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Meteorologists don't have the specific forecast ready yet, but there is a growing consensus that December will be a frigid one for parts of the United States.
The National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center says colder-than-normal weather is most likely in the northern and northeastern United States, but some forecasters say a complex dance involving the polar vortex could send some of the coldest weather on Earth toward the US.
Even though the record-long federal government shutdown has ended, funding for the energy assistance program that helps millions of low-income families heat their homes has yet to come through.
Last year, the funding was distributed to states by the end of October, and officials now say it may not arrive until the end of November.
The woman said she walked into an OBGYN's office on Fort Hood, an Army base in Texas, nearly a year ago because she wasn't sure what to take for her sinus infection during her pregnancy.
Dawn Wheeler followed every twist and turn of the government shutdown. In some ways, she said, she felt like her life was on the line.
The 59-year-old from Edwardsville, Kansas, is one of millions of Americans who buy health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace, and who could see the cost of her premium skyrocket next year unless Congress extends COVID-19-era ACA tax credits.
The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote Tuesday, Nov. 18, on a measure that would force the Justice Department to release all of its records on disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Thousands of laid off federal workers would keep their jobs as part of a deal to end the federal government shutdown that also prohibits new terminations through Jan. 30.
The legislation cleared the Senate Nov. 9 and now heads to the House after eight Democrats joined with Republicans to approve the measure.
WASHINGTON – Millions of Americans on food assistance breathed a sigh of relief Sunday after lawmakers reached a tentative deal that could protect their benefits through next year.
WASHINGTON — The Senate took a first big step Sunday night toward ending the longest-ever U.S. government shutdown amid mounting pressure for Congress to act as Americans cope with halted food stamps and canceled flights weeks before the holidays.
In a long-anticipated announcement, President Donald Trump and his top health care aides urged pregnant women not to take Tylenol unless it was absolutely necessary, and announced an array of efforts aimed at understanding Autism Spectrum Disorder.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said protesters who yelled at him during a dinner in Washington, D.C., were “a threat” who could be jailed and declared the anti-fascist antifa movement a terrorist organization whose funding he would try to track despite the group’s diffuse membership.
Trump also questioned the renewal of broadcast licenses for television stations whose hosts ridicule him on their comedy shows.
LONDON − For President Donald Trump, the spectacle may be the point. He likes that kind of thing. And the British royals − a king, queen, two princes, a princess and various other blue-blooded hangers-on − are experts in delivering guards of honor, flyovers, historic carriages, lavish feasts and other forms of gilt-edged pageantry.
Trump is a self-confessed superfan of the British royal family. "I hate to say it, but nobody does it like you people in terms of the pomp and ceremony,” Trump said during a visit to Scotland in July. "Windsor,” he said this week, referring to the oldest and largest occupied castle in the world that, since its founding by William the Conqueror in the 11th century, has been the home of 40 monarchs, is "amazing."
Robert Redford, the legendary leading man with boyish good looks and charm who used his starpower to advocate for independent filmmaking, environmentalism and LGBTQ rights, has died at age 89.
WASHINGTON – When Amy Coney Barrett was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court five years ago, her supporters assumed and her critics feared she would be a reliable vote for President Donald Trump.
But in an interview with USA TODAY, Barrett declared: "I'm nobody's justice."
The Army announced the cancellation of its flagship officer selection program Sept. 2 after officials in Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's office directed its review.
WASHINGTON – The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted on party lines on Aug. 3 to create a special panel to reinvestigate the events of the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection.
WASHINGTON — The House Oversight Committee released thousands of pages of documents from the government's investigation of Jeffrey Epstein as the fight over the disgraced financier and sex offender's files reignited after lawmakers returned to Washington.
WASHINGTON – Congress' summer break is over, and lawmakers don't have much time to waste if they want to keep the federal government's lights on through October.
People travel for many different reasons, from seeing family to fulfilling lifelong dreams. Bill Pollak does it to keep a promise to his late wife Karin.