Date: January 3, 2025
Host: Jim Schneider
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It was the first ‘News Round-Up’ of the year and it was jam-packed with news items. Here’s a sample from those that Jim selected for broadcast:
–Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has officially been re-elected.
–The FBI said at a press conference yesterday that there are no additional suspects in the Islamic terrorist attack at the New Orleans French Quarter.
–Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser leveled a series of broadsides at Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration a day after the deadly attack in New Orleans, injecting a sharp, political tone into the governmental response to the New Year’s Day tragedy.
–Investigators are pouring over hundreds of hours of surveillance footage to learn what led up to the deadly New Orleans attack. President Biden and the first lady will head to New Orleans on Monday to meet with the family and community members that have been impacted by this event.
–On December 20th, the Brooklyn Friday sermon by Imam Hassan Akbar indicated that Islam will enter every single home on the face of the planet. Jim provided audio.
–Allstate CEO Tom Wilson ignited a firestorm after the company released a video statement ahead of the postponed Sugar Bowl saying, “Our prayers went to victims and their families. We also need to be strong together by overcoming an addiction to divisiveness and negativity. Join Allstate working in local communities all across America to amplify the positive, increase trust and accept people’s imperfections and differences. Together we win.”
–With New Year’s Day attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas exposing terrorist vulnerabilities anew, top security officials are warning that a lethal capability being perfected in the skies over Ukraine and the Middle East could soon be headed to the U.S. The threat? Gun firing and explosives dropping drones.
–When a man seemingly committed suicide by blowing up a cybertruck in front of a Trump hotel on Wednesday, suspicions immediately emerged that this also was a terrorist act. However, according to the New York Post, Matthew Livelsberger’s wife had left him the day after Christmas over charges of infidelity.
–The FBI on Thursday released new information footage considering the person suspected of placing pipe bombs near the Republican and Democratic headquarters the evening before the January 6th event on Capitol Hill in 2021.
–President Joe Biden bestowed the nation’s second highest civilian medal on Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson, the lawmakers who led the congressional investigation into the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol protest.
–The Israeli military said on Saturday that it completed an operation against Hamas at northern Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital and the surrounding area. Some 240 suspected terror operatives were detained, including the medical center’s director and 15 terrorists who participated in the October 7, 2023, onslaught on southern Israel.
–Hamas is making a substantial comeback by recruiting new forces.
–Israel has submitted a report to the U.N. from the nation’s health ministry that outlines the abuse that Israeli hostages suffered at the hands of their Gazan captors.
–A Ford Motor Company social media account on Monday briefly displayed three anti-Israel messages to its 1.5 million followers before quickly removing them.
