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A historic winter storm is expected to bring rare heavy snowfall and ice to states along the Gulf Coast and could impact as many as 55 million people through midweek, according to national forecasts. Houston, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and other cities across the deep South have begun bracing for the storm. Houston has already closed its major airports and …

Two brothers convicted in connection to the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack became the first of the rioters to be freed late Monday after President Trump issued Day 1 pardons to hundreds of the participants. Andrew and Matthew Valentin, from Stroudsburg, Pa., were released from the Central Detention Facility in Washington, DC just before midnight, Trump administration officials announced outside …

President Trump decorated the Oval Office with a collage of family photos and other personal belongings that were on full display during his first day back in the White House. The president’s sentimental possessions sit atop a table just behind the Resolute desk and were seen Monday night as Trump signed a series of executive orders just hours after he …

A well-regarded Alabama fire chief who stopped to help a driver that hit a deer was killed when a homeowner opened fire on the pair Sunday night, according to authorities. Coweta County Fire Battalion Chief James Bartholomew Cauthen and the driver involved in the accident were walking up a driveway near County Road 276 in Chambers County around 5 p.m. …

President Trump wasted no time asserting his second-term agenda Monday – signing dozens of executive orders in a flurry of activity that began just moments after taking the oath of office. The new president’s edicts focused on countering illegal immigration, expanding domestic energy production, slashing government waste and the “deep state,” promoting an “America First” foreign policy and trade goals, …

Donald Trump’s acting Homeland Security chief has ordered the dismantling of all the department’s advisory boards to guard against “misuse of resources” after the Biden administration’s disastrous attempt to create a Big Brother-style “Disinformation Governance Board,” The Post has learned. In a memo dispatched Monday evening, Benjamine Huffman mandated the “termination of all current memberships on advisory committees with DHS, …

President Trump made an appearance during the halftime segment of Monday’s College Football Playoff championship between Ohio State and Notre Dame. “This has been an historic and exciting day for our country,” Trump said in a pre-taped statement. “In recent years our people have suffered greatly, but starting now we’re going to bring America and make it safer, richer and …

The Anti-Defamation League defended Elon Musk on Monday after the billionaire tech mogul thanked supporters of President Trump with a gesture that some left-wingers on social media referred to as a fascist salute.  “It seems that [Musk] made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute,” the antisemitism watchdog wrote on X.  Musk, 53, caused a …

ALTADENA, California — This California grandmother’s newly renovated house was completely demolished by the deadly LA wildfires — but she’s still on the hook for the $800,000 mortgage she took out to pay for the upgrade.  Miriam Cotero, a 46-year-old Costco worker, had just finished the upgrade — which valued the house at $1.2 million — when the Eaton Fire tore …

The revamped White House Oval Office will once again feature the Diet Coke button that President Trump used to summon sodas during his first term.  The famous little red button, hidden inside a wooden box, was spotted on Trump’s resolute desk after his inauguration ceremony on Monday, according to the Wall Street Journal. The button was removed from the Oval …