The Supreme Court said on Friday that it would take up a challenge to a part of the Affordable Care Act that requires insurance companies to cover some kinds of preventative care at no cost. The law, President Barack Obama’s signature legislative achievement, has survived three major earlier encounters with the court. The new challenge … Read more
The most famous street in New Orleans, lined with iron lace balconies and typically packed with tourists spilling from bars and jazz clubs, transformed into a crime scene on Jan. 1 when a man drove a pickup truck into crowds celebrating the dawn of the new year. By Monday, a stretch of Bourbon Street had … Read more
President Biden will travel to New Orleans on Monday to meet with local and state officials, the families of victims and others affected by the deadly Jan. 1 terror attack in the city, according to the White House. Mr. Biden’s visit will be one of his final acts as the nation’s “consoler in chief.” He … Read more
The driver in the deadly Jan. 1 ramming attack in New Orleans visited the city twice in the months before he armed himself with guns and explosives and plowed a rented truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street, investigators said on Sunday. In one visit in October, he cruised through the city’s French Quarter wearing … Read more
At various points along Bourbon Street, people had left flowers, candles, stuffed animals and what appeared to be a tamale wrapped in foil. On the bustling corner of Bourbon and Canal Streets, the outside wall of a Walgreens was covered in handwritten messages: “We will neva forget.” “Terror didn’t win.” Once again, Bourbon Street was … Read more
The Islamic State has lost thousands of fighters to death or prison and suffered the demise of its self-declared caliphate in Iraq and Syria. But the global reach of the group, also known as ISIS, is still vast, in part because of its sophisticated media output and the people around the world who consume it. … Read more
The man who plowed a pickup truck down a crowded New Orleans street early on New Year’s Day, killing 14 people, had planned to use a transmitter to detonate two explosives he had placed near the site of the attack, the F.B.I. said on Friday. The suspect, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who the authorities have said was … Read more
Things had been looking up for Elliot Wilkinson, a 40-year-old man who was among the 14 people killed in New Orleans this week in what federal authorities were investigating as a terrorist attack. Mr. Wilkinson had been released from prison and was homeless, but he had started searching for an apartment, according to a local … Read more
Notes left by the Green Beret who blew up a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump International Hotel this week in Las Vegas suggested he had taken his own life as a “wake-up call” to the country, the authorities said on Friday. A phone belonging to the soldier, Master Sgt. Matthew Alan Livelsberger, contained notes that … Read more
Notes left by the Green Beret who blew up a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump International Hotel this week in Las Vegas suggested he had taken his own life as a “wake-up call” to the country, the authorities said on Friday. A phone belonging to the soldier, Master Sgt. Matthew Alan Livelsberger, contained notes that … Read more