At least 65 million people are in for severe snow, cold and sleet this week, as Winter Storm Olive rolls across the country, dumping wintry weather in more than two dozen states — spanning coast to coast, from California to Maine. Cities started shutting down in anticipation of potential record snowfall and freezing temperatures Wednesday, and more than 1,000 flights were canceled. Meteorologists with The Weather Channel have forecasted that at some point Wednesday night, snowfall could stretch more than 1,600 miles from Montana to Maine. The National Weather Service is urging people to keep up to date with alerts and warnings via Twitter and Weather.gov. |
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Welcome to Evening Report! I'm Elizabeth Crisp, catching you up from the afternoon and what's coming tomorrow. Not on the list? Subscribe here. |
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- Fresh off his State of the Union address and ahead of a 2024 decision, President Biden's approval rating has hit 46 percent — its highest point in nearly a year, according to a NPR-PBS NewsHour-Marist poll.
Sen. John Tester (D-Mont.) has announced he's running for reelection, giving some relief to Democrats who are hoping to keep control of the Senate in the coming election cycle.
Former President Trump lashed out at the special grand jury forewoman in the Georgia investigation into 2020 election interference after she did several candid national media interviews this week.
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✈️ Biden wraps up trip to Poland, Ukraine
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President Biden is en route back to the U.S. after an overseas trip marking the one-year anniversary of Russia's unprompted attack on Ukraine. He's expected to make it back to the White House late Wednesday evening. After a surprise trip to Kyiv, Ukraine and a rousing speech in Warsaw, Poland, Biden marked Ash Wednesday with a private Mass in a Polish hotel room and capped off his trip with a meeting with eastern NATO allies, known collectively as the Bucharest Nine. "As we approach the one-year anniversary of Russia's further invasion, it's even more important that we continue to stand together — That's why I wanted to meet all of you in person here today," he told the group. "As NATO's eastern flank, you're the frontlines of our collective defense." "You know better than anyone what's at stake in this conflict not just for Ukraine, but for the freedom of democracies throughout Europe and around the world," he added. |
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🛤️ Buttigieg to travel to East Palestine amid criticism
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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will travel to East Palestine, Ohio, on Thursday after backlash over the Biden administration's response to the hazardous train derailment there. The Transportation Department commented on the timing of the trip, saying in a statement that Buttigieg wanted to "go when it is appropriate and wouldn't detract from the emergency response efforts." The White House has provided no updates about when or whether President Biden himself may visit Ohio, but officials have blamed the Trump administration and Republican allies for loosening rail and environmental regulations. "Congressional Republicans laid the groundwork for the Trump Administration to tear up requirements for more effective train brakes, and last year most House Republicans wanted to defund our ability to protect drinking water," deputy press secretary Andrew Bates said in a statement. Former President Trump traveled to East Palestine on Wednesday and accused the Biden administration of "indifference and betrayal" in its response to the derailment. |
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🐘 Tim Scott delivers optimistic vision in Iowa
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Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) outlined an optimistic vision for the U.S. and the Republican Party in a speech this week in Iowa, despite bitter politics that have divided the country and even members of his own party. Scott hasn't said whether he wants to run for the White House in 2024 but Iowa was his latest stop on a trip through early GOP primary states. His speech at Drake University was a stark departure from the bleak outlook many Republicans have stressed since President Biden took office. "I see 330 million Americans getting back to celebrating our shared blessings again, tolerating our differences again, and having each other's backs again," Scott said. "We need new leaders who will lift us up, not tear us down." Former President Trump and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, the two Republicans who have formally launched 2024 campaigns, and other Republicans in the spotlight have largely focused their recent messaging on assailing Biden and Democrats. |
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🌊 Biden administration opens Gulf of Mexico offshore wind leases
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Continuing the Biden's administration's focus on clean energy initiatives, the Interior Department has announced the first-ever offshore wind lease sale proposal in the Gulf of Mexico. According to the Interior Department, the proposal includes more than 102,000 acres off of Lake Charles, La., and one or two areas off the coast of Galveston, Texas, depending on a final sale decision after public comment. The areas could power up to 1.3 million homes, the department said. |
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📈 Workers on strike up 50% in 2022, mostly in service sector
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More than 120,000 workers went on strike or stopped working last year despite the tightest labor market in decades, according to new Labor Department data. That's 50 percent higher than 2021, and more than four times the stops seen during the 2020 economic shut down. The highest concentration of stoppages in 2022 came from the education and health sectors. "The education and health services sector accounted for the idling of 106,300 workers," the Labor Department said in a statement. |
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🛒 SNAP recipients sue USDA over reimbursement of stolen benefits
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A class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of New York residents whose Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits have been electronically stolen.
The lawsuit, filed against the United States Department of Agriculture and the USDA Food and Nutrition Service, seeks to restore lost benefits to about 8,800 SNAP recipients in New York. According to the suit, the federal government has blocked the state from using federal funds to restore benefits that were stolen electronically.
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"Don't be fooled — the FTX fiasco was preventable" — Thomas P. Vartanian, executive director of the Financial Technology & Cybersecurity Center. (Read here) "American 'genocide': Monetizing the great reset" — Grady Means, writer and former corporate strategy consultant and government official. (Read here) | |
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15 days until President Biden unveils his budget plan for the next fiscal year. 622 days until the 2024 presidential election. |
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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg travels to East Palestine, Ohio, where a train recently derailed, spilling hazardous materials. 3 p.m.: House Judiciary Committee holds a remote hearing in Yuma, Ariz., to discuss southern border issues. |
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