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Despite his recent moves, there was no sign Trump was retreating from the broader, hardline policy of sending heavily armed, masked and unidentified ICE agents into Democratic-run cities.

In New York City, eight more people were found dead amid plummeting temperatures, and an investigation to determine the causes was underway. It was not known if all of these fatalities were storm-related.

US Senator Lindsey Graham told the paper he had spoken with Trump in recent days about Iran and that "the goal is to end the regime".

The outage caused by a fire targeting a set of high-voltage cables starkly revealed gaps in the security of critical infrastructure in the capital at a time when Germany worries about sabotage attacks blamed on Russia.