rasika questions whether a national myth about a dual fought five hundred years ago by a king on the plaque on the back of an elephant had really happened the court said that there was not enough evidence to proceed. unusually cold weather has brought chaos to the southern united states where there were pileups and kentucky highways and louisiana were closed and flights in texas canceled widespread ice made conditions particularly treacherous. well washington has frozen sixty five million dollars of planned funding for palestinian refugees state department officials say that the decision was meant to prompt other countries to help pay for palestinian aid but a recent tweet five president trump has put all of that in doubt he wrote that palestinians give the u.s. no appreciation or respect and threatens future payments the u.s. will still pay a portion of the pledged funding allowing services to continue for now.