1. WEATHER
The weather outside is frightful: Manhattan is a ghost town. The Boston Common is buried in white. The New England coastline is being whipped by near hurricane-force winds and waves. Welcome to the blizzard of 2015. Up to 58 million people could be put into the deep freeze. More than 4,300 flights have been canceled today. And several states are asking motorists to stay off the road. New York’s mayor is calling it “one of the largest snowstorms in the history of the city.” Stay safe, northeasterners!
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Talks but no trust: A message reported to be from retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro late last nighty endorsed the fledgling talks to restore diplomatic relations between Cuba and the U.S., but added Castro still “didn’t trust” U.S. officials. Last month, Cuba and the United States exchanged prisoners and agreed to discuss normalizing relations that had been trapped in over five decades of Cold War animosity. Despite the major shift in policy, for over a month Castro made no public comment on the deal, until now.
