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A colossal winter storm stretching from New Mexico to Maine hit the agricultural heartland of the United States with snow and freezing rain on Tuesday, and experts said the worst was still to come as it moved northeast.

U.S. airlines canceled thousands of flights on Tuesday ahead of a blizzard that has promised near-record snowfall in the U.S. Plains and the central Midwest.

A snow storm of "historic proportions" will cover 3/4 of the United States this week, with snowfall hitting from New Mexico to New England, according to CNN.The snow, expected to start falling on Tuesday, will drop as much as a foot of snow in Missouri and Illinois.

The Northeast dug out of yet another winter storm on Thursday that pummeled the region with between six and 19 inches of snow overnight.

New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits rose more than expected last week as harsh weather conditions in some parts of the country kept workers at home and caused a backlog in the processing of claims, a government report showed on Thursday.

A fast-moving winter storm is forecast to dump several inches of heavy snow across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Wednesday and into Thursday. ...

Thanks in part to the East Coast storm Tuesday night, the snow covered region has risen to 71% Wednesday and now includes Washington, D.C. based on imagery and analysis from the National Weather Service (NWS).

The snowstorm that slammed the deep South and churned its way into the Northeast is causing similar headaches for travelers. Travel in and out of New York and Boston was limited Wednesday morning.

There was nothing mysterious about the death of a flock of birds in Romania last week -- they were simply drunk, veterinarians said.

Deadly floodwaters that have cut a swath across northeastern Australia flowed onto the streets of the nation's third-largest city Wednesday, forcing people to flee suburbs and skyscrapers as rescuers elsewhere searched for 67 people still missing....