Dua Halisa-Cautel

Ahead of the March primary in Texas, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett and State Representative James Tallarico faced off in their first public debate Saturday.

The Texas newsroom's Blaise Ganey reports on how this could factor in to who will be the Democratic Party nominee in the U.S.

Senate race.

The powerful winter storm making its way across two-thirds of the U.S.

is expected to hit the Northeast Sunday.

Steve Kastenbaum reports New York could receive its heaviest snowfall in years.

More than 15,000 flights have already been canceled.

This is NPR News from New York.

Polls in Myanmar opened at 6 a.m.

local time in the last round of that Southeast Asian country's controversial general election, backed by China and Russia, but called illegitimate by the United Nations.

Myanmar's military-led party, the USDP, or Union Solidarity and Development Party, has already secured the majority of seats in its national parliament, according to the government's election commission.

All this while a civil war is ongoing.

More than 60 people have been killed in Afghanistan after three days of heavy snowfall and rain-triggered landslides.

The unusually cold weather has come at a time when thousands of Afghans have been forcibly deported with little help or aid, as NPR's Dia Hadid reports.

And I'm Duahli Saikantel, NPR News in New York City.

Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dua Halisa-Cautel.

U.S.

military forces have destroyed another small boat, allegedly smuggling drugs in the Pacific.

NPR's Quill Lawrence reports U.S.

Southern Command says one man aboard was killed.