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Top News Stories for Sunday, February 22nd 2026
Saturday, Feb 21st, 2026 -
President Trump on Saturday said he plans to raise global tariffs from 10% to 15%. "...I, as President of the United States of America, will be, effective immediately, raising the 10% Worldwide Tariff on Countries, many of which have been "ripping" the U.S. off for decades, without retribution (until I came along!), to the fully allowed, and legally tested, 15% level," the president posted on Truth Social . The ...
Source: npr.org
Saturday, Feb 21st, 2026 -
NASA chief Jared Isaacman says Artemis 2 – the first crewed flyby mission to the moon in more than 50 years – will not launch next month because of technical problems. Workers detected an issue with helium flow to the massive Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will "take the March launch window out of consideration", Issacman said in a post on social media Saturday. Solid helium flow is essential for ...
Source: aljazeera.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 -
HARLINGEN, Texas ( Border Report ) — The Department of Homeland Security has confirmed to Border Report that special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement were involved in the shooting death of a man during spring break on South Padre Island. In a statement to Border Report on Friday, a DHS spokesperson said an officer shot at the man's vehicle on the popular island resort "to protect himself" ...
Source: wfla.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 -
New Jersey and other east coast areas brace for storm threatening more than 1ft of snow and 55mph wind gusts Blizzard warnings were issued Saturday for New York City, New Jersey and coastal communities along the east coast for a late-winter storm set to arrive on Sunday that could dump more than a foot of snow and bring wind gusts of more than 55mph. The blizzard warning for New York City is the first since 2017 ...
Source: theguardian.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 -
More than 1,5000 political prisoners in Venezuela have applied for amnesty under a new law that came into effect just a few days ago, according to the head of the country's legislature. "A total of 1,557 cases are being addressed immediately, and hundreds of people deprived of their freedom are already being released under the amnesty law", National Assembly chief Jorge Rodriguez told a news conference on Saturday. ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Saturday, Feb 21st, 2026 -
National Security What Would War With Iran Look Like? How the U.S. conducts any attack will depend on what goal Trump is trying to achieve. Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic* February 21, 2026, 12:22 PM ET Save D uring President Trump's first term , Pentagon officials took a highly unusual step to diminish the likelihood of war: They shared their plans for a large-scale conflict with Iran with top ...
Source: theatlantic.com
Saturday, Feb 21st, 2026 -
The man who will forever be known for hitting the greatest home run in baseball history - a game 7 walk-off in the World Series - Bill Mazeroski, has died at 89. Mazeroski died on Friday, February 20. "His name will always be tied to the biggest home run in baseball history and the 1960 World Series championship, but I will remember him most for the person he was," said Pirates Chairman Bob Nutting. ...
Source: cbsnews.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 -
5 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this photo provided by Ukraine's 65th Mechanized Brigade press service, a local passes by a destroyed apartment building following an Russian air strike in the town of Komyshuvakha in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 20, 2026. (Andriy Andriyenko/Ukraine's 65th Mechanized Brigade via AP) KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — ...
Source: yahoo.com
US economic growth weaker than thought in fourth quarter with government shutdown, consumer pullback
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
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 nation's gross domestic product — the total output of goods and services — increased at a 1.4% annual rate in the fourth quarter, the Commerce Department reported Friday , down from 4.4% in the July-September ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
The Trump administration on Friday finalized its rollback of clean air regulations limiting mercury and other toxic pollutants from power plants, sparking condemnation from public health and environmental advocates who warned that the move will increase the risk of death or serious illness for millions of people in the United States . The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said it is repealing the Mercury and ...
Source: commondreams.org
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 -
The U.S. military said that it struck an alleged drug trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific on Friday, killing three people. U.S. Southern Command said the strike in the eastern Pacific was against a boat that was traveling along a drug trafficking route. "Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations," ...
Source: nbcnews.com