10 Things to Know for Today
By The Associated Press, Associated Press
Mar 1, 2017 5:36 AM CST
Taxis line up in front of the renowned Waldorf Astoria hotel, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, in New York. The hotel, purchased by the Anbang Insurance Group, a Chinese company, is closing Wednesday for two to three years for renovation. Exact details of the renovation haven't been released, but its conversion...   (Associated Press)

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:

1. TRUMP HERALDS 'NEW CHAPTER OF AMERICAN GREATNESS'

The president, addressing Congress for the first time, calls for overhauling the nation's health care system and significantly boosting military spending.

2. PRESIDENT SALUTES WIDOW OF SLAIN SEAL IN EMOTIONAL MOMENT

The widow of William "Ryan" Owens, who was killed in Yemen, is saluted by Trump and applauded by Congress.

3. REVISED TRAVEL ORDER SPARES IRAQ

Trump's new immigration order will remove Iraq from the list of countries whose citizens face a temporary U.S. travel ban, U.S. officials say.

4. SUSPECTS IN NORTH KOREAN'S KILLING CHARGED WITH MURDER

Prosecutors lodge formal charges against two young women accused of smearing VX nerve agent on Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half brother of North Korea's leader.

5. WHAT'S CAUSING MIGRANT CRISIS IN AFRICA

More than half a million refugees have fled South Sudan amid civil war and warnings of genocide.

6. 'SENSE OF HUMANITY DRIVES ME TO COME HERE'

A small group of former addicts is trying to help drug users in Afghanistan, a country where addiction rates are among the highest in the world.

7. WHERE TWISTERS ARE SPREADING HAVOC

Tornadoes in the upper Midwest and northern Arkansas kill at least two people as a spring-like storm system poses a risk to 45 million people.

8. BIG EASY CELEBRATES FAT TUESDAY

After a day of parades, blaring marching bands, elaborate costumes and crowds screaming for beads, another Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans is over.

9. HOW WALDORF IS REGAINING ITS WONDER

The word "grand" matched no hotel in the world better than New York's Waldorf Astoria — a bastion of gilded splendor now closing for massive renovations.

10. MUMPS THE WORD: FRESH OUTBREAK IN NHL

So far, players in Vancouver and Minnesota have fallen ill in the second such outbreak of the highly contagious disease in the league in a little over two years.

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