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Dean Livelsberger, the uncle of Las Vegas Cybertruck bomber Matthew Livelsberger said his nephew was a "Rambo-type" patriot who loved his nation and President-elect Donald Trump.

The ISIS-inspired terrorist who mowed down a crowd of New Year's Eve revelers on Bourbon Street drove from Houston to New Orleans recording deranged Facebook videos confessing his thirst to kill and pledging allegiance to the Islamic terror group.

No longer do the liberal media ecosystems of New York and Washington, DC, set the terms of the national conversation — and after wrecking the public's trust in 2024, the new year will be even worse.

Some future events were predictable in 1925, if only people had paid attention.

The first snowpack survey of the season in the Sierra Mountains shows that LA's water supply looks good right now. But there are warning signs that we are in for dry seasons in the coming months.

Wayne Osmond died from a stroke on New Year's Day.

On Tuesday, 23-year-old Kamel Hawkins was charged with second-degree assault and attempted murder after shoving an unsuspecting stranger in front of an incoming 1 train at the 18th Street station hours earlier.

The driver of the Tesla Cybertruck that blew up outside Trump International Hotel Las Vegas on New Year's Day has been identified as 37-year-old Matthew Livelsberger.

Fifteen people were injured when a small plane crashed into a commercial warehouse near Fullerton Municipal Airport and started a fire, officials said.

A 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck western Japan on Monday, triggering tsunami warnings and leaving at least four people dead. Follow here for live news updates.

Mike Kafka’s future could turn in a lot of different directions.

A federal appeals court in Ohio ruled that the Federal Communications Commission lacked authority to reinstate open internet rules.

House Speaker Mike Johnson met with Republican holdouts to his bid to retain the gavel in the new Congress one day before the House convenes for the election.

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Chickpeas and thank you, Banza.

Fullerton police says that there has been a plane crash near the Fullerton Municipal Airport on Thursday afternoon.

Friday will be House Speaker Mike Johnson's moment of truth as Republican holdouts decide whether he should lay claim to the gavel again in the next Congress -- or opt instead to plunge their conference into disarray once more.

South Korea’s anti-corruption agency has dispatched investigators to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday.

The first lady was gifted a $20,000 diamond from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2023, a new State Department report says.

Investigators released fresh security camera video showing the suspect sitting on a park bench, reaching into his backpack and planting a pipe bomb on Jan. 5, 2021.

Hydraulic fracturing has transformed the United States into the Saudi Arabia of natural gas — but not in New York, where politicians like Gov. Hochul stubbornly refuse to tap the enormous wealth beneath our feet.

On the second anniversary of his near-death snowplow accident, Jeremy Renner thanked the first responders and medical staff that helped him survive.

As the drama in Vancouver continues, Bo Horvat offered words about the situation.

The House rules package for the 119th Congress includes a bill that would bring about Title IX revisions to ban trans athletes from women's sports.

Wayne Osmond started his musical career as an original member of The Osmonds with his brothers.

In May, it was revealed that the now-exes would compete against Tarek and his wife Heather Rae El Moussa on an HGTV series.

The incident comes amid heightened law enforcement presence in numerous cities following a terrorist attack in New Orleans and a Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside a Las Vegas hotel owned by President-elect Donald Trump.

One rock bottom after another, John. It all starts at the top.

The FDA has issued an urgent recall for shellstock oysters harvested last month in Washington state's Hammersley Inlet.

"Yellowstone" has had an effect.

An endangered orca who carried her dead calf for over two weeks in 2018 is doing so once again following the death of her new calf.

Chefs weigh in on how much salt is needed for the best-tasting pasta after a video of Food Network celebrity chefs showing their approach to the task went viral on social media.

The Parents Defending Education released a report Thursday that detailed how the Department of Justice spent millions on proposals related to DEI education.

The car-sharing app Turo was used by perpetrators of separate New Year's Day attacks. The incidents thrust the San Francisco company that created the app, which relies on a model similar to Airbnb to allow users to rent cars directly from their owners, into the spotlight.

Georgia Bulldogs cornerback Parker Jones was penalized on a big play in the second quarter against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the Sugar Bowl.

Sanders released a statement opposing Musk's viewpoint on H-1B visas.

"It's such a difficult barrier convincing young people that birth control isn't enough, and that you do need to protect yourself from STIs," posited one prophylactic pro.

Security bollards were not in place during New Year's Day truck attack in New Orleans due to malfunctions and ongoing renovations.

Jocelyn Wildenstein should have been a cautionary tale of the dangers of going too far in the quest for perfection. But new generations on the same distorted pursuit.

Country music superstar Jelly Roll is known for his big heart and grand gestures, so it's no surprise he went all out for his wife Bunnie XO.

The trailer for 'Diddy: Making of a Bad Boy,' which dropped on January 2, includes interviews with members of the disgraced rapper's inner circle.

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.On New Year’s Day, while looking for something to watch, I came across a channel with a loud, gray-haired British guy in a nice suit and a scarf bellowing about something or other. I assumed that I had turned to CNN and was watching its ebullient, occasionally shouty business and aviation correspondent, Richard Quest. I wasn’t even close: It was Roger Daltrey of the Who, and he was excitedly introducing the new Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Peter Frampton in a condensed version of the October ceremony.Frampton’s music was, for a moment in the 1970s, the soundtrack to my misspent teenage nights; on the broadcast, Keith Urban joined him to perform his megahit “Do You Feel Like We Do,” and I remembered every word. And Frampton seems like a man who is genuinely loved by his peers. It was a nice moment. But when 80-year-old Daltrey—who, at 21, famously sang, “Hope I die before I get old”—is introducing a man whose biggest hits were produced nearly 50 years ago, it’s a reminder that the entire Rock & Roll Hall of Fame concept is utterly wrongheaded.As the saying goes, good writers borrow, and great writers steal. I was once a professor, however, and professors give attribution, so let me rely on John Strausbaugh, who wrote a wonderful 2001 jeremiad against Boomer music nostalgia, Rock ’Til You Drop, to explain why the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame shouldn’t exist: Because it’s “as true to the spirit of rock’n’roll as a Hard Rock Cafe—one in which there are way too many children and you can’t get a drink.” The Hall of Fame is about old and dead people; rock’n’roll is about the young and living. The Hall of Fame tries to reform rock’n’roll, tame it, reduce it to bland, middle-American family entertainment; it drains all the sexiness and danger and rebelliousness out of it … Strasbaugh winces especially hard at the Rock Hall tradition of “honoring” classic acts by “dragging their old butts out onto a stage” and then making them “go through the motions one more time” as they pretend to feel the music the same way they did when they were kids. Writing almost 25 years ago, he said that the Rolling Stones were way past their retirement clock, and that Cher in her late-1990s performances “was so stiff in her makeup and outfits, that she looked like a wax effigy of herself.”Last year, the Rolling Stones went on tour again and were sponsored by—I am serious—the AARP.And Cher was also just inducted into the Rock Hall in October, at 78 years old. When you’re asking Cher to suit up so that she can be lauded by the young-enough-to-be-her-granddaughter Dua Lipa, you may be trying to honor the artist, but you’re mostly just reminding everyone about the brutal march of time.I am sometimes blistered on social media for my bad music takes, and I will confess that with some exceptions, I didn’t really develop much of a taste in music beyond the Beatles, Billy Joel, and Top 40 ear candy until I was in college. (My musical soul was saved, or at least improved, by the old WBCN in Boston and by my freshman-dorm neighbor at Boston University, who introduced me to Steely Dan.) But you don’t need a refined taste in music to cringe when a bunch of worthies from the music industry assemble each year to make often nonsensical choices about what constitutes “rock and roll” and who did it well enough to be lionized for the ages. Look, I sort of like some of those old Cher hits from the ’70s—“Train of Thought” is an underrated little pop gem, in my view—but Cher as an inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame? If she, and Bobby Darin, and the Lovin’ Spoonful, and Woody Guthrie, and Willie Nelson are all “rock,” what isn’t?This is where I must also admit that I’ve never been to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, or even to Cleveland, for that matter. But I’d argue that seeing it all up close—as Strausbaugh notes in his book, it’s full of this rock artist once wore this shirt and that rock artist once touched this mic stand—isn’t the point. Trying to trap the energy and spirit of youthful greatness behind the ice in some sort of Fortress of Rock Solitude is nothing more than a monument to nostalgia. Worse, it’s an ongoing tribute not to music, but to capitalism. Perhaps the music business was always a business, but most rock and roll was about opposing the establishment, not asking for a nice table at its Chamber of Commerce ceremonies.Don’t get me wrong: I love both rock music and capitalism. I am also prone to a fair amount of my own nostalgia, and I will pay to see some of my favorite elderly stars get up onstage, wink at the audience, and pull out a few of their famous moves—as long as they do it with the kind of self-awareness that makes it more like a visit with an old friend than a soul-crushing pastiche of days gone by.But even when a return to the stage is done with taste, age can still take its toll on both the performer and the audience: I’m now in my 60s, and as much as I liked seeing Peter Frampton get a big round of applause, I didn’t feel warm or happy; I just felt old, because he was obviously old. (Frampton has an autoimmune disease that causes muscle weakness, so he had to sit to perform his arena anthem.) And when Keith Urban is playing along as the representative of the younger generation at 56 years old, it makes me feel a certain kind of pity for people who gave me the musical landscape of my youth.Maybe America doesn’t need to commercialize every Boomer memory. Artists become eligible for the Rock Hall 25 years from the release date of their first commercial recording, but rock can’t be distilled in 25-year batches like some sort of rare whiskey. Rock is more like … well, sex. Each generation has to experience it for themselves; later, each generation thinks they invented it; eventually, we all realize that no generation can fully explain their feelings about it to the next one.Speaking of sex and rebellion, one of the best arguments against the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is that Warren Zevon isn’t in it. His continuing exclusion is one of the great ongoing controversies of the selection process, but the point is not that Zevon should be in it; rather, the question is whether Zevon would ever want to be honored in such a place. The man who wrote “Play It All Night Long” and “Mr. Bad Example” simply doesn’t belong on a pedestal next to Mary J. Blige and Buffalo Springfield. And that’s reason enough that the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame should not exist at all.Related: The secret joys of geriatric rock Rock never dies—but it does get older and wiser. Here are three new stories from The Atlantic: Doomed to be a tradwife Narendra Modi’s populist facade is cracking. Invisible habits are driving your life. Today’s News The FBI said that the attacker who killed 14 people in New Orleans on New Year’s Day appears to have acted alone. Military officials said that the driver of a Cybertruck that exploded in front of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas yesterday was an Army master sergeant who was on leave from active duty. Federal agents searched the home of former NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey, who was accused of sexual misconduct last year. Maddrey has denied the allegations. Dispatches Time-Travel Thursdays: The poet Julia Ward Howe wrote an anthem of fervent patriotism in 1861—and it’s remained the soundtrack to American conflict ever since, Spencer Kornhaber writes. Explore all of our newsletters here.Evening Read Illustration by Giacomo Bagnara We’re All in “Dark Mode” NowBy Ian Bogost Dark mode has its touted benefits: Dimmer screens mean less eye strain, some assert; and on certain displays (including most smartphones), showing more black pixels prolongs battery life. Dark mode also has its drawbacks: Reading lots of text is more difficult to do in white-on-black. But even if these tradeoffs might be used to justify the use of inverted-color settings, they offer little insight into those settings’ true appeal. They don’t tell us why so many people suddenly want their screens, which had glowed bright for years, to go dark. And they’re tangential to the story of how, in a fairly short period of time, we all became creatures of the night mode. Read the full article.More From The Atlantic Why an early start is the “quintessence of life” Doctors thought they knew what a genetic disease is. They were wrong. L.A.’s twin crises finally seem fixable. A retiring congressman’s advice to new members of the House Culture Break Jan Buchczik Explore. These New Year’s resolutions will actually lead to happiness, Arthur C. Brooks wrote in 2020.Try something new. You can micromanage your kid’s life or ask for community help with child care—but you can’t have both, Stephanie H. Murray writes.Play our daily crossword.Stephanie Bai contributed to this newsletter.When you buy a book using a link in this newsletter, we receive a commission. Thank you for supporting The Atlantic.

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The explosion caused minor injuries to seven other people but virtually no damage to the hotel.