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Top News Stories for Sunday, February 22nd 2026
Sunday, Feb 22nd, 2026 -
Dalal Street is poised to open Monday amid fresh uncertainity after US President Donald Trump announced increasing temporary global tariffs on nearly all imports, from 10% to 15%. The move came just a day after the US Supreme Court struck down his earlier broad tariff programme, leaving investors questioning whether trade tensions are returning. Earlier this week, Supreme Court had ruled that Trump exceeded his ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Sunday, Feb 22nd, 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? MILAN (AP) — It had to be the for Olympic gold. As the 4 Nations Face-Off a year ago showed, the North American powerhouses are atop the hockey world on the international stage. They proved ...
Source: huffpost.com
Sunday, Feb 22nd, 2026 -
U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said he was working with Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry to send a hospital boat to Greenland, a Danish territory that Trump has said he wants to acquire. Trump announced the plan on social media moments before hosting a dinner for Republican governors at the White House, where he sat next to and chatted with Landry. "Working with the fantastic Governor of Louisiana, Jeff ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Sunday, Feb 22nd, 2026 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will suspend TSA PreCheck and Global Entry beginning Sunday as a partial government shutdown continues. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Saturday blamed Democrats for shutting down the government, saying they were causing "serious real world consequences." "This is the third time that Democrat politicians have shut down ...
Source: foxnews.com
Sunday, Feb 22nd, 2026 -
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan said early Sunday it carried out strikes along the border with Afghanistan , targeting what it called hideouts of Pakistani militants it blamed for recent attacks inside Pakistan. The Afghan Red Crescent Society said more than a dozen people were killed. Pakistan didn't specify the locations targeted, but the Afghan defense ministry said in a statement "various civilian areas" in the ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Sunday, Feb 22nd, 2026 -
Arab and Muslim governments have condemned remarks made by the US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, who suggested Israel would be justified in taking over a vast stretch of the Middle East on Biblical grounds. In an interview with conservative US commentator Tucker Carlson, Huckabee was asked whether Israel had a right to an area which the host said was, according to the Bible, "essentially the entire Middle ...
Source: bbc.com
Sunday, Feb 22nd, 2026 -
NEW YORK (AP) — Cities and towns along the East Coast scrambled to prepare for a bout with heavy snow and damaging winds after forecasters issued blizzard alerts for communities from Maryland to Massachusetts. The National Weather Service warned that once the storm intensifies Sunday it could prove significantly more severe than projections made just a few days ago. The weather service said 1 to 2 feet (about ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Sunday, Feb 22nd, 2026 -
NEW ALBANY, Ind. (AP) — 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 ...
Source: apnews.com
Saturday, Feb 21st, 2026 -
rocket, further delaying launch Just a day after NASA announced it was on track for a March 6 launch of its upcoming moon mission, Artemis II, the agency revealed a new problem with the mission's rocket that "almost assuredly" scuttles that plan. In a blog post Saturday , NASA said that engineers had detected an interruption in the flow of helium in the upper stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. NASA ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Saturday, Feb 21st, 2026 -
Demands for accountability are mounting after internal records revealed this week that an officer with Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations fatally shot Ruben Ray Martinez, a 23-year-old US citizen, almost a year ago in South Padre Island, Texas . "While Martinez's death was reported in local media at the time, the reports did not identify HSI involvement or disclose that a federal ...
Source: commondreams.org
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 -
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 -
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 -
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: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Feb 21st, 2026 -
A Louisiana law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom can stand, the 17 active judges on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals have ruled — vacating an earlier preliminary injunction. The court wrote that it's too early for the judges to decide whether it would violate the Constitution to have the Ten Commandments posted in every classroom. "An unripe challenge does not ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Saturday, Feb 21st, 2026 -
The Ukrainian General Staff said on Saturday that Kyiv carried out a drone and missile strike deep inside Russian territory overnight, hitting an industrial site in the Udmurt Republic and a gas processing plant in Samara. According to Ukrainian authorities, the Votkinsk site in Udmurtia, located about 1,400 km from Ukraine, produces intercontinental and short-range ballistic missiles, including Iskander missiles ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
Move brings total number of people killed in US strikes on suspected boats since September to at least 148 The US military launched a strike on an alleged drug smuggling boat in the eastern Pacific on Friday, killing three men in its second strike this week. "Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations," ...
Source: theguardian.com