Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW ORLEANS) — The suspect in the truck attack that killed 14 and injured dozens in New Orleans on New Year’s had traveled to Egypt in 2023 for about a month, his half-brother told ABC News. Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old Army veteran and U.S.-born citizen from Texas, […]
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — The judge in Donald Trump’s New York criminal hush money case indicated Friday that he intends to sentence the president-elect to an “unconditional discharge” out of respect for the presidential immunity doctrine. Judge Juan Merchan ordered Trump to appear, either in person or virtually, for […]
Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images (NEW ORLEANS, La) — New Orleans city leaders were warned in a 2019 confidential physical security assessment that tourist-packed Bourbon Street was vulnerable to a vehicle-ramming attack because some of the existing blockade mechanisms were inoperable. The warning proved painfully real five years later on New Year’s […]
WABC (NEW YORK) — An on-duty United States Postal Service (USPS) worker was stabbed and killed inside of a deli in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City on Thursday afternoon after a “verbal dispute,” according to the New York Police Department (NYPD). Officers responded to the deli at 168 […]
Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW ORLEANS) — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will head to New Orleans on Monday to meet with the families and community members impacted by the devastating truck attack that killed 14 and injured dozens, the White House said. Biden said Friday that […]
Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter is an attractive target “for violent extremists to attack,” especially after the vehicle ramming in New Orleans that killed 14 people, though there are no known threats to the funeral, according to a new security assessment […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — As a deep winter chill begins to take over the northern half of the country, a new major winter storm will move across the U.S. this weekend into early next week. The storm kicks off on Saturday as a mix of rain, snow and ice develops over […]
Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW ORLEANS) — The FBI and Department of Homeland Security issued a joint intelligence bulletin warning the nation’s 18,000 law-enforcement agencies about potential copycats seeking to emulate the devastating New Year’s ramming and shooting attack in New Orleans, ABC News has learned. The bulletin was sent […]
Smoke rises from a roof after a small plane crash in Fullerton, Calif., on Jan. 2, 2025. Via KABC (LOS ANGELES) — Authorities in Southern California say two people are dead and 19 others were hurt after a small plane crashed into an furniture warehouse just minutes after taking off […]
Image from the NTSB investigation of the Jan. 5 accident involving Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 on a Boeing 737-9 MAX. Captured on Jan. 7. Via NTSB Flickr (NEW YORK) — One year after a door plug blew off an Alaska Airlines jet, Boeing said it is “on track with progress […]
