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President Trump plans to pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, a convicted drug trafficker also charged with weapons crimes, who was sentenced to 45 years in prison.

Trump announced his intentions on social media, stating that, quote, According to many people I greatly respect, Hernandez was treated harshly and unfairly.

Hernandez had served two terms as the leader of Honduras.

One of Colorado's largest ski resorts delayed its slated Thanksgiving opening due to unusually mild weather.

Colorado Public Radio's Steena Sieg reports that Beaver Creek Resort has not set a new date.

Ski trails are open in parts of New England where there was some early snow.

And across the northern states, the National Weather Service is forecasting heavy lake effect snow near the Great Lakes with a major winter storm expected to deliver snow and high winds from the eastern plains to the western Great Lakes.

I'm Louise Schiavone and PR News, Washington.

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone.

Having been out of town for more than 50 days, members of the House of Representatives returned to their desks this week, voting to reopen the government with another short-term spending bill but no resolution of the standoff over the Affordable Care Act.

Moving to the top of the agenda in the coming week is a vote on the release of documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

NPR's Deirdre Walsh has the latest.

NPR's Deirdre Walsh reporting from Washington.

Immigration lawyers in San Diego say they are seeing a sudden increase in arrests of clients at the offices of U.S.

Citizenship and Immigration Services, many applying for permanent status or naturalization.

As NPR's Martin Coste reports, the attorneys say that this looks like an emerging new Trump administration approach to reducing immigration.

A major corruption probe in Ukraine is focusing on associates of President Volodymyr Zelensky and charging they were involved in a plot to skim $100 million from the country's energy sector.

All of this as Russians have been pounding Ukraine's energy hubs.