The New Orleans legislator is for Medicare For All, a Green New Deal, and living wages. And she knows how to call out white supremacists. Louisiana state Senator Karen Carter Peterson.(Paras Griffin / ...

Troy Carter missed a deadline to file his personal financial disclosure report as a candidate in the congressional race to succeed Cedric Richmond. Carter, who is competing against Karen Carter ...

Retired Lt. Gen. Russell Honore, lobbyist Randy Haynie and state Sen. Karen Carter Peterson, D-New Orleans, are among 12 appointees to a new commission charged with planning activities to celebrate ...

A U.S. House special election in Louisiana just delivered victory to another Democratic moderate. Troy Carter defeated Karen Carter Peterson, who ran well to his left. Both candidates are state ...

Carter defeated fellow Democrat Karen Carter Peterson in the special election for Louisiana's only Democrat-held seat in Congress after Peterson... BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Democrat Troy Carter won ...

A bikini-clad birthday cake prompted an irate state senator – during a legislative hearing Friday – to smash the confection and charge a couple of her colleagues with misogyny. The two male ...