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Susan McAllister can still see Alex Pretti, who was her music student all four years he attended Green Bay Preble High School, standing in the bass section of the choir.
“My heart is broken under Alex’s death. And of course, like everybody else, I am deeply angry,” McAllister said at a meeting of the Green Bay School Board held on Jan. 26. “But I am also so, so proud of the young man I knew.”
Extremely cold weather isn't going away soon for a swath of the United States from Texas to New England, as impacts from a deadly winter storm linger.
The monster storm has already dumped sleet, freezing rain and snow over much of the country, disrupting travel and leaving hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses without power in eastern and southern states. Now, widespread subzero temperatures and wind chills are expected to keep impacting millions of Americans into late January.
Tens of millions of Americans awoke on Jan. 22 to some form of winter weather alert, as a winter storm takes shape in the southwestern U.S. and threatens to spread huge totals of snow and freezing rain from New Mexico to New England over the next few days.
The major storm is set to hit starting on Jan. 23 and will stretch into the weekend, spreading snow and ice from the southern Plains to the Northeast, according to forecasters. The National Weather Service said the system is expected to move across the East Coast through the weekend.
President Donald Trump swept back into the White House last year amidst a series of promises he laid out during his Jan. 20 inaugural address: Prosperity. Security. Respect. Hope.
For millions of conservatives, Trump's return to power was a dream come true. For millions of liberals, a nightmare. And a year later, whether you think he's succeeded so far or failed miserably depends heavily on your political persuasion. While Republicans overwhelmingly believe the president is doing a great job, Democrats are furious at how quickly Trump has shifted the country's norms, relationships and reputation.
Over the past year, many Americans became increasingly unable to recognize the world in which their neighbors live because their view is so colored by how they see the president himself.
Following Charlie Kirk’s death, public universities fired and censured employees who posted critical comments about the conservative icon. Months later, and with some legal pressure, a handful of schools are reversing course.
In recent months, at least three fired professors have reclaimed their jobs, and three more have had suspensions lifted or investigations concluded in their favor. One of those employees, Darren Michael at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee, also secured a $500,000 settlement from his public university, The Tennessean, a member of the USA TODAY Network reported.
Verizon will offer customers impacted by a seven-hour outage a $20 credit, the company confirmed to USA TODAY.
The nation's largest wireless network outage began around 12:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Jan. 14 and impacted more than 1.5 million customers, according to data service outage resource Downdetector.
President Donald Trump spoke again about $2,000 tariff rebate checks, though their funding and legality remain questionable.
Pressed by reporters at The New York Times on when Americans would get the checks he has floated over the last several months, Trump mentioned the $1,776 "warrior dividends" sent to the military for the holidays.
"The tariff money is so substantial. That’s coming in, that I’ll be able to do $2,000 sometime. I would say toward the end of the year," he told the Times in an exclusive sit-down on Jan. 7. The transcript of that conversation was published Jan. 11.
President Donald Trump spoke again about $2,000 tariff rebate checks, though their funding and legality remain questionable.
Pressed by reporters at The New York Times on when Americans would get the checks he has floated over the last several months, Trump mentioned the $1,776 "warrior dividends" sent to the military for the holidays.
"The tariff money is so substantial. That’s coming in, that I’ll be able to do $2,000 sometime. I would say toward the end of the year," he told the Times in an exclusive sit-down on Jan. 7. The transcript of that conversation was published Jan. 11.
JACKSON, Mississippi − A suspect connected to the alleged arson at a historic synagogue told federal authorities that he lit the fire due to "the building's Jewish ties," according to a federal affidavit filed Jan. 12.
The affidavit identifies the suspect in the blaze at Beth Israel Congregation synagogue as Stephen Spencer Pittman, 19. A criminal complaint states that he is charged with arson of property used in interstate commerce. A Jan. 12 news release from Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said that more charges could be filed pending the ultimate outcome of the investigation.
WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump said he's considering military options in Iran and following through on his threat to attack the Iranian regime after anti-government protests in the country have turned increasingly deadly.
"The military is looking at it, and we're looking at some very strong options. We'll make a determination," Trump told reporters Jan. 11 aboard Air Force One as he returned to Washington after spending the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
Two people were injured on Jan. 8 in a shooting involving federal agents in Portland, Oregon, authorities said, prompting local leaders and law enforcement to plead for calm after tensions were heightened across the nation over the fatal shooting of a Minnesota woman by immigration agents a day earlier.
Portland police officers responded to a report of a shooting at around 2:18 p.m. local time, Portland Police Chief Bob Day said at an evening news conference. Officers confirmed that federal agents were involved in the shooting.
WASHINGTON ‒ Even before the United States seized control of Venezuela and ousted its leader, some of President Donald Trump's allies worried he was giving too much attention abroad while Americans made clear their top concern was the economy and cost of living at home.
Now, following the capture of Nicolás Maduro, Trump is already talking about other foreign objectives.
While Trump says the United States will "run" Venezuela and tap the country's vast oil supply, he's warned that Cuba is on the verge of collapsing next, threatened military intervention in Colombia and renewed his call for the United States to seize Greenland, which is part of Denmark. He's even given his foreign policy a name, the "Donroe Doctrine," a rebranding of the early 19th century's Monroe Doctrine.
WASHINGTON – One in three Americans approve of the U.S. military strike to remove Nicolás Maduro from the presidency of Venezuela to face federal drug-trafficking charges, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released Jan. 5.
In contrast, 72% of respondents worried about the United States becoming too involved in the South American country.
The two-day poll found a sharp partisan divide over the raid that President Donald Trump ordered, with his approval rating at 42%. The results found 65% of Republicans back the military operation, compared to 11% of Democrats and 23% of independents.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Jan. 1 inauguration and block party reflected a diverse city looking to make good on the 34-year-old democratic socialist’s promises to address affordability.
On a freezing New Year’s Day, the Democratic mayor took his ceremonial oath of office on the steps of City Hall, with thousands of people lining several Manhattan blocks and a slate of celebrities championing him with Millennial cultural touchstones. Mamdani acknowledged people, including those outside the five boroughs, want to see how a leftist will manage a municipal government.
In just a few months, President Donald Trump has instituted a series of policies that have been stunning in scope. He ordered the arrest and deportation of thousands of undocumented immigrants, sent the National Guard into the streets of some of the nation’s largest cities, and directed the military to blow up boats at sea that his administration suspected of smuggling drugs into the country.
When Mayor Frank Picozzi learned Warwick, Rhode Island, had topped a list of the safest cities in the United States, he wasn't surprised.
The charming city on the coast took advantage of federal money handed out during the COVID-19 pandemic to bolster its fleet of fire trucks and police vehicles, part of a yearslong effort to help improve public safety, which Picozzi credits with helping the city rise through rankings.
WASHINGTON – Bill Clinton had his moment in the spotlight when the Epstein files were first released. It was Donald Trump's turn on Tuesday.
The sitting president's name surfaced repeatedly in a new tranche of thousands of documents in the Justice Department's "Epstein Library" released Dec. 23.
A week after Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner were found dead in their home, their family shared that they are planning a memorial ceremony for the couple.
Their children, Jake and Romy Reiner, revealed that information about the service will be forthcoming in a Dec. 22 statement to the Los Angeles Times and People.
The FBI received a complaint about Jeffrey Epstein in 1996, nearly a decade before they investigated his activities in Florida and more than two decades before the Department of Justice brought sex trafficking charges.
The complaint was made public as part of a larger document release Dec. 19 under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The document is redacted so that the complainant is not named, but Maria Farmer and her lawyer quickly identified it as hers.