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Meanwhile, Sierra Nevada storm with heavy snow in the west shut down a stretch of interstate and leaves thousands without powerA major winter storm bringing heavy snow and freezing rain to some communities spread across New England on Sunday morning, sending residents scurrying to pull out their shovels and snowblowers to clear sidewalks and driveways.Winter storm warnings and watches were in effect throughout the north-east, and icy roads made for hazardous travel as far south as North Carolina. Continue reading...

Boeing faces fresh scrutiny after door panel blows out of brand new plane, leaving a hole the size of a refrigerator'US aviation investigators were on the ground in Oregon on Sunday trying to figure out what caused a door panel to blow out of a brand new Boeing passenger jet just minutes after takeoff, forcing pilots to make an emergency landing with a hole the size of a refrigerator" in the side of the plane.The American jet maker was facing fresh scrutiny as regulators temporarily grounded the Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft after a section of a plugged exit door on an Alaska Airlines flight detached 16,000ft (4,877 meters) above Portland, Oregon, on Friday with 171 passengers and six crew on board. The weeks-old plane had been modified, requiring fewer emergency exits because it had fewer seats. Continue reading...

Lloyd Austin apologises for lack of disclosure but questions about medical procedure and the secrecy surrounding it remain unansweredUS defense secretary Lloyd Austin has said he takes full responsibility" for secrecy surrounding an ongoing, week-long hospitalisation for a still-unspecified medical condition.Austin, who is 70, was admitted on New Year's Day to Walter Reed national military medical center for what the Pentagon has said were complications following a recent elective medical procedure", a fact the defence department kept under wraps for five days.Reuters and the Associated Press contributed to this report Continue reading...

Three years after insurrection, Trump was in Newton, Iowa, currying support before the 15 January Republican caucusDonald Trump largely ducked speaking about the January 6 attack on the US Capitol during a campaign speech Saturday, which he delivered on the third anniversary of the insurrection, reflecting the degree to which Republican voters have absolved the former president of responsibility for that day's deadly consequences.Trump's remarks came a day after Joe Biden appeared in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, and spoke about how his presidential predecessor had urged his supporters to fight like hell" shortly before they staged the Capitol attack.Reuters and the Associated Press contributed reporting Continue reading...

I felt cheap when I forgot to tip for a coffee in a Brooklyn cafe - and my attempts to make up for it have cleared out my bank accountI am just back from New York and I've brought home a new anxiety dream as a souvenir. I'm paying in a cafe and a giant touchscreen asks me to choose a gratuity. The options whirl, impossibly fast: 50%, 100%, nothing, $100,000, as I try to hit the right one with sausage fingers. I fail, and face financial ruin, or have my meanness broadcast over a PA, while everyone stands around, judging: Cheapskate on table four!" Brrrr.Is there a cringier social dance than tipping? It's got everything: money, guilt, notions of generosity, discomfort around service, a tussle between our idealised and authentic (broke) selves. I need therapy after a week of agonising over it daily in the US, fumbling with screens and prompts. Should I tip for coffee, a bagel, a $2 sachet of washing powder, rung up agonisingly slowly by an extremely stoned-looking bodega employee? Continue reading...

Targeting Yemen would risk upending its fragile ceasefire, and fanning the flames of a greater conflict in the Middle EastSince Israel launched its devastating assault and invasion of Gaza after the 7 October attacks by Hamas militants, the world has been anxious about the war spreading into a wider conflict that consumes the Middle East. In recent weeks, the threat of an expanding conflict has centred on an unlikely place: the poorest country in the region, Yemen, which has suffered years of civil war.In late October, the Houthi militia in Yemen began firing missiles and drones towards Israel and then moved to seize commercial ships sailing in the Red Sea. The Houthis claimed they would prevent Israeli ships - or those registered to Israeli owners - from passing through the channel until Israel stopped its attack on Gaza. In recent weeks, the Houthis escalated their attacks on cargo ships using missiles, drones and small boats. The attacks, which crippled traffic through a vital trade route that links Asia to Europe and the US, prompted Joe Biden's administration to create an international naval operation last month to protect commercial ships in the Red Sea.Mohamad Bazzi is director of the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, and a journalism professor at New York University Continue reading...

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz - even Roseanne Barr - stand in for ex-president as his challengers struggle in the pollsOutside, traders were braving the bitter cold to sell Trump hats, T-shirts and other merchandise. Inside, hundreds of Trump supporters were proudly sporting Make America great again" (Maga) regalia. They were surrounded by big screens, loudspeakers, TV cameras, patriotic flags and Team Trump" logos.It had all the trappings of a Donald Trump campaign rally but one thing was missing: Donald Trump. Continue reading...

Claudia de la Cruz of the Party for Socialism and Liberation plans to seize control of the top 100 US corporations and disband the CIA - but recognises it will take a movement to overthrow capitalismIt's 20 January 2025, the day of the presidential inauguration. After taking the oath of office the new president, a 44-year-old woman, born in the Bronx to Dominican parents, takes her seat in the office and gets to work.In one of the first acts of Claudia de la Cruz's presidency, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk watch on as the government seizes control of Amazon and Tesla, along with all of the top 100 corporations in the US. Continue reading...

Our communications lose character when we give up putting pen to paper. It's hard to imagine an Auden poem celebrating the arrival of the night emailThings ain't what they used to be, and it's hard to imagine a beleaguered institution suffering reputational damage these days sending for filmmakers, a composer and a poet, as did the General Post Office in 1936. Indeed, now it's the filmmakers who seem to have shone the strongest light on the injustices visited on so many sub-postmasters and covered up for so long. But back in the 1930s, collaboration between a public institution and the creative arts resulted in Night Mail, a short black-and-whitefilm picturing the journey of a postal train from Euston to Aberdeen, set to a score by Benjamin Britten and concluding with a poem by WH Auden, which was painstakingly constructed to mirror the rhythm and speed of the train's progress. The GPO's ambition - to portray its service as modern, reliable and vital to the life of the nation, as well as to bolster the morale of its underpaid workers - was largely satisfied.Auden's poem - until Four Weddings and a Funeral stopped all the clocks - became perhaps his most quoted, and among its achievements is a keen understanding of what the post meant to its recipients; the daily tombola that might bring the brown envelopes of officialdom but also a love letter, an unexpected card from foreign parts, an invitation to a party. The chatty, the catty, the boring, adoring,/ The cold and official and the heart's outpouring,/ Clever, stupid, short and long,/ The typed and the printed and the spelt all wrong." Continue reading...

The head of Harvard's fate was sealed when she became the focus of a culture war battle over antisemitism, plagiarism and free speechFor some, she is the wretched epitomeof the liberal elite; for others, the victim of a racist mob". She herself condemns her critics for having recycled tired racial stereotypes". As an illustration of the way that culture wars warp political judgment and push people into tribal corners, the case of Claudine Gay may be Exhibit 1.Gay, who became Harvard University's first black president in July, was forced last week to resign, the culmination of a bitter controversy at the heart of which are tussles over some of the most polarising issues of theday: racism, antisemitism, plagiarism, free speech and diversity.Kenan Malik is an Observer columnistDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a letter of up to 250 words to be considered for publication, email it to us at observer.letters@observer.co.uk Continue reading...

Why is the debate about becoming a parent so babyish? I recently learned there is a growing industry in coaching women on whether or not to have children. I've started to picture them sometimes, these coaches with their tea and tissues, merrily sketching out flowcharts, calculating the predicted longevity of the NHS perhaps, the likelihood of our planet becoming hostile to human life before the theoretical child turns 21, the hormonal appeal of matching mummy and me" outfits from Zara, etc. And then, presumably, sending the client off with an answer. Permission to live a certain life.I am regularly fascinated by the way we are led to believe that there could ever be a correct answer to this question - a relatively new one, and one complicated by the anxiety caused by the economy slipping backwards while the science of fertility leaps forward. And I am regularly livid, too, at what seems to me to be a terrible incuriousness, an avoidance of complexity, around anything related to motherhood. The new choice-coaching industry thrives alongside an ongoing discourse about the ways we talk about motherhood, after the publication of a Vox piece late last year, How millennials learned to dread motherhood: to our generation, being a mom looks thankless, exhausting, and lonely. Can we change the story?" The internet lit up. Well, my internet at least, an internet of women between the ages of 30 and 50, swaggering, thirsty, cynical, eager. And while I usually enjoy nothing more than a brisk debate about the politics of motherhood, this one left me oddly cold. Continue reading...

As Afcon kicks off under an oil firm's banner, it is a tragic irony that the climate crisis is making the game ever more unsafe to play outdoorsThis Saturday, the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) - or to give the competition its full title, the TotalEnergies Afcon 2023 - the continent's biennial international men's football tournament, will kick off in Ivory Coast. The main point of interest, in the British sports press atany rate, is the impact that this will have on the course of the Premier League, where the leading teams will, mid-season, be losing their African star players for up to six weeks. Less remarked on, perhaps, is that Afcon 2023 is actually being played in 2024, and that its title is so prominently linked to the French hydrocarbon giant.For more than half a century, the tournament has been played in January and February but, in an effort to placate the needs of a few European leagues and clubs, the Confederation of African Football (Caf) had originally scheduled this edition for June and July 2023. However, those dates coincided with west Africa's rainy season, and under conditions of climate crisis the region has become more vulnerable to more extreme weather events at this time of year. Continue reading...

Court papers show Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice was told by her reputation manager' that reports about Virginia Giuffre's past were helpful leakage'A British PR guru hired to manage the reputation of Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell accused one of Epstein's victims of crying rape" and suggested past allegations of abuse would discredit her, unsealed court documents show.Ross Gow, then a managing partner at Mayfair-based Acuity Reputation, emailed Maxwell with links to media articles about a case from the Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre's childhood in which she claimed to have been raped by two older teenagers. Continue reading...

Critics say the QAnon conspiracy theorist, in the position less than a year, failed to deliver on funding promisesA group of Michigan Republicans voted on Saturday to remove Kristina Karamo as state party chair after months of infighting and slow fundraising raised concerns her leadership would hurt the party's chances in the key swing state in 2024.Karamo, a former community college instructor and election-denying activist who was elevated to her post in February, has indicated she would not respect Saturday's vote, setting the stage for a potentially messy court battle over party leadership. Continue reading...

Duke of York must answer to claims in new documents while facing all the trappings of the law', says victims' lawyerPrince Andrew must testify under oath about his role in the Jeffrey Epstein abuse scandal so that he faces the threat of prison if he lies, a lawyer for several of Epstein's victims has said.Amid growing calls for a police investigation into allegations of sexual assault against the royal, Spencer Kuvin, a Florida-based attorney, told the Observer that the Duke of York needs to answer for what is now coming out" and should give his account with all the trappings of the law" so that he is legally obliged to tell the truth. Continue reading...

Joshua Powell, one of five defendants in lawsuit including former CEO Wayne LaPierre, has agreed to pay $100,000A former chief of staff to Wayne LaPierre - who resigned as the National Rifle Association's chief executive on Friday - has agreed to a $100,000 settlement in connection with a civil lawsuit filed by the New York attorney general's office.As part of the settlement announced on Saturday, Joshua Powell - one of five defendants in the lawsuit against the NRA, a gun-rights organization - admitted to wrongdoing in failing to fulfill his fiduciary responsibilities and misusing charitable funds. Continue reading...

Randy Roedema, found guilty of criminally negligent homicide, is the first official to be sentenced in the 23-year-old's killingA former Colorado police officer convicted in the 2019 killing of Elijah McClain was sentenced to 14 months in county jail on Friday.Randy Roedema, an ex-Aurora police department (APD) officer, was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide and third-degree assault in October. He is the first official to face jail time for the killing of McClain, a 23-year-old whose death led to years of protests and calls for reforms. Continue reading...

Press secretary acknowledged Lloyd Austin was admitted five days ago after minor elective procedureThe US defense secretary Lloyd Austin has been hospitalized since Monday due to complications after a minor elective medical procedure, his press secretary said, in the first official acknowledgement that Austin had been admitted five days earlier to Walter Reed national military medical center.Air Force Maj Gen Pat Ryder said Friday that Austin was recovering well", but it was not clear when the secretary would be released from the hospital. Continue reading...

After Claudine Gay was ousted amid accusations of plagiarism, Neri Oxman was accused of copying from Wikipedia in dissertationThe wife of Bill Ackman, the hedge fund billionaire who accused Claudine Gay of being a plagiarist and led calls for her resignation as Harvard president, is now facing allegations of plagiarism herself.Neri Oxman, a prominent former professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has apologized after Business Insider identified multiple instances in which she lifted passages from other scholars' work without proper attribution in her 2010 dissertation. She also pledged to review the primary sources and request the necessary corrections. Continue reading...

Former president made the comment 36 hours after one student was killed and seven people wounded during the first day of schoolDonald Trump told an audience at a campaign event on Friday in Iowa to get over" a deadly shooting at a high school in the state a day earlier.After offering sympathy and emotional support for the victims of the shooting in Perry, Iowa, and their families, Trump said at the event in Sioux Center: It's just horrible - so surprising to see it here. But we have to get over it. We have to move forward." Continue reading...

Conservationists are energized by rightwing attacks on African American studies to preserve once prosperous WeeksvilleConservationists in New York are ramping up research and preservation efforts of a historic Black community that had all but disappeared, illuminating what some experts say is an antidote" to ongoing rightwing efforts to keep African American studies out of classrooms.Weeksville, New York, located in present-day Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant, had been a center of Black excellence since its founding by a dock worker named James Weeks in 1827. A copy of the New York Times from 1855 advertised beautiful building lots at Weeksville" for between $130 and $200 cash under the heading For Sale To Colored People." It was a thriving community of free Black people who escaped slavery in the south. Continue reading...

The Republican governor and ex-Trump press chief seems to be popular with voters in her state. Does a national run beckon?Shortly after taking office in January, Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders launched a powerful salvo in the so-called war on woke being waged by Republicans.Sanders, 41, signed an executive order targeting critical race theory, an academic field that probes how racism affects US society and laws. The move aligned with countrywide Republican opposition to the discipline. Continue reading...

Assassinations, atrocities and invasions, along with uncertain US leadership, presage a year of rising violenceAssassination is a two-edged sword. Last week's targeted killing in Beirut of Hamas's deputy leader is but the latest of many covert attacks on individuals in Iran and the Arab sphere attributed to agents of Israel. Do prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior officials in Jerusalem ever consider the possibility they may be paid back in kind?Hamas may not have the expertise and reach, although a booby-trap bomb requires no particular skill. But Iran does and maybe Hezbollah, too. Israel's assassination in December of a top Iranian general in Syria, plus last week's atrocity in southern Iran - claimed by Islamic State terrorists but officially blamed on Israel - could goad Tehran's more rabid hardliners into seeking an eye for an eye. Continue reading...

Folger library in Washington has single biggest collection of world's 235 surviving copies - until now kept hidden in a vaultWashington is a shining city on a hill, swamp of corruption or tourist destination with some great museums, depending on your point of view. It is seldom thought of as a place of pilgrimage for fans of a certain Elizabethan playwright from Stratford-upon-Avon.Yet the American capital is about to become a vital stop for devotees of William Shakespeare the world over. In June, the Folger Shakespeare Library on Capitol Hill will unveil a permanent display of its 82 copies of the First Folio, the single biggest collection of the world's 235 surviving copies. Continue reading...

An education department official resigned this week, and 17 staffers sent an anonymous letter calling for a ceasefireDissent inside the Biden administration over the president's Gaza policy is growing, with a public resignation this week of a Department of Education official, and a letter signed by more than a dozen Biden campaign staffers calling for a ceasefire and the conditioning of aid to Israel.It's pretty extraordinary levels of dissent," said Josh Paul, a career official working on arms sales at the state department who resigned in protest in October, of the mounting signs of discontent. I am hearing in recent weeks from people who are thinking more seriously about resigning." Continue reading...

North Carolina representative Patrick Henry argues for increase from $174,000 salary, but voted against increasing minimum wageA retiring US House Republican who has previously opposed proposals to raise the federal minimum wage has advocated for an increase to the $174,000 salaries collected by rank and file Congress members, saying that would motivate credible people to run for office".Most of us don't have wealth," North Carolina's Patrick McHenry said to the Dispatch in an interview. Continue reading...

The ex-Apprentice host projected an image of success but the outcome of the case could be a death blow to his companiesTwo decades ago, when Donald Trump introduced himself to the American public from the back of a limousine going through New York City, he told a simple story of triumph disguised as a confession.About 13 years ago, I was seriously in trouble. I was billions of dollars in debt," he said in the opening scene of his reality TV show, The Apprentice, which premiered in January 2004. But I fought back, and I won - big league." Continue reading...

EmPower Solar suspended 40% of its workforce but says action is unrelated to recent successful election of workers to join UAWA New York-based solar panel business has been accused of being a poster child" of union busting after furloughing 40% of its workforce for more than a year, days after a victorious union election.Installers and technicians at EmPower Solar, in Bethpage - concerned about poor working conditions and issues they faced on the job - reached out to the United Auto Workers after the gains it won during the stand up" strikes at the big three automakers. Continue reading...

The US Capitol attack was a shameful event in US history, yet Americans remain confused and divided about what occurredThree years ago this week, the United States Capitol was attacked by thousands of armed loyalists of Donald Trump, some intent on killing members of Congress.Roughly 140 police officers were injured in the attack. Four people died. Capitol police officer Brian D Sicknick, who participated in the response, passed away the following day. Another Capitol police officer and a Washington DC police officer who also responded to the attack have since died by suicide.Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. His newest book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, is out now. He is a Guardian US columnist. His newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com Continue reading...

The ex-president has said he would pardon those convicted of violence, obstructing Congress and seditious conspiracyIn the three years to the day since the insurrection at the US Capitol, great strides have been made in shoring up American democracy: hundreds of rioters have been prosecuted, legislation has been passed to bolster electoral safeguards and Donald Trump has been charged over his efforts to subvert the 2020 election.But as the country marks the third anniversary of one of its darkest days in modern times, a pall hangs in the air. It comes from Trump himself and his promise, growing steadily louder as the 2024 presidential election approaches, that if he wins he will pardon those convicted of acts of violence, obstructing Congress and seditious conspiracy on 6 January 2021. Continue reading...

An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 had to make an emergency landing shortly after taking off from Portland, Oregon, on Friday after a window and a chunk of fuselage blew out in mid-air shortly after takeoff. Footage circulating online shows a gaping hole in the side of the plane next to passenger seats. The airline said the plane, carrying 174 passengers and six crew members, landed safely

The Atlas Network's dark-money junktanks are behind neoliberal policies around the world. And you may find its leaders on a resignation honours list near youThere are elements of fascism, elements borrowed from the Chinese state and elements that reflect Argentina's history of dictatorship. But most of the programme for government announced by Javier Milei, the demagogic new Argentinian president, feels eerily familiar, here in the northern hemisphere.A crash programme of massive cuts; demolishing public services; privatising public assets; centralising political power; sacking civil servants; sweeping away constraints on corporations and oligarchs; destroying regulations that protect workers, vulnerable people and the living world; supporting landlords against tenants; criminalising peaceful protest; restricting the right to strike. Anything ring a bell? Continue reading...

The morals we hold as a society are laid hideously bare in this latest trove of unsealed documentsAs newly unsealed documents linked to a case against the convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell reveal names of high-profile associates of Jeffrey Epstein, many are quick to reiterate that their place on the long-awaited list does not mean they have done anything illegal. This is absolutely true - and as a court correspondent, it is incredibly important to stress the legal implications, or more accurately lack thereof, of this new information.With the exception of allegations made under oath by Johanna Sjoberg against Prince Andrew that, if proven, would amount to criminal conduct, most of those named on the list are not accused of any legal wrongdoing. But that doesn't mean we should not ask questions about the moral, rather than strictly legal, implications of their conduct. I mean this in two senses - both the personal moral implications for those named and the morals we hold as a society, which are laid hideously bare in these documents.Lucia Osborne-Crowley is a journalist and author of The Lasting Harm, a work of investigative reporting about the Epstein caseDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

Known for extreme rightwing rhetoric, LaPierre resigned Friday amid civil corruption chargesFor three decades, Wayne LaPierre has been the face of gun rights in the US. Lean and bespectacled, known for his expensive suits, he was an unlikely spokesperson for American machismo. But the National Rifle Association leader's willingness to defend Americans' access to guns, no matter the cost, made him a powerful rightwing figure, whose relentless, paranoid rhetoric made him an important precursor, and then ally, of Donald Trump.Today, LaPierre is facing a reckoning: he is expected to testify in a civil corruption case in Manhattan that will scrutinize allegations that he and other senior executives misused NRA donors' funds, squandering millions of dollars on lavish personal trips and expenses, and treating the NRA as his own personal piggy bank". Continue reading...

Latest documents bring renewed attention to Prince Andrew and claims the royal spent weeks' at Epstein's Palm Beach homeNew batches of documents related to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse were released on Friday afternoon, bringing renewed attention to his longtime friendship with Prince Andrew and prior claims that the royal spent weeks" at the late financier's Palm Beach home.Juan Alessi, Epstein's former house manager, said he routinely saw famous faces around the south Florida house - including the Duke of York. Alessi also said he saw Andrew's wife, Sarah Ferguson. Continue reading...

In address near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, US president tore into Donald Trump like never before, including calling him a loser'This time it's personal. On Friday Joe Biden tore into his predecessor Donald Trump as never before. He brimmed with anger, disdain and contempt. He apparently had to stop himself from swearing. So much for when they go low, we go high" - and plenty of Democrats will be just fine with that.If Biden was seeking to jolt his half-conscious 2024 re-election campaign into life, this may have done the trick. The palpable loathing of Trump took a good 10 or 20 years off him. Keep hating like this and he might do a Benjamin Button all the way to election day. Continue reading...

Biden administration had argued hospitals receiving Medicare funds are required to provide emergency care, including abortionThe US supreme court on Friday allowed Idaho to enforce its strict abortion ban, even in medical emergencies, while a legal fight continues.The justices said they would hear arguments in April and put on hold a lower court ruling that had blocked the Idaho law in hospital emergencies, based on a lawsuit filed by the Biden administration. Continue reading...

Colorado ruling said Trump should be removed under 14th amendment to US constitution for inciting an insurrectionThe US supreme court will hear Donald Trump's appeal of the Colorado ruling that he should be removed from the state ballot under the 14th amendment to the US constitution, for inciting an insurrection.The court issued a brief order on Friday, setting up a dramatic moment in American history. Continue reading...

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On eve of January 6 anniversary, US president condemns likely rival and warns voters democracy is on the ballot' in NovemberA day before the third anniversary of the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, Joe Biden delivered a pointed speech to warn voters against re-electing Donald Trump, criticizing the likely Republican presidential nominee as a fundamental threat to democracy in an attempt to shape the dynamics of the 2024 election.Today we're here to answer the most important of questions: is democracy still America's sacred cause?" Biden said. Today, I make this sacred pledge to you: the defense, protection and preservation of American democracy will remain, as it has been, the central cause of my presidency. Continue reading...

Trump lawyer has faith' in US supreme court justice appointed by the former president, though the court hasn't said if it will weigh inBrett Kavanaugh, the US supreme court justice, will step up" for Donald Trump and help defeat attempts to remove the former president from the ballots in Colorado and Maine for inciting an insurrection, a Trump lawyer said.I think it should be a slam dunk in the supreme court," Alina Habba told Fox News on Thursday night. I have faith in them. Continue reading...

New England could see snow while heavy rainfall along the Gulf coast and snowfall and rain in the Rockies are predictedForecasters warn that a storm system could prompt intense rainfall and possible tornadoes next week in the southern US, as cities across the country are bracing for intense weather leading into the weekend.The powerful storm system is expected to bring heavy rainfall and high winds to the Gulf coast and south-eastern regions as early as Monday and continue into Tuesday, the Weather Channel reported. Continue reading...