The storm was moving toward the mid-Atlantic, where Washington, D.C. was bracing for heavy snow and bitter cold on Monday, the same day the U.S. Congress is set to meet and formally certify Republican Donald Trump's election as president. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson told Fox News on Sunday the weather would not prevent lawmakers from carrying out their duties.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune also said in an interview Sunday that he's willing to stand up to President-elect Donald Trump when they disagree.
A Hamas official said Sunday the group was ready to free 34 hostages in the "first phase" of a potential deal with Israel, after Israel said indirect talks on a truce and hostage release agreement had resumed in Qatar.Now, "Hamas has agreed to release 34 Israeli prisoners from a list presented by Israel as part of the first phase of a prisoner exchange deal," said an official of the Palestinian militants.
Over 60 million people are being bombarded by heavy snowfall because of the "disruptive" winter storm moving through the area, according to the NWS.
Donald Trump and his GOP allies in Congress have recently shared some of the first details of their ambitious agenda — sweeping tax cuts, border security and raising the debt limit — which they hope to muscle through in the first 100 days of the president-elect’s term.
Hamas has approved an Israeli list of 34 hostages to be exchanged in a possible ceasefire deal, Reuters reported, citing a Hamas official.
Ecuador's former Vice President Jorge Glas has been evacuated from prison after an attempt on his life, his lawyer said on Sunday, blaming the government for the situation. Sonia Gabriela Vera called for the United Nations and other international organizations to intervene after what she called an "attempted assassination" of Glas in La Roca prison. The attack "is the result of a State that has condemned him to danger, torture and slow death," Vera said on X, commenting on a post that claimed Glas had been taken from the prison amid a threat on his life from mutinying prisoners.
More than 60 million people across over a dozen states will be impacted by a major winter storm through Monday evening.
Two months after Democrats were locked out of power at the federal level, a pair of special elections in a part of northern Virginia where Donald Trump dramatically improved his performance in November will offer the first signs of how voters view the political landscape as the president-elect prepares to return to office.
Snow and ice forced the grounding of dozens of flights in Europe on Sunday, disrupting the end of the busy New Year holiday travel season.- Germany - Snow and black ice forced the cancellation of dozens of flights at Frankfurt airport, Germany's largest.
The South Carolina Democrat is eager to see if Johnson's patience with his fellow Republicans will extend across the aisle.
A major storm unfolded across the central United States this weekend, burying communities in up to a foot of snow, while others were glazed with a layer of dangerous ice. As the storm moves east through the Tennessee Valley and into the mid-Atlantic, slippery conditions and difficult travel will follow through at least Monday."AccuWeather snow experts are increasingly concerned about dangerous travel impacts from heavy snow across parts of the mid-Atlantic, including Washington, D.C., and the Ba
The US Justice Department has entered an agreement with the Antioch, California, police department, which will end an investigation into racist text messages sent and received by its officers.
The Israeli military has enlisted the first batch of about 50 recruits into its new ultra-Orthodox brigade after a controversial decision to end their decades-long exemption from service.
Several thousand people rallied in Montenegro on Sunday demanding the resignations of top security officials over the shooting earlier this week that left 12 people dead, including two children. Chanting “Resignations” and “Killers," protesters outside the Interior Ministry building in the capital, Podgorica, demanded that Interior Minister Danilo Šaranović and Deputy Prime Minister for Security and Defense Aleksa Bečić step down. Milo Perović, from a student-led group that helped organize the rally, told the crowd that innocent people died during their watch.
The active-duty US Army Green Beret who authorities say exploded a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas this week struggled with injuries relating to his military service and said he was depressed while they were together a few years ago, an ex-girlfriend of his told CNN.
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Four new members of the House hope to bring original perspectives.
Austria's conservatives said Sunday they were ready to start negotiations with the far-right Freedom party (FPOe) to form a new government, a policy U-turn after coalition talks with two centrist parties failed.Kickl, in a statement late Saturday after Nehammer's announcement that the talks had failed and he was stepping down, called the parties involved in the coalition talks "losers".
"The FBI is leading the investigation to determine what happened," Biden said in a filmed address to the nation.