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BEIRUT —  Screams, carnage — and a black banner. The attacker in the deadly New Year’s truck-ramming strike on revelers in New Orleans’ French Quarter had a black Islamic State flag, the FBI says. Law enforcement says it believes the assailant acted alone, killing at least 15 people in what they are investigating as a terrorist…

A driver had rented a Tesla Cybertruck out of Colorado and appeared to arrive in Las Vegas around sunrise on New Year’s Day. Cameras showed the truck in Las Vegas at 7:30 a.m., authorities said. The driver traveled up and down the Strip for about an hour before pulling into the covered driveway outside the…

Will President-elect Donald Trump’s vow to “launch the largest deportation program in American history” truly keep millions of immigrants out of the country? My research on deportees over the last five years suggests it won’t. Here’s why: They’ll come back. One of the migrants I interviewed was deported to a perilous town in northern Mexico,…

While authorities have ruled out additional suspects in an attack in New Orleans, they are continuing to probe any possible links between the incident and the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas. The attacks happened within hours of each other on New Year’s Day. Federal officials said the probe…

Jimmy Carter, a peanut farmer and little-known Georgia governor who became the 39th president of the United States, promising “honest and decent” government to Watergate-weary Americans, and later returned to the world stage as an influential human rights advocate and Nobel Peace Prize winner, has died. He was 100. When his turbulent presidency ended after…

WASHINGTON —  I spent much of 2024 warning readers that a second Trump presidency would do serious damage to American institutions, beginning with democracy and the rule of law. “The former president neither understands nor respects the Constitution,” I wrote. “He would use the powers of the federal government as an instrument of his whims, prosecuting…

A little more than a week before the 136th Tournament of Roses Parade, Bob Mellano was counting flowers and coming up short — 50,000 roses short. Mellano studied his paperwork. A flower wholesaler in downtown Los Angeles, he can spot discrepancies from a distance. The night before, two trucks from Miami had pulled up to…

SACRAMENTO —  Jimmy Carter was the right presidential candidate for his time in 1976 — a smiling, homespun, anti-Washington outsider promising truth and decency. He was a natural populist, but he appealed to voters’ better angels, not their worst natures. He preached love, not hate. That’s how I remember the former governor and peanut farmer from…

The FBI has identified Shamsud-Din Jabbar as the man who drove a truck into a crowd on New Orleans’ Bourbon Street early Wednesday, killing at least 10. Source link

One person was killed and seven others injured after a Cybertruck burst into flames Wednesday morning just outside the glass entrance doors of Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, with police and FBI officials saying the type of vehicle and location of the fire raise many questions. The incident occurred just hours after a driver…