January 2020

Powerful Nationwide Storms Take Out Power, Cancel Flights And Leave 9 Dead

At least nine people died, more than 1,000 flights were canceled and hundreds of thousands were without power in seven states on Saturday as a massive winter storm system dumped snow, freezing rain and hail from Texas to Michigan. Hurricane-force wind gusts, golf-ball-sized hail and 2 to 5 inches (5-13 cm) of snow fell on

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Seven Days in January: How the U.S. and Iran Approached the Brink of War

Still, watching television in Florida, Mr. Trump grew agitated by the chaos and ready to authorize a more robust response. And on Dec. 31, even as the protests were beginning, a top secret memo began circulating, signed by Robert C. O’Brien, his national security adviser and, listing potential targets, including an Iranian energy facility and

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Does Running a City of 100,000 People Make You President Material?

For many decades of municipal history — amid the ribbon cuttings and council meetings and constituent complaints about trash pickup — generations of small-city mayors have caught their reflection in a City Hall bathroom mirror, taken stock of it all and concluded, consciously or not: That person should probably not be the next president of

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Iran plane crash: Missile struck underneath cockpit – Ukraine

Ukraine’s top security official, Oleksiy Danilov, has told the BBC that his country’s investigators had already gathered evidence that a missile brought down a Ukrainian passenger jet, before Iran changed its position. After initially denying responsibility, Tehran has admitted that Ukraine International Airlines flight PS-752 crashed as a result of “human error” when it was

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