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New Orleans terror suspect Shamsud Din Jabbar said he originally planned to target his family and friends instead of strangers but did not because he feared the headlines would not focus on the “war between the believers and the disbelievers,” FBI Deputy Assistant Director Christopher Raia of the Counterterrorism Division revealed during a press conference Thursday morning.

Thursday on “CNN Newsroom,” host Jim Acosta claimed President-elect Donald Trump accuses others of spreading fake news while he is “peddling fake news.”

The suspect in Wednesday’s Tesla Cybertruck explosion and the suspect in the New Orleans attack reportedly served at the same military base. 

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department expressed gratitude towards Tesla CEO Elon Musk for his help in the investigation of the Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside the Trump International Hotel on New Year’s Day.

Just how fragile is the modern world? More than most years, 2024 has seen a surge of headlines about the things that make civilisation work.

During MSNBC’s coverage of the terrorist attack in New Orleans on Wednesday, Senior Vice President for Global Operations at The Soufan Group Christopher O’Leary, who was Director of Hostage Rescue and Recovery during the Biden administration and worked in counterterror positions across

President Joe Biden confirmed that the New Orleans terror suspect, who drove a pickup truck through a crowd of people on Bourbon Street, had been “inspired by ISIS.”

Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said Wednesday on CNN’s “The Lead” that the terror attack on Bourbon Street that killed 14 and injured 35 on New Year’s Day was not “just an attack on New Orleans, it was an attack on America herself.”

Elon Musk responded to the Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The Army confirmed on Wednesday that New Orleans terrorist suspect Shamsud-Din Jabbar served in the Army and Army Reserve until 2020.

Authorities in Las Vegas are investigating the New Year’s Day Tesla Cybertruck explosion at the Trump International Hotel as a “possible act of terror,” ABC News has confirmed.

The Tesla Cybertruck explosion in front of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas has led to one death and seven injuries, officials said.

A fire that broke out at an Airbnb may be connected to the attack in New Orleans, according to Nola.com.

Authorities are working to “bring those who may have been part of this incident to justice,” Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) said.

“The issue is the human heart,” Franklin Graham said following the heartbreaking scene that unfolded on New Orleans’ iconic Bourbon Street.

The suspect accused of plowing a vehicle through a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans is named Shamsud Din Jabbar, according to a law enforcement source, Nola.com reports.

President Joe Biden confirmed in a statement Wednesday that the FBI is investigating the fatal attack in New Orleans on New Year’s Day as an act of terrorism.

Wednesday on “CNN’s “Newsroom” host Pamela Brown was visibly shaken by Jimmy Cothran’s firsthand account of the attack on New Year’s Eve on New Orleans’ Bourbon Street.

The Russian operator of a cargo ship that sank in the Mediterranean Sea between Spain and Algeria said Thursday that it had been hit by a series of explosions in an act of sabotage.

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, urged Syrians on Sunday to rise up against the insurgents who toppled Tehran’s puppet dictator, Bashar Assad. Khamenei claimed the rebel assault that ended five decades of rule by the Assad dynasty was organized and directed by the United States and Israel.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan is urging governments to rescind their terrorist designations of Syrian insurgents Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.

A group of U.S. diplomatic officials met on Friday with the rebels who toppled Bashar Assad, awkwardly seeking to open channels with an insurgency whose leaders are designated terrorists. 

Luigi Mangione has been charged with murder as an act of terrorism after prosecutors upgraded the complaint against him in New York on Tuesday. A grand jury indicted Mangione on 11 counts, including first-degree murder and murder as a crime

Colombian activist Josías Fiesco filed a legal complaint against the nation’s far-left President Gustavo Petro on Monday over Petro’s repeated use of the Marxist M19 guerrilla terrorist organization’s flag in official government events.

U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking said on Thursday that leaders of the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen have decided to keep lower profiles following the devastation of Iran’s other regional proxies, Hezbollah and Hamas, at the hands of Israel, followed by the overthrow of Iran’s client Bashar Assad in Syria by a Sunni Islamist insurgency.

Hundreds of Iran-backed Shiite militia fighters from Iraq have reportedly crossed the border into Syria to help dictator Bashar Assad battle a surprise offensive from Islamist insurgents in Aleppo.

The National Post of Canada, citing statistics from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), noted on Friday that 87 percent of individuals identified as “terror suspects” trying to enter America through a land border came from Canada.

The government of Chad announced on Thursday it has canceled its military cooperation pact with France, its former colonial ruler.

One of America’s most wanted terror suspects has been tracked down and arrested in rural Wales some 21 years after a double bombing attack in San Francisco.

Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu says the U.S. should pay for the reconstruction of Afghanistan.

The Taliban jihadist organization governing Afghanistan applauded itself on Monday for its “achievements” in women’s rights, claiming to prevent child marriages and punish domestic abusers.

The Ministry of the Interior for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced three arrests on Monday in connection with the disappearance and death of Rabbi Zvi Kogan of Abu Dhabi.

Canadian police are disrupting a growing number of Islamic State terrorist plots in major cities, a resurgence driven by ISIS recruiting young Canadians to its ranks.

A man killed himself with an explosive device outside of Brazil’s Supreme Federal Tribunal’s (STF) on Wednesday evening in what Brazilian police have described as a suicide attack.

Teenagers arrested in connection with last month’s explosions near the Israeli Embassy in Copenhagen faced preliminary charges of terror.

The Jerusalem Post on Monday reported a Lebanese professor of sociology named Dr. Hassan Diab, convicted by a French court of involvement in a 1980 bombing that killed four people at a synagogue in Paris, is teaching a course on “social justice in action” at Carleton University in Ottawa.