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From New Mexico to Portland, Maine, temperatures dropped and snow fell, closing campaigns, football games and roadsIcy winter weather blanketed the US on Saturday as a wave of Arctic storms threatened to break low-temperature records in the heartland, spread cold and snow from coast to coast and cast a chill over everything from football playoffs to presidential campaigns.As the three-day Martin Luther King Jr...

Six million people under high surf warning as powerful storms sweep through California and OregonGiant waves as tall as 30ft crashing on to California’s coast have caused injuries and property damage, prompting evacuation warnings.At least eight people needed hospital treatment after towering waves crashed over seawalls in southern California on Thursday, engulfing seaside neighborhoods. On Friday, more than 6 million people remained under a...