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PS5 in exchange for guns: New Orleans hosted a buyback before truck rampage

New Orleans held a gun buyback event offering gaming consoles in exchange for firearms just a day before a truck attack killed 15 people, raising safety concerns

New Orleans attacker acted alone, had strong support for ISIS, says Biden

At least 14 people were killed and 35 others were injured after Jabbar drove his pickup truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street

Asian shares rise, dollar at two-year high as US rates, Trump in focus

MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was 0.33 per cent higher but on course for a nearly 1 per cent drop for the week

2 dead, 18 injured in small plane crash in Southern California, says police

Police and fire authorities arrived on scene and battled the blaze and evacuated surrounding businesses

Ahead of Trump's inauguration on Jan 20, debate on H1B visas intensifies

Indians are the main beneficiaries of the H-1B visas, which bring in the best of the talent and brains from across the world

FBI shares video of suspect planting pipe bomb near DNC before capitol riot

Hoping to generate new tips from the public, the FBI is releasing more information about its pipe bomb investigation

Crypto mogul Do Kwon pleads not guilty in first US court appearance

The indictment alleges that the man dubbed by some as the cryptocurrency king lied to investors from 2018 to 2022 to fool them into pouring money into Terraform Labs

Israeli strike hits Gaza humanitarian zone as Netanyahu OKs talks in Qatar

The early morning strike killed at least 10 people, including three children and two senior Hamas police officers

'We are going to pursue ISIS': Biden on terrorist attack in New Orleans

Biden informed that 15 people, including the attacker, had been killed in the attack

Trump to hold Washington rally on eve of inauguration as 47th US president

The victory rally, as it's being billed, will be held at the Capitol One Arena in the District of Columbia on January 19

Bourbon Street reopens in New Orleans after deadly 'terrorist' attack

FBI has confirmed that the attacker Shamsud Din Jabba was lone wolf terrorist with no known accomplices

Apple to pay $95 mn to settle lawsuit accusing Siri of snoopy eavesdropping

The allegations about a snoopy Siri contradicted Apple's long-running commitment to protect the privacy of its customers

Tech giants Infosys, TCS among top 5 global H-1B visa beneficiaries

Account for over 41% of visas along with Cognizant, HCLTech

Aeromexico, Saudia rank among the most punctual global airlines for 2024

The aviation analytics firm analyzes more than 25 million data points from 600-plus sources each day to determine whether airlines are meeting their scheduled arrival times

Tesla Cybertruck explodes outside Trump Las Vegas hotel, killing driver

Videos taken by witnesses inside and outside the hotel showed the vehicle exploding and flames pouring out of it, as it sat outside the hotel

26 killed in fresh Israeli airstrikes in Gaza humanitarian zone, elsewhere

Hundreds of thousands of displaced people are huddling in Muwasi in damp winter weather

What we know about vehicle attack on pedestrians in US that killed 15

The FBI is investigating the attack as an act of terrorism and said it does not believe the suspect acted alone

FBI now says driver responsible for deadly New Orleans rampage acted alone

The FBI now says that the pickup truck driver responsible for a deadly rampage in New Orleans acted alone.

Wall Street rises in first trading session of 2025, Tesla stock slides

At 11:41 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 111.85 points, or 0.26%, to 42,656.07, the S&P 500 gained 25.69 points

At 211,000, US weekly unemployment claims declines to eight-month low

"A stable job market will squelch the Fed's appetite for cutting rates aggressively amid nagging services inflation," said Jeffrey Roach, chief economist at LPL Financial