Lindsey Halligan, President Donald Trump's handpicked interim US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, left her position at the Justice Department Tuesday, marking an end to her turbulent tenure bringing cases against the president's political enemies. read more
A major winter storm -- the season's most extreme so far -- is set to lash the eastern half of the United States with damaging ice and heavy snow late this week. read more
France says it has seized an oil tanker in the Mediterranean suspected of being part of Russia's sanction-busting "shadow fleet". French President Emmanuel Macron said the tanker, named the Grinch, was "subject to international sanctions and suspected of flying a false flag". read more
Japan has restarted operations at the world's largest nuclear power plant for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima disaster forced the country to shut all of its reactors. read more
President Donald Trump's plane returned to the US soon after he left for the World Economic Forum in Switzerland due to a minor electrical issue. Trump is still expected to attend the forum in Davos and is planning to get on a backup plane.
It was for a similar reason as Halligan.
Sheer incompetence?