President Joe Biden is set to visit New Orleans on Monday as the investigation in the New Year’s Day attack continues. More turmoil in South Korea as Yoon Suk Yeol’s chief of security will not cooperate with a warrant for the former president’s arrest. Protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu grow more intense as a deal to end the war and bring the hostages home looks promising. Political prisoners released in Myanmar; plus, a look at the effort to make the U.S. government smaller and more efficient.

The suspect in the New Year’s Day terror attack that killed 14 people in New Orleans was inspired by the Islamic State terror group and appears to have acted alone, the FBI said Thursday. In Africa, a nearly 500-kilogram piece of debris fell from space into rural Kenya and post-election turmoil continues in Chad. A look at the 119th U.S. Congress that begins its session on Friday. Plus, a look back at press freedom in the U.S. in 2024.

10 people were killed and dozens more injured early on New Year’s morning when a man with an ISIS flag in his vehicle plowed into a crowd of revelers in New Orleans. The pipeline from Russia to Europe that goes through Ukraine has been closed – starving Moscow of cash and EU countries from much-needed natural gas. A look at president-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Education, and the latest from Seoul on the recent plane crash.

A South Korean court approved an arrest warrant for former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol for imposing martial law on the country. A look at the new regional politics of the Middle East following the fall of the Assad regime in Syria. The U.S. president-elect's pick for U.S. attorney general and winter in Ukraine. Plus, Jimmy Carter, remembered by his fellow Americans.

The life and legacy of Jimmy Carter, as remembered by a friend. An update from South Korea on Sunday’s plane crash and a look at President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state, Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, who is a well-known China critic. What changes might Donald Trump bring to America’s gun laws? Plus, women in Pakistan are gaining their freedom on two wheels.

Former President Jimmy Carter has died at 100. A look at the life and legacy of the 39th President of the United States. A passenger jet skid off the runway in Muan, South Korea, crashing into a concrete barrier and bursting into flames. President-elect Donald Trump’s energy policy contradictions and violence in Georgia as a new president is sworn in. Plus, the political crisis in Mozambique is beginning to affect its neighbors.

Hamas says that Israeli airstrikes in Gaza killed 5 journalists, Israel says the men were Islamic Jihad militants disguised as members of the press. Separately, another Israeli airstrike hit the airport in Sanaa, Yemen, following missile launches by Houthis. Some experts say the plane crash in Kazakhstan was caused by Russian anti-aircraft weapons. Nigerian authorities in northwest Sokoto State have launched a probe into a Christmas Day airstrike by the military that killed at least 10 people. Taiwan is caught between growing Chinese aggression and uncertainties surrounding U.S.-Taiwan relations. Plus, a look at the man Donald Trump would like to see lead the FBI.

Dozens feared dead after a plane crash in rural Kazakhstan. Kyiv residents spent Christmas morning in bomb shelters amid Russian airstrikes. A new report says that media freedoms in Zambia are under attack. As he prepares to take office in less than a month, President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to reassert U.S. control over the Panama Canal, and he renewed calls to buy Greenland from Denmark. Plus, a new kind of high-tech agriculture in South Africa.

Christians in Israel celebrate a more somber and subdued Christmas this year. Ukrainians mark Christmas as well with prayers for peace, and the Vatican was filled with excitement on Christmas Eve as the faithful gathered to witness Pope Francis inaugurate the Holy Year by unlocking the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica. Syrian refugees in Europe are worried about their future following the fall of Bashar al-Assad. The incoming Trump administration inherits efforts by the U.S. space agency, NASA, to return astronauts to the surface of the moon. Plus, a Christmas barnacle in Spain faces an uncertain future amid climate change.

Israel has taken over a buffer zone on its border with Syria. The ethics report on former Florida Representative Matt Gaetz reveals that he paid tens of thousands of dollars to women for drugs and sex. The Kenyan interior ministry has established a special security team to deal with the growing violence against women and girls. A look at what President-elect Donald Trump should expect from North Korea in his second term, and a look back on the year between India and China. Plus, President Joe Biden granted clemency to 37 federal death row inmates.