'America under attack' and crack down on people traffickers

In the words of the Times, the deadly attack in New Orleans marked the moment when New Year celebrations "turned to carnage".

A resident of the city describes, in the Daily Mirror, seeing a number of bodies lying beneath him as he looked down at the scene of the truck ramming from a nightclub balcony.

"It was unimaginable," he tells the paper - "something you can't unsee and which you will never forget".

The Daily Mail's website focuses on victims of the attack - reporting that the first person to be publicly identified was an 18-year-old girl who'd travelled from Mississippi to New Orleans to see in the New Year with her cousin.

The Daily Telegraph quotes US media reports as saying that the suspect, a former soldier from Texas, is believed by family members to have begun to convert to Islam within the last year.

A man who says he's a brother of Shamsud-Din Jabbar tells the New York Times that he was "a nice guy, really smart and caring" -- and that what he'd done in New Orleans didn't represent Islam but was "more some type of radicalisation."

The Sun reports that some bollards, which should have been in place to protect pedestrians, were missing as they were being replaced ahead of next month's Super Bowl.

The Times calls car-rammings the jihadists' "tactic of choice".

Describing the approach as unsophisticated and low-tech, the paper says accessing a truck doesn't raise the same red flags as attempting to acquire explosive materials, thereby minimising the potential for detection by law enforcement.

On its front page, the Guardian highlights research pointing to plummeting voter turn-out among renters and non-graduates.

According to the Institute for Public Policy Research, the gap in turnout between those with, and without, degrees grew by 11 percentage points at last year's general election - double that of 2019.

The IPPR says this suggests a growing disillusionment with politics among some social groups. It concludes the UK is close to "a tipping point", at which elections begin to lose legitimacy.

Reporting the news that record numbers of patients in England are being diagnosed with cancer at an early stage, the Times highlights an initiative to offer checks to people at shopping centres, sports stadiums and car parks.

Data from a programme to provide targeted lung health checks and liver scanning shows that more than five-thousand people have been diagnosed with lung cancer earlier than they would have been, since the scheme was launched in 2019.

Finally, the Mail, the i, and the Star all highlight warnings of snow for large areas of the country this weekend. The SUN focuses on the floods hitting parts of north-west England. It publishes a front page photograph of a driver being rescued from a water-logged car near Manchester Airport -- accompanied by the headline: "So Much For Dry January!".

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