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Avery Schmitz, CNN

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A visual timeline of the New Year’s attack that left at least 15 dead in New Orleans

New Orleans’ famed Bourbon Street devolved into a grisly crime scene just hours into the new year as a driver plowed a three-ton pickup truck through crowds of holiday revelers, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens of others in what the FBI is investigating as a possible act of terrorism.

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Two jets from US airlines struck by gunfire over Haiti’s capital

Two jets from US-based airlines were struck by bullets on Monday while flying over Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, forcing Haitian authorities to suspend all flights in and out of the capital amid escalating gang violence.