The steel bollards meant to keep vehicles off Bourbon Street were not in the ground on New Year’s Eve. New Orleans officials say the aging system was being replaced ahead of the Super Bowl — and the attacker drove around a police car on the sidewalk instead.

El Salvador recorded 114 homicides in 2024, a rate of 1.9 per 100,000 people, its attorney general’s office announced Wednesday — a stunning drop for a country that a decade ago had the world’s highest murder rate outside a war zone.

The New Year’s Day truck rampage in New Orleans was the deadliest vehicle attack in U.S. history, and it followed a pattern security experts have warned about for a decade: a rented vehicle, a crowded street and a target that cannot be fully hardened.

A gunman killed at least 10 people, including two children, in a shooting rampage in Cetinje, Montenegro, on New Year’s Day and remained at large as police sealed off the town.