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Thank you for following along with our breaking news blog. Here are some of the developments from the investigations into the deadly attacks in Las Vegas and New Orleans.

  • US president Joe Biden said that law enforcement agencies were probing any possible links between the attack and the explosion later on Wednesday of a Tesla Cybertruck outside a hotel owned by US president-elect Donald Trump in Las Vegas that killed one person, though he cautioned that none had been found so far.

  • US president-elect Donald Trump has criticised US authorities and law enforcement agencies in a post today. Although the message does not directly address the New Orleans attack, Trump wrote on his Truth Social network that the “The DOJ, FBI, and Democrat state and local prosecutors have not done their job”.

  • Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the 42-year-old US citizen from Texas identified by the FBI as the New Orleans attacker, previously pleaded guilty to two charges, including driving under the influence in 2015, reports CNN.

  • New York has heightened security and increased police presence at locations, including Trump Tower and Times Square, its mayor said.

  • During a press conference, Joe Biden reiterated FBI officials’ assertion that the suspect identified in the New Orleans attack appeared to have acted alone, and said that there was no obvious connection between the New Orleans attack and the Las Vegas Tesla Cybertruck explosion.

  • Authorities in Las Vegas just released new details on the Tesla Cybertruck explosion including the route the suspected bomber took from Colorado to Las Vegas, the materials used to make the bomb and whether there is a connection to the New Orleans attack.

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The Sugar Bowl, the final game of the college football playoff quarter-finals, is under way. But before universities Notre Dame and the University of Georgia took the field there was a moment of silence for the people killed by a truck that rammed its way through a crowd of people on Bourbon Street.

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