New York Times business news - Jan 2

The following are the top stories on the New York Times business pages. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

- An attack in New Orleans killed at least 15 people, injured about three dozen others and left the city of 364,000, on edge as a pickup truck rammed into New York revellers. The driver, who was killed in a shootout with police, had loaded his rented vehicle with weapons and at least one “potential” improvised explosive, authorities said.

- Aaron Brown, the longtime television anchor whose coverage during CNN’s live broadcast of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks became one of the most well-known accounts of the day, died on Sunday in Washington, D.C. He was 76.

- Investigators are looking into whether the deadly attack in New Orleans on Wednesday is linked to the detonation of a Tesla TSLA Cybertruck outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas later in the day, but they have yet to find any connection between the two episodes.