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The New Orleans truck attack “was an act of terrorism,” Christopher Raia, deputy assistant director of the FBI's Counterterrorism Division, said at a news conference on Thursday. He said the suspect had no known accomplices and that no definitive link between the New Orleans attack and the Las Vegas attack has yet been found. Meanwhile, the FBI confirmed that 14 people, not 15, were killed in the terror attack.

Ten people were injured in a shooting outside a New York City nightclub late on New Year's Day, according to NYPD Chief Philip Rivera. The injured include six women and four men, all of whom are expected to recover, Rivera said.

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), a strong critic of President-elect Donald Trump and several of his allies, will be one of the 20 people awarded by President Joe Biden on Thursday with the Presidential Citizens Medal, one of the country's highest civilian honors.

The FBI said that the suspect who drove a truck into a large crowd in New Orleans' French Quarter early on Wednesday has been confirmed dead. At least 10 people were killed and 26 injured in the incident.

Ukraine has halted Russian gas supplies to European customers through its pipeline network after a prewar transit deal expired at the end of 2024.

Sydney welcomed 2025 with the city’s biggest-ever fireworks display, which featured a golden waterfall effect falling from the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge.

A blackout hit nearly all of Puerto Rico early on Tuesday as the U.S. territory prepared to celebrate New Year’s Eve, leaving more than 1.3 million customers in the dark. Officials said it could take up to two days to restore power.

Jan. 9, 2025, will be a national day of mourning for former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. The White House issued this proclamation following Carter's death on Sunday. President Joe Biden called on the American people to gather in places of worship on Jan. 9 to honor Carter.

A federal appeals court has upheld a $5 million verdict that E. Jean Carroll won against President-elect Donald Trump. Trump's lawyers argued the verdict should be thrown out because the trial judge should not have let jurors hear testimony from two other women who had accused Trump of sexual misconduct.

The families of the passengers killed in South Korea's Jeju Air crash are hoping the remains of their loved ones can be identified soon as investigators race to determine the cause of one of the worst aviation disasters in the country’s history.

The man accused of burning a woman to death inside a New York City subway train has been indicted on state charges, a prosecutor said on Friday, as authorities continue working to confirm the victim's identity.

Azerbaijan Airlines said on Friday that preliminary results have shown that its plane that crashed in Kazakhstan on Christmas Day experienced "external physical and technical interference."

From a U.S. presidential election that the nominees said was the most significant of our lifetime, to shifting last-minute candidates, to assassination attempts and trials, to a backdrop of dynamic and volatile international events and conflicts and natural disasters here at home, NTD takes a look at the year that was.

Fourteen members of the Syrian police were killed in an "ambush" by forces loyal to the ousted Assad regime in the Tartous countryside, the transitional administration said early on Thursday. Elsewhere, demonstrations and an overnight curfew marked the most widespread unrest since Bashar al-Assad's removal more than two weeks ago.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated Miami-Dade County Commissioner Kevin Marino Cabrera to serve as ambassador to Panama.

A passenger jet crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, with many feared dead. The Azerbaijan Airlines flight went off course and officials did not immediately explain why, but the crash came shortly after drone strikes hit southern Russia.

Top world leaders, including President Joe Biden, Pope Francis, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskyy shared their uplifting Christmas messages.

Biden signed 50 bills into law on Tuesday that include making the bald eagle the country's official bird and one that stops members of Congress from collecting their pensions if convicted of crimes.

American Airlines on Tuesday lifted an hour-long ground stop of all its flights in the United States due to an unspecified technical issue, a notice on the U.S. aviation regulator's website showed.

A U.S. NGO said that they believe the American journalist missing in Syria, Austin Tice, “is alive and we know that as a fact.” Meanwhile, protests broke out in the Christian community of the Syrian capital Damascus after a Christmas tree was set on fire in another town.

A U.S. judge on Monday delayed a trial for the suspect in the second assassination attempt of President-elect Donald Trump until September 2025, according to a court order.

Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally gunning down UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson on a Manhattan street, pleaded not guilty on Monday to state murder charges that describe him as a terrorist.

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) filed a lawsuit against the House Ethics Committee on Monday. The Committee subsequently released a report on its investigation into his alleged sexual misconduct and illegal drug use.

President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences for 37 out of the 40 federal inmates on death row, commuting them to life in prison without parole before he hands over power to President-elect Donald Trump in January.

The Congress was scrambling to avert a partial government shutdown on Friday, hours after more than three dozen Republicans rejected a demand by President-elect Donald Trump to use the measure to lift the nation's debt ceiling.

The White House is abandoning its plan to cancel student loans for more than 38 million Americans. This is the Biden administration's first step in scrapping pending regulations and unfinished rules across several agencies in its final days.

U.S. Central Command said that U.S. forces killed ISIS leader Abu Yusif. This happened in a precision airstrike on Thursday.