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During her grilling before Congress, CEO Mary Barra insisted the new GM is different and better than the old GM. But are the company and its cars really new and improved? The answer is complicated.

New Orleans is the hometown of our editor, Gwendolyn Thompkins, and she went back recently to to see how the city is making out. With more than 300,000 people gone, she says, New Orleans really is 'new'. She sent back these impressions.

There are several daytime talk shows starting up, featuring Katie Couric, Steve Harvey and Ricki Lake, among others. TV critic Eric Deggans says they are all still jockeying to be the next Oprah — but there probably won't be another Oprah.

Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders hold substantial leads in their parties' polling. On the Republican side, the positioning of second and third-place candidates could be significant as well.

Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States Tuesday. He delivered a sober, plain-spoken inaugural address that did not contain the soaring rhetoric that often marked his campaign speeches. He told the crowd, "What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility."

Four new likely cases of COVID-19 are linked to a cluster in an Auckland family announced Tuesday. The country returns to tighter restrictions and is promoting an app to help with contact tracing.

History is a favored subject of News-Press storyteller Amy Bennett Williams. And what better way to explore the changing character of a community through…

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was born in Chicago and was elevated to pope by the College of Cardinals on Thursday.

The conclave is the gathering of the College of Cardinals, made up of more than 130 cardinals who are eligible to vote, in the Sistine Chapel.

Every year, we hear the forecast. Every year, officials find new ways of communicating the wide-ranging hazards hurricanes or tropical storms can pose.…