February 9, 2026

United States President Donald Trump has hit out at comments made by a U.S. Olympic skier who expressed mixed emotions about representing the United States at the ongoing Winter Olympics in Italy. Freestyle skier Hunter Hess was among member of Team USA who told a media briefing in Milan on Friday that just because he’s wearing the U.S. flag did not mean he was representing everything going on in his home country, a reference to the often violent actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on the streets of the United States. President Trump hit back at the skier, calling … Read more

February 9, 2026

Winter Olympics 2026: Breezy Johnson breaks gold medal after winning Alpine downhill

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Alpine skier Breezy Johnson earned the USA’s second gold medal in women’s downhill on Sunday. With a time of 1:36.10, she beat out Germany’s Emma Aicher by just four hundredths of a second. Johnson’s medal was also the first won by the U.S. in the 2026 Winter Olympics. Unfortunately, her coveted prize was damaged by the time she left the medal stand. While celebrating, the ribbon attached to the medal broke away. Johnson’s medal fell and was broken into three pieces. USA Alpine skier Breezy Johnson shows her broken gold medal to the media during the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter … Read more

February 9, 2026

Lindsey Vonn’s Olympic medal hopes dashed after just 13 seconds

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CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Lindsey Vonn’s pursuit of an against-all-odds Olympic medal ended Sunday with a broken left leg following a devastating crash only 13.4 seconds into the downhill final. Follow along for live updates. Skiing in a brace just nine days after rupturing the ACL in her left knee, Vonn did not finish the final at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. She was attempting to become the oldest Alpine skier, man or woman, to win an Olympic medal. Under ideal, bluebird conditions at the craggy top of the famed Tofane course in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Vonn pushed off as the … Read more

February 8, 2026

Border Patrol agent shoots and kills man in Minnesota, officials say

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MINNEAPOLIS — A federal immigration agent shot and killed a 37-year-old Minneapolis man Saturday, the second such fatal shooting this month, inflaming a state on edge after the shooting death of Renee Good and a series of high-profile detentions, including of children. The man killed, identified by family as Alex Jeffrey Pretti, was an intensive care nurse. “He cared about people deeply and he was very upset with what was happening in Minneapolis and throughout the United States with ICE, as millions of other people are upset,” his father, Michael Pretti, told The Associated Press. “He felt that doing the … Read more

February 8, 2026

Savannah Guthrie sends video to response to Nancy Guthrie’s abductors

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Savannah Guthrie took to social media again with an emotional video in the disappearance of her mom, Nancy, begging the abductor to return her “valuable” mother Saturday and offering to pay a ransom. “We received your message and we understand,”  the “Today” anchor said on Instagram, alongside her brother Camron and sister Annie. “We beg you now to return our mother to us, so that we can celebrate with her,” she added, later saying that her mother’s return is “very valuable to us” and “we will pay.” Guthrie did not elaborate in the brief video on what “message” she was referring to — … Read more

February 8, 2026

Trump threatens 100% tariffs on all Canadian goods if Canada ‘makes a deal with China’

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Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to impose a 100 per cent tariff on all Canadian goods entering the United States if Canada “makes a deal with China” — a forceful message that comes days after Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, widely viewed as pushback on U.S. actions. Trump did not specifiy what a “deal” means … Read more