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What is the impact of the winter storm on the U.S.?
A mammoth winter storm is bearing down on much of the U.S. Tens of millions of people are under winter storm warnings. National Weather Service meteorologist Frank Pereira says these warnings reach from Albuquerque, New Mexico, across the U.S. to western Pennsylvania.
Perhaps even up to half the U.S. population will be impacted by this storm, which is going to develop later today over parts of the United central and southern Rockies into the plains. He's going to gradually work his way further to the east, bringing a widespread swath of heavy snow all the way from the southern central Rockies eastward to eventually New England by this weekend.
He says right after the storm passes, Arctic cold will settle on much of the same area. Snow and ice won't be able to melt. People who are in the dark might not get their power back for a while. Temperatures will be dangerously cold for days. Video-sharing app TikTok has finished negotiating a deal to sell most of its Chinese stake to new investors. This sale was motivated by a federal law. It forces Chinese owners to divest from TikTok over U.S. national security concerns. The Republican-led House has blocked a resolution to limit President Trump's war powers in Venezuela. NPR's Claudia Grisales reports the resolution failed in a tie vote.
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mass led the opposition against the resolution, arguing U.S. military operations in Venezuela are over. There are no troops in Venezuela. We are not at war. But Massachusetts Democrat Jim McGovern argues Republicans are making excuses.
The best we can get from the current majority here is that there's never a good time for Congress to assert its war powers.
Just two Republicans, Thomas Massey of Kentucky and Don Bacon of Nebraska, joined all Democrats in the vote to force President Trump to seek congressional approval for the use of military forces inside Venezuela. Claudia Gisales, NPR News.
President Trump had a consequential first year back in office. NPR's Tamara Keith reports he faced little internal pushback.
In Trump's first term, there were a lot of people in the administration who tried to rein in his impulses. This time, he said his people, quote, don't rebuff me too much.
I told you we're going to do a lot of things. Nobody thought it was going to turn out like this. This has been crazy.
That was Trump at a recent speech in Detroit. Ty Cobb is an attorney who worked in the Trump White House in 2017 and 2018.
Trump was still learning the levers of government and had not yet determined as he has now that he can do whatever he wants if he finds the people who are willing to be loyal to him.
Loyalty was a key test for administration hires this term. Tamara Keith, NPR News.
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Activists in Minnesota are calling for a general strike today. They oppose the tactics of federal immigration agents in the state. Local officials say federal agents are breaking into homes without judicial warrants and jailing American citizens without cause. The prime minister of Denmark has met with NATO's secretary general. Greenland is still a big focal point after President Trump said this week in Davos, Switzerland, he had a deal for total U.S. access to the island. Greenland is controlled by Denmark. No terms of Trump's deal have been released. Controversy continues over a U.S.-funded vaccine trial slated to begin in the West African nation of Guinea-Bissau.
And peers Gabriela Emanuel has more.
The trial is receiving $1.6 million from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study the hepatitis B vaccine as it's given to some 14,000 infants. Physicians and bioethicists have called the study unethical and unnecessary, pointing to decades of evidence showing the vaccine to be safe and effective. Quinhen Nantote, the minister of public health in Guinea-Bissau, spoke in Portuguese through an interpreter.
We decided to suspend or even cancel the above-mentioned study.
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