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LAKE ARTHUR — With the Christmas holiday season approaching, the Town of Lake Arthur is kicking-off their festive holiday market event bringing local vendors and gifts ideas galore together with music, food, fun and outdoor shopping.

ELTON — In an attempt to garner more public interest in saving the town’s park here, officials have a second meeting scheduled next week to recruit members for a nonprofit in the recreational area’s name.

— In line with First Lady Melania Trump’s efforts to improve the foster care system, the president signed an executive order Thursday to better support foster children, those aging out of the system, caseworkers and foster families.

— Operation Southern Spear, the new title for the Trump administration’s targeting of narco-terrorists in and around Latin America, was announced Thursday by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

— The Department of Homeland Security will issue $10,000 bonus checks to Transportation Security Administration ( TSA) agents who demonstrated “exemplary” behavior and work attendance during the government shutdown.

Louisiana’s thriving energy economy is a testament to the state and federal regulatory environments that allow it to flourish, because both balance growth with ensuring that the highest safety and environmental standards are followed to the letter of the law.

NEW YORK (AP) — Nvidia, bitcoin and others among Wall Street’s highest flyers are falling more toward Earth.The S&P 500 sank 1.2% Friday, coming off one of its worst days since its springtime sell-off and a global wipeout for stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 582 points, and the Nasdaq composite fell 1.5%. Stocks swept up in the mania around artificialintelligence technology have been at the center of the market's recent struggles amid criticism that their prices shot too high. Worries are also rising about whether the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates in December, as had been expected.