The New Orleans attacker who killed 14 people by ramming a pickup truck into a crowd built two bombs with a “very rare explosive compound”, senior law enforcement officials have said.

A common chemical used for explosives was discovered in a Texas storage locker linked to the U.S. Army veteran who killed 14 people and injured more than two-dozen when he plowed into New Year’s revelers in New Orleans,

Gov. Kay Ivey called on Alabama to join Louisiana in a day of mourning Monday for victims of the New Year’s Day terrorist attack in New Orleans, including two victims who called Alabama home. Kareem Badawi was a Baton Rouge native who was a freshman at the University of Alabama.

Six people who were injured and the father of a man who was killed in the New Year’s truck attack are suing the City of New Orleans and two contractors, claiming they failed to protect revelers from a