New Orleans, U.S. – The suspect responsible for the New Year’s Day truck attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans acted alone, the FBI confirmed Thursday, following a detailed update on the investigation. The attack, which claimed the lives of 14 people and injured dozens of others, was described as a “premeditated and evil act”…
California, U.S. – The death toll from a small plane crash in Fullerton, California, has risen to two, with 18 others injured, the Fullerton Police Department confirmed. The crash occurred near Fullerton Municipal Airport on Thursday, when the plane struck a building, sparking a fire. Authorities reported that emergency responders rushed to the scene shortly…
Amsterdam, Netherlands – A malaria vaccine being developed by the Gates Foundation-backed Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands is drawing growing concern due to its innovative and controversial use of genetically modified mosquitoes as “flying syringes” to deliver live-attenuated Plasmodium falciparum parasites to humans. While the initiative aims to combat malaria, questions are being…
New Orleans, U.S. – Two violent incidents rocked the United States on New Year’s Day, with a former US Army veteran driving a pickup truck into a crowd in New Orleans and engaging in a deadly firefight with police, while an active-duty Green Beret died in an explosion involving a Tesla Cybertruck near a Trump…
Texas, U.S. – Private school choice advocates are gearing up for a pivotal moment in 2025, with Texas poised to become the last major Republican stronghold to embrace their movement. If successful, the victory in Texas would mark a significant milestone for school choice advocates, but it also presents a formidable new challenge: expanding their…
Photojournalist Ted Soqui’s visual recap of the year in Los Angeles. The climate dominated most of what I decided to photograph in 2024. People are always my favorite subjects, and they make the best images. The power of protest was another subject I photographed, often to the point of exhausting the batteries in my cameras. This…
He should do this on his first day in office if he’s serious about implementing his foreign policy agenda. New York Times contributor Rajan Menon wrote in a mid-December op-ed that Trump is unlikely to agree to give Ukraine the security guarantees that Zelensky is demanding in temporary lieu of NATO membership. He’s apparently unaware that Trump…
South Carolina, U.S. – Brandon Council who had his death sentence commuted by President Biden is now demanding he be released from prison. Converseer reports that Council was sentenced to death after killing two bank employees in 2017. Council says he is the victim of “psychological harm” and is demanding a “compassionate release.” “The petitioner’s…
California, U.S. – California Justice Department officials are investigating the death of Jeremy Sanchez, a 26-year-old man fatally shot by his parole officer during a Christmas Eve visit at his Fresno home, authorities confirmed Friday. According to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), a “physical altercation” occurred between Sanchez and the parole officer,…
Washington, U.S. – BioNTech (22UAy.DE), the German biotech firm that developed a COVID-19 vaccine in partnership with Pfizer (PFE.N), has resolved royalty disputes with the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). The company announced two separate settlement agreements totalling $1.26 billion to address allegations of underpaid royalties related to…
