Tesla reported its first decline in annual deliveries on Thursday, as the automaker handed over fewer-than-expected electric vehicles in the fourth quarter and incentives failed to boost demand for its aging line-up of models.

Shares of the company fell more than 5%, indicating investor worries over the challenges facing CEO Elon Musk, who expected promotions including zero-interest financing to power a “slight growth” in deliveries in 2024.

https://nypost.com/2025/01/02/business/tesla-shares-sink-as-annual-car-deliveries-fall-for-first-time/

https://wgno.com/news/breaking-mulitple-dead-after-car-may-have-plowed-into-crowd-on-bourbon-street/
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Multiple people are dead after the New Orleans Police Department reported that a car plowed into a group of people on Bourbon Street.

New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell said in a press conference on Wednesday, Jan. 1 that the attack was reportedly a terrorist act. NOPD Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick confirmed that the incident was intentional.

Preliminary investigations revealed that the driver drove around the barricades to conduct the act, said Kirkpatrick.

Sources have confirmed to WGNO that the suspect in the crime was shot and killed by NOPD officers in a return of gunfire.

It happened around 3:15 a.m. at the corner of Bourbon and Iberville streets.

At this time, the NOPD is reporting about 10 fatalities with over 30 others injured as of 6 a.m. Additionally, Kirkpatrick reported two officers were shot during the incident.

They are listed in stable condition.

EMS is currently on the scene. Additionally, Bourbon Street has been shut down at this time, according to the NOPD. Officials with the Federal Bureau of Investigations advise drivers and pedestrians to avoid the surrounding area including Canal to St. Ann streets.

A horrific act of violence took place on Bourbon Street earlier this morning. Please join Sharon and I in praying for all the victims and first responders on scene.

I urge all near the scene to avoid the area.
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry

WGNO has a reporter at the scene. This is a developing story. We will continue to update it as more information becomes available.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5064856-trump-announces-new-treasury-and-ambassador-nominees/

President-elect Trump announced several appointments for his Treasury Department and choices for ambassadors for two European countries.

In multiple Thursday Truth Social posts, Trump outlined who will work alongside his Treasury chief Scott Bessent, along with his picks for ambassadors to Spain and to the Netherlands.

Trump picked Ken Kies to work as the assistant secretary for tax policy. Kies, a tax lawyer with nearly five decades of experience, served as chief of staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation in Congress.

He chose Alexandra Preate to be the next senior counsel to Bessent. Trump said that Preate has worked “closely with former Director of the National Economic Council, Larry Kudlow, as well as my long-time economic advisors, Dr. Arthur B. Laffer and Stephen Moore.”

For the director of policy planning, he selected Hunter McMaster.

Trump chose Daniel Katz, a senior fellow at the conservative think-tank Manhattan Institute, to be the department’s chief of staff. Katz previously served as a senior advisor at the Department of the Treasury.

Alexander Smirnov admitted he fabricated the conspiracy that Joe Biden and his son Hunter had made millions from a Ukrainian energy company.

https://newrepublic.com/post/189316/surprise-key-witness-reveals-lied-biden-corruption

https://www.ft.com/content/35f490c5-3abb-4ac9-8fa3-65e804dd158f
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Donald Trump’s team has told European officials that the incoming US president will demand Nato member states increase defence spending to 5 per cent of GDP, but plans to continue supplying military aid to Ukraine.

The US president-elect’s closest foreign policy aides shared his intentions in discussions with senior European officials this month, according to people familiar with the talks, as he firms up his policies towards Europe and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
During his White House campaign, Trump vowed to cut off aid to Ukraine, force Kyiv into immediate peace talks, and leave Nato allies undefended if they failed to spend enough on defence — spooking European capitals.

But in a boost for allies deeply concerned over their ability to support and protect Ukraine without Washington’s backing, Trump now intends to maintain US military supplies to Kyiv after his inauguration, according to three other people briefed on the discussions with western officials.
At the same time Trump is to demand Nato more than double its 2 per cent spending target — which only 23 of the alliance’s 32 members currently meet — to 5 per cent, two people briefed on the conversations said.

One person said they understood that Trump would settle for 3.5 per cent, and that he was planning to explicitly link higher defence spending and the offer of more favourable trading terms with the US. “It’s clear that we are talking about 3 per cent or more for [Nato’s June summit in] The Hague summit,” said another European official briefed on Trump’s thinking.
Nato allies are already in discussions about increasing the target to 3 per cent at that meeting of leaders in June, but many capitals are concerned about the difficult fiscal decisions that would be required to do so.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14215027/case-family-tortured-masked-intruders-morales.html