Dan Ronan

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney has appointed a new ambassador to the U.S.

As Dan Karpenchuk reports, Mark Wiseman takes over his duties in mid-February.

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The storms hitting the San Francisco Bay Area have already brought some brief flooding and some rescues, but as member station KQED reporter Samantha Kennedy tells us, it's only the beginning.

A congressional committee on Monday released its report that is critical of the military's role in the deadly plane crash near D.C.

's Reagan National Airport last January that killed 67 people when an Army Black Hawk helicopter struck a landing American Airlines jet.

The report said there were communication issues.

between the helicopter and the airport control tower, and the helicopter did not follow instructions from air traffic controllers.

Night vision goggles that the helicopters were using also made it difficult to see the incoming plane, and a navigation system that could have prevented the crash was turned off.

I'm Dan Ronan, NPR News in Washington.

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Roman.

A Republican and Democratic member of Congress who have called for the full release of the Jeffrey Epstein files are threatening to fine and possibly arrest Justice Department officials over the slow, much-redacted release of those files.

Democrat Ro Khanna and Republican Thomas Massey say this could include arresting Attorney General Pam Bondi.

The procedure was last used about 90 years ago.

Meanwhile, several of the Epstein victims are speaking out against what they say is the slow pace of the documents release.

This is Marina Lasarda.

President Trump says the U.S.

will begin producing battleships for the first time since World War II.

Steve Walsh of WHRO in Norfolk reports the president unveiled the design Monday at Florida at his Mar-a-Lago estate.

President Trump has named Louisiana's Governor Jeff Landry to be the special envoy to Greenland.