Louisiana flooding is the country’s ‘worst natural disaster’ since Hurricane Sandy, Red Cross says – The Washington Post

Days of rain swallowed thousands of roads and buildings in water throughout Louisiana. At least 11 people were killed and more than 10,000 displaced as the ‘unprecedented’ floodwaters rose. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post) BATON ROUGE — Five days into this disaster, adrenaline is giving way to exhaustion and — for many of those who left their homes…

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David Duke, Ex-KKK Leader Runs for Senate Under ‘America First’ Slogan

Updated | Just hours after Donald Trump formally accepted the Republican presidential nomination, former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke announced he is running for a U.S. Senate seat representing Louisiana under an “America First” campaign slogan. It’s a two-word phrase that Trump also used in his speech Thursday night at the Republican National Convention. “I’m overjoyed to see Donald Trump…

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More Than 200 Protesters Arrested in Baton Rouge and St. Paul Overnight – ABC News

While thousands of demonstrators flooded the streets of major U.S. cities again Saturday night — protesting the recent killings by police of black men Philando Castile in suburban St. Paul, Minnesota, and Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana — a demonstration in St. Paul took a particularly violent turn, with participants hurling Molotov cocktails, fireworks,…

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Southern University Students Killed in Baton Rouge Shooting – US News

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Two 19-year-old women who were Southern University students and members of the school’s athletic program were killed during a shootout early Sunday outside a Baton Rouge apartment complex, police and university officials said. Police arrested one of two men suspected in the shooting. Ernest Bernard…

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Why New Orleans’s Black Residents Are Still Underwater After Katrina – The New York Times

‘Bring a map of New Orleans.’’ That was all that Alden J. McDonald Jr., president and chief executive of Liberty Bank and Trust Company, said when I first asked to meet him. It was the summer of 2005, less than two weeks after the city’s flood-protection system failed to keep out the storm surge created…

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Lafayette Shooter Was Teabaggin’, Gay-Hatin’, Hitler-Lovin’ Fool, THANKS OBAMA! | Wonkette

If the online footprint of the Lafayette shooter identified by police as John Russell Houser, who killed two and injured nine others during a Thursday night showing of Amy Schumer’s Trainwreck before then killing himself, is any indication, Obama has really outdone himself in the false flag department this time. What did Houser hate? Pretty much…

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