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Air travel could be affected because TSA screening agents will not be paid until funding is restored.

But NPR's Ron Elving says one part of DHS will remain in full force.

That's NPR's Ron Elving reporting.

Congress, meanwhile, is in recess for the next week.

The late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny likely died from poisoning by a rare frog toxin.

That's according to a study by five European countries into his death in a remote Russian prison two years ago.

NPR's Charles Maines has more.

A tense security relationship between the U.S.

and China could be ratcheting up.

The CIA has released a new video message in Chinese as part of ongoing U.S.

intelligence efforts to recruit informants in China.

NPS Emily Fang reports.

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A cold weather system heading into northern California could bring a foot of snow to lower-lying areas starting Sunday afternoon.

And for those at higher elevations, including in the Sierra Nevadas, meteorologists say they could see from six to even eight feet of snow.

The National Weather Service is warning of potentially major travel impacts during the holiday weekend.

In Italy, the U.S.

men's hockey team has won a second straight game at the Winter Olympics.

Steve Futterman has our details.

Jordan Stoltz, meanwhile, won his second speed skating gold medal of the Milan Olympics on Saturday.