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US Tells Partners to Honor Tariff Deals as Trump Regroups (1)
- Senior US officials said President Donald Trump 's tariff defeat at the Supreme Court won't unravel deals negotiated with US partners as they sought to defend the administration's assertive trade policies. Those deals — which the administration made with partners including China, the European Union, Japan and South Korea — remain in place, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Sunday on CBS's Face ...

Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
US  
Man killed after entering perimeter of Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort
- The United States Secret Service says law enforcement agents shot and killed a man who attempted to break into a secure perimeter at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. The man appeared to be armed with a shotgun and fuel can, according to the Secret Service's communications chief Anthony Guglielmi. He was shot at about 1:30am Sunday (06:30 GMT). Trump was in Washington, DC, not Mar-a-Lago, when ...

Source: aljazeera.com
Jack Hughes scores in overtime as US beats Canada for gold at the Olympics
- MILAN (AP) — No miracle needed. The United States is on top of the hockey world for the first time in nearly a half-century. Jack Hughes scored 1:41 into overtime and the U.S. defeated Canada 2-1 in the gold medal final at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Sunday, claiming the nation's third men's title at the Games and its first since the "Miracle on Ice" on 1980. Unlike that ragtag group of college kids that ...

Source: cleveland.com
US  
Greenland says 'no thank you' after Trump says he is sending it a 'great hospital boat'
- President Donald Trump seems to be trying a new approach in his quest to take over Greenland: The president said Saturday the US would send a hospital ship to the territory. "We are going to send a great hospital boat to Greenland to take care of the many people who are sick, and not being taken care of there," the president wrote on Truth Social. "It's on the way!!!" Greenland, however, isn't interested. ...

Source: businessinsider.com
BUSINESS  
NASA will return its moon rocket to hangar for repairs
- CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Grounded until at least April, NASA's giant moon rocket is headed back to the hangar this week for more repairs before astronauts climb aboard. The space agency said Sunday it's targeting Tuesday for the slow, four-mile (6.4-kilometer) trek across Kennedy Space Center, weather permitting. NASA had barely finished a repeat fueling test Thursday, to ensure dangerous hydrogen fuel ...

Source: bostonglobe.com
US  
Thousands of US flights canceled as Northeast braces for blizzard
- Major airlines waive fees as nor'easter threatens to dump 18-24 inches of snow on Boston, New York City and Philadelphia Thousands of flights have been canceled in the U.S. as communities in the Northeast rush to prepare for an intense blizzard that forecasters say will arrive on Sunday. More than 14,000 U.S. flights had been disrupted by the storm as of 5:30 p.m. ET on Sunday. About 8,858 flights were canceled, ...

Source: foxbusiness.com
WORLD   POLITICS  
US ambassador Mike Huckabee sparks backlash from Arab nations with Israel remarks | World News
- Mike Huckabee said "it would be fine" if Israel took control of land that would include a huge swathe of the Middle East. Multiple Arab nations have condemned the US ambassador to Israel after he said "it would be fine" if Tel Aviv took control of almost all of the Middle East. In an interview published on Friday, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson pressed Mike Huckabee on his interpretation of Bible verses, where ...

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Homeland security to suspend TSA PreCheck and Global Entry airport security programs
- Democrats accuse DHS of 'kneecapping' programs that help speed registered travelers through security lines The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is suspending the TSA PreCheck and Global Entry airport security programs as a partial government shutdown continues. The programs are designed to help speed registered travelers through security lines. Suspending them could cause headaches for passengers. The ...

Source: theguardian.com
POLITICS  
Violence erupts after Mexican security forces kill drug cartel boss 'El Mencho'
- Death of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, one of world's most wanted drug traffickers, sets off wave of disorder across several Mexican states One of the world's most wanted drug traffickers, the Mexican cartel boss known as "El Mencho", has been killed by security forces, Mexico's defence ministry has confirmed. The operation set off a wave of violence, with torched cars and gunmen blocking highways in more than half a ...

Source: theguardian.com
WORLD  
Pakistan launches deadly strikes on Afghanistan
- Pakistan has carried out multiple overnight air strikes on Afghanistan, which the Taliban has said killed at least 18 people, including women and children. Islamabad said the attacks targeted seven alleged militant camps and hideouts near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and that they had been launched after recent suicide bombings in Pakistan. Afghanistan condemned the attacks, saying they targeted multiple ...

Source: bbc.com
WORLD  
Ukraine accuses Hungary, Slovakia of 'blackmail' over threats to cut electricity
- Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Saturday that he would cut off emergency electricity supplies to Ukraine within two days unless Kyiv resumes Russian oil transfers to Slovakia over Ukraine's territory. Hungary's Viktor Orban made a similar threat days earlier. Kyiv says a Russian drone strike hit pipeline equipment in Western Ukraine on Jan. 27. The issue has become one of the angriest disputes yet ...

Source: cnbc.com
Minnesota Vikings receiver Rondale Moore found dead in his Indiana hometown
- NEW ALBANY, Ind. — Rondale Moore , the NFL receiver who had season-ending training camp knee injuries in each of the last two years after a standout college career at Purdue and a promising start with the Arizona Cardinals, was found dead Saturday, authorities said. He was 25. Police said Moore died of a suspected self-inflicted gunshot wound. Moore was found dead in the garage of a property in his hometown ...

Source: nbcnews.com
Bill Mazeroski, Hall of Famer and Pirates' World Series hero, dead at 89
- Bill Mazeroski, who hit the first ever walk-off home run to end a World Series and lead the Pirates over the Yankees in 1960, died Friday. He was 89. Mazeroski was an eight-time Gold Glover whose slick fielding at second base earned him a spot in the Hall of Fame from the Veterans Committee. But his highlight that will live on forever is the ninth-inning leadoff home run to break a 9-9 tie in Game 7, turning the ...

Source: nypost.com
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Ukraine strikes a key industrial site deep inside Russia
- 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) — ...

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US  
Records show ICE agent fatally shot U.S. citizen nearly a year ago in Texas, as lawmaker seeks public hearing
- 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