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President-elect Donald Trump reportedly plans to hold a rally in Washington, D.C., just a day before he's set to be inaugurated.

Trump plans to hold the event at 3 p.m. on Jan. 19 at Capital One Arena, where the Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals play, multiple sources familiar with the planning told CBS News. The arena can hold about 20,000 people.

Americans must respond to the suspected terrorist attack in New Orleans by "defiantly proceeding with their lives," national security expert Juliette Kayyem wrote for The Atlantic.

Authorities have identified the man who killed 10 during New Year's festivities in a vehicle-ramming attack as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old military veteran born in Texas. He reportedly had an ISIS flag on the truck used in the attack — and officials are treating the matter as terrorism, postponing the Sugar Bowl college game.

President-elect Donald Trump slammed "criminals coming in" from other countries after a driver plowed into dozens of people in New Orleans, killing 10 and wounding dozens of others. But Trump's statement, issued Wednesday morning, appeared to have been made before authorities identified the suspect as a 42-year-old Texas military veteran — a fact not lost on even the right-wing Fox News network.

Around 3 a.m. Wednesday, a pickup truck intentionally mowed down a crowd of New Year's revelers on Bourbon Street in the city's French Quarter. The suspect, identified as Shamsud Din Jabbar, drove a Ford F-150 Lightning truck in the attack that was apparently rented via the Turo app, the owner of the truck told ABC7.

A Tesla Cybertruck pulled up to the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas and exploded on New Year's Day, killing one person inside the vehicle, and authorities now say they're investigating the blast as a possible act of terror.

Video of the Cybertruck exploding into flames in the valet area quickly spread on the internet. The footage was captured both from guests checking into the lobby and at least one person who saw smoke from the window of a nearby hotel.

House Republicans on Wednesday proposed a new slate of rules for the next Congress, including one flagged by Axios as a "crucial alternation."

Among the changes to the standing rules proposed: "A resolution causing a vacancy in the Office of Speaker shall not be privileged except if it is offered by a member of the majority party and has accumulated eight cosponsors from the majority party at the time it is offered."

In response to the devastating vehicle-ramming attack in New Orleans on New Year's Day, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) insinuated that the Biden administration's border policy was to blame — all of which appear now to have jumped the gun.

"Terrorist attack in NOLA similar to the one in the German Christmas market," Greene wrote on X of the incident, which has left 10 dead and dozens more wounded. "What did we expect would happen with wide open borders and millions of gotaways? The problem is no one trust the FBI under the current leadership, so everyone is questioning every detail they can find in their own. What an absolute disaster America is in."

Republican lawmakers in conservative states hope to weaponize President-elect Donald Trump's election win as justification to push through extreme right-wing policies, such as steep tax cuts, anti-LGBT legislation in schools, and religion in the classroom, according to a new report.

Presidents including Trump have touted election wins to assert they have a "mandate" for sweeping changes.

A Texas man who drove into a crowded New Orleans street, killing 10 and injuring dozens of others, was in a pickup truck that had an ISIS flag on the hitch, Federal officials said in an update Wednesday afternoon.

Officials identified the driver as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, and said they do not believe he acted alone in the attack early Wednesday on Bourbon Street. Two officials told CNN that the suspect had previously served in the U.S. military.

Despite a Donald Trump endorsement on Monday for Republican Party members of the House to re-elect Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) as House Speaker, several GOP lawmakers are currently unpersuaded setting up yet another embarrassing scenario for the House majority party.

Trump's very long Truth Social post on Monday touched upon a multitude of topics before getting to the end where he wrote, “Speaker Mike Johnson is a good, hard working, religious man. He will do the right thing, and we will continue to WIN. Mike has my Complete & Total Endorsement. MAGA!!!” then adding, "LETS NOT BLOW THIS GREAT OPPORTUNITY WHICH WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN."

That "great opportunity" may have to be put on hold as several House Republicans have made it clear they either won't vote for the embattled Johnson, or will demand concessions from him before considering backing him.

A witness to the horrific attack on New Year's Eve revelers in the early hours on New Orleans' Bourbon St. told an admittedly "speechless" Pamela Brown on CNN he and others were prevented from helping victims by police.

The attack by a man in an F-150 truck, who police say intentionally drove into the crowd leaving at least ten dead and three dozen injured, is currently being investigated by the FBI as a possible act of terrorism.

Speaking with CNN's Brown, Jimmy Cothran said he was acting as a designated driver for the crowd he was with when women ran into the bar they were in shouting about the attack and claiming the driver was driving 60 miles an hour as he went through the barricades.

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Cothran then described the carnage he witnessed, including bodies being thrown into the air, as the stunned CNN host blurted " I'm speechless."

According to Cothran, he attempted to help victims sprawled on the ground but was blocked by police and had to watch as no one showed up immediately.

"I mean, just the disfigurement and the bodies strewn –– something you can't unsee, you'll never forget," he told the host. "Directly at our feet was definitely a mother, twisted up, obviously deceased"

"We counted around eight bodies very quickly, right in our area," he continued. "One gentleman crushed, had tire tracks across his back, once they rolled him over, he had tire tracks on his front –– he was completely crushed. Another girl, young, small girl, was dancing when we were coming up the street, and she was just completely flat in the middle, dead center."

"Another woman just brutally run over, but still agonizing,"he added. "I'm certified in CPR and first responder training and they wouldn't let us help, they locked us all inside, which is understandable, but nobody else was helping, so that was even tougher."

"But just the fact that these people are somebody's people, and they're not going to be there this morning, it's rough," he stated.

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Donald Trump's current flip-flopping on issues after making promises on the campaign trail could blow up in his face with his supporters not long after he takes the oath of office.

That is the opinion of an analyst for the New Republic who asserted that both the president-elect and his MAGA are all headed for a political brick wall once he tries to govern after assuming office.