Congressional lawmakers are making inquiries into how the FBI and Meta responded to the New Orleans terror attack on New Year's Day, the AP reports. Why it matters: Lawmakers are questioning the whereabouts of the FBI's top agent in New Orleans when the attack occurred,

Shamsud-Din Jabbar posted videos to Facebook before the attack. Newsweek asked experts if the FBI could have stopped him.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Congressional lawmakers demanded answers Wednesday about the FBI’s response to the Jan. 1 truck attack in New Orleans that killed 14 people, questioning why the bureau’s top official in the city was out of town and raising concerns about its initial, erroneous assertion that the rampage was “not a terrorist event.”

The FBI and DHS issued a warning of "possible copycat or retaliatory attacks" similar to the ISIS-inspired New Year's Day terrorist attack.

The man who drove a rented pickup truck into a Bourbon Street crowd in the early hours of New Year’s Day looked into how to access balconies

The FBI on Tuesday said it identified more victims in the truck attack that killed 14 people and injured dozens of others on Bourbon Street, and revealed more details about the suspect.