Trump Announces $20B US Data Center Investment; Meta Shelves Fact-checking for 'Community Notes'

The next round of bitter cold is set to envelop the southern United States on Tuesday after the first significant winter storm of the year blasted a huge swath of the country with ice, snow, and bitterly cold winds.

Meta said it is ending its fact-checking program in the United States and replacing it with a “Community Notes” system similar to that used on the Elon Musk-owned X social media platform.

A strong earthquake has shaken a high-altitude region of western China along with areas of Tibet and Nepal, damaging hundreds of houses, littering streets with rubble, and killing at least 95 people in the Tibet Autonomous Region.