Here's the latest for Tuesday January 18th: Senate to take up voting rights; North Korea test-fires more missiles; Heavy snow wallops Northeast; Fierce fire in Massachusetts beach town.      

A coastal Massachusetts motel and four other buildings were destroyed early Monday when strong winds pushed massive flames through the structures. Nobody was hurt. (Jan. 18)      

President Joe Biden came to office one year ago on promises to heal a deeply divided nation and end the unrelenting COVID pandemic. Biden wraps up his first year with some notable achievements, but progress on those two vows as elusive as ever. (Jan. 18)      

Highlights of Today in History: Soviet Union breaks WWII Leningrad siege; Robert F. Scott reaches South Pole; Boston Strangler suspect Albert de Salvo convicted. (Jan. 18)      

A rabbi who endured a standoff at a Texas synagogue said he and other hostages fled after he threw a chair at the assailant, Malik Faisal Akram.       

The increase in antibodies produced by a fourth shot of COVID-19 vaccine is not enough to prevent infections from omicron, study shows. Latest news.       

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is celebrated each year on the third Monday in January.       

The zoo is naming its month-old little blue penguin "Rose" after Betty White's character on the NBC sitcom "Golden Girls".       

While the Center for COVID Control failed to keep up with testing demands, the company's owners spent millions on luxury cars and homes, records show.       

Parts of New York and Ohio saw 20 inches of snow and more Monday after the storm ravaged the South over the weekend.