More than 220 million people across the United States are facing dangerous cold that will also open the door for a potentially historic and crippling winter storm that could deliver snow as far south as Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.

The Defense Department has begun to repatriate illegal immigrants, using military cargo aircraft as the Trump administration steps up its crackdown at the southern border. The first such military flight out of El Paso,

Officials warned residents across the South that the effects of a major winter storm were not over, and that driving remained a hazard on roads frozen with slippery ice.

About 200 soldiers from a military police unit and a combat engineer unit of the 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley are deploying to the border.

Illegal crossings at the southern border were lower in December 2024 than in December 2020, Border Patrol data showed.

President Trump's Department of Homeland Security finds "an actual or imminent mass influx" of illegal immigrants at the southern border.

The US Department of Defense is deploying 1,500 active-duty service members along with additional air and intelligence assets to the southern border to support enforcement operations already underway.

President Trump issued a raft of executive orders that effectively block migrants from entering the United States and applying for asylum, closing off major legal channels for immigration.

The rule of law is not self-executing,” said US Attorney Zachary Myers, who was appointed by President Joe Biden in 2021.

Trump enacted controversial immigration plans in his first week back. What are the short and long-term effects?

Following a tense standoff between the nations' respective presidents, an agreement was reached on Sunday night regarding the return of repatriating citizens to Colombia from the United States.Conflict