Tracy Mumford

Senator Angus King, an independent from Maine, where federal agents have also launched a ramped-up immigration enforcement operation, said on CBS yesterday that he shared Democrats' concerns and that ICE funding should be voted on separately.

At least one Republican senator has also raised concerns about the shooting.

Bill Cassidy of Louisiana said it was incredibly disturbing and called for a joint federal-state investigation, saying, quote, the credibility of ICE and DHS are at stake.

The gigantic winter storm that crossed over much of the U.S.

this weekend brought record-breaking low temperatures, dumped more than a foot of snow in 17 states, and knocked out power for hundreds of thousands of people.

The National Weather Service said Bonita Lake, New Mexico, got the most snow of anywhere in the country, recording 31 inches.

The heavy snow, combined with ice in the south, caused chaos for travelers.

Yesterday, nearly 40 percent of all flights in the country were canceled.

The storm also turned deadly in some states.

At least 11 people from Texas to New York died amid the bitter cold.

Forecasters are now warning that those dangerous conditions could remain for days.

About 80 percent of Americans will see freezing temperatures in the next week, and many cities have been rushing to open warming centers for those affected by the cold.

About a decade ago, genetic researchers started recruiting kids across the U.S.

for an ambitious study to track brain development.

They did MRIs, clinical tests, and took DNA samples, telling parents that it could help lead to breakthrough discoveries.

They also told the families that all that sensitive data would be closely guarded by the National Institutes of Health.

That is not what happened.

Instead, a group of fringe researchers got around the NIH's safeguards and accessed data from over 20,000 kids.

They used it to churn out at least 16 papers, arguing things like white people are intellectually superior or ranking ethnicities by IQ scores.

Those conclusions, which mainstream scientists have rejected as biased and unscientific, have become fodder for racist posts that have gone viral on social media.