More than 200 million people are under winter storm threats as officials brace for power outages and travel difficulties.

More than 8,000 flights have been canceled across the U.S. as a major storm expected to wreak havoc across much of the country bears down

Let's hope you didn't have travel plans over the next couple of days. A brutal winter storm is taking shape and poised to barrel across a vast swath of the US this weekend, with forecasters warning of potentially dangerous impacts.

Impacts from what could be the most significant storm of winter are expected to begin on Friday, spreading ice, snow and cold across much of the U.S.

Snow and dangerously bitter cold are expanding across the US Great Plains as the country’s largest winter storm prompts cascading travel chaos and threatens widespread power outages.

Two-thirds of the US population is facing down a monster winter storm and extreme cold. The storm’s snow and ice will stretch over 2,000 miles from Texas to New England as it tracks east through the weekend.

It was too cold for school in Chicago and other Midwestern cities Friday as a huge, dayslong winter storm began to crank up that could bring snow, sleet, ice and bone-chilling temperatures as well as extensive power outages to about half the U.

A major winter storm, one of the most extreme and expansive in years, is starting to develop over the Plains and will impact much of the United States. Over the next few days, the storm will drop up to a foot of snow and crippling amounts of ice over an area spanning 2,