Travel: It’s snowing in western New York and Pennsylvania as holiday travelers hit the road. Snow fell in Atlanta, but mostly it’s raining along the Atlantic coast and the I-95 corridor, the east coast artery from Florida to Maine that …

Stormy Weather:  A massive storm system stretching from Georgia to Pennsylvania and New York promises to dump heavy rain, freezing rain and snow on the eve of Thanksgiving. As much as a foot of snow is expected in western New …

Stormy Weather: A major winter storm already credited with 8 deaths in the West is moving east just in time to foul Thanksgiving travel. There’s a foot of snow in New Mexico and it’s snowing in Colorado. More than 300 …

Breakthrough: The US and a coalition of five countries reached a groundbreaking  agreement that stops Iran from making bomb-grade uranium. The deal lasts just 6 months, but it signals a different relationship between Iran and the West. This provides time …

Knockout: The story of the week is what’s called “the knockout game” in which teenage boys and young men try to knock out random targets with one punch. Grainy surveillance video from several cities shows young men suddenly punching victims …

The Bomb: Senate Democrats voted “the nuclear option” yesterday, lowering the number of votes to end a filibuster from 60 to 51. It prevents Republican senators from blocking President Obama’s judicial and executive nominees. “They will pay a very, very …

National: The US has reached a security agreement that could keep troops in Afghanistan until 2024 and send billions of dollars in assistance. About 10,000 to 12,000 American troops would stay in Afghanistan to provide training and counter-terrorism assistance. That …

 National: JP Morgan Chase and the government finalized a record $13 billion settlement over the bank’s sale of junk mortgage securities from 2005 through 2008. This brings the total of fines paid by JP Morgan since 2010 to $18.7 billion. …

National: As many as 500 homes in Washington, Ill. east of Peoria, were damaged and destroyed by Sunday’s tornado.  A 200-unit apartment building was ripped apart. The twister was classified an EF-4 with winds up to 190 mph. A record …

National: More than 77 late-season tornadoes ripped through the Midwest yesterday. Six people are reported dead. The National Weather Service reported that most of the twisters touched down in Illinois, where Coal City and Washington were hit hard. Entire blocks …