Santa Ana winds are blowing from the South to the West
The California National Guard has said that some communities in the US state have been placed under a mandatory evacuation notice due to the strong winds blowing on the West Coast. The winds areexpected to accelerate to dangerous levels on Tuesday and Wednesday, after a dip in speed on Tuesday afternoon. There could be dangerous winds and weather on Thursday or Friday.
Three key things to watch for in 25 years: Is this the Bitcoin’s golden moment?
The US government could legally start a reserve for Bitcoin with the cryptocurrency it has seized from various bad actors, US President Donald Trump told a cryptocurrency conference earlier this year. He proposed the government buy 200 bitcoins a year for five years until they reach 1 million. He also said the government could start the stockpile with the Bitcoin tokens it has seized.
Most federal waters are off limits to new oil and gas drilling
US Vice President Joe Biden announced that he’d block oil and gas drilling in areas of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Arctic oceans. “My decision reflects what coastal communities…have known for a long time: that drilling off these coasts could cause irreversible damage to places we hold dear and is unnecessary to meet our nation’s energy needs,” he said.
There is a shadow of a January 6, 2021 riot over Congress certifying the 2024 election
US President Donald Trump was certified the winner of the 2020 presidential election by Vice President Kamala Harris. The final tally stood at 312 to 226, with Trump having received 312 votes to Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore’s 226 votes. Trump is the first US President to be certified by the new law that explains how states finalised their results.
The FBI says the suspect in the New Orleans attack twice visited the city
The man who rammed his truck into a crowd in New Orleans on New Year’s Day, killing at least one person, had recently visited the city twice to conduct surveillance, the FBI has revealed. He used “smart glasses” to record video of the area he later targeted, it added. The attack is being investigated as terrorism, the FBI further said.
Millions are faced with snow and ice as a major winter storm moves across the US
The first significant winter storm of the year will affect over 60 million people from Saturday afternoon and continuing into Monday, the US National Weather Service (NWS) said. “The snow will significantly reduce visibilities, and snowfall amounts will surpass 15 inches (the heaviest in a decade), which will make travel extremely hazardous, with impassable roads,” the NWS added.
Net neutrality was eviscerated by the appeals court
The US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday ruled that the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) net Neutrality rules were “arbitrary, capricious and contrary to the Constitution”. The court said the FCC was wrong to assert that internet providers can charge others to “provide their services” like a public utility. President-elect Donald Trump had repealed the net neutrality rules in 2017.
The FBI said the suspect was alone in the New Orleans truck attack
FBI has said that Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the driver of the pickup truck that rammed into a crowd in New Orleans on New Year’s Day, acted alone. The FBI was searching for additional suspects who may have aided in the attack after they change their initial assessment that it was someone else who did it. Jabbar was killed in the attack.
The driver of the cybertruck was likely to have shot himself in the head
A Tesla Cybertruck detonated in front of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Wednesday. The truck exploded hours after a driver rammed his truck into a crowd in New Orleans’ French Quarter early on New Year’s Day, killing at least 10 people before being shot to death by police. The suspect in New Orleans attack acted alone, the FBI said.
The FBI says that the suspect in the New Orleans truck attack acted alone
At least 14 people died and over 50 were injured when a pickup truck rammed into a crowd on New Orleans’ Bourbon Street in the early hours of Wednesday. Police said the driver of the truck was identified as 18-year-old Mohamed Jabbar of Houston, US. He was shot dead by police who came to his home after he crashed the truck.