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Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill ordered on Monday an investigation into safety and security deficiencies in New Orleans, where an Army veteran sped around a police blockade and raced down Bourbon Street, killing 14 New Year's revelers.
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President Joe Biden met with grieving families and visited a makeshift memorial in New Orleans as he visits the city after the deadly New Year’s attack.
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President Joe Biden is moving to ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in most U.S. coastal waters, an effort to block possible action by the incoming Trump administration to expand offshore drilling.
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The Senate passed legislation early Saturday to boost Social Security payments for millions of people, pushing a longtime priority for former public employees through Congress in one of its last acts for the year.
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A proposed Biden-administration regulation change could bar the state from using federal dollars for child-protective investigations, controversial crisis pregnancy centers, and reduce the amount to pre-K.
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President Joe Biden visited Tulane University on Tuesday and announced $150 million in federal funding for eight cancer research teams across the country.
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The order will create a new task force on reproductive health care and to coordinate additional steps to help people access abortions.
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Federal agencies FEMA and HUD are rebuilding an Obama administration program that redirected disaster survivors to apartments rather than trailers. The policy was reversed by the Trump administration and is now being reinstated by the Biden administration.
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President Biden said that while restrictions imposed on travelers from several nations in southern Africa would slow the variant's entry, the U.S. will eventually see cases.
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Hours before signing his landmark infrastructure bill into law, President Joe Biden announced that former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu will lead a White House task force to oversee the $1.2 trillion spending plan.