New Orleans commenced its Carnival season on Monday evening with the Joan of Arc Parade, just days after a tragic attack on Bourbon Street resulted in 14 deaths. The event—which took place in the French Quarter,

Hundreds gathered in New Orleans’ famed French Quarter to celebrate the first parade of Carnival season, just blocks from where 14 people were killed five days earlier by a careening pickup.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump asked a New York appellate court on Tuesday to throw out his conviction on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, and to dismiss the case before his scheduled Friday sentencing.