Congresswoman Julia Letlow and Congressman Clay Higgins are asking the White House to impose tariffs of up to 100-percent on rice imports from five countries – India, Thailand, China, Pakistan and Vietnam. Letlow says the U.S.’ rice industry is being displaced by heavily subsidized rice from those countries.

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Louisiana Christian University will soon have a new president. The school’s board of trustees has appointed Dr. Mark Johnson the 10th president of the small college in Pineville. Vice Chairman of the Search Committee Tommy Kiker says it was a nationwide search.

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Johnson will officially start his new job June 1st, but he’s been on the campus meeting students and getting to know them and the school as a whole.

A new poll bodes well for Senator Bill Cassidy’s re-election bid. Sean Richardson reports.

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And now, a look at today’s commodities.