a factor to draw
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Rescuers evacuate children after Russian drones hit a city kindergarten during an attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Wednesday.
Winn-Dixie plans to sell Louisiana stores, including 2 in BR area BY TIMOTHY BOONE
plans to focus on the Florida and southern Georgia markets. The company said it has reached Winn-Dixie said it will sell its deals to sell its Baton Rouge area 13 remaining Louisiana grocery stores at 8601 Siegen Lane and stores as the supermarket chain 13002 Coursey Blvd. to Texas-
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based Brookshire Grocery Co. Plans are to shut down the stores on Nov. 16 then reopen them later that week as Super 1 Foods stores. Brookshire said it plans to offer jobs to all of the qualified current
Winn-Dixie employees and will 10 in metro New Orleans and the hire additional workers at both northshore — have not been made stores to deliver elevated custom- public. It isn’t the first time Brookshire er service. Plans for Winn Dixie’s other Louä See STORES, page 5A isiana stores — one in Central and
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