(Reuters) -College football’s annual Sugar Bowl in New Orleans on Thursday featured heightened security, a moment of silence and chants of “USA”, one day after a truck attack killed at least 14 people less than a mile from the stadium. A Notre Dame player carried an American flag as his team took the field to …
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By Jonathan Landay and Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As investigators learn more about the man who pledged allegiance to Islamic State and killed 14 people with a truck on New Year’s Day in New Orleans, a key question remains: How did a veteran and one-time employee of a major corporation become radicalized? FBI Deputy …
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By Andrea Shalal and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former Representative Liz Cheney, who bucked her Republican Party to strongly criticize President-elect Donald Trump and some of his allies, was one of 20 people awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal, one of the country’s highest civilian honors, by President Joe Biden on Thursday. The medal is given …
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By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI on Thursday released new surveillance video in a bid to reinvigorate its four-year-old hunt for a suspect who placed pipe bombs in Washington the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol. The previously unreleased footage from Jan. 5, 2021, showed an individual putting …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Pennsylvania man who previously served in the U.S. Army was indicted by a grand jury on charges of attempting to support Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and of making false statements to the FBI, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday. Jack Danaher Molloy, 24, was a dual citizen …
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By Costas Pitas (Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will take office on Jan. 20 after defeating Democratic candidate Kamala Harris in November’s presidential election. Here is a timeline of events between now and Inauguration Day: 2025 Jan. 6: Harris presides over the Electoral College vote count at a joint session of Congress, announces the results …
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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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