
When the weather tested Texans' mettle, they responded with hospitality
CNN
People across the state who've been snowed in and iced out in their homes have shared stories of kindness and aid from neighbors they hardly knew and friends they didn't expect so much from.
Since Sunday, the Lone Star state has weathered a winter storm so fierce it's broken several records, plunged Texas cities into subzero temperatures and knocked out power, water and warmth for millions of residents.
US officials are furiously trying to avert a potential monthslong closure of the Strait of Hormuz, privately acknowledging that reopening the key waterway is a problem without a clear solution and dependent at least in part on what lengths President Donald Trump is willing to go to force the Iranian regime’s hand, multiple administration and intelligence officials tell CNN.

Supreme Court revives First Amendment lawsuit from street preacher who called concertgoers ‘sissies’
The Supreme Court on Friday revived a First Amendment lawsuit from a street preacher who used a loudspeaker to call people “whores,” “Jezebels” and “sissies” as they tried to enter an amphitheater to attend concerts in a suburban Mississippi community.











