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Freezing temps, heavy snow expected for millions of people in central and eastern US this weekend

By Rich McKay and Julia Harte
January 22, 2026 5:43 PM UTC Updated 7 hours ago

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Jan 22 (Reuters) – Travel disruptions, power outages and frigid temperatures are expected to affect 150 million Americans on Friday and through the weekend as a massive storm clobbers the U.S. with heavy snow and freezing rain from the Central Plains to the East Coast, the National Weather Service said.

The storm, which could impact nearly half the country’s population, will bring up to 20 inches (50.8 cm) of snow in the Appalachians and West Virginia mountains, while most people living in the eastern U.S. could face dangerous slick or frozen roads and potential power outages from ice-laden trees and branches falling and snapping power lines, officials said.

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“With the extreme cold in the North and the storm, half of all Americans are under some form of weather advisories,” said Brian Hurley, a meteorologist with the NWS’s Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.

Agricultural meteorologists said the heavy snow and ice should benefit dormant winter wheat crops in Oklahoma, where 23% of the state is in severe drought, according to a weekly U.S. Drought Monitor report released on Thursday.

But plunging temperatures in the storm’s wake could put wheat fields without protective snow cover “at risk of cold-weather injury,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a daily weather note on Wednesday. Livestock will face stressful conditions due to ice and snow in the Southern Plains and extreme cold in the north, the USDA said on Thursday.

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New York City, Boston, Baltimore and Washington, D.C., could receive 4 to 10 inches (10 to 25 cm) of heavy, wet snow starting on Saturday, Hurley said, with temperatures in the low 20s Fahrenheit (minus 5.5 C) in D.C., with Boston seeing a low of 7 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 14 C).

LOCAL PREPARATIONS UNDER WAY

Throughout the storm, New York state was expected to be under a “Code Blue,” which requires social service providers to extend shelter hours and ensure the homeless have access to them.

In Boston, Anh-Phi Tran said he was prepared to cater a weekend event with his locally beloved “Zinneken’s” Belgian waffle food truck despite the forecast.

“It’s hard, but I have a space heater and of course the waffle ovens to keep me warm,” said Tran, who has worked in the food truck for about 11 years.

Chicago will be under a deep freeze, with a low of 2 degrees below zero F on Friday and Saturday and dangerous wind chills of 30 below zero (minus 34 C) .

Space heaters have been flying off the shelves all week at J.C. Licht Ace Hardware River North in Chicago, according to manager James Martin.

Chicagoans know how to deal with extreme cold, said Martin, a Chicago native. “We move fast and we dress in layers and layers and more layers. Then we ask, ‘Why do we still live here?'”

In Texas, Governor Greg Abbott declared a state of emergency, activating extra personnel and equipment to help control traffic, monitor power outages, rescue people trapped by the storm, and more. Abbott urged Texans to “remain weather-aware, check DriveTexas.org before traveling, and heed the guidance of state and local officials.”

The storm is expected to clear out of most areas by late Sunday or early on Monday. The extreme cold from an Arctic blast of air from Canada will bring a high temperature of only 5 degrees below zero on Saturday in Fargo, North Dakota.

Farther south, the main storm hazard will be ice, weather forecasters said. From Central Virginia to Northern Texas, the Southeastern states could receive accumulations of up to a half-inch of ice.

Reporting by Rich McKay in Atlanta, Julia Harte in New York and Emily Schmall and Julie Ingwersen in Chicago; Editing by Donna Bryson, Bill Berkrot and Matthew Lewis

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Democrats demand Trump officials disclose potential ‘profiteering’ from Venezuela oil dealings

2026-01-22T12:01:00.916Z / CNN Politics

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A group of Senate Democrats are demanding to know whether President Donald Trump’s inner circle stands to profit from Venezuelan oil sales after CNN recently reported details of the administration’s private talks with the nation’s biggest oil companies.

In a letter sent Wednesday night to White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, 14 Democrats are urging senior officials to “immediately disclose any financial interests” they have in companies dealing with the oil industry in Venezuela. They point to the administration’s recent sales pitch to those companies, dangling private security guarantees as they seek to convince oil executives to invest in the politically unstable country, citing CNN reporting.

The calls for transparency — led by Sens. Adam Schiff of California and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, among others — come as Democrats increasingly scrutinize the White House for what they say could amount to possible insider trading. Democrats like Schiff have also previously taken aim at senior Trump officials for offering inadequate financial disclosures about their own stock-buying after taking part in market-moving tariff discussions.

The senators are also raising concerns about Trump’s close connection to a top oil executive at Vitol – the oil giant that secured the first sale of American-controlled Venezuelan oil, after that same employee attended a White House meeting on the subject earlier this month. That executive, John Addison, is a top donor to Trump’s presidential campaign.

“Given the urgency of the matter and the enormous risk of profiteering and corruption, the Administration has a heightened obligation, beyond existing financial disclosure requirements, to clarify for Congress and the American public whether and to what extent the financial ties described above exist and the concrete measures implemented, if any, to prevent the personal financial enrichment of the President and Administration officials,” they wrote in the letter, first obtained by CNN.

And, hinting at future action by Democrats should they seize back power in Washington, they added: “Such financial ties and any corrupt dealings or profiteering, moreover, will be subject to ongoing scrutiny and may lead to future accountability measures.”

Other Democrats who signed onto the letter Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, the chamber’s minority leader, as well as Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Andy Kim of New Jersey and Chris Van Hollen of Maryland.

Internet defrosts jokes as Cruz is seen departing Texas ahead of winter storm

January 22, 2026 at 11:52 a.m. EST / The Washington Post

The senator once dubbed “Flyin’ Ted” for a Cancún trip during a Texas storm was spotted en route to California as more harsh weather approaches. His office said it was a planned work trip.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Jan. 8. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)

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There’s a storm brewing in Texas — and on social media. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is again being mocked online after being photographed on a flight away from his home state as it braces for an intense winter storm.

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US Supreme Court sees risk in Trump running roughshod over Fed

January 22, 2026 2:32 PM UTC / Reuters

WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court justices during arguments over President Donald Trump’s bid to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook seemed to embrace the idea that the central bank’s independence to set monetary policy must be preserved and that eroding it would present real-world economic risks.

If there was possible harm in how the court proceeds, the justices suggested during ​the arguments on Wednesday, it would be in leaving the door open too wide for presidents – now or in the future – to remove monetary policymakers and in doing so disrupt more than a century of ‌letting central bankers make judgments about interest rates free of political pressure.

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That concern was summarized most directly by conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh during an exchange with Solicitor General D. John Sauer, tasked with arguing why Trump should be allowed to remove Cook over alleged misstatements made on mortgage applications before she was appointed to the Fed.

“Your position that there’s no judicial review, no process required, no remedy available, a very low bar for cause that the president alone determines – I mean, that would weaken, if not shatter, the independence of the Federal Reserve,” Kavanaugh said.

“We have to be aware of what we’re doing and the consequences of your position for the structure of the government,” Kavanaugh told Sauer.

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Making the removal of a Fed governor too easy gives the president an incentive for a search-and-destroy mission to “find ‌something and just put that on a piece of paper – no judicial review, no process, nothing. You’re done,” Kavanaugh said.

TRUMP’S PERSISTENT DEMANDS

Looming over the case are Trump’s persistent demands that the ​Fed cut interest rates faster and further than the central bank under the leadership of current Chair Jerome Powell has been willing to do in the face of lingering inflation. Trump has stated that he plans to install a like-minded new Fed chair when Powell’s term in the post expires in May.

Trump cited the unproven allegations of mortgage fraud as justification for firing Cook, who was appointed as a Fed governor in 2022 by Democratic former President Joe Biden with a term running until 2038. ‍Cook has called this allegation a pretext to oust her over monetary policy differences.

Trump’s Justice Department this month launched a criminal investigation against Powell concerning a project to renovate two historical buildings at the Fed headquarters in Washington. Powell similarly has called this investigation a pretext for Trump to gain more influence over the Fed and monetary policy.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who like Kavanaugh was appointed to the Supreme Court by Trump, pressed Sauer on the economic consequences of allowing Cook’s removal to stand. Barrett noted that economists had filed briefs with the court saying doing so ⁠could trigger a recession.

“How should we think about the public interest in a case like this?” Barrett asked.

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Sauer responded by saying the stock market’s rise after Trump announced his firing of Cook in August undercut predictions of doom.

“Well, I’ll interrupt you there ‍to say that I don’t want to be in the business of predicting exactly what the market’s going to do,” Barrett said. “I don’t want to be responsible for quantifying that risk. I’m a judge, not an economist. But if there is a risk, doesn’t that counsel … ‌caution on our ‌part?”

LONG-TERM OUTCOMES

Economists regard it as a well-established principle that central banks that operate free from short-term political pressure make decisions producing better long-term economic outcomes, tempering inflation even if it means high interest rates that can slow economic growth, raise unemployment and make life uncomfortable for politicians seeking reelection.

Trump has taken an expansive view of presidential powers since returning to office 12 months ago. The justices in the Cook case are weighing the value of Fed independence against the Trump administration’s arguments that it is the president’s interests – and by extension the public’s – that would be damaged by leaving federal agency officials in place who he wants removed.

The Supreme Court has backed Trump in numerous cases over the past year decided on an emergency basis, including allowing him to ⁠remove various officials from federal agencies while their legal challenges ⁠to his actions play out.

But the Fed’s role as central ​to the U.S. and global financial system, as well as the fact that presidents as a matter of course do not directly decide monetary policy, put the Cook case on a somewhat different footing.

“It’s not as if keeping her is going to thwart any right he has to run the department – because he has none,” liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor said.

The judge who blocked Trump from immediately firing Cook said that his action without notice or a hearing likely violated her right to due process under the U.S. Constitution’s Fifth Amendment. The Supreme Court ‍is considering the Trump administration’s request to lift that judge’s order while Cook’s legal challenge to the president’s action continues to play out.

“We know that the independence of the agency is very important, and that that independence is harmed if we decide these issues too quickly and with not due consideration,” Sotomayor added.

Allowing the lower courts to thoroughly examine all the issues, Sotomayor said, makes “the most sense to the public’s confidence and to the world’s confidence about the due process of law.”

“Why shouldn’t we wait until the end of this case, where all the issues are clear and where we ​make a final decision as to whether she should have been removed or not?” Sotomayor asked.

A Supreme Court ruling is expected by the end of June ‍but could come sooner.

Reporting by Howard Schneider; Editing by Dan Burns and Will Dunham

消息：特朗普政府计划年底前颠覆古巴政权

2026年1月22日 12:02 / 联合早报

1月16日，古巴国家主席迪亚斯-卡内尔在哈瓦那的美国大使馆外挥着古巴国旗，抗议美国在加勒比海地区的侵略行为。 （路透社）

消息人士透露，美国特朗普政府正在古巴政府内部寻找“内线”，试图在今年底前颠覆古巴政权。

综合新华社报道，《华尔街日报》星期三（1月21日）引述知情人士和美国高级官员的话说，特朗普政府尚无具体计划，但美国政府官员私下认为，对委内瑞拉的军事行动是对古巴的“警告”。

报道称，美国企图通过切断委内瑞拉对古巴的石油供应重创古巴经济、削弱古巴政权。

当前，古巴和美国关系处于高度紧张状态。本月初，美国对委内瑞拉发动大规模军事打击。特朗普随后暗示，古巴可能成为美国下一个关注目标，并威胁称，若失去委内瑞拉石油供应，古巴将难以“支撑”。

特朗普11日再次对古巴施压，称若古巴不尽快“达成协议”，将面临“零石油、零资金”流入的局面。

古巴国家主席迪亚斯-卡内尔则说，古巴不会主动攻击和威胁任何国家，但已做好准备捍卫每一寸国土。

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Vaccine makers feel a chill as US Health Secretary Kennedy’s rhetoric becomes reality

By Bhanvi Satija
January 22, 2026 12:31 PM UTC Updated 48 mins ago

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U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gestures as he speaks during the inaugural Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) summit in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 12, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File Photo

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• Kennedy’s vaccine policy shifts spark industry frustration
• Experts link drop in vaccination rates to US rhetoric
• Vaccine-focused biotech firms face valuation pressure

LONDON, Jan 22 (Reuters) – Sweeping U.S. policy changes under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are having a chilling effect on vaccine makers as anti-vaccine rhetoric has turned into concrete changes to inoculation schedules and recommendations, investors and executives said.

The administration of President Donald Trump has in the last year upended vaccine recommendations, with the U.S. last month ending its longstanding guidance that all children receive inoculations against flu, hepatitis A and other diseases.

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The unprecedented changes have led to diminished vaccine usage, hurt the investment case for some biotechs, and created a drag that will likely dent revenues and raise costs for companies in the coming years, 15 investors and analysts told Reuters.

“Vaccines will not be a growth area under the current administration,” said Stephen Farrelly, global pharma and healthcare lead at ING, signaling a potential drag on the sector through 2028.

VACCINE POLICY UNDER KENNEDY

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Kennedy, a longtime anti-vaccine activist who has cast doubt on the safety and efficacy of vaccines contrary to scientific evidence, has moved quickly since taking over the Department of Health and Human Services under Trump.

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He fired a panel of independent expert advisers, replacing them with members who share his anti-vaccine views, and dropped broad COVID-19 vaccine recommendations for pregnant women and children.

He also revived research into a long-ago debunked claim linking vaccines to autism, and adopted new reduced childhood vaccine schedules without the long-standing practice of involving a broad group of outside experts.

Investors and analysts initially saw Kennedy’s appointment as a headline risk, rather than a fundamental threat.

At the time, issues such as tariffs and drug pricing pressure from the Trump administration were weighing on sentiment, putting vaccine concerns on the back burner.

Sanofi Chief Financial Officer François-Xavier Roger last year noted “a little bit of negative buzz” around vaccines.

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That changed as the risks become less theoretical. Investors are now concerned the impact of Kennedy’s policies will be hard to reverse, echoing public health experts’ worries, who also said they will lead to preventable illnesses and deaths.

Kennedy says the changes aim to improve safety and bring U.S. vaccine policy in line with other peer nations.

A HHS spokesperson said in a statement that vaccine recommendations are based on the best available “gold-standard scientific evidence and public health considerations, not corporate interests.”

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Big vaccine makers include UK-based GSK, France’s Sanofi, U.S. drugmakers Pfizer and Merck, and smaller firms such as Moderna, Novavax and Germany’s BioNTech.

The striking policy changes have begun to prompt some rare public rebukes from industry leaders.

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla and Sanofi CEO Paul Hudson criticized Kennedy’s rhetoric at a major healthcare conference last week, with Hudson citing “all the… misinformation that is going around.”

Bourla told reporters it was driving down vaccination rates and increasing disease risk. “I’m seriously frustrated,” he said. “What is happening has zero scientific merit and is just serving an agenda which is political and antivax.”

Over 1.5 billion doses of flu vaccines have been distributed in U.S. this season

POLITICAL PRESSURE STARTS TO BITE

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The long-term prospects for vaccine makers remains robust, investors said, as vaccines are still the most effective tool for preventing disease. But they said companies were now more beholden to the whims of political leaders.

“Unfortunately, success and failure will rest on the opinions of a few people. It’s not enough to have good science and commercial opportunity,” said Clear Street analyst Bill Maughan. “If you’re a biotech investor, it just seems tough to really get conviction in a vaccine name right now.”

Investors said they would stick by large-cap drugmakers less dependent on vaccine revenue such as GSK, Sanofi, Pfizer and Merck. Smaller players like Moderna, BioNTech and Novavax face sharper risks.

Share of revenues from vaccines for large manufacturers since 2023

The effect of U.S. changes are already starting to take hold. GSK and Sanofi reported lower U.S. flu vaccine sales in the third quarter, despite a more severe flu season.

In October, Australia’s CSL postponed separating its vaccine unit Seqirus, citing “heightened volatility” and falling U.S. vaccination rates.

“There’s clearly consumer reaction to the narrative that is coming out in the United States,” said Jefferies analyst Michael Leuchten.

LONG-TERM VIEW

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Some investors said demand for vaccines and disease prevention will likely rebound. Outbreaks such as the rising measles cases in South Carolina, or an extended severe flu season, could drive renewed vaccine usage, they said.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently said the 2025–26 flu season had seen at least 11 million cases and 5,000 deaths reported so far, nearly double last year’s toll.

Medical organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, have challenged Kennedy’s policies in court and it remains to be seen how that will play out.

Investors “often focus on shorter-term time frames, while companies clearly take a far longer-term view,” said Linden Thomson, senior portfolio manager at asset management firm Candriam.

“These businesses have been around for decades. They don’t invest on a one- or two-year horizon,” agreed Matthew Masucci, an analyst for Callodine Capital, which owns GSK and Sanofi shares.

But for now, investors may be more cautious.

Whipsawing U.S. policy and vaccine scepticism is a drag on investment, said Ian Turnbull, an equity analyst at investment firm Mawer.

“It does make it a less attractive market to invest in if your demand isn’t predictable like it used to be,” he said.

Reporting by Bhanvi Satija; Additional reporting by Maggie Fick in London and Michael Erman in New York; Editing by Adam Jourdan, Michele Gershberg and Bill Berkrot

消息：特朗普政府计划年底前颠覆古巴政权

发布时间：2026年1月22日 12:02 | 来源：联合早报

1月16日，古巴国家主席迪亚斯-卡内尔在哈瓦那的美国大使馆外挥着古巴国旗，抗议美国在加勒比海地区的侵略行为。 （路透社）

消息人士透露，美国特朗普政府正在古巴政府内部寻找“内线”，试图在今年底前颠覆古巴政权。

综合新华社报道，《华尔街日报》星期三（1月21日）引述知情人士和美国高级官员的话说，特朗普政府尚无具体计划，但美国政府官员私下认为，对委内瑞拉的军事行动是对古巴的“警告”。

报道称，美国企图通过切断委内瑞拉对古巴的石油供应重创古巴经济、削弱古巴政权。

当前，古巴和美国关系处于高度紧张状态。本月初，美国对委内瑞拉发动大规模军事打击。特朗普随后暗示，古巴可能成为美国下一个关注目标，并威胁称，若失去委内瑞拉石油供应，古巴将难以“支撑”。

特朗普11日再次对古巴施压，称若古巴不尽快“达成协议”，将面临“零石油、零资金”流入的局面。

古巴国家主席迪亚斯-卡内尔则说，古巴不会主动攻击和威胁任何国家，但已做好准备捍卫每一寸国土。

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美众院外交委员会推进AI晶片出口审查法案 | 联合早报

发布/2026年1月22日 12:30

美国众议院外交事务委员会星期三表决通过的法案明确规定，未来至少两年内全面禁止向中国出售英伟达更先进的Blackwell晶片，同时将现行出口管制措施正式纳入法律条文。 （路透社）

美国众议院外交事务委员会以压倒性优势，表决通过一项两党联合提案。法案明确要求，参照军售审查模式，由国会对先进人工智能（AI）晶片出口实施监管。

据彭博社报道，这项法案星期三（1月21日）以42票赞成、两票反对，在众议院外交事务委员会获批，下一步将提交众议院全体会议表决。法案仍需参众两院通过，并获得总统特朗普的签署才能生效。

法案规定，美国政府在批准先进AI晶片出口前，须事先通知国会，国会则有权通过联合决议案，审查并否决针对中国、俄罗斯、伊朗等“敌对国家”的出口许可。

法案同时赋予众议院外交事务委员会与参议院银行委员会议员权限，允许查阅待出口晶片的数量及相关终端用户的详细信息。

法案还制定了许可豁免机制，经认证的美国“可信”AI企业，在向美国盟友及中立国家出口晶片时可享有豁免。

此外，法案明确规定，未来至少两年内全面禁止向中国出售英伟达更先进的Blackwell晶片，同时将现行出口管制措施正式纳入法律条文。

美国政府上周二（13日）批准英伟达向中国出口H200晶片，但规定在台湾生产的成品须运到美国进行第三方测试，才可转运中国。隔天，美国再宣布对一些先进晶片征收25%关税，意味着H200晶片出口中国须支付25%的出口税。

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美众院外交委员会推进AI晶片出口审查法案 | 联合早报

发布时间: 2026-01-22T04:30:15.000Z
来源: 联合早报

美国众议院外交事务委员会星期三表决通过的法案明确规定，未来至少两年内全面禁止向中国出售英伟达更先进的Blackwell晶片，同时将现行出口管制措施正式纳入法律条文。 （路透社）

美国众议院外交事务委员会以压倒性优势，表决通过一项两党联合提案。法案明确要求，参照军售审查模式，由国会对先进人工智能（AI）晶片出口实施监管。

据彭博社报道，这项法案星期三（1月21日）以42票赞成、两票反对，在众议院外交事务委员会获批，下一步将提交众议院全体会议表决。法案仍需参众两院通过，并获得总统特朗普的签署才能生效。

法案规定，美国政府在批准先进AI晶片出口前，须事先通知国会，国会则有权通过联合决议案，审查并否决针对中国、俄罗斯、伊朗等“敌对国家”的出口许可。

法案同时赋予众议院外交事务委员会与参议院银行委员会议员权限，允许查阅待出口晶片的数量及相关终端用户的详细信息。

法案还制定了许可豁免机制，经认证的美国“可信”AI企业，在向美国盟友及中立国家出口晶片时可享有豁免。

此外，法案明确规定，未来至少两年内全面禁止向中国出售英伟达更先进的Blackwell晶片，同时将现行出口管制措施正式纳入法律条文。

美国政府上周二（13日）批准英伟达向中国出口H200晶片，但规定在台湾生产的成品须运到美国进行第三方测试，才可转运中国。隔天，美国再宣布对一些先进晶片征收25%关税，意味着H200晶片出口中国须支付25%的出口税。

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