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FBI confirms New Orleans attack was a terrorist incident

FBI confirms New Orleans attack was a terrorist incident

Christopher Raia, the deputy assistant director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, said at a press conference Thursday that the attack, which killed at least 14 people and injured 35 more, was an act of terrorism.


Biden to close federal agencies Jan. 9 for Carter day of mourning

Biden to close federal agencies Jan. 9 for Carter day of mourning

Despite notable accomplishments as president, his time out of the White House may have arguably eclipsed his tenure as chief executive, including decades of humanitarian work leading to the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.


See where and how Biden grew the federal workforce

See where and how Biden grew the federal workforce

Quickly after his election, Jen Psaki, then a transition advisor, said career civil servants were “the heart and soul of government” and it was a priority for Biden to rebuild federal agencies that “wouldn't function without the thousands of people who have served for decades.”


Meloni’s Albanian migrant detention centers are now ghost towns

Meloni’s Albanian migrant detention centers are now ghost towns

“It looked like a ghost town,” Volt Europe co-President Francesca Romana D’Antuono, who visited the detention center in Gjadër in late November and took part in protests against the camp with local activists, told POLITICO.


The biggest battles headed for Brussels

The biggest battles headed for Brussels

The new Agriculture Commissioner Christophe Hansen will find it hard enough to preserve the fragile consensus on farming reforms, which he is supposed to pour into a 100-day “vision” that would seek to placate angry farmers by easing environmental burdens and boosting their incomes.