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8:55 PM ET, January 1, 2025

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Gabriella Killett / NOLA.com:
New Orleans attack suspect named, accused of killing at least 10, injuring dozens  —  The suspect accused of plowing a truck through a crowd on Bourbon Street early Wednesday morning has been identified by a law enforcement source as 42-year-old Shamsud Din Jabbar.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation:
FBI Statement on the Attack in New Orleans  —  Today, at approximately 3:15 a.m. CST, an individual drove a pickup truck into a crowd of people on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing at least 10 and injuring dozens of others.  After hitting the crowd, he exited the vehicle and fired upon local law enforcement.
ABC News:
New Orleans updates: 10 dead in ‘terrorist attack’ with pickup in New Orleans, local officials say  —  The driver remained at large after the Bourbon Street incident, police said.  —  Emergency vehicles are seen near Bourbon Street in New Orleans on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025.
Associated Press:
Driver rams New Year's revelers in New Orleans, killing 10.  FBI investigating as ‘act of terrorism’  —  A driver wrought carnage on New Orleans' famed French Quarter early on New Year's Day, ramming a pickup truck into a crowd and killing 10 people before being shot to death by police, authorities said.
Alexandra Hutzler / ABC News:
Biden, Trump respond to deadly New Year's Day attack in New Orleans
Tucker Reals / CBS News:
Man intentionally slams truck into crowd in New Orleans, killing 10 and injuring dozens; suspect dead
Victoria Bisset / Washington Post:
Live updates 10 killed in New Orleans as driver plows truck into crowd
Fox News:
Suspect identified after driver kills ten, injures dozens in Bourbon Street truck attack
Chris Pandolfo / Fox News:
Suspect identified as FBI investigates act of terrorism after Bourbon Street attack
ABC News:
Police treating vehicle explosion at Trump Las Vegas hotel as possible act of terror: Official  —  Police are also probing the Cybertruck incident as a possible criminal act.  —  General views of the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas on April 15, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Ty O'Neil / Associated Press:
1 person dies when Tesla truck catches fire and explodes outside Trump's Las Vegas hotel  —  One person died and seven others were injured Wednesday when a Tesla Cybertruck that appeared to be carrying fireworks caught fire and exploded outside President-elect Donald Trump's Las Vegas hotel, authorities said.
CNN:
Fireworks, gas tanks and camping fuel used in Tesla cybertruck explosion outside Las Vegas Trump Hotel  —  Authorities believe fireworks, gas tanks and camping fuel were connected to a detonation system controlled by the driver in the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside a Trump Hotel in Las Vegas Wednesday morning.
New York Times:
1 Dead After a Cybertruck Explodes Outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas  —  At least seven people were injured, the authorities said.  The authorities said they believed it to be “an isolated incident” but have not ruled out a connection to the attack in New Orleans.
Katie Daviscourt / The Post Millennial:
BREAKING: Cybertruck blows up outside Trump International Hotel Las Vegas
NBC News:
Tesla Cybertruck bursts into flames outside Trump hotel in Las Vegas, killing one
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Falsely Suggested New Orleans Suspect Was an Immigrant  —  The president-elect said on social media that he was right about fearing criminals on the other side of the border.  Officials later identified the suspect as a U.S.-born citizen and Army veteran.
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Trump uses New Orleans attack to rant about ‘Democrats and the Fake News Media’  —  Hours after a man drove an F-150 truck through barriers in New Orleans' Bourbon Street district killing at least ten revelers and injuring at three dozen, Donald Trump weighed in on Truth Social.
Discussion: Mediaite and The Post Millennial
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Johnson protected, diversity office scrapped in new House rules … - Instead of any single House Republican being able to force such a vote, now the motion will have to have eight additional GOP co-sponsors.  — The change is the result of a deal struck between House Republican factions …
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Mike Johnson faces “growing number” of threats to his gavel
Andrew Perez / Rolling Stone:
John Roberts Absurdly Suggests the Supreme Court Has No ‘Political Bias’  —  The chief justice bashed “public officials” who criticize judges for their partisan rulings “without a credible basis for such allegations”  —  In his first term as president, Donald Trump built a conservative 6-3 supermajority on the Supreme Court.
Discussion: CNN, Politico and ABC News
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Chief Justice Roberts Condemns Threats to Judicial Independence
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
John Roberts attacks court criticism that he decides lacks a “credible basis” as “illegitimate”
Discussion: Raw Story and NBC News
Jason Linkins / New Republic:
Enshittification Comes to Washington  —  My experiences with private-sector package delivery are, to put it mildly, not the best.  As I write this, I'm watching and fretting over a package that is supposed to be delivered to my apartment by FedEx, which only occasionally manages to locate …
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump to hold DC rally day before inauguration  —  President-elect Trump will hold a rally in Washington the day before he is set to be inaugurated for a second term.  —  The president-elect will hold what is being dubbed a “victory rally” at Capital One Arena on Jan. 19 …
Discussion: CBS News, Washington Examiner and WUSA
Michelle L. Price / Associated Press:
Trump says he is planning to attend Jimmy Carter's funeral  —  President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that he's planning to attend the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter.  Asked about it as he walked into a New Year's Eve party at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, Trump responded, “I'll be there.”
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New York Times:
Suspect in New Orleans Attack Is Identified as a Texan and Had an ISIS Flag With Him
Irie Sentner / Politico:
Pro-Palestinian activists lambasted Biden and Harris. Trump will be an even bigger dilemma.
Discussion: Raw Story
Chelsea Robinson / WDSU-TV:
Sugar Bowl postponed until Thursday due to terror attack in French Quarter, sources say
Robert McCoy / New Republic:
Trump Voters Are in for a Rude Awakening
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo and Raw Story
Paul Krugman / Krugman wonks out:
The Plot to Poison Children's Minds
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 Earlier Items: 
Lisa Kashinsky / Politico:
Chris Sununu still believes the GOP is bigger than Donald Trump
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Examiner
New York Times:
Ukraine Halts the Flow of Natural Gas From Russia to Europe
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
The President Trump Is Pushing Aside
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
‘Trump is a little guy, Musk is a big guy’: historian predicts trouble for president-elect
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Apple offers Apple TV+ for free to anyone with an Apple ID this weekend, the first time it has offered such a promotion

Trishla Ostwal / Adweek:
Memo: Sameer Singh, TikTok's general manager for North America's ads team, is leaving the company at the end of February, as the company faces a ban in the US

Stephen Morris / Financial Times:
An interview with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan on rolling out AI tools without upsetting creators, and more; YouTube has paid $70B to partners in the past three years

 
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