
Baseball-sized hail threatens Texas again as flood risk increases
CNN
An outbreak of severe storms is threatening more than 33 million people in the southern Plains, while the risk for flash flooding ramps up Tuesday and Wednesday.
Hail is the greatest risk associated with Monday's storms in Texas. "Destructive giant hail is possible, if not likely," the National Weather Service (NWS) office in Midland said. Hail as large as baseballs could fall on a state that has already witnessed damaging hail events within the past month.
Hundreds of Border Patrol officers are mobilizing to bolster the president’s crackdown on immigration in snowy Minneapolis, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Sunday, as tensions between federal law enforcement and local counterparts flare after an ICE-involved shooting last week left a mother of three dead.

Nationwide outcry over the killing of a Minneapolis woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent spilled into the streets of cities across the US on Saturday, with protesters demanding the removal of federal immigration authorities from their communities and justice for the slain Renee Good.

Since early December the US Coast Guard and other military branches have boarded and taken control of five oil ships that had previously been sanctioned, all either accused of being in the process of transporting Venezuelan oil or on their way to take on oil that has been subject to US sanctions since President Donald Trump began a pressure campaign against the leadership of the country during his first term.










