New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has ordered a citywide travel ban as a powerful snowstorm barrels through the northeastern United States, bringing heavy snowfall, strong winds and the threat of coastal flooding. The National Weather Service warned that blizzard conditions would rapidly develop from Washington to Maine with snowfall

A 16-year-old student was shot inside Thomas S Wootton High School in Rockville, Maryland. The injured teen is hospitalised in stable condition, while another student has been taken into custody. Police said there is no ongoing threat