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. It's all being fed by a brutal blast of Arctic air that's bringing the season's coldest air to date. "An expansive winter storm will produce a swath of heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain from the Southern Rockies/Plains and Mid-South starting Friday and shifting toward the East Coast through Sunday," the Weather Prediction Center warned Tuesday morning. 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.
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. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Halligan's exit in a post on X Tuesday evening, writing that it "is a significant loss" for the department and noting that she "will continue to serve her country in other ways." read more
Nasa's mega rocket has been moved to the launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida, as the final preparations get underway for the first crewed mission to the Moon in more than 50 years. read more
At least 21 people have died in a train collision in southern Spain and left dozens more injured, as authorities warned the death toll could increase in Spain's worst rail crash in more than a decade. Carriages on a Madrid-bound train derailed and crossed over to the opposite tracks, colliding with an oncoming train in Adamuz, near the city of Crdoba. read more
AF1 is now about 500 miles east of Newfoundland. It's a C-32A so he is flying to Davos on an old 757. LOL. His plane broken so he's taking an Uber.
There will be a lot of ketchup flinging on that flight.