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The fire was reported at about 2 am Monday and the Houston Fire Department arrived on the scene of the two-story brick house within three to five minutes, the Houston Chronicle reported.

As the three-day Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday weekend began, the weather forecast was a crazy quilt of colour-coded advisories, from an ice storm warning in Oregon to a blizzard warning in the northern Plains to high wind warnings in New Mexico. 

Governors from New York to Louisiana declared states of emergency ahead of predicted snow and bone-chilling temperatures. In St Louis, the National Weather Service bureau warned of rare and "life-threatening" cold. 

If awards season has been building toward a second match-up of Barbenheimer, this round went to "Oppenheimer." The film also won best director for Nolan, best drama actor for Cillian Murphy, best supporting actor for Robert Downey Jr and for Ludwig Göransson's score.

The object of the lawsuit was the "incognito" mode on Google's Chrome browser that the plaintiffs said gave users a false sense that what they were surfing online was not being tracked by the Silicon Valley tech firm.

This alert comes on the heels of a quadruple murder that occurred earlier this week.

President Joe Biden, first lady Jill Biden and their granddaughter Natalie, walk down the steps of Air Force One upon arrival at Henry E. Rohlsen Airport, in St Croix, US Virgin Islands, Wednesday, December 27, 2023. Biden is spending the New Year in St Croix with family. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

The helicopter, a Hughes 369 aircraft, was carrying two people from Fort Myers when it crashed into a canal about 3 miles (4.83 kilometres) west of Miami Executive Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.

The change, long resisted by Pentagon leaders, was finally forced by frustrated members of Congress who believed that too often commanders would fail to take victims' complaints seriously or would try to protect alleged perpetrators in their units.

BlendJet 2 Portable Blenders can overheat or catch fire, according to a notice from the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, and their blender blades can break off during use.