Hours before he drove into the Bourbon Street crowd, the New Orleans attacker posted videos declaring he was inspired by the Islamic State group and wanted to kill, President Joe Biden told Americans on Wednesday night, citing the FBI’s briefing.
The Sugar Bowl playoff quarterfinal between Georgia and Notre Dame, scheduled for Wednesday night at the Superdome a mile from the Bourbon Street attack, has been postponed 24 hours so security can be swept and reinforced.
Texas blew a 16-point fourth-quarter lead, missed two field goals that would have won it, then saved its season on fourth-and-13 in overtime. The Longhorns beat Arizona State 39-31 in double overtime in one of the great playoff games.
Hundreds of Koreans adopted overseas as children are discovering their adoption files were falsified — listed as orphans when their parents were alive, or swapped for other babies. A truth commission in Seoul is now picking through six decades of records.
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.
Weeks after Assad’s fall, Syrians gathered in Douma to demand justice for Razan Zaitouneh and three colleagues, abducted in 2013 and never seen since — one of the revolution’s defining mysteries.
Nearly a month’s rain fell in two days across North West England, breaching a canal, cutting power to thousands and sending rescue boats into a flooded Didsbury hotel on New Year’s Day.
