When you think about breakfast, what comes to mind? Pancakes? Bacon and eggs? Maybe oatmeal or a blueberry muffin? What about a hot cup of … ramen noodles?
Here’s what else you need to know to Start Your Week Smart.
• Devastated communities across the South and Midwest are picking up the pieces and digging through debris after ferocious storms and tornadoes leveled neighborhoods and left at least 22 people dead. The tornadoes crushed homes and businesses, ripped roofs off buildings, splintered trees and sent vehicles flying.
• Former President Donald Trump’s indictment by a New York grand jury has thrust the nation into uncharted political, legal and historical waters, and raised a slew of questions about how the criminal case will unfold. He’s expected to appear in court Tuesday.
• Millions of Americans are at risk of losing their Medicaid coverage in coming months, but residents in five states will be the first to bear the brunt of the terminations starting in April.
• Southwest Airlines unveiled an “action plan” to prevent another meltdown like the one from December that left 16,700 flights canceled and 2 million passengers stranded over the busy holiday travel season.
• Pope Francis joked that he is “still alive” as he left the hospital in Rome where he spent a few days being treated for a respiratory infection.
Monday
NASA and the Canadian Space Agency will jointly announce the names of the four astronauts who will take a journey around the moon next year aboard the Artemis II rocket. The three Americans and one Canadian will fly farther than any humans traveled during the Apollo missions that ended more than 50 years ago.
Tuesday
Former President Donald Trump is expected to appear in court for his arraignment following his indictment last week by a…
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