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A plow clears snow from the road Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)2025-11-29T05:52:26Z A major snowstorm in the Midwest and Great Lakes brought winter to some Thanksgiving travelers, and forecasters said the northeast U.S. could get its own early winter storm next week.Winter storm warnings and advisories extended from Montana to Ohio, the National Weather Service said. Forecasters warned there could be airport delays and slowed traffic with snow falling at more than an inch (2.5 centimeters) per hour in some areas.The storm dumped more than 8 inches (20 centimeters) of snow on northern Iowa by Saturday morning, and at least that much was expected in Chicago, elsewhere in Illinois, and in Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan.Airports in Chicago and St. Louis reported delays of about an hour in the morning, according to FlightAware.com, as one of the busiest travel days cranked up after Thanksgiving. Icicles formed at a slant on a Chicago pier thanks to the wind, and Lake Michigans waters were choppy with whitecaps. Motorists drove cautiously along snowy and slushy roads. A person jogs along Lake Michigan in the snow Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato) A person jogs along Lake Michigan in the snow Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Snow-covered roads and slow travel were reported across Iowa and northern Illinois and Indiana.Westbound Interstate 70 near Terre Haute, Indiana, was closed around noon after at least 45 vehicles crashed, Indiana State Police said on social media. No one was seriously injured, and officials estimated that it would take six hours to reopen the highway. Troopers were also helping people in the eastbound lanes who were sliding off the road, Sgt. Matt Ames said. Stay up to date with the news and the best of AP by following our WhatsApp channel. Follow on The sheriff of Grant County, about 65 miles (105 kilometers) northeast of Indianapolis, urged people to stay off the roads. Stay home, have a nice cup of hot chocolate, watch some TV, play some games, Sheriff Del Garcia said in a video. A couple walk their dog on a beach in the snow Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato) A couple walk their dog on a beach in the snow Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Snow was falling in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where No. 1 Ohio State played 15th ranked Michigan in their traditional season-ending rivalry game. Heavy snow was expected at other Big Ten games, nighttime contests at Illinois and Michigan State.Meteorologists said that so far, forecast conditions did not meet blizzard warning criteria winds of at least 35 mph (56 kph), visibilities of less than a quarter mile (400 meters) and lasting more than three hours.The same storm and cold front was also expected to bring thunderstorms and a chance of heavy rain Saturday from southern Missouri down to Louisiana and Texas. Forecasters said another winter storm was becoming more likely Monday and Tuesday, with freezing rain and ice in the Appalachians and moderate to heavy snow possible in the interior Northeast.

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Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/John McDonnell, File)2025-11-29T13:29:58Z WASHINGTON (AP) The Pentagons investigation of Sen. Mark Kelly over a video that urges American troops to defy illegal orders has raised a slew of questions, and some criticism, from legal experts. Some say the Pentagon is misreading military law to go after Kelly as a retired Navy fighter pilot. Others say the Arizona Democrat cannot be prosecuted as a member of Congress. A group of former military prosecutors insists he did nothing wrong. The Pentagon announced the investigation last week after President Donald Trumps social media post accusing Kelly and the five other Democratic lawmakers in the video of sedition punishable by DEATH.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Kelly was facing investigation because he is the only one in that group who formally retired from the military and is still under the Pentagons jurisdiction. Kelly dismissed the inquiry as the work of bullies and said it would not deter him and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable. Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., arrives before President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File) Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., arrives before President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Its not totally unheard ofStephen Vladeck, a Georgetown University law professor, said there has been a significant uptick in courts-martial of retired service members in the past decade. While courts have debated the constitutionality, the practice is currently allowed. He said there have been roughly a dozen such prosecutions across the service branches. There are roughly 2 million people who formally retired from the military and receive retirement pay, according to a report from the Congressional Research Service. Service members are generally entitled to retirement pay after completing 20 years of active duty. Todd Huntley, a retired Navy captain and judge advocate general, or JAG, said it is rare to prosecute retirees for something that happened after they retired.Its not totally unheard of, said Huntley, who now directs Georgetowns national security law program. I actually prosecuted a enlisted guy who had been retired for 16 years. He was essentially assaulting his adopted daughter. Basically no one else had jurisdiction so we prosecuted him. A ridiculous conclusion Colby Vokey, a prominent civilian military lawyer and former military prosecutor, said Hegseth appears to be misreading the Uniform Code of Military Justice to justify the Kelly investigation.Vokey said Hegseth has personal jurisdiction over Kelly because Kelly is entitled to retirement pay. But Vokey said Hegseth lacks subject matter jurisdiction because Kelly made his statements as a senator. Vokey said case law has evolved to where the military can prosecute an active-duty service member for a crime committed off base, such as robbing a convenience store. But applying military law to a retired service member and assuming that means every offense ever is kind of a ridiculous conclusion. Lets say you have a 100-year-old World War II veteran who is retired with pay and he steals a candy bar, Vokey said. Hegseth could bring him back and court-martial him. And that in effect is what is happening with Kelly. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during the 4th annual Northeast Indiana Defense Summit at Purdue University Fort Wayne, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025, in Fort Wayne, Ind. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings) Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during the 4th annual Northeast Indiana Defense Summit at Purdue University Fort Wayne, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025, in Fort Wayne, Ind. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Patrick McLain, a retired Marine Corps judge and former federal prosecutor, said the cases he has seen of retirees being called back are more like extreme examples of fraud or some of these child pornography cases.Ive not seen anything like the kind of the wackadoodle thing theyre trying to do to Sen. Kelly for essentially exercising his First Amendment right to free speech, which they dont like, McLain said.He did it as a civilian Charles Dunlap, a Duke University law professor and retired Air Force lawyer, said in an email that military law can restrict speech for service members that is protected for civilians under the First Amendment. But even if the video was found to have violated military law, a key issue may be whether the law can be applied to someone who is retired, Dunlap said. A group of former military lawyers, the Former JAGs Working Group, said in a statement that Kelly did not violate the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The video simply described the law as it pertains to lawful versus unlawful orders, the group said. It did not suborn mutiny or otherwise encourage military members to disregard or disobey lawful orders issued to them. Troops, especially uniformed commanders, have specific obligations to reject orders that are unlawful. Broad legal precedence also holds that just following orders colloquially known as the Nuremberg defense, as it was used unsuccessfully by senior Nazi officials to justify their actions under Adolf Hitler does not absolve troops. Kelly and the other lawmakers did not mention specific circumstances in the video. Some Democratic lawmakers have questioned the legality of the Trump administrations attempts to send National Guard troops into U.S. cities. Kelly has pointedly questioned the use of the military to attack alleged drug boats off South Americas coast, saying he was worried about the military officers involved with the mission and whether they were following orders that may have been illegal. Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/John McDonnell, File) Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/John McDonnell, File) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Michael OHanlon, director of research in the foreign policy program at the Brookings Institution, said any case brought against Kelly likely would be thrown out or end in an acquittal. OHanlon said it might not have been politically smart to wave a red flag in front of the bull but he does not see the legal grounds for a court martial. Saying that you shouldnt break the law cannot be a crime, OHanlon said. But in addition, he did not do it as a military officer. He did it as a civilian.Separation of powers Kellys status as a senator could block the Pentagons investigation because of constitutional protections for the separation of powers in the U.S government. The Constitution explicitly shields members of Congress from White House overreach, said Anthony Michael Kreis, a constitutional law professor at Georgia State University.Having a United States senator subject to discipline at the behest of the secretary of defense and the president that violates a core principle of legislative independence, Kreis said in a telephone interview.Kreis said such protections were a reaction to the British monarchy, which arbitrarily punished members of Parliament.Any way you cut it, the Constitution is fundamentally structurally designed to prevent this kind of abuse, Kreis said. RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

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This photo provided by U.S. Attorneys Office shows Rahmanullah Lakanwal on Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025. (U.S. Attorneys Office via AP)2025-11-30T05:25:26Z The Afghan man accused of gunning down two National Guard members blocks from the White House last week had been unraveling for years, unable to hold a job and flipping between long, lightless stretches of isolation and taking sudden weeks-long cross-country drives. His behavior deteriorated so sharply that a community advocate reached out to a refugee organization for help, fearing he was becoming suicidal.Emails obtained by The Associated Press reveal mounting warnings about the suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an asylum seeker whose erratic conduct raised alarms long before the attack that jolted the nations capital on the eve of Thanksgiving. The previously unreported concerns offer the clearest picture yet of how he was struggling in his new life in the United States.Even so, when the community member who works with Afghan families in Washington state saw on the news that Lakanwal was named as the suspect in the National Guard shooting, they said they were stunned, unable to square the violence with the memory of seeing Lakanwal play with his young sons. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity to share undisclosed details while cooperating with the FBI in its investigation. West Virginia National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24, were critically wounded in what officials described as an ambush attack on Wednesday afternoon, and Beckstrom died from her injuries the next day. Investigators are still working to establish a motive for the attack. Lakanwal, 29, has been charged with first-degree murder. In Afghanistan, Lakanwal worked in a special Afghan Army unit known as a Zero Unit. The units were backed by the CIA. He entered the U.S. in 2021 through Operation Allies Welcome, a program that evacuated and resettled tens of thousands of Afghans after the U.S. withdrawal from the country, many of whom had worked alongside U.S. troops and diplomats. He resettled with his wife and their five sons, all under the age of 12, in Bellingham, Washington but struggled, according to the community member, who shared emails that had been sent to the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, a nonprofit group that provides services to refugees.Rahmanullah has not been functional as a person, father and provider since March of last year, 03/2023. He quit his job that month, and his behavior has changed greatly, the person wrote in a January 2024 email.The emails described a man who was struggling to assimilate, unable to hold a steady job or commit to his English courses while he alternated between periods of dark isolation and reckless travel. Sometimes, he spent weeks in his darkened room, not speaking to anyone, not even his wife or older kids. At one point in 2023, the family faced eviction after months of not paying rent.The community member said in an interview that they became worried that Lakanwal was so depressed that he would end up harming himself, but they did not see any indication that he would commit violence against another person. Lakanwals family members often resorted to sending his toddler sons into his room to bring him the phone or messages because he would not respond to anyone else, one email stated. A couple of times, when his wife left him with the kids for a week to travel to visit relatives, the children would not be bathed, their clothes would not be changed, and they would not eat well. Their school raised concerns about the situation.But then, there were interim weeks where Lakanwal would try to make amends and do the right things, according to the email, re-engaging with the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services as was mandated by the terms of his entry into the U.S. But that has quickly evolved into manic episodes for one or two weeks at a time, where he will take off in the family car, and drive nonstop, the email outlined. Once, he went to Chicago, and another time, to Arizona. Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., said this past week that Lakanwal drove across the country from Bellingham, about 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Seattle, to the nations capital to execute his attack. In response to the two emails, the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants or USCRI, visited Bellingham a few weeks later in March 2024 and attempted to make contact with Lakanwal and his family, according to the community member, who, after not receiving any updates, was left with the impression that he refused their assistance. A request for comment and clarification from USCRI was not immediately returned. FARNOUSH AMIRI Amiri covers foreign policy and the United Nations as a correspondent for The Associated Press, based in New York. twitter mailto

This photo provided by U.S. Attorneys Office shows Rahmanullah Lakanwal on Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025. (U.S. Attorneys Office via AP)2025-11-30T03:28:47Z STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) Four people were killed and 10 wounded in a shooting during a family gathering at a banquet hall in Stockton, sheriffs officials said Saturday.Heather Brent, a spokesperson for the San Joaquin County sheriffs office, said the victims included both children and adults. Early indications suggest this may have been a targeted incident, Brent said during a news conference at the scene.The shooting occurred inside the banquet hall, which shares a parking lot with other businesses.Detectives were still working to identify a possible motive.Authorities did not immediately provide additional information about the conditions of the victims. Officials said earlier that several were taken to hospitals.

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