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Feds target Cantrell’s spending in new filings
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Veuve Clicquot, gift of gold rings from Vappie cited
BY JONI HESS, JAMES FINN and JOHN SIMERMAN Staff writers
ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By MARK SCHIEFELBEIN
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters during a Monday news conference at the White House.
Trump, Iran agree to 2-week ceasefire
Official says passage through strait will be allowed
BY BASSEM MROUE, JON GAMBRELL and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press
TEHRAN, Iran — U.S. President Donald Trump pulled back on his threats to launch devastating strikes on Iran late Tuesday, swerving to deescalate the war less than two hours before the deadline he set for Tehran to capitulate or face a major escalation. Trump said he was holding off on his threatened attacks on Iranian bridges, power plants and other civilian targets, subject to Tehran agreeing to a two-week ceasefire and reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, the waterway through which a fifth of the world’s oil is shipped during peacetime. He also said Iran has proposed a “workable” 10-point peace plan that could help end the war launched by the U.S. and Israel in February. Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said it has accepted a two-week ceasefire and that it would negotiate with the United States in Islamabad beginning Friday.
ä See IRAN, page 6A
ä See CANTRELL, page 4A
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Bystanders try to comfort and assist a woman Tuesday as she reacts near the site of a strike that, according to a security official at the scene, destroyed half the Khorasaniha Synagogue and nearby residential buildings in Tehran, Iran.
Aerospace bills sailing through House Tax breaks for companies easily clear committee
BY ALYSE PFEIL Staff writer
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Rouge after an Easter break. While officials remained mum on whether any specific comA plan by Louisiana officials to give big panies are in talks to locate here, they said tax breaks to attract aerospace companies to the tax breaks would generally make Louisithe state appears to be on a fast track after ana competitive for such aerospace projects. lawmakers on Tuesday swiftly advanced two Asked whether he was trying to bring bills without opposition. SpaceX or Blue Origin to Louisiana, Gov. Both measures advanced out of the House Jeff Landry in a brief interview Tuesday aftax committee first thing Tuesday morn- ternoon said he would “love an opportunity ing, as legislators reconvened in Baton to visit with either one of them to bring great
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Federal prosecutors have lodged new evidence in their fraud case against former New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell and her alleged paramour, Jeffrey Vappie, asserting Cantrell misspent thousands in campaign funds on personal expenses and that both withheld evidence. The new court filings add no new charges to the 18-count superseding Cantrell indictment that prosecutors unleashed last August charging the pair with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, obstruction of justice and lying to investigators. But as evidence of the charged scheme, prosecu- Vappie tors aim to introduce allegations that Vappie, now a retired New Orleans police officer and Cantrell’s former bodyguard, gifted a pair of gold rings to the mayor and then conspired to hide them. One of the rings was emblazoned with the NOPD logo.
Confirmation delay emerges as issue in Senate race
BY MARK BALLARD Staff writer
jobs to Louisiana.” Landry said the recent Artemis II launch, which sent astronauts past the moon, shows that NASA’s program is “robust,” as are those of SpaceX and Blue Origin. “It seems like the space inLandry dustry, the aerospace industry is doing extremely well, and we want to be positioned,” the governor said. “We want to align Louisiana so that if they do come, we do get a great opportunity.”
WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump doubled down on his controversial choice of Casey Means for surgeon general, her nomination has emerged as an issue in Louisiana’s increasingly bitter Republican primary race for the U.S. Senate. That’s because incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill CasMeans sidy, R-Baton Rouge, has delayed for six weeks a vote that will decide Means’ fate. Cassidy chairs the Senate Committee for Health Education Labor and Pensions.
ä See AEROSPACE, page 4A
ä See SENATE, page 6A
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