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President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden visited New Orleans on Monday to honor the victims of the New Year’s Day attack on Bourbon Street. The tragedy, which claimed 14 lives and injured dozens, marked one of the deadliest attacks in the city’s history. The President met privately with …

Law enforcement agencies in the nation’s capital were closely monitoring security Thursday following a terrorist attack in New Orleans and a vehicle explosion outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. The violent incidents took place just ahead of several high-profile events in Washington, D.C., including the swearing-in of the …

President Joe Biden addressed the nation on Wednesday following a devastating terror attack in New Orleans that claimed 15 lives and injured dozens more during New Year’s celebrations. Speaking from Camp David, Biden called the attack “despicable” and offered condolences to the victims and their families. “I want you to …

New Orleans was struck by tragedy early Wednesday when a man drove a pickup truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street during New Year’s celebrations, killing 10 people and injuring more than 30. Authorities have classified the incident as a terrorist attack. The suspect, identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, a …

Karli Winfrey, Verite, Louisiana Illuminator The New Orleans City Council, following the footsteps of other local governments in Cook County, Illinois, and Toledo, Ohio, passed a last-minute line item in early December to the city’s 2023 budget: a $1.3 million expenditure that is earmarked to be used to erase more …

Progressives are sounding the alarm about the lengths to which GOP officials appear willing to go to advance their deeply unpopular and reactionary agenda after Louisiana’s State Bond Commission, at the urging of right-wing Attorney General Jeff Landry, once again denied flood prevention resources to New Orleans due to the …

Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams has ordered a complete review of all cases during the ’90s when Judge Michelle Odinet was a prosecutor. Odinet is on unpaid suspension pending the outcome of more than 100 complaints filed with the Louisiana Judiciary Commission over a video that has drawn national …

On Saturday, a federal appeals court temporarily halted the Biden administration’s vaccine requirement for businesses with 100 or more workers. The Republican attorneys general of Texas, South Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi and Utah, as well as several private companies, filed petitions on Friday challenging the mandate in the U.S. 5th Circuit …