Big snow dump
Piles of snow, in some places taller than most people, buried parts of western and northern New York as a lake-effect storm pounded areas east of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario for a third straight day yesterday, with possibly more to come. The snowfall in some spots ranked among the highest recorded in the area. The storm was caused by cold air picking up moisture from warmer lakes, creating narrow bands of windblown snow. It wreaked havoc on some roadways, as trucks that took to smaller backroads to avoid a closure on parts of an interstate in the area ended up in mass gridlock that Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz described on social media as “tractortrailer demo derby day.”
People in their 80s lead countries, create majestic art and perform feats of endurance. One entered the record books for scaling Mount Everest.
It’s soon time for Joe Biden, 80 today, to decide whether he has one more mountain to climb — the one to a second term as president.
Questions swirl now, in his own party as well as broadly in the country, about whether he’s got what it takes to go for the summit again.
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Human Rights foundation, named after President John F Kennedy’s younger brother, who was assassinated in 1968.
Biden hits his milestone birthday at a personal crossroads as he and his family face a decision in the coming months on whether he should announce for reelection.
He’d be 86 at the end of a potential second term.
Biden aides and allies all say he intends to run — and his team has begun quiet preparations for a campaign — but it has often been the president himself who has sounded the most equivocal. “My intention is
rough-cut diamond ever found, mined in South Africa in 1905 and presented to King Edward VII as a gesture of friendship and loyalty. However, Queen Camilla has been urged not to wear it for next week’s state visit by Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa’s president. Calls are growing that I run again,” he said at a news conference this month. “But I’m a great respecter of fate.”
“We’re going to have discussions about it,” he said.
Aides expect those conversations to pick up in earnest over Thanksgiving and Christmas, with a decision not until well after New Year’s.
Biden planned to celebrate his birthday at a family brunch in the White House.
for the diamond to be returned to South Africa and put on display in a museum. They include an online petition started after the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September. Zwelinzima Vavi, 59, a South African trade unionist whose father worked in the mines during the height of