NEW ORLEANS — Bourbon Street reopened on Thursday to a light crowd as tourists and locals veered away from the world-famous destination after an attacker plowed through crowds of revealers, killing more than a dozen people on New Year’s Day. A heavy law enforcement presence could be seen as gatherers from near and far made their...
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean authorities moved Friday to carry out an unprecedented arrest warrant for President Yoon Suk Yeol over his botched attempt to declare martial law, in a dramatic standoff at the presidential residence where Yoon has been staying since being impeached last month. Police arriving at the presidential residence in central...
NEW ORLEANS — Enthusiastic Georgia and Notre Dame fans filed into the Superdome on Thursday to watch the Fighting Irish’s 23-10 Sugar Bowl win without any fear of the terrorism that had struck just blocks away. The odd Thursday afternoon stage was dominated by No. 7 Notre Dame’s stout defense, which was too much for No....
Almost four years after two pipe bombs were placed near the headquarters of the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee in Washington, D.C., the FBI says it is renewing its efforts to track down a suspect by releasing new video of the individual placing one of the bombs near the DNC. The FBI, which still...
President Joe Biden awarded Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who served as chair and vice chair of the now-defunct House Jan. 6 committee, with the Presidential Citizens Medal during a ceremony at the White House on Thursday. The medal is the second-highest civilian award in the United States, behind only...
New Orleans had access to effective anti-vehicle barriers ahead of the Bourbon Street attack on New Year’s Eve revelers that killed at least 14 people and wounded dozens more, but the city did not deploy those barriers until a day after the carnage unfolded, and the head of the local police department said she had...
An online car rental service is under scrutiny after it was used in two incidents Wednesday. The platform, Turo, is known as an “Airbnb of cars,” as it allows individual car owners to rent out their vehicles. Vehicle owners, known as “hosts,” can post cars to Turo’s website, where people can then rent them, with...
NEW ORLEANS — Jeremi Sensky was returning to his hotel after meeting friends in the early hours on New Year’s Day when he heard a “massive noise” — the last thing he remembers before ending up facedown on the ground with his wheelchair smashed around him. Sensky survived the fatal terror attack on Bourbon Street...
President-elect Donald Trump and his allies in Congress have blamed the deadly New Orleans truck attack on President Joe Biden’s border policies even though the attacker was a U.S. citizen. “When I said that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country, that statement was constantly refuted by...
New year, same old real estate market: The high mortgage rates, scarce inventory and dismal affordability that have plagued housing look set to linger into 2025. There were some signs of improvement late last year. Pending home sales rose for four months in a row through November, boosting hopes that the two-year deep freeze in...