Filmmaker Spike Lee talks about his new documentary, which addresses the BP oil spill.
In the weeks since an oil rig exploded and later sank into the Gulf of Mexico, President Obama has dealt with the tragedy with his signature cool, calm and collected approach.
The parish president said his knees got weak. The congressman said it was like a punch to the stomach, but that his constituents are resilient.
CNN's David Mattingly reports from Robert, Louisiana, about the next option after the 'top kill' procedure failed.
CNN's Fredrika Whitfield speaks with a conservationist about how wildlife could take a hit from the oil disaster.
President Barack Obama said Thursday that "the scale and the scope" of his economic plan is right, turning up the heat on critics he said were hawking "phony arguments" and "false theories of the past" to chip away at the bill's programs.
A congressional report to be released this week slams the government's response to Hurricane Katrina, calling it a "failure of leadership" that left people stranded when they were most in need.
A Louisiana congressman says e-mails written by the government's emergency response chief as Hurricane Katrina raged show a lack of concern for the unfolding tragedy and a failure in leadership.
Retiring U.S. Rep. Billy Tauzin, former House Commerce Committee chairman and a principal architect of the prescription drug benefit for Medicare, will become the new president and CEO of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturing Association, two sources said Wednesday.
Republicans picked up a congressional seat in southern Louisiana on Saturday, but gave another right back to Democrats in a second, much closer runoff election that was also in Cajun country.
Louisiana's 3rd District, which lacked an incumbent for the first time in 24 years, had six candidates vying to fill the vacancy.
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