U.S. Special Operations forces are not required to vet for past human rights violations by the foreign troops they arm and train as surrogates, newly disclosed documents show. While the gap in rules governing vetting for a counterterrorism program have previously been reported based on anonymous sources, the documents provide official confirmation. Under the program,…
HELENA, Mont. — As Montana lawmakers entered the critical final days of their legislative session on Thursday, one of the state’s only transgender lawmakers, Zooey Zephyr, was left exiled from the House chamber, monitoring the debate and casting votes on a laptop as she sat on a hallway bench near a bustling snack stand. Even…
Another utility in the state, Consumers Energy, estimated that power would be restored in most areas by Sunday, but possibly as late as noon on Monday for some locations. About 36,000 of the company’s customers are without power throughout southern Michigan, including in Kalamazoo. For some riding out the winter storm, this is the second…
A prolonged winter storm that knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of customers in the Upper Midwest was continuing its assault on the region on Thursday, as portions of Southern California prepare for blizzard conditions, forecasters said. More than 800,000 customers were without power early Thursday across Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Minnesota, according to…
An outbreak of severe weather swept the South on Thursday, bringing strong winds and possible tornadoes to parts of Alabama and Mississippi, damaging homes and leaving thousands without power. The threat of severe weather and tornadoes was expected to continue into the night, officials said. Video shared online by the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency showed…
CHICAGO — A frigid winter storm pummeled the United States for a third day on Friday, leaving more than one million homes and businesses without power, causing crashes and epic delays on ice-slicked expressways and stranding thousands of travelers at airports just before Christmas. Most of the country shared in the misery whether from snow,…
As a sprawling winter storm hits the United States and Canada, some people are moving up their Christmas dinner preparations, racing against potential power outages. By late Friday morning, more than 1.5 million customers in the United States and Canada were without electricity, according to poweroutage.us, which compiles data from utilities. And with the storm…
WASHINGTON — Republicans may have won control of the House by only the slimmest of margins, but in a chamber that operates purely by majority rule, their razor-thin edge has given them all the tools they need to plunge the Biden administration into a morass of investigations. Wielding gavels and subpoena power, the Republicans set…
UVALDE, Texas — Young people in their crisp Little League uniforms ran up and down the field in giddy anticipation. The smell of nacho cheese and sizzling chicken fajitas spread through the bleachers on the hot summer night breeze. It has been a month of mourning in Uvalde, Texas: 21 funerals in 17 days in…
WASHINGTON — They were stripped of their White House backdrop, their power and their masks. In brief video clips, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump appeared in the first of a half-dozen public hearings held by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. First up was Ms. Trump. Speaking in a soft…