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Top News Stories for Sunday, February 22nd 2026
Saturday, Feb 21st, 2026 -
President Donald Trump on Saturday said he would increase global tariffs to 15% from 10%, one day after the Supreme Court struck down his "reciprocal" tariffs. The new tariffs will be "effective immediately," Trump said in a Truth Social post. While Trump's announcement claimed that the new tariffs will take effect without delay, it is unclear if any official documents have been signed detailing the timing. U.S. ...
Source: cnbc.com
Saturday, Feb 21st, 2026 -
The Artemis II mission, set to be humanity's first lunar flight in decades, is facing a helium flow issue just a day after a successful test Reading Time: 2 minutes Nasa's new moon rocket suffered another setback on Saturday, almost certain to bump astronauts' first lunar trip in decades into spring. The space agency revealed the latest problem just one day after targeting March 6 for the Artemis II mission, ...
Source: scmp.com
Saturday, Feb 21st, 2026 -
The British government is weighing new legislation that could remove the former prince, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, from the line of royal succession, according to reports. Officials in the United Kingdom, speaking on condition of anonymity to the BBC on Friday, said the decision could follow after the police finish their investigation into the ex-prince's ties with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein . "The ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Saturday, Feb 21st, 2026 -
A Texas Democratic lawmaker is invoking a newly created state legislative rule to force a public hearing into the March 2025 fatal shooting of a 23-year-old U.S. citizen by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, CBS News has learned, a case raising further transparency and oversight questions about the officials enforcing President Trump's deportation crackdown. The proposed hearing would examine the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Saturday, Feb 21st, 2026 -
Trump administration fires Virginia prosecutor hours after judges appointed him The Trump administration has fired a top prosecutor in Virginia just hours after judges hired him. A panel of judges announced on Friday that they had unanimously voted to appoint James W Hundley as the interim US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. Hours later, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche wrote on X: "EDVA judges do ...
Source: bbc.com
Saturday, Feb 21st, 2026 -
Sunday marks the 45th anniversary of the U.S. men's hockey team winning gold at the 1980 Winter Games in what's widely known as the "Miracle on Ice." The U.S. men's hockey team will take the ice, with a gold medal on the line Sunday, hoping to rekindle that magic all these years later against its arch nemesis, Canada. There's plenty of bad blood heading into Sunday's gold medal game between the U.S. and Canada, ...
Source: nypost.com
Saturday, Feb 21st, 2026 -
Around 63 million people were under winter alerts from Tennessee to Maine as residents in cities including Philadelphia, Boston and New York City are expecting anywhere from 9 to 20 inches of snow. Roughly 26 million people were under blizzard warnings across New York City, New Jersey and Connecticut. The storm is forecast to take shape on Sunday, with heavy snow and strong wind gusts targeting the mid-Atlantic, ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Saturday, Feb 21st, 2026 -
Israeli airstrikes on eastern Lebanon have killed eight members of the militant Hezbollah group , including several local officials, two officials with the group said Saturday. The Lebanese Health Ministry put the death toll at 10, but did not distinguish between militants and civilians. The Hezbollah officials told The Associated Press that the eight militants were killed in strikes near the village of Rayak in ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Saturday, Feb 21st, 2026 -
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — At least 1,557 people held in Venezuela for political reasons have submitted their applications under an amnesty bill that was signed into law this week and are expected to be released from prison, authorities said Saturday. Thursday's measure is expected to benefit opposition members, activists, human rights defenders, journalists and many others detained for months or even years. ...
Source: apnews.com
Saturday, Feb 21st, 2026 -
President Trump says he hasn't decided whether he'll launch a military strike on Iran. But he now has a wide range of options. An American military buildup over the past month means the U.S. now has an expansive naval and air presence across the Middle East. The size of the U.S. force suggests the military would be capable of carrying out a bombing campaign that could last weeks or even longer. The president has ...
Source: npr.org
Saturday, Feb 21st, 2026 -
Bill Mazeroski, the Hall of Fame second baseman who won eight Gold Glove awards for his steady work in the field and the hearts of countless Pittsburgh Pirates fans for his historic walk-off home run in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series, has died at the age of 89. Pirates owner Bob Nutting said "Maz was one of a kind, a true Pirates legend ... His name will always be tied to the biggest home run in baseball history ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Feb 21st, 2026 -
Court lifted injunction on law requiring display of religious text in every public school classroom A federal appeals court cleared the way on Friday for a controversial Louisiana law requiring poster-sized displays of the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom, allowing the state to enforce a law that was previously found to be unconstitutional. The US fifth circuit court of appeals voted 12-6 to lift a ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Feb 21st, 2026 -
Ukrainian drones struck an industrial site deep inside Russia on Saturday, and a Russian news channel reported the target was a key state-owned missile factory. The attack took place in Russia's Udmurt Republic, leaving 11 injured, three of whom were hospitalized, according to a Telegram post by Sergei Bagin, the local health minister. "One of the republic's facilities was attacked by drones" launched by Ukraine, ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
Behind the scenes, real journalism faces real resistance. We keep reporting anyway. Member support protects our independence and keeps tough stories in the light. Join today to help defend a free press. Already a member? WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. economic growth slowed in the final three months of last year, dragged down by the six-week shutdown of the federal government and a pullback in consumer spending. The ...
Source: huffpost.com
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday weakened limits on mercury and other toxic emissions from coal-fired power plants, the Trump administration's latest effort to boost the fossil fuel industry by paring back clean air and water rules. Toxic emissions from coal- and oil-fired plants can harm the brain development of young children and contribute to heart attacks and other problems in adults. The plants ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
Blames "user error, not AI error" for incident in December involving its Kiro tool. Amazon's cloud unit has suffered at least two outages due to errors involving its own AI tools, leading some employees to raise doubts about the US tech giant's push to roll out these coding assistants. Amazon Web Services experienced a 13-hour interruption to one system used by its customers in mid-December after engineers allowed ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
Behind the scenes, real journalism faces real resistance. We keep reporting anyway. Member support protects our independence and keeps tough stories in the light. Join today to help defend a free press. Already a member? In what turned out to be one of his last on-camera interviews before his death, Eric Dane spoke candidly about the "fortuitous" evolution of his relationship with his wife, Rebecca Gayheart , while ...
Source: huffpost.com
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
Footage of the strike shows the small boat floating in the Pacific Ocean before an explosion, causing it to burst into flames. The US military says it has struck a boat "engaged in narco-trafficking operations", killing three men. The vessel "was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations", the US Southern Command said on X. The military ...
Source: news.sky.com