Following the New Year’s terror attack in New Orleans, the city increased security measures. Now, one company says they are owed $1.3 million for those changes.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Big Freedia about her new album, "Pressing Onward," and how her childhood singing in the church ...

Hurricane Katrina exposed longstanding flaws in the New Orleans criminal justice system. In the 20 years since, there has ...

Flashback: New Orleans installed permanent fences in 2020 at the corner of South Claiborne and Cleveland avenues, preventing ...

Artist and poet José Torres-Tama created his new Katrina @ 20 exhibition: No Papers! No Fear!, which opens on Friday, to commemorate the immigrants who  contributed to an epic New Orleans rebirth — ...

As the country continues to deal with the fallout of the infamous Jeffery Epstein files, The Root is taking a closer look at some of the most polarizing conspiracy theories in American history.

As the Texas GOP works on redrawing Congressional districts to favor their party, some Democratic governors say they could retaliate by redistricting in favor of their party.

The U.S. job market slowed sharply this spring, as President Trump's tariffs took effect. Trump is calling for even higher import taxes in the coming week.

The United Nations (UN) is presently raising concern of terrorist activities heavily concentrated in some African countries and in Syria, placing them ...

The threat from Islamic State and al-Qaeda extremists and their affiliates is most intense in parts of Africa, and risks are ...

The Bureau of Governmental Research (BGR) has announced that Rick Atkinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, journalist and ...