WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Authorities assessed no “credible threat” to New Orleans’ New Year’s events prior to an attack early on Wednesday that killed at least 15 people, according to a joint Louisiana and New Orleans police threat assessment obtained by Reuters. The document is dated December 2024 and notes there was no credible threat from …
(Reuters) -Ten people were injured in a mass shooting in the New York City borough of Queens late on New Year’s Day, the New York Police Department said in a news briefing early on Thursday. The injured in the incident outside a private events club late on Wednesday evening included six females and four males …
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(Reuters) -Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the 42-year-old Texas man accused of crashing a truck into New Year’s Day revelers in New Orleans, killing 15 and injuring dozens of people, served in the U.S. Army for 13 years including a deployment to Afghanistan, the Army said. Federal officials and local law enforcement in New Orleans said that Jabbar …
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By Maria Alejandra Cardona ATLANTA (Reuters) – Sally Mae Hollis says she isn’t the sole owner of the house in Atlanta she’s lived in for the past 36 years, graciously telling visitors who stop by: “This is Jimmy’s home!” That would be Jimmy Carter, the former U.S. president who in 1988, along with his wife, …
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By Michael Georgy and Tala Ramadan (Reuters) -The radical Islamic State group, which once imposed a reign of terror over millions of people in Syria and Iraq, has been implicated in the New Orleans truck attack that killed 15 people and injured about 30 on New Year’s Day. The suspect, identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, …
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By Brian Thevenot NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) -A U.S. Army veteran flying an ISIS flag from his truck swerved around makeshift barriers and plowed into New Orleans’ crowded French Quarter on New Year’s Day, killing 15 people in an attack officials said may have been carried out with the help of others. The suspect, identified as …
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The Sugar Bowl between Georgia and Notre Dame has been postponed until Thursday following the deadly truck attack in New Orleans’ French Quarter early Wednesday morning, Sugar Bowl CEO Jeff Hundley announced Wednesday afternoon. “We have been in consultation with ESPN, with the College Football Playoff, with the Southeastern Conference, with the University of Georgia, …
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(Reuters) – An earthquake of magnitude 4.7 struck Cobb in northern California on Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. The quake was at a depth of 1.1 Km (0.68 mile), the USGS said. (Reporting by Gursimran Kaur in Bengaluru; Editing by Kim Coghill)
(Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday law enforcement is investigating whether there are any links between a New Orleans truck attack that killed 15 people and the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump Hotel Las Vegas. “We’re tracking the explosion of a Cybertruck outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas,” …
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. military appeals court has ruled that plea deals related to the man accused of masterminding the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and two accomplices can proceed after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had earlier moved to invalidate the agreements. In August, Austin rescinded plea deals that the Pentagon had …
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