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Yesterday — 7 January 2025Main stream

President Biden Meets With Families of New Orleans Attack Victims

President Biden and the first lady joined a city already exhausted by disaster to remember the victims of a Jan. 1 terror attack on Bourbon Street.

© Pete Marovich for The New York Times

President Joe Biden and the first lady, Jill Biden, placed flowers at a memorial on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on Monday.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Biden Visits New Orleans Monday to Mourn With Grieving Families

Mr. Biden’s trip to New Orleans, his latest as “consoler in chief,” joins a lengthy history of presidential visits to a city that has seen more than its share of tragedies and disasters.

© Jim Bourg for The New York Times

President Biden returned to the White House last week from a holiday trip to the Virgin Islands, Delaware and Camp David.

New Orleans Attacker Visited City Twice and Made Trips to Egypt and Canada

6 January 2025 at 09:56
Shamsud-Din Jabbar visited New Orleans twice, and traveled to Egypt and Canada, before a burst of violence early on New Year’s Day that killed 14 people.

© Emily Kask for The New York Times

A makeshift memorial on Canal Street for those who were killed in the attack on Bourbon Street on Jan. 1 in New Orleans.

How the Islamic State Radicalizes People Today

4 January 2025 at 13:01
A man who pledged allegiance to the terrorist group carried out a deadly attack in New Orleans on New Year’s Day.

© Edmund D. Fountain for The New York Times

The F.B.I. said the man who killed 14 people when he drove into a crowd in New Orleans on New Year’s Day was “100 percent inspired by ISIS.”

Tracing the New Orleans Attacker’s Secret Radicalization

Recordings and interviews detail Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s growing discontent with American society and increasing isolation even within his local Muslim community.

© Emily Kask for The New York Times

People grieved at a memorial on the corner of Bourbon and Canal Streets in New Orleans on Thursday.

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.
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