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Today — 5 January 2025Main stream

How Hybrid Tactics Targeted NATO Allies in 2024: Drones, Exploding Parcels, Sabotage

4 January 2025 at 19:12
Russia and other hostile states have become increasingly brazen in adopting “gray zone” attacks against Europe and the United States, leaving defense officials with a dilemma: How to respond?

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Ramstein Air Base in Germany, one of the biggest U.S. posts in Europe, where mysterious drones appeared in what analysts suspected may have been a state-sponsored surveillance mission.
Yesterday — 4 January 2025Main stream

New Orleans Attacker Had Transmitter to Set Off Explosives, F.B.I. Says

Bomb-making materials were found at a short-term rental house, and the authorities said they had recovered a transmitter intended to set off explosives on the city’s famous Bourbon Street.

© Emily Kask for The New York Times

F.B.I. agents searched a short-term rental house where Shamsud-Din Jabbar had stayed.

Soldier Who Blew Up Cybertruck in Las Vegas Wrote U.S. Is Headed for ‘Collapse,’ Police Say

The police shared notes from a phone used by Master Sgt. Matthew Livelsberger, who fatally shot himself inside a Cybertruck outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas.

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Police officers working the scene near the Trump International Hotel and Tower Las Vegas after a Tesla Cybertruck exploded on Wednesday.
Before yesterdayMain stream

New Orleans Attacker Most Likely Acted Alone, Officials Say

They also said they did not see a “definitive link” between the attack and an explosion at a Trump hotel in Las Vegas, but cautioned that it’s too early to be sure.

© Edmund D. Fountain for The New York Times

New Orleans hosted the Sugar Bowl, a college football game, at the Superdome a day after it was postponed because of the attack on the French Quarter.

Soldier’s Bomb in Cybertruck Explosion at Trump Hotel Could Have Been More Lethal

3 January 2025 at 09:26
Fellow soldiers say the Army sergeant who set off the explosion could have done far more harm. Investigators are trying to figure out why he didn’t.

© Sam Morris/Las Vegas Review-Journal, via Associated Press

Clark County Fire Department crews outside Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas after an explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck in the valet area.

Motive in Las Vegas Cybertruck Explosion Is Still Unclear as New Details Emerge

Officials said they used data from Tesla charging stations to chart the driver’s dayslong journey from Colorado to the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas.

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Sheriff Kevin McMahill of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said Thursday that the Tesla driver died by suicide, with a bombing afterward.

F.B.I. Offers New Details on Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Suspect, Seeking Tips

Four years later, the largest lingering mystery of the Capitol riot remains unsolved.

© Jason Andrew for The New York Times

Four years later, the F.B.I. released new details of the investigation to the pipe bomb suspect the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.

How Suicide Drones Changed the Front Lines in Ukraine in the War With Russia

Outnumbered and desperate, the nation began hacking cheap consumer drones with explosives — bringing a brutal new form of violence to 21st-century warfare.

© David Guttenfelder for The New York Times

Deadly New Orleans Attack on Bourbon Street: What We Know

1 January 2025 at 23:12
A man drove a pickup truck into crowds celebrating the New Year on Bourbon Street in the early morning, killing at least 10 people and injuring dozens.

© Gerald Herbert/Associated Press

Emergency services officials on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans on Wednesday morning, hours after a man drove a pickup truck into crowds celebrating New Years there and then opened fire.
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