Overview
- Federal officials say they disrupted planned New Year’s attacks in Los Angeles linked to the Turtle Island Liberation Front, with court filings describing pipe-bomb building and tests.
- New Orleans requested heightened protection for New Year’s Eve and Sugar Bowl activities after the arrest of Micah James Legnon on interstate threat charges, with authorities alleging a tie to the same extremist group.
- Chicago’s joint state–federal–local assessment labels Navy Pier’s fireworks an attractive target, notes no specific or credible threat, and outlines countermeasures for vehicle rammings and drone misuse.
- New York City’s Times Square threat review highlights concern over lone offenders and small cells and flags vehicle ramming as a primary tactic of interest.
- European organizers have tightened or canceled events, including an expanded security posture at Salzburg’s Christmas market and the cancellation of Paris’s Champs-Élysées New Year’s celebration.