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Louisiana Has a Long History of Political Corruption  The New York Times New Orleans mayor and bodyguard lover charged with fraud and corruption  BBC New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell indicted after federal corruption investigation  NBC News New Orleans Mayor is a “no-show” at Amtrak event after grand jury indictment  wwltv.com Who is Jeffrey Vappie and how is he connected to Cantrell federal case  fox8live.com Source …

I started watching Sex and the City in college. On Sunday nights, I’d walk over to my friend Anna’s room in our small Midwestern liberal arts college. I’d sit on the cheaply carpeted floor, our friend Kate on the bed. We’d drink beer or Fresca, eat bags of Doritos and greasy cafeteria pizza. We screamed about the Post-it note breakup. …

Gambling content 21+. The New York Post may receive an affiliate commission if you sign up through our links. Read our editorial standards for more information. Oddsmakers are giving Shedeur Sanders little shot at starting Week 1 for the Browns.  With one preseason game in the books, veteran Joe Flacco is a heavy -310 favorite at FanDuel Sportsbook Canada to …

The Auctioneer and the Treasury Chief: How Billy Long Fell Short at the I.R.S.  The New York Times Billy Long’s IRS ouster follows clashes with Treasury  The Hill IRS, White House clashed over immigrants’ data before tax chief was ousted  The Washington Post Stuff ‘Nixon only dreamt of’: Maddow questions Trump’s removal of handpicked IRS chief  MSNBC News The IRS faces unprecedented leadership turnover  Brookings …

“We’re in the business of long-term value creation,” David Ellison proclaimed Wednesday as the stock of his newly minted Paramount, A Skydance Corporation leaped double digits in the first week of his reign. As the majority shareholder in the new Paramount, with strong support from RedBird, Ellison went on to take the win, but also cautioned his plan was not …

How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Jessica and Rich here. It’s anonymous! Dear How to Do It, I was reading through my boyfriend’s FetLife profile and writings, and it’s concerning me. He claims to be Dominant, but he’s really not. He says that he prefers women who are petite and flat-chested. He also talks …

While Texas Democrats have thus far been successful in preventing their Republican counterparts from passing an aggressive gerrymander, in the long run, the deck is stacked against them. Texas state Rep. James Talarico told Salon that he and his colleagues are “all committed to staying out of the Texas Capitol at least until the end of this special session.” When …

A study published in PeerJ by paleontologists Sven Sachs and Daniel Madzia has reclassified a nearly complete plesiosaur skeleton found in 1978 in Holzmaden, Germany, as a new genus and species. Named Plesionectes longicollum, this Early Jurassic marine reptile had an extraordinarily long neck and unique skeletal features that challenge previous ideas about plesiosaur evolution during the Toarcian stage, about …

NASCAR driver joins the long list of sports celebrations gone wrong  The Washington Post Nascar driver falls from roof of car while celebrating race win and breaks collarbone  The Guardian Zilisch on scary fall: ‘Grateful to be walking’  ESPN NASCAR driver Connor Zilisch breaks collarbone while celebrating latest victory  CNN Trackhouse Racing owner Justin Marks addresses what’s next for Connor Zilisch after injury  NBC Sports …

Tiny metallic beads hiding in deep Arctic mud have reignited a long-running argument about why Earth shivered 12,800 years ago. The new evidence comes from four sediment cores lifted out of Baffin Bay, between Greenland and Canada, that capture a razor-thin layer rich in comet-like debris. The abrupt climate lurch, known as the Younger Dryas, drove Northern Hemisphere temperatures down …