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12:40 PM ET, January 1, 2025

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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.
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Tucker Reals / CBS News:
Man intentionally slams truck into crowd in New Orleans, killing 10 and injuring dozens; suspect dead  —  Ten people were killed and dozens injured early Wednesday when a man intentionally drove a pickup truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans' French Quarter as revelers were celebrating the new year, officials said.
Victoria Bisset / Washington Post:
Live updates 10 killed in New Orleans as driver plows truck into crowd  —  Ten people were killed and dozens injured when a man intentionally drove a pickup truck into a large crowd in the Bourbon Street area of New Orleans early Wednesday, officials said.  The FBI said that the driver is dead …
Harry Howard / WWL-TV:
10 Dead, 35 injured after driver targets Bourbon Street crowd  —  Suspect killed after driving truck into crowd; FBI confirms terrorism investigation.  —  NEW ORLEANS — The FBI has taken over the investigation into a mass casualty incident on Bourbon Street, now being treated as an act of terrorism.
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.
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.
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
John Roberts attacks court criticism that he decides lacks a “credible basis” as “illegitimate”  —  Conflating violence against judges with broad criticism the court faces for its extremism, the chief justice ultimately sends a chilling end-of-year report.  —  Chief Justice John Roberts decided …
Discussion: Rolling Stone and Raw Story
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Chief Justice Roberts Condemns Threats to Judicial Independence  —  In his year-end report on the federal judiciary, the chief justice decried violence, intimidation and disinformation and warned against defiance of court rulings.  —  Judicial independence is under grave threat on several fronts …
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Chief Justice John Roberts defends judiciary from ‘illegitimate’ attacks
Discussion: New York Times, Politico and Raw Story
BBC:
Elon Musk changes his name to Kekius Maximus on X  —  The world's richest man, Elon Musk, has sparked speculation after changing his name on his social media platform X to “Kekius Maximus”.  —  The tech mogul - and close confidant of US President-Elect Donald Trump - offered no immediate explanation …
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
‘Trump is a little guy, Musk is a big guy’: historian predicts trouble for president-elect  —  Timothy Snyder says world's richest man is likely to exert uncomfortable influence over White House  —  Allies and aides to Donald Trump should be increasingly concerned by Elon Musk's proximity …
Discussion: Raw Story
Amethyst Martinez / The Daily Beast:
Stars Flee Jeff Bezos' Paper for Steve Jobs' Widow's Mag  —  OUT WITH THE OLD...  The Washington Post is taking more blows after losing 200,000 subscribers when its owner stopped it endorsing Kamala Harris.  —  SHOP WITH SCOUTED  —  J.Crew's Semi-Secret Factory Sale Is Not to Be Missed
New York Times:
Ukraine Forces a Halt to Flow of Natural Gas From Russia to Europe  —  A transnational pipeline was shut down on Wednesday after Kyiv refused to renew an agreement that allowed for the transit of Russian gas through its territory.  —  The flow of natural gas through a major pipeline from Russia …
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Joe Gallinaro / d2076:
Louisiana Congressman Mike Johnson expects to be re-elected as House Speaker after Trump's endorsement  —  Baton Rouge / louisianaradionetwork.com  —  Louisiana Republican Congressman Mike Johnson says President-elect Donald Trump's endorsement of him for House Speaker was supposed to come …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Says He Plans to Attend Carter's Funeral
Discussion: Bloomberg and Washington Examiner
Lisa Kashinsky / Politico:
Chris Sununu still believes the GOP is bigger than Donald Trump  —  The four-term New Hampshire governor discusses the state of the Republican Party and his future plans as he leaves office.  —  Donald Trump remade the GOP in his image.  Chris Sununu doesn't think it'll stick.
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Raw Story
Eugene Daniels / Politico:
5 storylines to watch in 2025  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  TRAGEDY IN NEW ORLEANS — “10 killed, dozens injured on Bourbon Street in New Orleans as car plows into crowd,” by the Times-Picayune's Ben Myers: “Ten people were killed …
Discussion: Washington Post and Breitbart
Paul Krugman / Krugman wonks out:
The Plot to Poison Children's Minds  —  Social media should be treated like alcohol.  But money got in the way.  —  This is going to be a post about social media, why it's often harmful, and the disgusting failure of Congress to do anything to mitigate the harm.
Discussion: daveverse and Scripting News
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
The President Trump Is Pushing Aside  —  Only one historic site bears the name of America's 22nd and 24th president—and it's no Monticello.  —  The Grover Cleveland Presidential Library and Museum occupies a one-story building in Caldwell, New Jersey, behind the house where its namesake spent the first few years of his life.
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
F.B.I. Says It Found Largest Cache of Homemade Explosives in Its History at Va. Farm  —  Investigators discovered more than 150 devices, mostly pipe bombs, on a property outside Norfolk, court papers say.  —  A Virginia man was arrested this month with what federal prosecutors described …
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