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Jimmy Carter ceremonies live updates

People watch as the hearse carrying the flag-draped casket of former President Jimmy Carter departs Phoebe Sumter Medical Center on January 4, 2025 in Americus, Georgia. (Photo by Alex Brandon - Pool/Getty Images)(ATLANTA) -- The emotional, week-long public goodbye to former President Jimmy Carter is underway.Carter's body will be transferred from his hometown of Plains, Georgia, to Atlanta on Saturday morning. A service will be held Saturday afternoon at the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta for the former president, who […]

todayJanuary 4, 2025

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Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion latest: Police look for clues in suspect’s writings

Police shared this photo of Matthew Livelsberger during a press conference. (LAS VEGAS) -- Police are poring over what they believe are letters left by Matthew Livelsberger -- the driver of the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded on New Year's Day outside the Trump International Las Vegas Hotel -- on a phone in the destroyed vehicle, authorities said Friday.Livelsberger shared personal and political "grievances" in the recovered messages and called the attack a "wake up call," police said."I know everyone is […]

todayJanuary 4, 2025

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Menendez brothers latest: DA has ‘productive’ meeting with family but hasn’t yet made decision

In these booking photos taken Oct. 10, 2024, Erik and Lyle Menendez are shown. Via CRDC.(LOS ANGELES) -- The Los Angeles County district attorney met with the Menendez brothers' relatives on Friday, but said he is still reviewing the facts in the case and hasn't yet decided if he's in support of the brothers' bid for freedom.LA County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said that when he came into office on Dec. 3, he promised to review all the facts in […]

todayJanuary 4, 2025

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George Santos seeks sentencing delay in federal fraud case

Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Disgraced former Congressman George Santos asked a judge on Friday to delay his sentencing in his federal fraud case.Santos is currently scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 7 in Central Islip, New York, after pleading guilty to federal fraud, campaign finance and embezzlement charges.His attorneys asked the judge to postpone the sentencing by six months, until August, to give Santos more time to make money so he can meet the nearly $600,000 he owes […]

todayJanuary 3, 2025

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Judge in Trump’s hush money case expected to sentence him to ‘unconditional discharge’

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images, FILE(NEW YORK) -- The judge in Donald Trump's New York criminal hush money case indicated Friday that he intends to sentence the president-elect to an "unconditional discharge" out of respect for the presidential immunity doctrine.Judge Juan Merchan ordered Trump to appear, either in person or virtually, for sentencing on Jan. 10, which is 10 days before Trump's presidential inauguration.Merchan, in his ruling Friday, called an unconditional discharge the "most viable solution to ensure finality and allow Defendant to pursue […]

todayJanuary 3, 2025

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New Orleans attack survivor details horrific moments on Bourbon Street

Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty ImagesA deadly car-ramming attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans left 14 people deadand 35 others injured early on New Year's Day, authorities said.The suspect, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, drove a pickup truck onto a sidewalk and around a parked police car serving as a barricade to plow into pedestrians over a three-block stretch of the iconic street, according to police.Jabbar exited the vehicle armed with an assault rifle and opened fire on police officers, law enforcement said. […]

todayJanuary 3, 2025

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New Orleans officials were warned in 2019 that Bourbon Street was vulnerable to car-ramming attack

Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images(NEW ORLEANS,  La) -- New Orleans city leaders were warned in a 2019 confidential physical security assessment that tourist-packed Bourbon Street was vulnerable to a vehicle-ramming attack because some of the existing blockade mechanisms were inoperable.The warning proved painfully real five years later on New Year’s Day when a Texas man, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, drove through pedestrians on Bourbon Street, killing 14 people and injuring dozens of others in a truck-ramming and gunfire attack. Jabbar, who had proclaiming his support for ISIS, […]

todayJanuary 3, 2025

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Postal worker killed in Harlem deli after ‘verbal dispute,’ say police

WABC(NEW YORK) -- An on-duty United States Postal Service (USPS) worker was stabbed and killed inside of a deli in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City on Thursday afternoon after a "verbal dispute," according to the New York Police Department (NYPD).Officers responded to the deli at 168 Lenox Avenue and found the victim, whom they identified as 36-year-old Ray Hodges, with multiple stab wounds to his stomach, torso, arms, back and neck.Hodges was taken to a local hospital and […]

todayJanuary 3, 2025

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Jimmy Carter’s funeral attractive target ‘for violent extremists to attack’: Security assessment

Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter is an attractive target "for violent extremists to attack," especially after the vehicle ramming in New Orleans that killed 14 people, though there are no known threats to the funeral, according to a new security assessment obtained by ABC News."State funerals are considered no-notice events that significantly reduce planning timelines for potential hostile actors," the document said. "However, state funerals still present attractive targets due to the […]

todayJanuary 3, 2025

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