1. The icy wind steals your breath and freezes your eyelashes. You can’t blink. Your lungs burn. The cold stabs your fingers and numbs your earlobes to rubber.That was the in New Hampshire, where the wind chill recently reached 89 below zero. We sent two (elated) reporters to experience it for themselves.Much of the Northeast and Midwest spent the week locked in a snowy, unrelenting and dangerous freeze. during the so-called bomb cyclone, with a pointed message: “Bring it!”Hang in there: It should warm up a bit by Monday.
An intense week in Washington was capped off by some on Twitter.He defended his fitness for office, writing that “mental stability and being, like, really smart” have been his greatest assets in life. Mr. Trump described himself as a “very stable genius.” Above, the president and Republican leaders at Camp David.
Earlier in the week, Mr. Trump , had a very public falling out, prompted by Michael Wolff’s controversial new book about the White House.The White House asked Congress for $18 billion to build a wall on the Mexican border young undocumented immigrants from deportation.
3. President Trump again insisted he was by the special counsel in the Russia inquiry.“Everything I’ve done is 100 percent proper,” Mr. Trump said when asked about our report that he had pressed in the inquiry.Two Republican senators urged the Justice Department about Mr. Trump’s ties to Russia that became public nearly a year ago.
4. North and South Korea aimed at easing tensions and allowing North Korean athletes to participate in the Winter Olympics next month.President Moon Jae-in of South Korea spoke with President Trump, and the two agreed to postpone joint military exercises until after the Games. Above, mascots in Seoul.
5. Could there bePresident Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital has spurred leaders on both sides to press the idea, though they have radically different views of what the state would look like.The reaction to Mr. Trump’s decision in many Arab news outlets was muted. This may help explain why: We obtained audio recordings of an to persuade Egyptians to accept it. Above, a settlement in the West Bank.
