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Millions stuck at home by travel bans and blizzard warnings as winter storm hits7:50 Blizzard warnings stretched from Maryland to Maine as a fierce winter storm threatened a large swath of the northeastern U.S. Mexico fears more violence as tourists warned and schools closed following killing of powerful Cartel boss7:50 Mexico hoped the death of the world's biggest fentanyl traffickers would ease Trump administration pressure to do more against the cartels Rob Reiner’s son returns to court to enter plea after weeks of delays7:50 Nick Reiner is set to enter a plea in the killings of his parents after weeks of legal drama and delays Tracey Emin, Britain’s greatest female artist: ‘Against death, illness or pain, art wins’7:17 Raped at 13, written off by critics, in remission from cancer – Tracey Emin is art’s great survivor, and her new major Tate retrospective, set to be one of the year’s blockbuster shows, is the ultimate accolade. She talks to Geordie Greig about painting, pain and showing Madonna around Margate Photos of violence in Mexico after the army killed cartel boss Nemesio 'El Mencho' Oseguera (cloned)7:17 The Mexican army Sunday killed the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, “El Mencho.” That effectively decapitated what had become Mexico’s most powerful cartel. Kim Jong Un tightens grip on North Korea’s ruling party for 15th straight year7:17 Ruling party’s congress is a tool for North Korea to issue propaganda messages to the world and to decide on the next political, economic, and military priorities More Ghanaians are wearing a cultural outfit after their president was mocked7:17 More Ghanaians are wearing the colorful fugu traditional outfit in a trend triggered by online mockery Why the TV industry keeps falling in love with the Kennedys, America’s answer to the royal family7:17 As Ryan Murphy takes on the story of JFK Jr and Carolyn Bessette, and Netflix plan an all-American successor to ‘The Crown’, Katie Rosseinsky explores the quasi-mythical appeal of the Kennedy family Jennifer O’Connell: I quit my law job and risked everything to self-fund my business – then it made a million in a year7:17 Jennifer O’Connell quit her high-powered law job and spent three years as a consultant before launching her wellness company, Sisterly. Here, she tells Lydia Spencer-Elliott about how she turned over £1m in its first year |