Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. A mammoth winter storm is bearing down on much of the U.S.

Tens of millions of people are under winter storm warnings. National Weather Service meteorologist Frank Pereira says these warnings reach from Albuquerque, New Mexico, across the U.S. to western Pennsylvania.

Perhaps even up to half the U.S. population will be impacted by this storm,

which is going to develop later today's over parts of the central and southern Rockies into the plains.

He's going to gradually work its way further to the east,

bringing a widespread swath of heavy snow all the way from the southern central Rockies eastward to eventually New England

by this weekend. He says right after the storm passes, Arctic cold will settle on much of the same area.

Snow and ice won't be able to melt. People who are in the dark might not get their power back

for a while. Temperatures will be dangerously

cold for days. Video-sharing app TikTok has finished negotiating a deal to sell most of its

Chinese stake to new investors. This sale was motivated by a federal law. It forces Chinese

owners to divest from TikTok over U.S. national security concerns.

The Republican-led House has blocked a resolution to limit President Trump's war powers in

Venezuela, and Pierre-Claudea Grisales reports the resolution failed in a tie vote.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mass led the opposition against a resolution,

arguing U.S. military operations in Venezuela are over. There are no troops in Venezuela. We are not at war.

But Massachusetts Democrat Jim McGovern argues Republicans are making excuses.

The best we can get from the current majority here is that there's never a good time for Congress to assert its war powers.

Just two Republicans, Thomas Massey of Kentucky and Don Bacon of Nebraska joined all Democrats in the vote to force President Trump to seek congressional approval for the use of military forces inside Venezuela.

Claudio Rizales, NPR News.

President Trump had a consequential first year back in office, and Pierre's Chammer Keith

reports he faced little internal pushback.

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