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New Orleans Attack, Suspect's Texas Home, Las Vegas Truck Explosion
Thu, 02 Jan 2025
The FBI investigates a New Orleans attack that killed 15 as an "act of terrorism." Bomb techs join the probe at the suspect's Texas home. Law enforcers seek possible connections to a Las Vegas truck explosion.For more comprehensive analysis of the most important news of the day, plus a little fun? Subscribe to the Up First newsletter.Today's episode of Up First was edited by Susanna Capelouto, Gigi Douban, Jan Johnson, and Alice Woelfle. It was produced by Kaity Kline, Ben Abrams and Julie Depenbrock. We get engineering support from Neisha Heinis. And our technical director is Stacey Abbott.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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Investigators are looking for answers in New Orleans and Las Vegas.
On the Gulf Coast, they identified an attacker who was a veteran from Texas. In Nevada, the question is what made a Tesla Cybertruck explode outside a Trump Hotel.
I'm Leila Fadil, that's Stephen Skiba, and this is Up First from NPR News.
What do police know about the suspect in the attack that killed 15 people on Bourbon Street? The ISIS flag was found in his vehicle. President Biden also said he was inspired by ISIS. So what's that mean? FBI investigators include counterterrorism experts and bomb techs.
And the explosion outside the Vegas hotel involves two big brand names connected by politics.
It's a Tesla truck and we know that Elon Musk is working with President-elect Trump and it's the Trump Tower.
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