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The president-elect will reportedly be holding the event at 3 p.m. January 19 at the Capital One Arena
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Donald Trump is reportedly planning to hold a rally the day before he will be inaugurated for the second time.
The president-elect will hold the event at 3 p.m. January 19 at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C, according to CBS News.
On Wednesday, Trump joined other world leaders in expressing solidarity with the people of New Orleans, following a suspected terror attack in the city’s French Quarter. However, in his online post, he seized on false claims suggesting an immigrant was responsible. Law enforcement officials said the suspect is a U.S. citizen and Army veteran.
Meanwhile, one person was killed and seven others injured when a Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside the president-elect’s hotel in Las Vegas.
Authorities are investigating the explosion as a possible act of terror. Law enforcement discovered fireworks-style mortars in the Cybertruck but a motive is not yet known.
The night before, Trump closed out 2024 next to Elon Musk — the founder of Tesla — as his allies and elements of the MAGA coalition continue to feud with the world’s wealthiest man over support for skilled immigrant workers.
The pro-Palestine movement in the U.S. is uncertain what the future will look like under Trump, a staunch Israel ally who has characterized demonstrators as Hamas supporters and called for their deportation.
“The Palestinian rights movement is very clear eyed in understanding that it is very likely that this Trump administration will mean that things get much worse for Palestinians,” Beth Miller, political director for Jewish Voice for Peace Action, told Politico.
That chill follows an already diminished level of activism, as university campuses and other institutions sought to limit protests after a chaotic spring semester of encampments and occupations at major universities.
Universities instituted new rules on demonstrations, masks, and acceptable terms during protests after initial spring wave of pro-Palestine campus actions
In remarks given from Camp David on Wednesday evening, Joe Biden said that law enforcement was investigating whether the two incidents in Nevada and Louisiana were at all connected.
After giving an update on investigations in New Orleans, he said: “Additionaly, we’re tracking the explosion of a cyber truck outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas.
“Law enforcement and the intelligence community are investigating this as well, including whether there’s any possible connection with the attack in New Orleans. Thus far, there’s nothing to report on that score.”
Renewable energy companies are worried about Donald Trump, a climate denier who has threatened a trade war with China and promised to ramp up fossil fuel production.
Utilities are reportedly scrambling to meet with Republican members of Congress and thinking about tweaking their talking points, reframing their work as more about the ability to “meet energy needs” than climate ones, according to The Wall Street Journal.
They’re hoping they find an ally in North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, Trump’s choice to lead the Interior Department.
North Dakota has substantial wind power developments.
Burgum has been an outspoken supporter of the president-elect and was on the shortlist for VP
Elon Musk is echoing law enforcement reports that an explosion outside Trump Las Vegas involving a Tesla Cybertruck “was caused by very large fireworks and/or a bomb carried in the bed” of the vehicle.
He said the explosion “is unrelated to the vehicle itself” and “all vehicle telemetry was positive at the time of the explosion.”
The latest:
One person was killed and seven others were injured when the Tesla vehicle exploded Wednesday
Since Donald Trump won the 2024 election, he and his allies have been talking about the mandate behind their governing agenda.
The win marked the first Republican victory in the popular vote since 2004.
Those voters will likely hope that Republicans, who are set to control Congress and the White House, will do more than the previous set of lawmakers did over the last term.
The 118th Congress passed only 209 bills, the least productive session in the last 30 years, according to an analysis from NewsNation.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts warned that elected officials should not to disregard the rulings made by the court in a report.
Roberts, who will mark 20 years at the top of the court later this year, released his year-end report where he warned of increasing attacks to the legitimacy of the court.
The court has come under increased scrutiny ever since it moved to a decisive 6-3 conservative majority largely put in place by President-elect Donald Trump during his first tenure in the White House from 2017 to 2021.
“In a democracy—especially in one like ours, with robust First Amendment protections—criticism comes with the territory,” Roberts wrote. But he denounced what he considered four areas that threaten the independence of the judiciary: violence, intimidation, disinformation and threats to defy lawfully entered judgments.
Eric Garcia reports.
’These dangerous suggestions, however sporadic, must be soundly rejected,’ Roberts writes in his annual report
Local police are investigating a vehicle explosion outside the Trump Las Vegas hotel on Wednesday as a possible act of terror, an official told ABC News.
A Tesla Cybertruck pulled into a valet area and exploded, officials said.
The potential terror comes as New Orleans is reeling from a truck attack on Bourbon Street that killed 10 people during New Year’s celebrations, which officials are investigating as a terror incident.
House Speaker Mike Johnson is reportedly heading to Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday for a strategy session with Donald Trump.
“I’m going to be with him at Mar-a-Lago on New Year’s Day,” Johnson told News Radio 710 KEEL. “We’re going to map out some strategy.”
Johnson faces a renewed vote on his position as Speaker ahead of the 119th Congress convening later this week.
Despite a rocky year-end series of government funding negotiations, Trump remains supportive of Johnson.
The House is set to convene and vote for a new speaker on Friday
Donald Trump and his son have in recent hours seized on unverified claims that a migrant was involved in the New Year’s Eve car attack in New Orleans.
Authorities later named a U.S. citizen as suspect.
Donald Trump Jr. wrote on X that the attack was “Biden’s parting gift to America — migrant terrorists.”
He’s echoing a line his father set earlier, blaming the attack on immigrants.
Trump has regularly tied immigration to crime throughout his presidency
President-elect Donald Trump used the mass-killing event in New Orleans, where a truck driver slammed into a crowd on Bourbon Street and left 10 people dead, to talk about immigration despite officials eventually naming a U.S. citizen as suspect.
The president-elect posted on Truth Social on Wednesday saying that immigrants were more likely to commit worse crimes than U.S. citizens.
“When I said that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country, that statement was constantly refuted by Democrats and the Fake News Media, but it turned out to be true. The crime rate in our country is at a level that nobody has ever seen before. Our hearts are with all of the innocent victims and their loved ones, including the brave officers of the New Orleans Police Department. The Trump Administration will fully support the City of New Orleans as they investigate and recover from this act of pure evil!”
Eric Garcia has the story.
Trump has regularly tied immigration to crime throughout his presidency
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