Emerging Topics in U.S. News
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22nd 2026
Updated 15:12 ET
25 articles
GOLD, USA, TEAM, HOCKEY
Team USA faces tough Canadian squad in Olympic gold medal hockey game
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MILAN — It is the matchup that many have been hoping for all along — the U.S. versus Canada in the Olympic men's hockey gold medal match.
Canada has
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TRUMP, TARIFF, SUPREME, COURT
Small businesses fear they will be the biggest losers when it comes to the emergency tariffs struck down by the Supreme Court – and are demanding they get refunds pronto.
A coalition of 800 of them has called for “full, fast and automatic” refunds after the
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NYC, BLIZZARD, SNOW, MAMDANI
Additional winter weather alerts are expected to be issued in the next 24 hours.
Over 40 million Americans on alert for winter storm conditions over the weekend
A child plays in the snow in front of Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan skyline in the Brooklyn
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MAR, LAGO, KILLED, SECRET
An armed man was shot and killed around 1:30 a.m. Sunday after entering Mar-a-Lago’s secure perimeter, President Donald Trump’s resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
The Associated Press quoted the Secret Service saying the man, believed to be in his 20s, was “observed
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EILEEN, GU, WINTER, OLYMPIC
Just minutes after Alysa Liu won a historic Olympic figure skating gold for the U.S., her story as the child of a Chinese American immigrant who fled communism spread like wildfire across social media.
Almost immediately, that discourse evolved, in many
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TRUMP, SUSAN, RICE, FIRE
Memories tend to be short in American politics, but it was not so long ago that Donald Trump was a first-term president and, if we're to be honest, a flailing one at that. Trump's presidency began with the hiring and firing of National Security Advisor Michael
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TSA, PRECHECK, GLOBAL, ENTRY
The Department of Homeland Security suspended TSA PreCheck and Global Entry nationwide at 6 a.m. Sunday, as the Democrat-triggered DHS shutdown entered its second week and just as a major winter storm moves into the Northeast air corridor.
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GUTHRIE, NANCY, SHERIFF, CASE
The President of the United States has guaranteed Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos the vast, sophisticated resources of federal law enforcement to solve the Nancy Guthrie abduction case, only to have the elected Democrat box out the Federal Bureau of Investigation
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GOVERNOR, CALIFORNIA, CANDIDATES, REPUBLICAN
Fears of a Democrat gubernatorial candidate failing to appear on the November ballot prompted anxiety and public discussions about whether members of the crowded field ought to drop out at the California Democratic Party convention in San Francisco.
This is
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HIGH, SCHOOL, SEXTORTION, SCHEME
A Pennsylvania high school senior is facing hundreds of felony charges after authorities reportedly accused him of operating a “large-scale criminal network” involving sextortion and catfishing.
Zachariah Abraham Meyers, 18, of McMurray — about 15 miles southwest
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EPSTEIN, TRUMP, USA, BACK
Friday on the “Alex Marlow Show,” Breitbart London Bureau Chief Oliver JJ Lane discussed Nigel Farage.
Lane said, “Nigel is riding high in the polls, and the most likely thing is he is not the next prime minister of the U.K. My hope is that he’s the next prime
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IDOL, AMERICAN, CONTESTANT, CHARGED
The family of an Ohio teacher who was brutally shot to death at home during what was initially reported as an overnight burglary incident is breaking their silence after her former "American Idol" contestant husband was charged with her murder.
Ashley Flynn,
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MAHER, BILL, CHAPPELL, RIPS
On Friday's episode of "Real Time," host Bill Maher responded to President Donald Trump's Truth Social post from last week, where he called the late-night host a "jerk" and said it was a "total waste of time" hosting him at the White House last April.
"See,
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PRINCE, ANDREW, ARREST, FORMER
Sarah Ferguson's whereabouts are unknown following the shock arrest of her ex-husband, the former Prince Andrew.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, 66, was arrested Thursday — his birthday — on suspicion of misconduct in public office during an inquiry linked to
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RUSSIA, UKRAINE, SUBURBS, DEEP
"Russia will not stop," said Yulia Svyrydenko, the Ukrainian prime minister.
Russia targets Ukraine with 345 drones and missiles, striking energy sites and residential buildings, Zelenskyy says
A Ukrainian rescuer stands next to a heavily damaged house following
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STATE, UNION, TRUMP, ADDRESS
On Tuesday, President Trump will deliver the first State of the Union address of his second term. On Washington Week With The Atlantic, panelists joined to examine what to expect from the president’s speech as his poll numbers fall, and more.
The economy is
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EXILED, PRINCESS, REGIME, IRANIAN
Noor Pahlavi’s heart breaks as she watches her people suffer in Iran – a land in which she never stepped foot, yet remains forever in her blood.
The exiled princess recounted in a wide-ranging interview with The California Post the horrors inflicted on protesters,
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PACIFIC, DRUG, MILITARY, KILLS
The U.S. military says it killed another three alleged narco-terrorists in its latest strike on a suspected drug vessel in the Pacific.
U.S. Southern Command announced that the strike against the "vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations" was
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IRAN, OPTIONS, REGIME, CHANGE
Potential U.S. military strikes on Iran could target specific individuals and even pursue regime change, a report said.
Two U.S. officials who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity reportedly said those are options that have emerged in the planning
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LOUISIANA, COURT, COMMANDMENTS, CLEARS
A federal appeals court cleared the way Friday for a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms, lifting a lower court block and reigniting debate over religion in public education.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of
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NASA, PROBLEM, LUNAR, II
NASA's Artemis II lunar mission may not launch in March after all
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Just one day after NASA said it was eyeing a potential March 6 launch date for the Artemis II lunar mission, the space agency said Saturday
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GREENLAND, TRUMP, SHIP, MILITARY
President Donald Trump's designs to take over Greenland have been quiet for a few weeks, but a Joint Arctic Command medical evacuation by Denmark on Saturday now has the U.S. sending a "great hospital boat" to take care of the "sick."
"Working with the fantastic
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ICE, WALKOUT, VIDEO, ANTI
Chaos erupted on Wednesday in Ohio when students who were part of an anti-ICE walkout entered a Kroger grocery store.
North College Hill Schools Superintendent Dr. Eugene Blalock Jr. said a couple hundred teenagers walked out of class around 1:30 p.m. to protest,
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MAMDANI, ID, SHOVEL, BLASTED
Snowcialism has hit The Big Apple.
Lefty Mayor Zohran Mamdani opposes requiring ID’s to vote — but mandates no less than five forms of identification in order to shovel snow.
The New York City Sanitation Department website says that in order to register as
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