6:30 LRN Newscast

With just a week left in the redistricting session, can lawmakers resolve differences on the question of a second majority-black congressional district? Kevin Gallagher reports…:
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Much of Louisiana is disappointed with the outcome of yesterday’s Super Bowl as the Rams scored a late touchdown to beat Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20. But Louisiana natives Andrew Whitworth and Odell Beckham Junior are Super Bowl champs. That could have been the final game for the 40-year-old Whitworth.

The Louisiana Army National Guard has commissioned its first Black female pilot. Warrant Officer Tatiana Julien, a New Orleans native, had no idea that she was the first to accomplish the feat.
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Julien says she decided to become a pilot while deployed to the Middle East from 2017 to 2018. There was a Black pilot from New Orleans in her unit.

LSU Health New Orleans is seeking 200 recently diagnosed COVID patients, who are not vaccinated, for a clinical trial that will help determine if liquid aspirin can reduce hospitalization rates. Associate Professor of Surgery at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, Doctor Frank Lau, says ideally the participants would live in metro New Orleans…
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