Day: February 14, 2025

A number of Saturday’s front pages reflect on JD Vance’s speech in Munich

US vice-president’s speech and meeting with Germany’s AfD chief signal administration’s wider plans for continent

As snow fell across Oregon, Crater Lake National Park saw its highest snow depth so far this winter. On Friday, Matt Hoffman, chief meteorologist with KDRV-TV in Medford, wrote on Facebook that Crater Lake’s snow depth “now stands at a new max for the season at 141 inches. That’s well over 11 feet! The snow depth average for today is 84 inches.” Crater Lake National Park has several live …

The former prosecutors, both Democrats and Republicans, sharply criticized the Justice Department’s intention to investigate Danielle Sassoon. She resigned rather than drop a case she supported.

Southern California took stock on Friday of the damage from an intense bout of rain. Among the most dramatic scenes: a Fire Department vehicle that was swept to the sea.

The NTSB said Army Black Hawk crew may not have heard a message to “pass behind” the D.C.-bound passenger plane before the Jan. 29 midair crash over the Potomac River.

During the peak of the COVID-19 outbreak, researchers at the University of Texas followed every positive case, took that date and gave a picture of the spread that helped hospitals prepare for an increase in patients using the UT COVID-19 Modeling Consortium.

“I come here today not just with an observation but with an offer,” Vice President JD Vance said in a speech to hundreds of high-ranking European leaders.

Federal workers were responding with anger and confusion Friday as they grappled with the Trump administration’s latest effort to shrink the size of the federal workforce by ordering agencies to lay off probationary employees who have yet to qualify for civil service protections.

The San Juan Creek in California was flowing uncontrollably on Friday after an atmospheric rain that hit Southern California on Thursday.