Man smashes 3-year-old’s head on floor, police say

The police chief appealed for calm, both from the public and and from federal law enforcement.

Roughly 140 million people, or more than 40% of the U.S. population, were under a winter storm warning from New Mexico to New England.

Forecasters warned that the damage, especially in areas pounded by ice, could rival a hurricane.

A 5-year-old boy arriving home from preschool in Minnesota was taken by federal agents along with his father to a detention facility in Texas, school officials and the family’s lawyer said.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s father-daughter revolutionary saga “One Battle After Another,” the favorite coming into nominations, trailed in second with 13 nominations of its own.

About 160 million people were under winter storm or cold weather watches or warnings — and in many places both.