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The FBI says it recovered the stark black flag of the Islamic State extremist group from the truck that an American man from Texas smashed into New Year’s partygoers in New Orleans’ French Quarter.

Officials have not yet released the names of the 15 people killed in the New Orleans New Year’s Day truck attack, but their families and friends have started sharing their stories.

Experts predict that babies born in 2025 and later will grow up deeply integrated with AI. Many will live to see the 22nd century.

Security barriers in New Orleans that were intended to protect pedestrians from vehicles but at times malfunctioned were removed for replacement before an attacker drove a pickup truck into a crowd along Bourbon Street Wednesday morning, killing at least 10 people and injuring dozens more.

Authorities say one person died and seven more people were injured when a Tesla truck caught fire and exploded outside the lobby of President-elect Donald Trump’s hotel in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day.

The Sugar Bowl College Football Playoff game, set to take place on New Year’s Day, has been postponed after a deadly attack in New Orleans left at least 10 people dead and dozens more injured.

Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, served in the Army on active duty from 2006 to 2015 and was deployed to Afghanistan in 2009, according to three U.S. defense officials.

Authorities say three people died and another 20 were injured in a New Year’s Eve fireworks explosion in a Honolulu-area neighborhood.

The prosecutors wrote that this is believed to be “the largest seizure by number of finished explosive devices in FBI history” and said the defendant is being held on a firearms charge with the chance of receiving more explosives charges.

Drag yourself out of bed and treat yourself to a meal at one of these eateries that will be open on the first day of 2025.

The attack occurred around 3:15 a.m. Wednesday along Bourbon Street, with crowds in the city ballooning in anticipation for the Sugar Bowl between Georgia and Notre Dame.

President-elect Donald Trump says he’s planning to attend the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter.

Harry Chandler, a Navy medic who helped pull injured sailors from the oily waters of Pearl Harbor after the 1941 Japanese attack on the naval base, has died. He was 103.