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a After the massive winter storm, arctic air will linger across much of the country into the start of the week. Temperatures will remain about 10 to 20 degrees below average for more than 220 million people throughout the week, primarily across areas east of the Rocky Mountains. Extreme Cold Warnings have extended into the South, where nearly 40 record low morning temperatures are likely to be broken on Tuesday morning.In the wake of the historic winter storm that blasted 40 states this weekend, a dome of Arctic air associated with the Polar Vortex is bringing days of life-threatening temperatures…

The drama over how far U.S. President Donald Trump would go to acquire Greenland seems to have come and gone. But it’s still worth discussing a longer-term issue: What is the ideal Arctic policy for the United States, and how serious is the challenge posed by China and Russia? On the latest episode of FP Live, I spoke with a leading Arctic expert, Heather Conley, who served as a deputy assistant secretary of state under President George W. Bush and led the German Marshall Fund for nearly three years. Subscribers can watch the full discussion on the video box atop…

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani recently caused something of an uproar when he contrasted the “the frigidity of rugged individualism” with the “warmth of collectivism.” This framing echoes the familiar criticism that capitalism forces people to go it alone as “atomistic individuals.” The thought goes like this: markets do real damage to the social fabric and our relationships because they organize our economic lives around competition and self-interest. Organizing our lives around competition encourages people to see each other as rivals rather than partners. In brief, capitalism pits us against each other, while socialism brings us together. Setting aside…

Premier League8:00 PMJanuary 26, 2026Regular Season – 23Hill Dickinson StadiumReferee: Simon Hooper, England Copy and paste this HTML code into your webpage to embed. Everton World Class 0 Solid 0 Bang Average 0 Lucky 0 Shocking 0 Leeds World Class 0 Solid 0 Bang Average 0 Lucky 0 Shocking 0 Turn off spoiler to view match statistics0.60Expected goals (xG)1.16Passing445 (83%)Accurate passes300 (76%) Turn off spoiler to view match events 1 G Jordan Pickford 7.0 16 D Vitaliy Mykolenko 6.9 15 D Jake O’Brien 7.0 6 D James Tarkowski (C) 7.3 2 D Nathan Patterson 6.9 37 M James Garner 7.5…

The Washington Wizards are adding frontcourt depth ahead of the trade deadline by signing center Skal Labissiere to a 10-day contract. NBA insider Shams Charania reported the move Tuesday, citing the player’s agent Daniel Hazan. Labissiere joins Washington from the Capital City Go-Go, where he has been one of the most productive big men in […] The post Wizards sign Skal Labissiere to 10-day deal appeared first on TalkBasket.net.

Up to .75 inches of ice accretion was reported in Middle Tennessee by Sunday afternoon. The ice brought down trees in Nashville and more than 300,000 customers were without power across the state by Sunday afternoon. FOX New Multimedia Reporter Sarah Alegre was live in Nashville.NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A dangerous situation is unfolding across the South, where significant ice accumulations knocked out power to more than 1 million customers by Sunday afternoon. Widespread icing was reported across East Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi Saturday, while freezing rain intensified Sunday across Middle Tennessee, including Nashville and the southern Appalachians.LIVE UPDATES: DEADLY WINTER…

by AI | 27.Jan 2026 | Europe in brief AI India and the European Union on Tuesday formalized the conclusion of an ambitious free trade agreement which, after twenty years of negotiations, will create “a free trade area of 2 billion people”. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi poses for a photo with Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President António Costa before their meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on January 27, 2026, where they are due to sign a broad trade pact concluded after twenty years of negotiations. (Photo: Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP) New Delhi…

Just published, Chinn-Ito index, available here. Normalized to [0,1]with 1 being most open, here’s the world. Here’re average values for country groupings. The description of the current dataset is Ito and Chinn (2025). This is Hiro and I constructed the index because there were few, widely available and consistently updated measures of financial openness at the time, with the exception of Quinn’s (APSR1997) measure, which at the time was more limited in coverage. Individual dummy variables based on the IMF’s (old) de jure classification of controls (on exchange rates, export proceeds, capital account, current account) didn’t prove informative in one…

Luka Doncic poured in 46 points on another record-breaking night for the Slovenian as the Los Angeles Lakers eased past the Chicago Bulls – but he wasn’t sure it was enough to spare him from another ticking off from coach JJ Redick. Doncic also contributed seven rebounds and 11 assists as the Bulls’ four-game winning streak came to an end with a 129-118 defeat at the United Center. The 26-year-old, who joined the Lakers from the Dallas Mavericks 12 months ago, became the quickest player in franchise history to reach 2,000 points, achieving it in 65 games. Only Wilt Chamberlain…

FOX Weather’s Brandy Campbell is reporting live from Oxford, MS as the historic winter storm continues to slam the region. OXFORD, Miss. – People in Oxford, Mississippi, are seeing crippling effects from the ongoing winter storm, including an inch of paralyzing ice that’s causing widespread power outages and a plethora of downed trees and power lines.The storm is slamming parts of the U.S. with intense snow and ice across 40+ states this weekend, bringing large bands of heavy snow, winds and freezing temperatures to areas that aren’t accustomed to such conditions.This includes Oxford, Mississippi, where snow and ice are wreaking…