| |  | | Brought to you by USATODAY.com | | Spring? JK. Winter Storm Stella isn't playing | | With less than a week until the first day of spring, winter decided to make a comeback in the Northeast. Yup, bust out the mittens again: The storm dumped wintry weather from the Carolinas to New England on Tuesday and wreaked havoc on travel, with thousands of flight cancellations and Amtrak service cut between D.C. and Boston. Chilly temperatures turned a row of homes on Lake Ontario into ice palaces. And 18 million Americans were placed under a blizzard warning, which means a lot of parents were likely scrambling to entertain snowbound kids . Wish we had some good news, but sorry, spring lovers: After the storm exits, a second blast of arctic air will keep the eastern half of the nation in its clutches for the rest of the week. If all this is leaving you cold, however, you might be in the Southwest, which is in the midst of a heat wave. | | The GOP hopes the CBO report is alternative facts | | If the Congressional Budget Office is right — and it tends to be — the new GOP health care plan will result in millions more uninsured people in the near future. The non-partisan office nearly sent the American Health Care Act to the emergency room in an independent analysis Monday. It stated plainly that a decade from now, more than 50 million people would be uninsured, compared with the 28 million under the system they're trying to eradicate: Obamacare. That's not news for those who had depended on Obamacare, because the CBO pretty much got it right when it predicted Obamacare's overall effects seven years ago. Right or wrong, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price doesn't trust the numbers, which he said were "just not believable." | | 'Pi Day' isn't so light-hearted this year | | It's March 14, also known as "Pi Day," in honor of the trillion-digit ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. (3/14 or 3.14 ... are we on the same page?) Obviously, this is a big day for math nerds and tech geeks. While most years, they might have celebrated the day by making a few Pi Day jokes , today some are protesting instead. Nearly 2,000 tech workers in Silicon Valley are expected to rally at a Tech Stands Up event in Palo Alto, Calif., in protest of President Trump's immigration policies. | | $435.3 million Powerball winner keeps people guessing | | Are you still hoping your second cousin from Indiana won the $435.3 million Powerball drawing? You may never know. The Indiana man who won the massive Powerball has chosen to remain anonymous. We do know a few things about the winner: He's a middle-aged Purdue graduate who works at a Lafayette, Ind., manufacturing plant and has lived in the area for roughly 10 years. We also know he's extremely lucky, since the odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million. So why don't we know his name? Because Indiana law allows jackpot prizes to be claimed by a limited liability corporation or legal trust, which obscures the name of the winner. |  | | This Texas woman's story about paying it forward may change how you treat homeless people | | Do you look away when you pass by a homeless person? It's awful, but so many people do. Ginger Sprouse of Texas was no different. She passed by a young homeless man at least four times a day, until late December when she decided to roll down her window and speak to him. Victor Hubbard told her his mother had left him and he was homeless and battling mental illness. Sprouse sprung into action, and with the help of a few Facebook friends raised money to get Hubbard back on his feet. He saw a mental health specialist and is now working at Sprouse's cooking and private events business. Pay it forward, people. | |
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