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New Orleans terrorist, man in Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion shared more links in attacks just hours apart
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New Orleans terrorist, man in Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion shared more links in attacks just hours apart

By Michael Ruiz  | Fox News The Texas man who plowed a rented pickup truck into New Year's revelers on New Orleans' Bourbon Street Wednesday, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, and the man eyed in the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas hours later, Matthew Livelsberger, were both Army soldiers who served at Fort Liberty and deployed to Aghanistan in 2009, according to authorities. A defense official, however, told Fox News that there was no evidence based on their military service that the attacks were related. While both men served at Fort Liberty, formerly known as Fort Bragg, they were there at different times. The North Carolina base is currently home to more than 50,000 service members.  Authorities continued to release new informati...
Search ongoing for Bourbon Street ‘people of interest’ as state AG vows death penalty
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Search ongoing for Bourbon Street ‘people of interest’ as state AG vows death penalty

By Anders Hagstrom | Fox News Authorities are still searching for potential accomplices to Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who drove a truck into a New Orleans crowd before being killed in a shootout with police on Wednesday. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill told Fox News that there is evidence that Jabbar worked alongside accomplices to coordinate the attack, although she and other officials have declined to offer specifics. Jabbar's attack killed at least 15 people and wounded dozens of others. "In Louisiana, we have the death penalty, and we will carry it out!" Murrill wrote on X. Jabbar had posted videos to social media prior to his attack expressing allegiance to the Islamic State. The FBI's investigation has now spread across multiple states, though the number of...
The truck used in New Year’s attack crossed the border into the U.S. days ago
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The truck used in New Year’s attack crossed the border into the U.S. days ago

By Chris Pandolfo , Anders Hagstrom  | Fox News At least 10 people are dead and dozens injured after a driver plowed a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year's revelers in New Orleans on Wednesday, days after the vehicle was spotted crossing the U.S.-Mexico border into Texas. The driver, a male, reportedly jumped out of the vehicle and opened fire on police after hitting the crowd. The brief shootout ended with the suspect dead at the scene, authorities confirmed. Police say 35 people have been transported to five hospitals across the city after suffering injuries from the attack. Fox News has learned that the truck used in the attack had a Texas license plate, and that it was tracked crossing the southern border into the U.S. at Eagle Pass, Texas, two days prior to the a...
10 dead, dozens injured in New Orleans after driver plowed car into New Year’s crowd on Bourbon Street
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10 dead, dozens injured in New Orleans after driver plowed car into New Year’s crowd on Bourbon Street

By Chris Pandolfo | Fox News The suspect who allegedly drove into a joyous crowd at a New Year's celebration in New Orleans, Louisiana, killing at least 10 people and injuring dozens, has been identified as Shamsud Din Jabbar by the FBI. Jabbar—who died at the scene of the attack—was a U.S.-born citizen who lived in Texas, FBI Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge Alethea Duncan said at a Wednesday afternoon press conference. The FBI also revealed that Jabbar was an Army veteran. "What I can tell you, the person was an Army veteran," Duncan said. "We believe he was [an] honorable discharge. But we're working through this process to figure out all this information." READ THE FULL STORY AND CONTINUING COVERAGE AT FOX NEWS
Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States, dead at 100
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Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States, dead at 100

By Fox News Staff , Andrea Margolis | Fox News Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States and a former peanut farmer whose vision of a "competent and compassionate" government propelled him into the White House, died on Sunday, according to local media. He was 100. The news was announced by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Sunday. Carter's death follows the passing of his wife Rosalynn on Nov. 19, 2023 at the age of 96 with her family by her side at the Carter home in Plains, Georgia, just days after she had been admitted to hospice care.  The late former president himself had entered hospice care in February 2023. Carter survived for years after he had a "small mass" removed from his liver in early August 2015 and later that month announced he ha...
Trump has Christmas message to ‘Radical Left Lunatics,’ tells inmates Biden granted clemency to ‘GO TO HELL!’
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Trump has Christmas message to ‘Radical Left Lunatics,’ tells inmates Biden granted clemency to ‘GO TO HELL!’

By Alex Nitzberg  | Fox News President-elect Trump dished out a fiery Christmas message on Wednesday in which he wished a "Merry Christmas" to "Radical Left Lunatics," told the 37 prisoners whose death row sentences were recently commuted by President Biden to "GO TO HELL!" and more. "Merry Christmas to the Radical Left Lunatics, who are constantly trying to obstruct our Court System and our Elections, and are always going after the Great Citizens and Patriots of the United States but, in particular, their Political Opponent, ME. They know that their only chance of survival is getting pardons from a man who has absolutely no idea what he is doing," Trump declared on Truth Social. "Also, to the 37 most violent criminals, who killed, raped, and plundered like virtually no ...
Biden commutes sentences of 37 federal death row inmates in final month of presidency
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Biden commutes sentences of 37 federal death row inmates in final month of presidency

By Elizabeth Pritchett  | Fox News President Biden is commuting the sentences of nearly all the inmates on federal death row, a move that comes not even two weeks after he went through with the "largest single-day grant of clemency" in American history, the White House announced Monday. Of the 40 inmates on federal death row, according to DeathPenaltyInfo.org, Biden is commuting 37 men sentenced to death, reclassifying their sentences to life without the possibility of parole. The three inmates not included are: Robert Bowers, who is responsible for the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018, which left 11 people dead; Dylann Roof, a White supremacist who killed nine Black parishioners at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015; and Dzhokhar Tsa...
Filmmaker politicizes his upcoming ‘Superman’ movie: ‘That is our country’
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Filmmaker politicizes his upcoming ‘Superman’ movie: ‘That is our country’

By Gabriel Hays  | Fox News Filmmaker James Gunn says the battered-looking version of Superman seen in the trailer for his highly anticipated "Superman" film represents America. During a recent Q&A session at the trailer’s premiere, the director acknowledged the political implications present in the film, saying there is a theme of a bruised and bloodied America running through it. "We do have a battered Superman in the beginning. That is our country," Gunn said at the event. READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX NEWS
2025 showdown: This Republican woman may become nation’s first Black female governor
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2025 showdown: This Republican woman may become nation’s first Black female governor

By Paul Steinhauser  | Fox News Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears of Virginia could make history next year as the nation's first Black woman to win election as a governor. She would also make history as Virginia's first female governor. But Sears, in an exclusive national interview with Fox News Digital, emphasized that "I'm not really running to make history. I'm just trying to, as I've said before, leave it better than I found it, and I want everyone to have the same opportunities I had." READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX NEWS
House passes stopgap funding bill with just hours until government shutdown
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House passes stopgap funding bill with just hours until government shutdown

By Elizabeth Elkind , Aubrie Spady , Breanne Deppisch  | Fox News The House has passed a bill to avert a partial government shutdown on Friday, hours before the midnight federal funding deadline.  Lawmakers were scrambling for a path forward after an initial bill was tanked by President-elect Trump and his allies on Wednesday, and a later bill approved by Trump failed on the House floor Thursday. But Trump has stayed noticeably silent on this latest measure – which many House Republicans saw as a tacit sign of approval. READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX NEWS