WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional budget analysts project a cumulative $7 trillion deficit from 2010-2019, a figure roughly $2 trillion less than the one projected by the White House budget office. The...

Gov. Bobby Jindal dropped plans to request federal stimulus money to build a rail system between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, according to reports by The Times Picayune. Chester Wilmot, civil engineering...

The School of Medicine at the Health Sciences Center New Orleans' 2009 freshman class is the largest in history with 201 incoming freshmen. The Health Sciences Center has experienced an overall growth...

Uncertainty surrounding proposed health care reforms has many of President Barack Obama's political opponents seeking ways to curtail the effects of government-run medicine.A proposed amendment to the...

In response to what the White House calls health care "disinformation," it has set up a page with the blaring headline "Facts are Stubborn Things" to encourage citizens to snitch on each other. Halfway...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The state education department missed an Aug. 1 deadline to release school performance scores for its lowest performing schools, and has yet to announce a new release date. The...

Alec Soth, a photographer with work represented in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, will visit the University on Sept. 2 as part of the college's Distinguished...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration launched a criminal investigation Monday into harsh questioning of detainees during President George W. Bush's war on terrorism, revealing CIA interrogators'...

University chemistry professor John Pojman was selected to participate in the Commercial Spaceflight Federation's Suborbital Applications Researchers Group, according to a Unversity press release.SARG...

Jerry Baudin, vice chancellor for finance and administration services, will retire from the University on Dec. 31, according to a University news release. "We commend and thank Dr. Baudin, who has given...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Darfur activists upset about President Barack Obama's Sudan policy are launching a critical advertising campaign that urges him to step up pressure on Khartoum. The move comes as...

Student Health Center officials say they are still seeing many students with flu symptoms and have diagnosed at least a dozen students with Type A influenza since the start of school. Julie Hupperich,...