Temperatures as low as minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit were recorded in Wisconsin on Wednesday morning, Jan. 30, as part of the “polar vortex” deep freeze affecting much of the Midwest.
Only one temperature station in Antarctica recorded a temperature lower than minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit, according to AccuWeather.
The deep cold has already cancelled some 27-hundred flights across the nation, with the worst weather conditions yet to come.
Schools are closed and the U.S. postal service was suspended in parts of some ten states impacted by the bitter weather.
To those who have no choice but to venture outside, make sure to wear PLENTY of layers.
Officials are strongly suggesting people stay indoors if possible as frostbite can set in in less than five minutes.
US and China Begin Critical Round of Trade Talks
Negotiators representing the United States and China started two days of high-level talks in Washington on Jan. 30, aimed at settling a six-month trade war that, unresolved, has meant uncertainty for many traders in the global economy.Yet the odds seem stacked against any substantive resolution this week to the standoff between the world’s two biggest economies. Perhaps the best that might be hoped for, analysts say, is for the two sides to agree to keep talking.
The United States has imposed tariffs on $250 billion in Chinese imports; Beijing has retaliated with import taxes on $110 billion in U.S. goods.
On March 2, the Trump administration is scheduled to extend the tariffs to an additional $267 billion in Chinese goods if no agreement is reached.
US Sends First Central American Asylum Seeker to Mexico under New Policy
The United States sent the first Central American asylum seeker back to the Mexican border city of Tijuana on Jan. 29. It is part of the newly launched policy—Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP)—by which the United States will return non-Mexican migrants who cross the U.S. southern border back to Mexico while their asylum requests are processed in U.S. immigration courts.The returned Honduran migrant, Carlos Gomez, 55, arrived in Tijuana around midday on Jan. 29 and asked authorities for a ride to a migrant shelter.
Asylum seekers have traditionally been granted the right to stay in the United States while their cases were decided by an immigration judge but a backlog of more than 800,000 cases means the process can take years.
Adorable 10-Year-Old Gets His Baseball Team Fired Up Before the Game
An under-10 baseball team from Boca Raton, Florida, received a rousing speech from their pitcher before their game against Margate Legacy.Number 13 Daniel Litvak, can be heard telling his teammates to “play fast, play hard, play aggressive!” as he paced in front of them in the dugout.
These motivating words clearly worked as Boca Raton PawSox 10U posted on Facebook that “we ended up going out and getting the W in both games!”.
