President Joe Biden will arrive in Lake Charles in the next hour to promote his two-point-three trillion-dollar infrastructure plan. State Transportation Secretary Shawn Wilson says the state has had ongoing infrastructure needs for decades and Biden’s American Jobs Plan provides a solution.
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The President will speak in front of the Calcasieu River Bridge, which is 20 years past its designed lifespan. Mr. Biden will also stop in New Orleans this afternoon to visit the city’s Carrollton Water Plant.

A CDC report shows the U-S birth rate has fallen to its lowest point in more than a century. For women between the ages of 20 and 34, the birth rate has declined at least four percent from 2019 to 2020. LSU Health New Orleans Professor of Maternal-Fetal Medicine Doctor Robert Maupin says this is reflecting a cultural shift among young women…
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Birth rates for women in their late 30s and 40s have increased slightly.

With no debate, the Senate overwhelmingly agrees to advance Senator Beth Mizell’s bill to ban transgender athletes from competing in girls’ sports. Brooke Thorington has more.
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The Louisiana House approves legislation that would allow individuals over the age of 21 to carry a concealed handgun without a permit. The Senate has approved similar legislation, but Governor John Bel Edwards likes that handgun owners have to receive training to get a permit to conceal carry and could veto the legislation once it reaches his desk.