What We Do and Don’t Know About the New Orleans Attack That Killed 15

In the early hours of the New Year’s Day celebrations on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, the city was attacked when a driver veered a pickup truck into the crowd, killing 15 people and wounding at least 35 others before the suspect was killed in a gunfire exchange with police.

The New Orleans Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s New Orleans field office continue to share details about the attack, as the investigation is still underway.

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In a press conference on Jan. 1, Alethea Duncan, an assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s New Orleans field office, shared that the suspect responsible for the attack had been identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar. She expressed that the FBI does not believe that Jabbar worked alone.

Here’s everything we do—and don’t—know about the attack so far.

What happened during the New Orleans attack?

At “approximately 3:15 a.m.” local time, an individual driving a rented Ford pickup truck swerved around a police car protecting crowds celebrating on Bourbon Street, and drove through the festivities.

CCTV footage released shows a white, Ford F-150 Lightning vehicle driving on to the pavement, turning sharply before hitting pedestrians.

The New Orleans Police Department Public Affairs released an article on the attack later in the day on Jan. 1, chronicling the events.

“Multiple law enforcement officers responded to a report of a vehicle having driven into a crowd of pedestrians on Bourbon Street,” the NOPD public affairs desk wrote. “Multiple people were reportedly struck before the vehicle crashed.”

NOPD and the FBI stated that the suspect, after exiting the vehicle,  opened fire on officers who responded at the scene—fire which they returned. The suspect was struck by fire and was pronounced dead at the scene. 

NOPD and the FBI reported that those injured—including the two NOPD officers who were injured during gunfire exchange with the suspect—were transported to local hospitals via EMS for treatment.

The FBI also confirmed that weapons and potential improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were found in the pickup truck, as well as in other areas of the French Quarter. FBI bomb technicians are working to identify and “render those devices safe.”

What do we know about the suspect, Shamsud-Din Jabbar?

The driver and suspect has been identified as Jabbar, a 42-year-old U.S. citizen, and Army Veteran from Texas.

Jabbar joined the Army in 2007, serving on active duty in human resources and information technology and deploying to Afghanistan from 2009 to 2010, an Army spokesperson is quoted as telling CNN. He transferred to the Army Reserve in 2015 and left in 2020 with the rank of staff sergeant.

According to the New York Times, Jabbar was married twice. He divorced his first wife, Nakedra Charrlle Marsh in 2012, and was separated from his second wife. 

The Times also reported that Marsh’s new husband, Dwayne Marsh, said Jabbar had been acting erratically in recent months, “being all crazy, cutting his hair,” and that the couple had stopped allowing Jabbar to see his two children with Marsh.

The FBI stated that an ISIS flag was located in the vehicle, and they are now “working to determine the subject’s potential associations and affiliations with terrorist organizations.”

Assistant special agent Duncan told the press that the FBI believes Jabbar had help in carrying out his attack—especially in regards to the IEDs discovered, but no discoveries have been confirmed yet.

What do we know about the victims of the attack?

Not much is known at present about the victims of the New Orleans attack—nor has law enforcement released an official list—however some have been publicly mourned.

One victim, Kareem Badawi was identified as a student of University of Alabama in a press release from the school’s president. “I grieve alongside family and friends of Kareem in their heartbreaking loss,” the statement read. Badawi’s high school, the Episcopal School of Baton Rouge, wrote on Facebook that they would be hosting a prayer service for Badawi and another former student who was critically injured in the attack.

Another victim, Martin “Tiger” Bech, was identified by Princeton as a former student and football player at the school. His coach stated that Bech was “a ferocious competitor with endless energy, a beloved teammate, and a caring friend.”

Reggie Hunter was mourned in a Facebook post by his cousin, Shirell Robinson Jackson, who wrote that Hunter had just texted wishing their family “Happy New Year” before the attack.

“Not a threat to anyone…he surely didn’t deserve  this, none of the victims did,” they wrote.

The Times reported that recent high school graduate Ni’Kyra Cheyenne Dedeaux was also among the victims. Her mother, Melissa Dedeaux, posted a photo of Ni’Kyra on Facebook, mourning her loss.

How have President Biden, President-elect Trump, and others responded to the attack?

President Joe Biden released a statement on Jan. 1 confirming that he was briefed by law enforcement on the attack, and stating that his heart goes out to the victims.

“There is no justification for violence of any kind, and we will not tolerate any attack on any of our nation’s communities,” Biden wrote.

Biden later discussed the attack in a filmed address to the nation from Camp David, Md. “The FBI is leading the investigation to determine what happened, why it happened, and whether there’s any continuing threat to public safety,” Biden said. “The FBI also reported to me that mere hours before the attack, he [the suspect] posted videos on social media, indicating that he was inspired by ISIS, expressing a desire to kill. The ISIS flag was found in his vehicle, which he rented to conduct this attack. Possible explosives were found in the vehicle, as well, and more explosives were found nearby.”

President-elect Donald Trump responded to the incident  via his social media platform, Truth Social, where he wrote that the New Orleans attack was indicative of a wider “crime rate” problem in the United States. 

 “Our hearts are with all of the innocent victims and their loved ones, including the brave officers of the New Orleans Police Department,” he wrote. “The Trump Administration will fully support the City of New Orleans as they investigate and recover from this act of pure evil!” 

On Jan. 1, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry issued a State of Emergency in Orleans Parish, which he states will allow for allocation of resources to prepare for large events in the area coming up, including the Super Bowl LIX and Mardi Gras.

source https://time.com/7204336/new-orleans-attack-death-toll-victims-suspect-what-we-know/

The Motivational Trick That Makes You Exercise Harder

Years ago, stress kept Hannah Eden up at night before her CrossFit events. Beating her competitors “meant everything,” she says. But having a baby changed her mindset. Training for a half-Ironman in Hawaii, she focused less on the competition, and more on her own performance. “I was so grateful just that my body could do this, eight months postpartum,” she says. Feeling less pressure, she excelled, finishing the June race at a surprisingly fast pace. “It was such an individual journey,” she says.

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Like Eden, I’ve been chasing my (far less impressive) personal records lately: I run a 5K at an empty high school track every weekend, stubbornly trying to beat my fastest time ever, which I set years ago. I check my pace and, if I’m near my personal record, I push through agony to try to break it. 

My quest for a “PR,” as it’s called, is more exciting than going through the motions at the gym, and the extra exertion is boosting my cardio. Despite the empty track, I’m not alone: TikTok and Instagram are full of posts on PRs for running, lifting weights, punching reflex balls, deep-sea diving, and everything in between. “PRs are absolutely trending right now,” Eden says. Meanwhile, fitness trackers, smart machines, and coaches help people choose the right PR goals and achieve them. “With self-quantification becoming more precise and accurate, people enjoy the feedback,” says Hengchen Dai, an associate professor who studies decision-making at UCLA. 

Findings from Dai and others are pointing to a new science of PRs and how to nail them.

Why PRs boost motivation

People become more motivated and excel more when they set specific goals. PR goals can work especially well because they’re precisely tailored to your ability. 

“A personal best is tuned to an almost perfect level of personalized difficulty,” says Ashton Anderson, a University of Toronto associate professor of computer science who’s studied PRs in chess. “Beating your PR is achievable, but by definition it’s difficult, since you’ve never done it before. This calibrated difficulty gives personal bests their motivational power.”

With PRs, “you’re not seeking approval from a peer group,” says writer Oliver Burkeman, who emphasizes personally meaningful goals in his book, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals. “Like the stoics, you focus on what you can control, without tormenting yourself over what you can’t.”

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Competition with others, by contrast, may distract rather than motivate. “If you don’t measure up, you could be improving but still feel like a failure,” says Andrew Martin, a researcher of motivation at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Seeking a PR involves fewer unlucky breaks and clearer outcomes. (PR goals help students learn, too, Martin has found.) 

Of course, some people thrive on rivalries with others—think Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, or Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. Both PR goals and external competition “can facilitate performance in the sports arena, classroom, and workplace,” says Andrew Elliot, a psychology professor at the University of Rochester. People with competitive personalities and higher skill levels may benefit uniquely by testing themselves against opponents. Elliot, for one, gets “tremendous enjoyment” from the challenges of his peers. Such competition and PRs aren’t mutually exclusive; it’s often helpful to get elements of both, studies show. 

Over the long haul, though, people who concentrate more on PRs may enjoy more intrinsic motivation, well-being, and steady devotion to their goals, Elliot says. “Social comparison can demotivate us and feel threatening, leading to burnout,” says Ilana Brody, a PhD student and Dai’s collaborator at UCLA.

How to go for a PR

Choose the activity

PRs help with intrinsic motivation partly because they let people be creative. What you do and how you do it are totally up to you. 

BJ Fogg, a social scientist at Stanford University and author of Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything, recommends choosing an area where you’re naturally proficient. Fogg is “terrible” at endurance races, so he goes for PRs involving shorter bursts. “I’m oddly good at one-minute sprint rowing,” he says.

Or you could pick more of an uphill battle. Running 5Ks enticed me because I’d never shown much talent for it. Similarly, Eden wondered if finishing a half-Ironman just months after giving birth was hopeless. Barely able to run a mile at first, what intrigued her most was that the goal seemed nearly impossible.

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Such PR-striving enables self-discovery—separating self-imposed limits from what you’re truly capable of—and this is why many are drawn to them, suspects Eden, who helps people achieve PRs as an iFIT and NordicTrack trainer. “Doing hard things is becoming cool again,” she says. And many get ideas about what’s achievable by watching others on social media. “Maybe you don’t have the typical runner’s body shape, but you see someone who looks like you posting their time,” Eden says. Perhaps you’re a runner after all.

Pick a benchmark

After choosing the activity, set your sights on a specific measure. Beginners might pick a PR goal just slightly better than their previous best. Such a win garners social-media bragging rights, and it’s deeply satisfying—if the PR celebration dances are any indication.

You can add a stretch goal for further improvement. Find stats on the performance of people your age and fitness level, and choose a measure reflecting these stats. It should seem like a step change beyond your current ability but feel just reachable with 2-3 months of dedicated training. “It makes a difference if you find your reference group, and then within that, you can have multiple levels to try for,” says Alex Karwoski, a Peloton instructor and former Olympic rower.

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“The goal should be challenging but realistic,” Dai says. People often appreciate round numbers, like going for an hour-mark in a marathon, because they’re easy to remember—plus they simply look more significant, Brody says.

Another strategy is to identify new PR goals at the beginning of a week, month, or year—perhaps 2025?—especially after periods of subpar performance, Dai has found. “These moments really make people feel different from their past self, increasing their confidence to do better going forward,” Dai says.

Game-day

The day of your PR attempt, get fired up. Right before my 5K runs, I listen to Eric Thomas’s motivational speeches. His over-the-top style (“You have to want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe!”) cracks me up, but his voice echoes in my head as I run. And I push harder.

Visualize success and dress the part. Research shows that visualizing peak performance can help enable the real thing. Dress like a champ expecting greatness—maybe gold shoes like Usain Bolt to achieve your PR for fastest walk ever. Write a letter of congratulations to your future self, another research-backed approach.

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The beauty of PRs is they happen in unexpected ways. Maybe you fell short of your PR for consecutive pushups, but your fitness tracker reveals another type of PR: pushups on a record-number of days that month. Fogg looks for these surprise PRs. “I’m tricking myself in a way because I’m only looking at the successes, but seeing the successes motivates me to keep going.” 

It’s also useful to focus on PRs for smaller activities that support an overall goal. Fogg wanted a new PR for pull-ups, so he created a “tiny habit” of hanging on the pull-up bar to build his grip strength. Some days, he’d hang for just 5 seconds, but most days he could do more, eventually managing a PR of 1 minute, 15 seconds. The additional strength enabled record pull-ups. “If you’re very consistent with doing a habit, you’ll make progress and achieve things you wouldn’t otherwise.”

Celebrate

After achieving a PR, celebrate to “help yourself feel successful,” Fogg says. Once you start looking for PRs, you may spot them everywhere, along with more opportunities to celebrate—like a PR for the slowest mile ever run while smiling the whole time. Or a PR for most attempts at a PR without achieving it. I didn’t beat my 5K time for a PR for a record 46 tries. On try 47, I succeeded, but I’m just as proud of my perseverance PR.

Don’t celebrate so much that you start avoiding the activity. After a PR, people tend to quit while they’re ahead, fearing they’ll do worse next time, Anderson has found. This sacrifices the opportunity to build on momentum.

Family record?

Competing against yourself, instead of others, may seem like a recipe for loneliness. Fortunately, the “personal” part of PRs can be interpreted loosely; families or communities can strive for PRs together. 

After dinner, a family could team up to set its fastest time for clearing the table, dishwashing, and taking out the trash—and get a light post-meal workout in the process. I’m working on a father-son 5K PR with my nine-year-old (he runs 1K, I cover the rest). Karwoski’s fitness-oriented family tries to beat its previous times when circuit training together. Karwoski also competes in team relays, sharing “personal” records with his runner friends. 

Don’t push too hard

A PR goal can be counterproductive if it threatens your self-esteem. “It’s strange how some people turn leisure into more work” by going for PRs in exercise, Burkeman says. Although he thinks many people probably benefit from PR goals without any downsides, Burkeman notes that the PR chase is inherently endless. “It’s always going to be true that, at any point, you haven’t exceeded your most recent personal best. If the goal always slips away, that’s a tough way to live.” 

Too much PR tracking can backfire, research shows. “Although measuring your behavior and progress can increase time spent on those actions, it can also undermine intrinsic motivation to succeed,” Brody says.

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Enjoy breaks for mental and physical recovery. Successful athletes “welcome distractions into their lives,” says Karwoski, the Olympic rower. “They do better long-term because of it.”

An instructor can recommend training tips and milestones toward PRs. Some exercise machines connect to real-life coaches (like Karwoski and Eden) and AI coaches focusing on PR goals. Eden preaches “progressive overload”: gradually increasing training rather than ramping it up too quickly, which causes injuries. Fitness trackers like Fitbit build workouts based on people’s goals, fitness level, and stress.

To avoid injury and burnout, rotate your PR goals seasonally. I find that fall weather is good for running PRs. In winter and summer, I shelter inside my gym for PRs in strength training, balance, and flexibility. Spring is ideal tennis weather, ripe for a most-matches-played PR. 

Seasons of life

As people get older, it’s often harder to achieve PRs, but that can depend on how the PR is framed.

At 61, Elliot’s muscle mass has declined, affecting his ability to exercise the way he used to. Now, he frames his goals around trying not to lose his capabilities, rather than setting PRs. These maintenance goals—trying to preserve old PRs as much as possible, rather than achieve new ones—are less motivating, research shows. “It’s not ideal,” he says.

Fogg, who is also 61, knows he can’t do as many pull-ups as his teenage self. But he’s staying motivated by reframing the situation, looking to hit his PR for this decade of life. “Twelve pull-ups is my personal best for my 60s,” he says. So far.

“Resetting the target is so important with age and as a mom,” Eden adds.

Older amateurs may compensate by becoming more strategic about training. Anderson notes that chess players’ raw cognitive ability starts declining around ages 30-35. “But for nearly all amateurs, there’s so much strategy to pick up, they can still improve throughout their lives,” he says. As it applies to fitness, this would mean that PRs remain possible if people keep learning how to excel in their chosen activity.

source https://time.com/7202529/how-to-set-personal-record-excercise-pr/

TIME Names New Executive Editors

TIME Editor in Chief Sam Jacobs sent the following note to staff on Thursday:

Dear all,

I’m pleased to share with you that Nikhil Kumar is returning to TIME as Executive Editor. I’m also thrilled to announce that Lori Fradkin, who joined TIME in 2018, is being promoted to Executive Editor.

Nikhil Kumar will be overseeing our AI, Climate, and Health teams, working with those reporters and editors to expand our coverage in these key verticals and the leaders shaping them for TIME.

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Together, our AI, Climate, and Health journalists have been among TIME’s most innovative and recognized. They’ve launched our new TIME100 communities, creating journalism that speaks to the decision-makers in these verticals and the individuals who follow them. That work has taken various forms, from Justin Worland’s TIMECO2 Leadership Report to our Leadership Forums and the TIME Health and TIME Health Pro magazines, which are read in thousands of doctors’ offices each day. Their stories regularly drive large audiences and generate impact by changing how readers understand their lives and futures.

Nikhil brings experience in international and business journalism, which he’ll use to make sure that our AI, Climate, and Health coverage continues to appeal to global audiences and those leading the businesses that shape them. He will supervise Senior Editors Mandy Oaklander, Kyla Mandel, and Dayana Sarkisova, along with their reporters, and collaborate across all our departments to encourage our most ambitious journalism.

Most recently, Nikhil was the deputy global editor at The Messenger and earlier, at Grid. He was formerly CNN’s bureau chief in New Delhi, overseeing the network’s coverage of India and the wider region, as well as reporting on-air for major stories. Previously, he was TIME’s South Asia bureau chief and, before that, a senior editor working on international coverage. He has also worked as an editor and foreign correspondent for the Independent and the Evening Standard. 

Nikhil will start on Jan. 6 and will be working out of our New York office.

To support our high ambitions for 2025, Lori Fradkin has been promoted to Executive Editor. A talented newsroom leader, Lori will oversee Senior Editor of Ideas AJ Hess and their team of editors, as well as Editor-at-Large Belinda Luscombe, Senior Correspondent Sean Gregory, and Correspondent Eliana Dockterman. In this expanded role, Lori will continue to edit many of our most experienced reporters as well as work with outside writers on ambitious stories and essays, producing cover stories and features that drive conversation and support our top initiatives. Lori, who in recent years oversaw the launch of Closers and Latino Leaders, will also continue to run and contribute to tentpole projects like Person of the Year. Lori will also be a key connector between the Editorial, Legal, and People Departments.

Anyone who has worked with Lori knows the passion she brings to every story. She’s a judicious editor with a sharp eye for detail and ability to bring out the best in a story. Lori has a particular talent for working with outside contributors, such as Nicole Chung and R.O. Kwon, on essays, often about our inner lives. Among the high-impact stories Lori edited in 2024 were profiles of MrBeast, Noah Lyles, and Caitlin Clark. Already a trusted adviser to many colleagues in the newsroom, as an Executive Editor she’ll become a member of our editorial leadership team.

Lori joined TIME in New York following five years at Cosmopolitan, with previous roles at The Huffington Post, AOL, and New York magazine.

Welcome back, Nikhil, and congratulations, Lori.

Sam

source https://time.com/7204307/time-names-new-executive-editors/

The Troubling Truth About the World War II-Era Rose Bowl That Became Part of American Sports Lore

New Year’s Day has been marked by an annual tradition since 1916: two college football teams square off in the Rose Bowl, a game known for an extravagant parade and competitive gridiron action. The game is typically played in Pasadena, Calif., and associated with the Big 10 and PAC-12 Conferences — though the rise of the college football playoffs has upended the traditional pairing of teams. 

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However, in 1942, during World War II, the game was held in a very different setting. That year, Duke University hosted the Rose Bowl in North Carolina, the first time (and only time, until 2021) that the famous game was played outside of Pasadena. 

This unusual edition of the Rose Bowl has become legendary in Duke football lore — its university football center used to include a display celebrating the matchup. But one piece of the story is conspicuously absent from the narrative: all of the players on both teams were white. This history exposes how, despite claims that sports are the ultimate cultural unifier, especially in moments of tragedy, they can bring together an “us” that is too often determined by exclusion.

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and with Japan posing an active threat, government officials deemed large gatherings on the West Coast too dangerous. Lieutenant General John DeWitt, commander of the U.S. Fourth Army, and California Governor Culbert Olson cancelled the Rose Bowl parade and game.

There was still plenty of support for playing the game elsewhere, especially from Oregon State, the West Coast team slated to play in its first Rose Bowl. About two weeks before kick off, officials decided that Duke, the East Coast competitor, would host the event.

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Wallace Wade, after whom Duke’s stadium would eventually be named, coached a formidable Blue Devil team. Duke had a 9-0 regular season record, averaged 34.5 points a game, and had scored at least 50 points three times during the season. 

Tickets sold out in 48 hours for the novel event. Oregon State’s team traveled to Durham by train and arrived on Christmas Eve after a 3,417-mile journey. 

The game drew approximately 56,000 fans, more than Duke Stadium would ordinarily hold. This forced the school to borrow bleachers from the nearby University of North Carolina and North Carolina State. 

Yet, amid all of the excitement and spectacle, Black players and coaches were missing. There were none on either team, and Duke barely allowed Black fans to attend. 

Despite their current overrepresentation in football, Black athletes were systemically excluded from participating in this big game. At root was Southern segregation and something called “the gentleman’s agreement,” which was an unspoken policy between Northern and Southern institutions. Essentially, this deal dictated that Northern schools would restrict their Black players from intersectional competitions.

The history of Duke football revealed the policy’s impact. The Blue Devils hadn’t competed against a Black football player until 1938, when they traveled to New York to challenge Syracuse. And an opposing Black football player wouldn’t compete on Duke’s campus for eight more years — until a game against Pittsburgh in 1950.

In this context, the intentional exclusion of Black players in the Rose Bowl wasn’t necessarily a surprise. And while Oregon State was situated outside of these geographic bounds, their team was also without Black players. Further, their only Japanese American player was legally unable to travel to the game due to military restrictions. He was later forced into an internment camp because of Executive Order 9066.

But the barring of Black fans was something different. Duke typically reserved a small, segregated section for Black attendees. This policy wasn’t initially extended to the Rose Bowl, though, despite the addition of 20,000 seats to the stadium to meet the demand for admission. On Dec. 20, 1941, the Carolina Times, Durham’s preeminent Black newspaper, brought attention to the issue in a piece headlined, “Negroes are barred from Rose Bowl.” Worried this kind of criticism would interfere with talk of the game, Duke found 140 tickets for Black attendees. 

Oregon State ended up beating Duke 20-17, and the Rose Bowl returned to Pasadena the following year. 

Historically, memory of the game typically centers on the fact that it was played at all. It was an early example of how political and cultural leaders relied on sports as the ultimate source of unity, especially during challenging times. Threads of nationalism and patriotism infiltrated these narratives. According to an editorial in the New Year’s Eve edition of The Durham Sun, “Regardless of who wins the ball game on New Year’s Day, one thing is certain — America will triumph,” as the wartime disruptions “couldn’t stop Americans.”

The game set a template: other athletic events would continue throughout World War II.

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More recently, Americans witnessed this use of sports after 9/11 and the Boston Marathon bombings, and by August 2020, MLB, the NBA, the WNBA, and the NHL had all found ways to resume play despite a global pandemic that demanded physical isolation. Each time, commentators described these sporting events as necessary acts that helped bring Americans together following tragedies. 

The 1942 Rose Bowl, however, raises a question about this framing: who, exactly, gets to be included in American society in these scenarios when leaders envision Americans coming together? The game illustrates how the choice was — and is — an active, structural decision, one that takes power and hierarchy into account. Despite idealized representations of sports as a meritocracy, racialized, gendered, classed, and ableist inequality and difference often drive who gets to be a part of unity engendered by sports.

In 1942, this meant that the Rose Bowl was really only accessible for white players and coaches, and almost entirely reserved for white fans. The racial traditions of the South meant that the “us” that administrators hoped to bring together by playing the game was only a portion of the American population. In that regard, the Rose Bowl was reflective of the entire American war effort. Despite a propaganda campaign encouraging all Americans to come together and do their part to defeat the Axis and totalitarianism, the U.S. military remained rigidly segregated with people of color subjugated into subordinate roles and Black soldiers discriminated against abroad and at home.

It’s important to keep the question of inclusivity in mind when analyzing sports, and especially the pomp, pageantry, and patriotism so often tied to the games. Too frequently, performative unity and calls for Americans to come together are a cloak for inequality and exclusion. Sports can be a great unifier — but in many cases, leaders claim that branding without actually making them inclusive.

Tracie Canada is the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. She is the author of Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football (University of California Press, 2025) and the director of the Health, Ethnography, and Race through Sports (HEARTS) Lab.

Made by History takes readers beyond the headlines with articles written and edited by professional historians. Learn more about Made by History at TIME here. Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of TIME editors.

source https://time.com/7202665/rose-bowl-history-world-war-ii/

Officials Say New Orleans Driver Who Killed 10 Was ‘Hell-Bent on Carnage’

A driver in a pickup truck who officials said was “hell-bent on carnage” sped through a crowd of pedestrians in New Orleans’ bustling French Quarter district, killing 10 and injuring 30 in an act being investigated as a New Year’s Day terrorist attack.

The attack occurred around 3:15 a.m. Wednesday along Bourbon Street, known worldwide as one of the largest destinations for New Year’s Eve parties, and with crowds in the city ballooning in anticipation for the Sugar Bowl college football playoff game at the nearby Superdome later in the day.

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“He was hell-bent on creating the carnage and the damage that he did,” said Police Commissioner Anne Kirkpatrick. She said police officers would work to ensure safety at the Sugar Bowl, indicating that the game would go on as scheduled.

“It was very intentional behavior. This man was trying to run over as many people as he could,” Kirkpatrick said.

Officials did not immediately provide an update on the status of the driver, whether there was an ongoing threat to the public or offer a suspected motive in the fatal incident at the city’s famed Canal and Bourbon Street early Wednesday.

Alethea Duncan, an assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s New Orleans field office, said officials were investigating the discovery of at least one suspected improvised explosive device at the scene.

Officials did not immediately provide an update on the status of the driver, whether there was an ongoing threat to the public or offer a suspected motive.

NOLA Ready, the city’s emergency preparedness department, said the injured had been taken to five local hospitals. A police officer was among the injured.

The White House said President Joe Biden has been briefed.

source https://time.com/7204226/officials-say-new-orleans-driver-who-killed-10-was-hell-bent-on-carnage/

Here’s What’s New on Netflix in January 2025

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If your New Year’s resolution had something to do with expanding your horizons, there are plenty of ways to do so on Netflix in January 2025.

After spending oodles of time with family, you might find cathartic the send-ups of in-law dynamics, Meet the Parents and its sequels Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers—all available Jan. 1. And for those who still want to watch holiday movies, the classic Love Actually is available Jan. 1, too.

Zillow addicts and fans of the reality TV show Selling Sunset can live vicariously through rich and famous house-hunters in New York City, as Selling the City, out Jan. 3, offers a look into the apartments in sky-high buildings with sky-high price tags.

And in news that mews, the movie Cats is leaving the site on Jan. 15.

Here’s everything coming to Netflix in January 2025—and what’s leaving.

Here are the Netflix originals coming in January 2025

Jan. 1

Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever

The Love Scam

Missing You

Number 24

Jan. 2

Cunk on Life

Stranded with my Mother-in-Law (Season 2)

Jan. 3

Bandidos (Season 2)

Love is Blind: Germany

Shafted

Selling the City

Umjolo: My Beginning, My End!

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

Jan. 4

When the Stars Gossip

Jan. 6

My Happy Marriage (Season 2)

WWE Raw 2025

Jan. 7

The Breakthrough

Gabriel Iglesias: Legend of Fluffy

Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action

Jan. 8

Dubai Bling (Season 3)

Hound’s Hill

I Am a Killer (Season 6)

Subteran

Jan. 9

American Primeval

Asura

I am Ilary

The Upshaws (Part 6)

Jan. 10

Ad Vitam

Alpha Males (Season 3)

Love is Blind: Germany

Jan. 11

Sakamoto Days

Jan. 14

Ari Shaffir: America’s Sweetheart

Single’s Inferno (Season 4)

Jan. 15

Public Disorder

Jan. 16

XO, Kitty (Season 2)

Jan. 17

Back in Action

Love Is Blind: Germany

Young, Famous, and African (Season 3)

Jan. 18

Sakamoto Days

Jan. 22

W.A.G.s to Riches

Jan. 23

The Night Agent (Season 2)

Jan. 24

The Sand Castle

Jan. 25

Sakamoto Days

Jan. 28

Liza Treyger: Night Owl

Jan. 29

Six Nations: Full Contact (Season 2)

Jan. 30

Mo (Season 2)

The Recruit (Season 2)

The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse (Season 2)

Jan. 31

Lucca’s World

The Snow Girl (Season 2)

Here are the TV shows and movies coming to Netflix in January 2025

Jan. 1

13 Going on 30

3 Ninjas: Kick Back

Apollo 13

Blended

Bruce Almighty

Colombiana

Dallas Buyers Club

Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat

Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax

Erin Brockovich

Hotel Transylvania

Hotel Transylvania 2

I Know What You Did Last Summer

Inception

Interstellar

Little Fockers

Love Actually

Meet the Fockers

Meet the Parents

Melancholia

The Net

Notting Hill

Out of Africa

Rush Hour

Rush Hour 2

Rush Hour 3

Schindler’s List

Scooby-Doo

Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed

Spider-Man

Spider-Man 2

Spider-Man 3

Jan. 7

The Graham Norton Show: Best Bits: Week of December 31, 2024

Younger (Seasons 1-7)

Jan. 9

Lion

Jan. 13

The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (Season 1)

Jan. 15

Hereditary

Krapopolis (Season 1)

Jan. 21

The Graham Norton Show: Best Bits: Week of January 10, 2025

Jan. 23

NCIS: (Seasons 1-5)

Jan. 26

You Hurt My Feelings

Jan. 28

The Graham Norton Show: Best Bits: Week of January 17, 2025

Here’s what’s leaving Netflix in January 2025

Jan. 1

Jigsaw

Jan. 3

A.X.L.

Jan. 7

65

Jan. 9

Focus

The Wedding Year

Jan. 11

The Last Tango in Halifax (Seasons 1-4)

Jan. 14

The Magicians (Seasons 1-5)

Monk (Seasons 1-8)

Jan. 15

Cats

New Amsterdam (Seasons 1-5)

Selma

Jan. 20

The Gift

Jan. 25

The Babadook

The Rental

Jan. 26

FullMetal Alchemist

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Jan. 31

21 Jump Street

22 Jump Street

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

The Next Karate Kid

Not Another Teen Movie

Project X

White Chicks

White House Down

Whitney

We’re the Millers

Zero Dark Thirty

source https://time.com/7202678/new-on-netflix-january-2025/

10 Questions to Ask Yourself at the Start of a New Year

The last of 2024 is in the rearview mirror. But before forgetting it ever existed, consider reflecting on everything good and bad and weird and inspiring that happened to you over the past 12 months.

“When we stop and stand and look back at where we’ve been, and how we felt when we were there, it can serve as a blueprint for where we want to go forward,” says Caroline Fenkel, chief clinical officer with the virtual mental-health platform Charlie Health. By asking yourself a series of probing questions, you’ll become more self-aware and figure out how to make changes that can boost your happiness and well-being in the New Year. Think of it as a “gentle inventory, rather than a high-stakes self-assessment,” she adds.

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Where to start? Ask yourself who and what strengthens or drains you. These insights can help you better manage your energy. Fenkel likes to regularly take inventory of what’s adding a net positive to her life, for example—like taking care of the ducks in her pond—and what registers as a net negative, like spending too much time on social media. If something makes you particularly happy, “do it over and over and over again,” she says. (More duck-feeding for Fenkel in 2025.)

We asked experts to share what we ought to ask ourselves at the start of 2025 to make it our best year yet.

1. What brought me genuine joy last year? And what took it away?

Take a moment to reflect on what made you happiest over the past year—and don’t overthink it. Whatever pops into your mind was a “peak experience,” says Lauren Farina, a psychotherapist in Chicago. “It reveals our truest, most authentic desires, beyond what we’ve been conditioned to believe we should be doing or what we’re expected to be doing.”

Once you’ve landed on your happiest moments, brainstorm practical ways to integrate more of those experiences into your day-to-day life in 2025. Maybe you took a trip to Sedona and were flooded with the kind of awe you haven’t felt since you were a kid. You probably can’t visit every weekend, but you could commit to other ways of spending more time in nature wherever you live, Farina suggests.

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It’s equally important to reflect on what stole your energy or diminished your spirits over the past year. What kind of boundaries can you set to limit those stressful experiences? What can you let go of or delegate to someone else? “Our feelings are messengers, and it’s our job to decipher those,” Farina says—and to make smart changes accordingly.

2. Which relationships felt nourishing, and which depleted me?

Your relationships with other people are core to your happiness, Fenkel points out. Some feed you, while others zap all your energy. Take some time to figure out who falls into which category. Then, make it a point to prioritize the connections that energize you, while taking a step back from the ones that deplete you. “Detach with love,” she advises. “You have to protect yourself, and that’s OK.”

That doesn’t necessarily mean cutting the draining person out of your life; rather, you might set boundaries around how much time you spend together, or clearly communicate expectations for interactions.

3. How balanced did my time feel between work, family time, social commitments, and rest?

Looking back, you might realize you leaned too heavily into one of these areas at the expense of others. If work dominated your 2024, think through how you can protect more of your personal time; or, if you didn’t show up professionally the way you hoped, brainstorm how you’ll shift into a new gear. “It’s so tough to live a balanced life, but the only way you’re going to have that balance is if you stop and reflect on it,” Fenkel says.

She suggests getting into the habit of doing this kind of check-in quarterly: “OK, here are the number of days I took off work last quarter and didn’t check my Slack or my email at all.” Having that type of hard data on hand will help you carve out time for what’s most important to you, she says.

4. What should I say no to? What would I like to say yes to?

If you need to get better acquainted with a certain two-letter word in 2025, start by examining the barriers that are keeping you from saying no. You might worry, for example, that you’re going to let people down, that you won’t be loved anymore, or that your friends will be mad at you, says Gabrielle Morse, a licensed mental health counselor in New York City. “Whether it’s physical discomfort or resentment, there are all sorts of things that come up emotionally from putting our needs last,” she says. Eventually, your bitterness about prioritizing other people will bubble over, tarnishing your relationships and happiness.

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On the other hand, maybe you need to say yes more, especially to things you feel like you have deprioritized because of other obligations. Lots of people stifle their own desires, like leaning into creative pursuits, to accommodate others, Morse points out. “This is an invitation to ask yourself what you want,” Morse says. “It could end up being meaningful and fulfilling.”

5. What positive qualities did I notice in myself in 2024?

When people reflect on their year, they often tick off accomplishments, like getting promoted at work. “They reduce themselves to this one thing, and they’re so much more than that,” says Morse. “What’s so much more important are the qualities they’re able to see in themselves.”

She suggests thinking about ways you’ve grown or shown strength and resilience—or been true to your authentic self. Maybe you made progress breaking old patterns, like people-pleasing, Morse points out, or set new boundaries with family. Perhaps you persevered through a challenging health diagnosis or another hardship that could have knocked you down. Celebrate those wins—they’ll help ensure the upcoming year is your best yet.

6. What am I most proud of and grateful for over the past year?

Most people are conditioned to focus on what’s going wrong. (Fires don’t put themselves out, after all.) Give yourself a break and instead reflect on something positive, Farina says, like what you’re particularly proud of or grateful for. “That can shift our perspective to filter in more of what goes right, and more of what brings us joy,” she says. “It’s a way of seeing our subconscious with a new belief system”—and that will serve you well throughout the New Year.

7. How can I make peace with last year’s problems?

This is one of Farina’s favorite ways to turn challenges into opportunities. “Problems or crises are invitations or opportunities to evolve,” she says. You might realize, for example, that in order to come to terms with your stressful job, you need to practice mindfulness; or, to improve your relationship with your mother-in-law, you’ll need to work on becoming a better communicator.

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Maybe something life-altering happened to you in 2024, and you’ll need to adopt a new mindset or communication strategy in order to cope. “Within a crisis or loss or trauma is an opportunity for you to grow,” Farina says.

8. Are my goals specific and attainable?

Targeted goals can keep you on track, but vague ones can derail you. If you want to get in shape, for example, better to commit to working out for 30 minutes every morning than simply vowing to “exercise more” or burning yourself out with three-hour gym sessions.

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“You want something that’s very specific and that you can actually do,” says Dr. Ashley Zucker, a psychiatrist with Kaiser Permanente Southern California. “It might seem like it’s not a high enough goal, but it’s a great place to start. You can always add to it later.”

Similarly, try not to overdo the number of goals you’re working on at any one time; one or two is ideal, Zucker says. Otherwise, there’s a good chance you’ll get overwhelmed and spend more time stressing than achieving.

9. Am I being kind to myself?

No matter how your year goes, you’re going to have bad days. Be honest: Do you extend yourself enough grace when you hit these road bumps? One of Zucker’s favorite questions to ask herself is: “What would I say if my daughter was in this situation?” “Play that out in your head,” she says, talking to yourself the way you would your loved one. And remember: “There’s always tomorrow, and there’s always later today. Give yourself those second, third, fourth, and fifth opportunities.”

10. What would I do in 2025 if I weren’t afraid?

Reflecting on what you would do if you weren’t consumed with worry can help expose the ways fear plays a role in your daily life. “It’s not that we should never make decisions out of fear,” Farina adds. “But we should at least pause before defaulting to a fear-based choice.” By considering the ways that being afraid is holding you back, you might take a leap of faith in 2025 that changes the course of your year for the better.

source https://time.com/7199583/questions-to-ask-yourself-new-years-resolutions/