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One Guard member shot in D.C. dies Second in critical condition; Afghan national charged in ambush attack
BY BEN FINLEY, ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press
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ABOVE: Bailey’s Tandoori Grill owner Ema Haq chats with Thanksgiving Day guests in Lafayette on Thursday. Haq said around 1,600 delivered, picked up and dine-in meals will have been served by the end of his annual Thanksgiving Day meal offering to the community. BELOW: Volunteers fill plates with Thanksgiving meals at Bailey’s Tandoori Grill on Thursday. STAFF PHOTOS By LESLIE WESTBROOK
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump said that one of the two West Virginia National Guard members shot by an Afghan national near the White House had died, calling the shooter who had worked with the CIA in his native country a “savage monster.” As part of his Thanksgiving call to U.S. troops, Trump said that he had just learned that Spc. Sarah Beckstrom Beckstrom, 20, had died, while Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24, was “fighting for his life.” “She’s just passed away,” Trump said. “She’s no longer with us. She’s looking down at us right now. Her parents are with her.” The president called Beckstrom an “incredible person, outstandWolfe ing in every single way.” Trump used the announcement to say the shooting was a “terrorist attack” as he criticized the Biden administration for enabling Afghans who
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Louisiana homeowners remain stuck on safety net insurer Democrats gain ground on Mississippi Coast Local election dynamics reflect changing politics
BY POET WOLFE and MARTHA SANCHEZ
Staff writer and Sun Herald
After an hourslong Gulfport City Council meeting, newly elected council member Carrissa Corbett would change out of her black dress and leopard-print coat and into a T-shirt and jogging pants before heading to a
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community center to host her weekly line dancing class. Once there, Corbett collects canned goods the dancers bring to stock a food pantry for residents who lost food stamp benefits after the government shutdown. And during dance breaks, she slips in questions: Are y’all getting out and voting? Are y’all talking to your nieces and nephews about voting? Leaning into informal, unscripted settings like this one to connect with voters, she said, is helping Democrats along the Mississippi
Gulf Coast gain traction in a traditionally red state. “Just having casual conversation,” Corbett said, sitting in her office on a recent Tuesday night. “No one wants someone to come in and talk over their heads.” Her effort reflects a broader push by Democrats across the Gulf Coast to make elections more competitive as newcomers from across the country move into coastal cities and the population rises and diversifies. That shift was evident this summer in Gulfport, when
Sonya Williams Barnes, a Democrat and former state representative, lost to Republican attorney Hugh Keating by just 840 votes in a contentious mayoral race that drew an unusually high turnout. And earlier this year, local politics showed signs of change when Corbett flipped a Republican-held council seat, defeating incumbent R. Lee Flowers with about 63% of the vote. On a statewide scale, Democrats this month won two
Citizens policyholders have nowhere else to turn BY SAM KARLIN Staff writer
Nearly 15 years ago, Gerard Braud and his wife bought a raised cottage home in Mandeville, nestled on a sprawling yard with a live oak tree overlooking Lake Pontchartrain. He thought they would spend the rest of their lives in it. Life was affordable. His insurance premium with Lighthouse, a small company based in Louisiana, was around $4,400 a year. Then the storms came. He managed to avoid major damage from Hurricane Ida and other storms that hit south Louisiana in recent years. But Lighthouse went belly up in 2022, one of 12 insurers doing business in Louisiana to fold in the two years after Ida. Four years after the storm, he still can’t find
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