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A federal judge on Friday ruled that construction on the $16 billion Gateway Tunnel project in New York City and New Jersey may resume.

This after the Trump administration blocked the infrastructure project.

The ruling is temporary, pending a hearing next week.

Congress approved the funding, but the Trump administration froze the money after it said it was reviewing the DEI policies of transportation projects that receive federal funds.

The tunnel will run below the Hudson River and be used by Amtrak and New Jersey trains that connect in New York City.

California's largest pediatric hospital system is ending its gender-affirming care for youth.

Kevin Tidmarsh of member station Ellis has more on this and other closures like it across the U.S.

Pizza Hut says it will close 250 restaurants in the first half of this year as the company considers a sale.

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The federal government is partially shut down this after Congress failed to fully fund it.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, though, says he expects the shutdown to end this week.

NPR's Luke Garrett reports.

Millions of people from Georgia to Virginia are digging out after a powerful winter storm blanketed parts of the southeast with more than a foot of snow in some areas.

Nick DeLaCanal with member station WFAE in Charlotte told Howis the region is coping with this much snow.

Overnight low temperatures in Florida reached the mid-20s, the coldest there in 90 years.

A Russian drone attack on a Ukrainian energy company boss has killed at least 12 people and injured 16 additional.

Many of the dead were coal miners returning from their shifts.