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Traveling in the Northeast for Christmas? Mother Nature may disrupt your travel plans, with at least two messy, wintry storms en route. While our confidence surrounding the first of the two storms is relatively high, it’s still too early to make detailed predictions for the Christmas storm. But given the potential and timing of these two systems, we think the best time to drive will be before noontime Friday, or late Saturday and early Sunday, which will be in between the two storms. For those with air travel plans, check in with your flight providers, which may be issuing fee waivers to adjust your reservations. This is the messier of the two storms because of the mixed bag of wintry precipitation that will fall. Light snow will begin just after lunchtime Friday across Vermont, New Hampshire, much of Maine and areas north of the Massachusetts Turnpike. The snow will become steadier as the atmosphere saturates and cools. By 8 p.m., the snow will overspread the entire Interstate 95 corridor down to western Connecticut. It will accumulate to an inch or two in the Worcester Hills and the Monadnocks, while the White Mountains and areas to the north and east will see several inches of slushy snow. Continue below for storm details . . .

UNITED NATIONS — A lopsided majority of United Nations members rebuked the United States on Thursday, denouncing its decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and ignoring President Trump’s threats to retaliate by cutting aid to countries voting against it. In a collective act of defiance toward Washington, the United Nations General Assembly voted 128 to 9, with 35 abstentions, for a resolution demanding that the United States rescind its Dec. 6 declaration on Jerusalem, the contested holy city. The resolution is nonbinding and therefore largely symbolic, but the vote indicated the extent to which the Trump administration’s departure from a 50-year international consensus on Jerusalem’s status has unsettled world politics and contributed to America’s diplomatic isolation. Major allies like Britain, France, Germany and Japan voted for the resolution, though some allies, like Australia and Canada, abstained. Carrying out a promise to his base of supporters, Mr. Trump upended decades of American policy with his decision on Jerusalem, aggravating an emotional issue that has festered since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, when the Israelis occupied the entire city.