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Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. Tens of millions of people remain under blizzard warnings tonight as snow falls across the northeastern U.S. and mid-Atlantic. Forecasters say some areas can expect as much as two feet of snow. That includes parts of Connecticut, where the governor has declared a state of emergency. Chris Polanski of Connecticut Public Radio has our reports.
Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont says this snowstorm will be worse than one last month that dumped nearly 20 inches on parts of the state.
This is not our first snowstorm. We're in New England, but this is going to be a bad one. Probably the worst storm we've seen since 2013.
State Emergency Management Director William Turner agrees. It is going to be a very dangerous storm. We're looking at a multi-hazard event. We're not only talking heavy, wet snow, but also the potential for coastal flooding and very high winds. It's been many years since the entire state was under a blizzard warning like we're under now.
State officials are asking residents to stay off the roads. Commercial travel has been banned. They also say to prepare for widespread power outages that could last for days. For NPR News, I'm Chris Polanski in Hartford, Connecticut.
New Jersey is reporting 60,000 power outages at this point. Now that the Supreme Court has invalidated President Trump's tariff program, many American businesses say they want their money back. The federal government has collected more than $200 billion in tariffs, and businesses say at least half of that is theirs.
What we know for now is that the Supreme Court says about half of President Trump's tariffs from last year were unlawfully collected. So whoever paid those tariffs is owed their money back. We're talking altogether more than $100 billion in tariffs. And how that money gets returned is unclear.
That's NPR's Alina Selyuk. Trump, meanwhile, quickly used other authority to place a temporary 15% global tariff on most products. The U.S. and Iran plan to hold new talks in Geneva on Thursday. That's according to Iran's foreign minister. The goal of the meeting is to avoid what Iran says could be a regional war if the U.S. attacks. Ampere's Jane Araf reports.
Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Arakji, said he will probably meet with U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff on Thursday in Geneva in the latest negotiations on Iran's nuclear program. Oman, which has facilitated the talks, confirmed the plan. Arakji made the comments in a CBS interview in which he also said there was a good chance for a diplomatic solution on the issue. The U.S. has built up its military presence in the Middle East to the highest level in decades to back threats of an attack on Iran if negotiations fail. The U.S. administration insists that Iran not enrich uranium. Iran says the program is for peaceful purposes. while the International Nuclear Watchdog says it has not seen evidence that Iran is building a bomb.
Jane Araf, NPR News, Amman.
And this is NPR News. The Department of the Interior announced Friday it's getting ready to offer more than 2 million acres of public land to the state of Alaska. State and federal officials are applauding the change, but as Shelby Herbert from Alaska Public Media reports, some residents say it invites exploitation.
Public land orders have kept Alaska's Dalton Corridor under federal control for over 50 years. State and federal officials say doing away with them clears a path for energy and mineral production. But that's getting pushback from some Alaskans. Concerns range from environmental impacts to residents losing subsistence hunting rights. John Gaedeke is a local activist working to stop the Ambler Road mining infrastructure project on the subject lands.
From a federal standpoint, it changes how people can get food on the table, and that is not going to be good for small, marginalized communities.
The Department of the Interior says it'll publish the order in the Federal Register this week. For NPR News, I'm Shelby Herbert in Fairbanks.
The U.S. men's hockey team beat Canada 2-1 Sunday in the Olympic Finals to take the gold medal.
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