Good evening, Buffalo. We're wrapping up the day for you with the most important stories you need to know and your weather outlook.
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Light rain and wet snow showers continue this evening. Little to no snow is expected to accumulate.
A weak low passes by Friday with light snow showers. Lake effect snow showers are likely south of Lake Ontario Friday night into Saturday.
The coldest air of the season moves in this weekend.
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Highs: Low 40s Lows: High 20s Mixed showers |
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Today's Big Stories
1. New funding to support emergency weather preparedness in Erie County
The funding includes $20 million via the Inflation Reduction Act, which lawmakers say will also support local workforce training initiatives for solar installation, energy efficiency upgrades, and other energy-related trades to help families lower costs and fight climate change locally.
2. Biden joins calls to ban members of Congress from trading stocks
President Joe Biden on Tuesday joined calls that have lingered for years from some on Capitol Hill to ban sitting members of Congress from trading stocks, saying the U.S. “should be changing the law.”
3. Supreme Court agrees to hear TikTok’s First Amendment challenge to U.S. ban if not sold
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear TikTok’s challenge to the constitutionality of the federal law that would ban the popular video-based social media app in the United States unless its China-based parent company agrees to sell it.
4. Trump’s push to end birthright citizenship faces constitutional roadblocks
President-elect Donald Trump wants to end birthright citizenship — the guarantee that anyone born on U.S. soil is an American citizen, no matter their parents’ legal status. But trying to end that guarantee, which was established more than 100 years ago, would not be easy. Some legal experts say any challenge would likely fail.
5. Most U.S. teens are abstaining from drinking, smoking and marijuana, survey says
Teen drug use hasn't rebounded from its drop during the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the results from a large annual national survey released Tuesday.
6. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau alerts law enforcement to illegal credit card schemes
Weeks after Elon Musk called for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to be “deleted,” the agency announced a series of actions Wednesday to stop credit card companies from luring customers with rewards they can never redeem.
Your Notes for Tomorrow
- Russian President Vladimir Putin annual press conference
- Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report - Initial Claims
- U.S. Census Bureau releases latest set of population estimates
- U.S. Postal Service recommended deadline for Priority Mail service for Christmas delivery
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