Nation

Louisiana

Murder charge announced in shooting

BATON ROUGE — Louisiana authorities said Friday they had charged a 17-year-old with murder and were searching for another suspect in a shooting at a mall in Baton Rouge that killed one teenage girl and injured five other people.

Baton Rouge Police Chief TJ Morse said the shooting Thursday at the Mall of Louisiana was not a random act and seemed to be driven by “social media beefs and maybe gang-related stuff.”

Mississippi

State to reexamine judicial redistricts

JACKSON — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves on Friday announced he will call a special session for judicial redistricting once the U.S. Supreme Court rules on a Voting Rights Act case that has broad implications for minority representation throughout the country.

During oral arguments last fall, the Supreme Court appeared poised to strike down Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

World

Pakistan

Trump sends team for new talks with Iran

ISLAMABAD — President Donald Trump is sending his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Pakistan to meet with Iran’s foreign minister, the White House said Friday, as officials in the South Asian nation pushed to revive ceasefire talks between the U.S. and Iran.

The talks planned for Saturday come as much of the world is on edge over the war.

Ukraine

Zelenskyy: US still sending weapons

KYIV — U.S. weapons deliveries to Ukraine haven’t stopped despite the Iran war, and Ukrainian long-range strikes continue to hammer Russian oil production and manufacturing plants, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday.

“Of course, we are hitting what is painful for Russia, and it is very painful,” Zelenskyy said in voice messages to reporters.