Janine Herbst

A massive winter storm is sweeping from the southwest through the Mid-Atlantic and up through New England this weekend, affecting some 200 million people.

More than a dozen states have declared states of emergency.

Russia launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Ukraine's two largest cities as Ukrainian, Russian and American envoys held peace talks in the United Arab Emirates.

NPR's Joanna Kikisis reports.

In Paris, Joanna Kikis is reporting.

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China says it's investigating the country's most senior military general.

This says China's leader, Xi Jinping, has been purging dozens of high-ranking defense officials and executives.

But NPR's Emily Fang reports this is the most high-ranking official yet to be targeted.

In Washington, D.C., crews work today to reroute millions of gallons of raw sewage that's spilling into the Potomac River in the nation's capital.

This days after the collapse of a major sewer line that carries millions of gallons of wastewater daily from Maryland and Virginia to a pumping station in D.C.,

Crews today installed high-powered pumps to divert the wastewater around the damaged area.

Utility company DC Water says around 40 million gallons a day has flowed into the river since the break on Monday.

The cause of that break isn't known.

I'm Janine Herbst, NPR News in Washington.

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In Minnesota, a U.S.

Border Patrol officer shot and killed a 37-year-old man in Minneapolis amid the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara says he believes the man was a U.S.

citizen.