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NEW, ORLEANS, ATTACK, TERROR
is a senior correspondent at Vox covering foreign policy and world news with a focus on the future of international conflict. He is the author of the 2018 book, Invisible Countries: Journeys to the Edge of Nationhood , an exploration of border conflicts, unrecognized
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TRUMP, SPEAKER, HOUSE, JOHNSON
President-elect Trump announced several appointments to his administration Thursday, including the team that will work with his nominee for the U.S. Treasury, Scott Bessent.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump announced that Ken Kies will serve as assistant secretary
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NEW, CYBERTRUCK, VEGAS, LAS
Morning news brief FBI investigates New Orleans attack as terrorism, and bomb techs probe suspect's Texas home. Firework mortars and camp fuel canisters found in Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside Las Vegas hotel.
National Morning news brief FBI investigates
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CYBERTRUCK, EXPLOSION, VEGAS, LAS
As we reported, Matthew Livelsberger has now been identified as the suspect in the Tesla Cybertruck explosion at the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas. Perhaps most concerning was the facts that seemed to overlap with the suspect of the Bourbon Street terrorist attack
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NEW, ORLEANS, ATTACK, SUSPECT
A Texas man who expressed support for the Islamic State before he drove into a crowd in New Orleans on New Year’s Day, killing 14 people, appears to have acted alone, an F.B.I. official said on Thursday, as the city reopened Bourbon Street after the attack
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BIDEN, LIZ, CHENEY, AWARD
President Joe Biden will award Liz Cheney and 19 others the Presidential Citizens Medal for purportedly performing “exemplary deeds of service for their country or fellow Americans,” the Washington Post reported Thursday.
The award comes while former Rep.
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CALIFORNIA, PLANE, SMALL, CRASH
The injuries range from minor to severe, according to police.
1 dead, 15 hurt after small plane crashes into building in Southern California
Police in Southern California say one person is dead and 15 others are hurt after a small plane crashed into a building
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PIPE, NEW, SUSPECT, FBI
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FBI offers $500,000 reward
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Unclear if bombs were linked to Capitol riot
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Suspect wore distinctive Nike sneakers
By Andrew Goudsward
WASHINGTON, Jan 2 (Reuters) - The FBI on Thursday released new surveillance video in a bid to reinvigorate its four-year-old
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CARVILLE, STUPID, ECONOMY, JAMES
Democrat strategist James Carville admitted that he was “wrong about the 2024 election” in a New York Times op-ed, stating that President-elect Donald Trump beat Vice President Kamala Harris by “putting the economic anger of Americans front and center.”
Carville,
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SHOOTING, 10, OUTSIDE, INJURED
Ten people were wounded in a shooting outside a New York City nightclub while they were waiting to get into a private event, police said.
About 15 people were standing outside Amazura nightclub at 11:15 p.m. Wednesday in Jamaica, Queens, when four men on foot
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PRESIDENT, SOUTH, ARREST, YOON
South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol has sent a letter rallying his supporters saying he would "fight until the end" as he faces an attempt by authorities to arrest him over his short-lived Dec. 3 martial law, a lawyer said on Thursday.
"I am watching
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FOX, KASH, NEWS, POLITICS
President-elect Donald Trump's allies are excoriating the FBI for its initial characterization of the brutal car attack in New Orleans as not terror-related, before the nation’s top federal law enforcement agency backtracked and launched a terrorism investigation
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RULES, NEUTRALITY, NET, FCC
A federal appeals court on Thursday dealt a blow to President Biden’s Federal Communications Commission, striking down the agency’s hard-fought and long-debated open internet rules.
The FCC had sought to reinstate a sweeping policy established under President
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BIDEN, WATERS, DRILLING, PERMANENTLY
President Joe Biden is expected to use a provision in a 1953 law to permanently ban new offshore drilling for oil and natural gas in large sections of the Atlantic and Pacific, as well as other federal waters, in a way that would make it difficult for the incoming
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1B, TRUMP, DONALD, TESLA
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a growing vested financial interest in the federal government continuing the highly controversial H-1B visa program that imports foreign workers – mostly from India – to take white-collar American jobs, new data reveals.
For weeks,
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SHOOTING, MONTENEGRO, KILLS, 12
Shock and dismay prevails in Montenegro after a gunman fatally shot 12 people including two children in a western town before killing himself
Montenegro mourns after gunman kills at least 12 people before shooting himself
CETINJE, Montenegro -- Shock and
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FALL, UNEMPLOYMENT, CLAIMS, LOWEST
The number of Americans applying for unemployment checks dropped last week to the lowest level since March, suggesting that suggest most U.S. workers continue to enjoy unusually high job security.
Jobless claims dropped by 9,000 to 211,000 last week, the Labor
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TRUMP, SLOUCHES, BUSINESS, YEAR
Near-Term Optimism Is Rising—Especially Among Republicans
Americans are strolling into the new year with a bit more spring in their steps, thanks to the imminent return of Donald Trump to the White House and the long-awaited end of the Biden-Harris era.
The
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STEEL, BIDEN, BROKEN, CFIUS
The Biden administration’s handling of the proposed sale of United States Steel Corp. is yet another example of how the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has been hijacked for political gain by creating a secretive, unaccountable
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DRONES, CHINESE, CONSIDERS, WEIGHS
The U.S. Commerce Department said Thursday it is considering new rules that would impose restrictions on Chinese drones that would restrict or ban them in the United States citing national security concerns.
The department said it was seeking public comments
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CODES, HIGH, RESTAURANTS, END
Dress codes for high-end restaurants may not be as strict as you think they are Many restaurants -- even the high-end ones -- are ditching dress codes for diners.
National Dress codes for high-end restaurants may not be as strict as you think they are Dess
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COMBAT, CHINESE, PATROL, REPORTS
China seems determined to establish a new Cold War in the Pacific. In their latest provocation, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Southern Theater Command is pushing both sea and air patrols near the contested territory in the South China Sea known as the
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