The man who carried out a deadly New Year’s Day attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans purchased a firearm in Arlington, Texas, just weeks before the tragedy, authorities revealed on Sunday. Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old U.S. citizen from Houston, drove a truck into a crowded street, killing 14 people and injuring more than 30…… MORE
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The man responsible for the truck attack in New Orleans on New Year’s Day that killed 14 people visited the city twice before and recorded video of the French Quarter with hands-free glasses, an FBI official said Sunday. Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. citizen from Houston, also traveled to Cairo, Egypt, as…… MORE
PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Jimmy Carter’s long public goodbye has begun in Georgia, where the 39th U.S. president’s life started more than 100 years ago. A motorcade Saturday with Carter’s flag-draped casket began at the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus and passed through his hometown of Plains and family farm. Former Secret Service agents…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mike Johnson was reelected as House speaker on a single vote. But there’s a difficult year ahead. Johnson faces many of the same demands from hard-line conservatives that led to the ouster of his predecessor as speaker, Kevin McCarthy. But the stakes are far higher now as Republicans try to deliver on…… MORE
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Law enforcement officials say the man who rammed a truck into a New Year’s crowd had suspected bomb-making materials at his home and reserved the rental vehicle used in the attack weeks earlier. Officials told The Associated Press that Shamsud-Din Jabbar purchased a cooler and gun oil before the attack. They…… MORE