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(NEW YORK) -- Disgraced former Congressman George Santos asked a judge on Friday to delay his sentencing in his federal fraud case.Santos is currently scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 7 in Central Islip, New York, after pleading guilty to federal fraud, campaign finance and embezzlement charges.His attorneys asked the judge to postpone the sentencing by six months, until August, to give Santos more time to make money so he […]

A deadly car-ramming attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans left 14 people deadand 35 others injured early on New Year's Day, authorities said.The suspect, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, drove a pickup truck onto a sidewalk and around a parked police car serving as a barricade to plow into pedestrians over a three-block stretch of the iconic street, according to police.Jabbar exited the vehicle armed with an assault rifle and opened fire […]

(LAS VEGAS) -- Matthew Livelsberger -- the driver of the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded on New Year's Day outside the Trump International Las Vegas Hotel -- shared personal and political "grievances" in two letters found on a phone in the vehicle and called the attack a "wake up call," authorities said Friday.Livelsberger, an active-duty Army soldier, said the country was being led by the "weak" and those out to "enrich […]

(NEW ORLEANS) -- The suspect in the truck attack that killed 14 and injured dozens in New Orleans on New Year's had traveled to Egypt in 2023 for about a month, his half-brother told ABC News.Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old Army veteran and U.S.-born citizen from Texas, went to Egypt alone and told his family he was going "because it was cheap and beautiful," his half-brother, 24-year-old Abdur Jabbar, said.Shamsud-Din Jabbar's foreign travel […]

(NEW YORK) -- The judge in Donald Trump's New York criminal hush money case indicated Friday that he intends to sentence the president-elect to an "unconditional discharge" out of respect for the presidential immunity doctrine.Judge Juan Merchan ordered Trump to appear, either in person or virtually, for sentencing on Jan. 10, which is 10 days before Trump's presidential inauguration.Merchan, in his ruling Friday, called an unconditional discharge the "most viable solution to […]

(NEW ORLEANS,  La) -- New Orleans city leaders were warned in a 2019 confidential physical security assessment that tourist-packed Bourbon Street was vulnerable to a vehicle-ramming attack because some of the existing blockade mechanisms were inoperable.The warning proved painfully real five years later on New Year’s Day when a Texas man, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, drove through pedestrians on Bourbon Street, killing 14 people and injuring dozens of others in a truck-ramming and gunfire attack. Jabbar, who […]

WABC (NEW YORK) -- An on-duty United States Postal Service (USPS) worker was stabbed and killed inside of a deli in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City on Thursday afternoon after a "verbal dispute," according to the New York Police Department (NYPD).Officers responded to the deli at 168 Lenox Avenue and found the victim, whom they identified as 36-year-old Ray Hodges, with multiple stab wounds to his stomach, torso, […]

(WASHINGTON) -- The state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter is an attractive target "for violent extremists to attack," especially after the vehicle ramming in New Orleans that killed 14 people, though there are no known threats to the funeral, according to a new security assessment obtained by ABC News."State funerals are considered no-notice events that significantly reduce planning timelines for potential hostile actors," the document said. "However, state funerals still present attractive targets […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) -- As a deep winter chill begins to take over the northern half of the country, a new major winter storm will move across the U.S. this weekend into early next week.The storm kicks off on Saturday as a mix of rain, snow and ice develops over the central Plains. The Kansas City, Missouri, area will likely see dangerously slick travel on Saturday evening as a wintry mix […]