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☆ Grieving New Orleans gathers in prayer and healing after New Year's Day attack
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-04 | by ( Deon J. Hampton | Deon J. Hampton Is A National Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

NEW ORLEANS — Kim Alexander sat in the middle of the half-filled sanctuary as music and prayer filled the room. Hundreds of New Orleanians gathered at the City of Love Church on Saturday morning to seek solace and understanding in the wake of the attack. The mood at the morning prayer service oscillated between grief and determination. “The city is hurting, but it is also resilient.”Congregants listen to Bishop Lester Love speak at a prayer service on Saturday morning. After the prayer service, Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson said the city will remain vigilant about keeping residents and tourists safe in the months ahead, but she couldn’t rule out another mass killing.

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☆ New Orleans’ terror attack forces a great city yet again to face down a nightmare
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-04 | by ( Michelle Krupa | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

And a street-cleaning crew was poised near the desecrated upper blocks of Bourbon Street to erase the reminders so revelers could return. Eduardo Munoz/Reuters‘I can’t believe it happened’Before Wednesday’s attack, New Orleans had been riding perhaps as high as anyone here could remember. “We don’t want them to win.”Weber had heard the screaming when the attack happened, watched people run, saw a body on the ground. “This city is here to stay.”Flowers lean Thursday against a wall near where people were killed by a man driving a truck in New Orleans. His wife had just told him about the French Quarter attack.

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☆ New Orleans residents brace for salt water intrusion as Biden declares national emergency
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

An aerial view of New Orleans can be seen from a drone above the Mississippi River on April 1, 2023 in New Orleans, La. Ricky Carioti | The Washington Post | Getty ImagesPresident Joe Biden on Wednesday declared a federal emergency for a saltwater intrusion in the Mississippi River, which is threatening New Orleans' water infrastructure. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects that two New Orleans water treatment plants will be affected by the end of October: the Algiers Water Treatment Plant on Oct. 22 and the Carrollton Water Treatment Plant on Oct. 28. Solutions under considerationAt a New Orleans City Council meeting on Wednesday, councilmembers, officials from the SWBNO and from the Department of Homeland Security discussed possible response strategies. Some New Orleanians are wondering why the city is always playing defense, despite the warning signs of saltwater intrusion in years past.

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☆ How can you tell if someone isn’t really into doing you a favor?
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-11 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Every two minutes or so, all over the world, someone asks someone else for a small favor. But what happens in those rare instances when someone declines to do a favor? Even when humans decline a request for a favor, they almost never say the word no out loud. Now, maybe that's true, and if they keep doing it, pretty quickly you won't be that person's friend anymore." "When our responses to crises work well, we're doing things like evoking a specific social identity.

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