What's in store for the music, TV, and film industries for 2025?

We don't know, but we're making some fun, bold predictions for the new year.

Listen now to the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast from NPR.

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rom.

More information is emerging about the man who drove his pickup truck

into a crowd in New Orleans on Deer's Day, killing 14 people. The FBI says Shamsidin Jabbar

had visited the French Quarter twice before, using hands-free glasses to record video. He was

killed in a shootout with police.

FBI Special Agent Joshua Jackson says before the attack,

Jabbar had tried to burn down the house where he was staying.

He also set a half gallon of accelerant gasoline

in a plastic gasoline container in that hallway. He also poured accelerant in different

rooms throughout the house. We believe he did this, and his hope was to burn the entire house

down and hide evidence of his crimes. He was unsuccessful. Investigators say it appears that he

had acted alone, that he didn't have an accomplice, either in the U.S. or overseas.

They say they still don't know his motive or why he picked New Orleans.

Donald Trump becomes president again in 15 days.

House Speaker Mike Johnson says he wants to do all he can to jumpstart Trump's agenda.

He told Fox News, a priority is to extend the Trump tax cuts.

We've got to revive the U.S. economy, and we can. We know how to do it.

Part of that is preventing the largest tax increase in U.S. history, which would happen

automatically at the end of next year, if we don't get our ducks in a row.

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