Dale Willman

Some 240 million people are now under cold weather advisories or winter storm warnings there.

And in West Virginia, a low temperature of minus 27 degrees was recorded early Saturday morning.

Forecasters say the frigid temperatures should linger throughout the region into February.

NASA has resumed efforts to contact a probe that's orbiting Mars.

As Joe Palka reports, the spacecraft was last heard from on December 6th.

Air travelers flying in the U.S.

without a real ID or another acceptable form of identification will be required to pay a $45 fee starting Sunday.

The TSA says the fee is not a penalty, instead it's payment to use the new TSA Alternative Identity Verification Program.

The process can take as long as 30 minutes to complete and could cause travelers to miss their flights.

I'm Dale Willman, NPR News in Washington.

Live from NPR News in Washington, D.C., I'm Dale Willman.

The federal government is under yet another partial shutdown this weekend.

The Senate Friday voted to fund most of the government through September.

It also carved out a short-term extension for Homeland Security funding.

It gives Congress an additional two weeks to debate that funding.

But the House must now vote on the measures, and they're not in session.

House Speaker Mike Johnson says they won't be able to vote until at least Monday.

Yeah.

It may not be possible.

The Justice Department released more than three million pages tied to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Friday.