At least eight people died after heavy snow, rain and high winds ripped through the Northeast and the mid-Atlantic on Friday, snarling travel and bringing major flooding to parts of Massachusetts.

LOS ANGELES — “Get Out” was the big winner at a sodden, rain-swept Film Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica on Saturday, winning best feature and best director for Jordan Peele a day before Hollywood’s biggest night of the year.

WASHINGTON — George Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman, has hovered on the fringes of international diplomacy for three decades. He was a back-channel negotiator with Syria during the Clinton administration, reinvented himself as an adviser to the de facto ruler of the United Arab Emirates and last year was a frequent visitor to President Donald Trump’s White House.

His call follows the recent spate of armed robbery cases in the country which has caused fear and panic among Ghanaians.

The promotion, which lifts Inspector Emmanuel Ashilevi to the rank of an  Assistant Superintended of Police (ASP), comes with an increase in benefits.

Trump in a private speech on Saturday praised Chinese President Xi Jinping for recently consolidating power, saying, "Maybe we'll give that a shot someday."