After Louisiana was struck with devastating torrential rains, causing massive flooding that killed at least 11 people, Taylor Swift has pledged a $1 million relief donation to the state.
American governors have vocalized that they do not want to take in any more Syrian refugees in wake of the terrorist attacks on Paris.
Scientists find Naegleria fowleri, a brain-eating amoeba found in tap water, having killed a five-year-old Louisiana boy.
House Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise gave a speech at a white supremacist convention in 2002, embroiling the Republican Party in a fresh controversy before the newly elected Congress has even sat for the first time.
