The president and first lady Jill Biden are scheduled on Monday to first travel to New Orleans, where they will meet with “families and community members impacted” by the New Year’s terror attack on Bourbon Street that left 15 people dead and dozens more injured,

Tribes, federal, state and local officials, conservation groups and the public supported protecting 600,000-plus acres of fragile desert forever. Biden will do so before leaving office.

The Chuckwalla and Sáttítla national monuments would safeguard landscapes that Native American tribes have revered for thousands of years.