Istanbul roads paralysed after heavy snowfall

The Doctors CBSWoman Discovered Her Husband Was Leading a Double Life for 14 YearsAt just 17, Sara Schulting-Kranz was raped and got pregnant. She went to the police who said there was insignificant evidence to convict her rapist. She decided to keep the baby and went on to meet and marry her husband. They had two more boys together, then one day her husband walked through the door and told her that he had been leading a double life for 14 years. Hear her incredible story of resilience. Check out Sara’s book “Walk Through This: Harness The Healing Power Of Nature And Travel The Road Of Forgiveness.” Woman Shares Her Path of Trauma to Triumph after a Lifetime of BetrayalYahoo EntertainmentHolly Madison on first night sleeping with Hugh Hefner: ‘No romance or seduction’Holly Madison shares intimate details about Hugh Hefner and her time at the Playboy Mansion in Monday’s Secrets of Playboy premiere. Madison launched to fame on E!’s The Girls Next Door as Hefner’s number one girlfriend, dating the American publisher from 2001 to 2008. “I wasn’t physically attracted to Hef, but I did find him very charming,” Madison admits in the A&E docuseries.Reuters VideosAftermath photos show devastation in Tonga islandsThe eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano on January 15, which sits on the seismically active Pacific Ring of Fire, sent tsunami waves across the Pacific Ocean and was heard some 2,300 kilometers (1,430 miles) away in New Zealand.Photographs from Nomuka on Monday (January 17) and Tuesday (January 18) showed ash coating toppled building structures, and interiors of buildings ridden with debris and damage. In Tungua, boats and classrooms were captured to have weathered damage from the aftermath as well.The eruption was so powerful that space satellites captured not only huge clouds of ash but also an atmospheric shockwave that radiated out from the volcano at close to the speed of sound.AFP VideographicsMigrants rescued as seven people die crossing to Italy in winter weatherItalian coastguard rescue migrants attempting the perilous Mediterranean crossing from Libya in a boat carrying 280 people in cold weather. “Three people died during the crossing, another four suffering severe hypothermia died after they were intercepted by the coast guard and were being transferred to the island,” according to Lampedusa mayor Toto Martello.Associated PressHusband says Iran sentenced activist wife to prison, lashesIran has sentenced a prominent human rights activist to more than eight years prison, according to her husband. Paris-based Taghi Rahmani tweeted on Sunday that his wife, Narges Mohammadi, was tried in five minutes and sentenced to prison and 70 lashes. Last week, she was sent to Gharchak prison near Tehran.Washington PostA vaccine scientist’s discredited claims have bolstered a movement of misinformationAs Robert Malone stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial before thousands of anti-vaccine and anti-mandate demonstrators Sunday, the medical doctor and infectious-disease researcher repeated the falsehoods that have garnered him legions of followers. “Regarding the genetic covid vaccines, the science is settled,” he said in a 15-minute speech that referenced the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy. “They are not working.”Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most importantABC NewsNavy fighter jet crashes during carrier landing in South China SeaA U.S. Navy fighter jet attempting to land on an aircraft carrier in the South China Sea had a “landing mishap” on the ship’s deck Monday that left seven sailors injured, including the pilot, according to the Navy. The pilot of the F-35c fighter jet was able to eject safely and was recovered from the waters where the carrier, USS Carl Vinson, is operating. The Navy’s Seventh Fleet said in a statement the F-35C occurred “had a landing mishap and impacted the flight deck and subsequently fell to the water during routine flight operations.”Associated PressStranded drivers freed in Istanbul, Athens after snowtormRescue crews in Istanbul and Athens on Tuesday cleared roads that had come to a standstill after a massive cold front and snowstorms hit much of Turkey and Greece, leaving countless people and vehicles in both cities stranded overnight in freezing conditions. Highways and roads in and around Istanbul became clogged on Monday after the storm pounded the city of about 16 million people that straddles the European and Asian continents — accumulating more than 80 centimeters (31 inches) of snow in some areas. All highways and main roads were reopened by Tuesday afternoon, Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Adil Karaismailoglu announced on Twitter, while Istanbul Gov. Ali Yerlikaya said that restrictions placed on vehicles traveling into Istanbul was lifted.VarietyAlec Baldwin Seeks Dismissal of ‘Rust’ Crew Member’s LawsuitAlec Baldwin’s attorneys argued in a filing on Monday that a lawsuit stemming from the “Rust” shooting in October should be thrown out because the shooting was a workplace accident. The filing marks the first time that Baldwin’s lawyers have laid out a legal argument for why he is not responsible in the Oct. 21 […]BloombergBiden Calls Fox Reporter a `Stupid Son of a B—-‘President Joe Biden can be heard calling a Fox News reporter a “stupid son of a b—-.” Peter Doocy tried to question Biden about inflation as journalists were ushered out of White House’s East Room where the president was hosting a meeting with economic advisers. Doocy, appearing later on Sean Hannity’s Fox program, said Biden had called to apologize.