Korva Coleman

Big tech company Amazon says it plans to spend $200 billion this year on AI data centers and other tech needs, but investors are spooked over the big AI bet.

Amazon shares dropped by 10 percent yesterday.

NPR's Alina Selyuk has more.

The National Weather Service says the Northeast and the Mid-Atlantic regions will get another round of frigid air this weekend.

This will be coupled with strong winds that could blow down power lines.

Weather forecasters say some snow squalls could occur.

There have been several days of exceptionally cold air in the northeast, the mid-Atlantic, and parts of the south.

I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News in Washington.

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman.

Israel has narrowly reopened the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt.

It's been entirely closed since July 2024 in the midst of the war with Hamas.

Israel is limiting crossings.

Only 50 Palestinians can cross in each direction every day.

Parts of the federal government are still shut down this morning.

Congress didn't fund all agencies by last week's deadline.

On Friday, the Senate passed a huge bill to reopen them, but it only funded the Department of Homeland Security for two weeks.

Speaker Mike Johnson says the House now needs to meet and pass the bill in order to end the shutdown.

He spoke to NBC's Meet the Press.

A preschooler and his father arrested in Minneapolis and moved to detention in Texas are now back home.

A federal judge ordered their release.