In late April 1803, with the stroke of a pen and the exchange of just $15 million, the United States nearly doubled in size. With the Louisiana Purchase, the U.S. acquired nearly 827,000 square ...

Up to 200 Marines are scheduled to deploy to Louisiana to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement at its facilities in the ...

U.S. Army units and the Jordanian Armed Forces completed a demanding training rotation at the Joint Readiness Training ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel speaks with reporters in the US Capitol after meeting with House Speaker Mike ...

One of the greatest features of the American system is that the states, or “the laboratories of democracy,” as coined by ...

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The briny intrusion that has put paid to the Choctaw village is devastating southern Louisiana. Between 1932 and 2010 the state lost more than 1,800 square miles (470,000 hectares) of land to the ...

Louisiana is the only civil law jurisdiction in the United States, which was inspired by Napoleonic Code. Tong was born in Louisiana in 1985 but spent much of his life living out of state.