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The tracking site FlightAware.com says more than 1,500 flights have been canceled in the U.S.

so far today.

Delays are being reported at major East Coast hubs.

Millions of Americans are dealing with an early blast of wintry weather.

As NPR's Matt Bloom reports, the National Weather Service says the cold snap will persist through the early part of this week.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting envoys from President Trump.

They include Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and Steve Witkoff.

This comes as Hamas has handed over the remains of an Israeli soldier who was killed in action in Gaza in 2014.

Israel has been handing over the remains of Palestinians.

The exchanges are part of a ceasefire brokered by the U.S.

President Trump is set to welcome the interim Syrian president to the White House today.

Ahmed al-Sharra helped lead the overthrow of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad nearly a year ago.

Al-Sharra is expected to urge Trump to repeal sanctions imposed on Syria while Assad's family control the country.

Today marks the 50th anniversary of a Great Lakes maritime tragedy, and Piers Netta-Uleby reports 29 men died on November 10, 1975, during the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

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