The FBI identified the perpetrator in the New Year's Day attack in New Orleans as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old Texas man.
Zoom in: New Orleans police fatally shot Jabbar on Bourbon Street in the moments after the attack after he stepped out of his truck and opened fire. He was pronounced dead at the scene, investigators said.
The attack killed 14 people and injured about 35 others. Read their stories.
The man accused of a deadly New Year's Day attack on Bourbon Street visited New Orleans at least twice before and recorded video of the famous street using Meta glasses, the FBI said Sunday.
The big picture:Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old Houston resident accused of plowing a truck into the crowd, also visited Tampa, Egypt and Canada, officials revealed Sunday.
Melania Trump will be the subject of an Amazon Prime Video documentary, an Amazon spokesperson said Sunday.
The big picture: The movie, called an "unprecedented, behind-the-scenes look" into Trump's life, began filming last month and is currently scheduled for a 2025 release, the spokesperson said in a statement.
In the wake of the New Year's Day attack that killed over a dozen people in New Orleans, officials are reckoning with how they protect against — and track — enemies within U.S. borders.
Meanwhile, a new congressional class faces a snowy start to its session and a sweeping agenda from the incoming president.
Here's what you may have missed when newsmakers hit the airwaves this Sunday, January 5.
New Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said in an interview aired Sunday that he's willing to tell President-elect Trump if he thinks he's wrong.
The big picture: Trump has a storied history of rockyrelationships with some Congressional leaders, and there is precedent for how the tone between the president-elect and Hill leaders has soured when Congress hasn't acted as Trump wished.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) said she does not "know of" any Democrats who plan to object to the certification of President-elect Trump's election victory Monday.
Why it matters: Not only will the day stir up memories of the 2020 election certification, but it will also see Vice President Kamala Harriscertify her loss to a man she repeatedly characterized as a threat to American democracy.
President-elect Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) plan to push for what could wind up as the biggest bill in American history — a mega-MAGA reordering of taxes, the nation's borders, federal spending and regulations, transition and Hill sources tell Axios.Â
Why it matters: Washington will soon witness a furious, multitrillion-dollar legislative and lobbying fight that likely will dominate politics through late spring and possibly beyond.
Texas, Florida and Iowa are home to some of America's fastest-growing large counties, per an Axios analysis of the latest census data.
Why it matters: This zoomed-in view offers a close look at population change within individual states — for instance, there's huge growth around Texas' major cities, but many of its rural counties are shrinking.
President Biden is being pressured to grant a posthumous pardon for Marcus Garvey — a Black nationalist who was influential to Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela and later generations of Black Panther Party activists.
Why it matters: The Jamaican-born Garvey was convicted of mail fraud on June 21, 1923, in a case that supporters have long said was politically motivated and aimed at discrediting his growing popularity among Black Americans amid lynchings and racial violence.
President Biden named former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, actor Denzel Washington, billionaire George Soros and Bono, lead singer of the rock band U2, among 19 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Saturday.
Why it matters: The award is the nation's highest civilian honor.
Six days of funeral services for former President Jimmy Carter, who died at home Sunday at 100 years old, began on Saturday with a procession in Georgia.
The big picture: Carter is the country's longest-living former president and the first to reach 100 years old.
The big picture: The victims include locals, tourists, parents, students and people who were just trying to enjoy a celebratory night in the French Quarter.
The outgoing Biden administration has pointed to its investments in U.S. manufacturing as signature economic achievements. One big question now is how much of that the new Trump administration will change or scrap.
As it happens, an 11-month-old paper offers a preview.
Why it matters: The man tapped to be President-elect Trump's top White House economist published a detailed critique of President Biden's industrial policies last February. It offers a sense of the strategies for reindustrializing the U.S. economy sought by those with the president-elect's ear.
A new film looks into the growing trend of Native American tribes disenrolling members, which victims call "cultural genocide" but tribes say is necessary to weed out non-Indigenous people from its records.
Why it matters: Around 11,000 tribal members from 80 tribes have been kicked out of Native American nations over the last 15 years amid growth in casinos and intratribal fighting.
Investigators now believe the suspect accused in the New Orleans terror attack that killed 14 people and injured 35 others acted alone.
The latest: New Orleans coroner Dwight McKenna on Friday released the names of the majority of the victims who were killed. Go deeper.
The FBI said it has identified 35 people who were injured as Friday night, but the agency expects the number to rise in the coming days as more victims seek medical attention.
