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Lead: U2 have issued Days of Ash, their first collection of new songs since 2017, a six‑track EP released in February 2026 that addresses several high‑profile deaths and global conflicts. The record opens with a track about the killing of Renee Good on 7 January during an anti‑ICE protest in Minneapolis and moves through subjects … Read more

Lead In Milan on Feb. 18, 2026, Canada’s captain Sidney Crosby left the quarterfinal against the Czech Republic after sustaining a right-leg injury and did not return for the third period. The team rallied without him, forcing overtime and ultimately winning on Mitch Marner’s goal, but Crosby’s availability for the semifinal on Friday and a … Read more

Lead: On Day 12 of the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan–Cortina (18 February), Mikaela Shiffrin reclaimed Olympic slalom gold, ending a 12‑year gap since her first Olympic slalom win. Switzerland’s Camille Rast took silver and Sweden’s Anna Swenn‑Larsson earned bronze. The day also featured dramatic curling results that kept Great Britain’s hopes alive, a 4–3 … Read more

Lead In Tesero, Italy on Wednesday, Norway’s Johannes Høsflot Klæbo won the men’s team sprint to take his fifth gold of the Milan Cortina Games and a record 10th Winter Olympic medal overall. Racing with teammate Einar Hegstad Krag, Klæbo finished in 18:28.9, edging the United States by 1.4 seconds. Americans Ben Ogden and Gus … Read more

Google is rolling out Lyria 3, its latest AI music model, inside the Gemini app and web interface, enabling users to create roughly 30-second music clips from simple prompts today. The launch extends earlier, developer-facing access in Vertex AI to a consumer-friendly UI; mobile availability is expected within a few days. Generated tracks include an … Read more

Benfica has accused critics of running a “defamation campaign” against 19-year-old forward Gianluca Prestianni after UEFA opened an investigation into claims he racially abused Real Madrid winger Vinicius Jr during Tuesday’s Champions League match. The tie was halted for around 10 minutes after Vinicius reported the alleged incident to referee François Letexier and left the … Read more

Lead: Google will release the Pixel 10a on March 5, priced at $499, with pre-orders opening today. The new A-series model will sit alongside the still-available Pixel 9a in Google’s store, but carries only modest changes from its predecessor. Externally the phone is nearly identical to the 9a, with the most visible tweak being a … Read more

U2 have released Days of Ash, a standalone six‑track EP issued on Ash Wednesday as an immediate artistic response to current events. The collection contains five new songs and a spoken poem — including a collaboration with Ed Sheeran and Taras Topolia — and is presented with six lyric videos. The band says the material … Read more

Lead: Newly released Department of Justice files show federal investigators examined Les Wexner’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein over decades, probing whether the billionaire retail magnate had knowledge of or involvement in Epstein’s sex-trafficking network. The records, disclosed in a large DOJ production and reviewed by news outlets, include references to subpoenas, interviews and allegations dating … Read more

Lead: On Feb. 18, 2026, a sizable group of House and Senate Democrats planned to skip President Trump’s first State of the Union of his second term and instead attend a competing event on the National Mall called the “People’s State of the Union.” The rally, coordinated by MoveOn and MeidasTouch and hosted by Joy … Read more

Rescuers continued to race against the clock on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026, after an avalanche near Castle Peak in the Lake Tahoe region left nine backcountry skiers unaccounted for. The group of 15 — which included four guides staying at the Frog Lake huts near Truckee — was returning to the trailhead on Tuesday when … Read more

Lead Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi was reappointed by Parliament on Wednesday and immediately outlined plans to deepen ties with the United States, including cooperation on rare-earths development, ahead of a planned Washington visit in March. Her reappointment follows a landslide victory that gave the ruling Liberal Democratic Party a two-thirds supermajority in the lower … Read more

Lead: Representatives from Russia, Ukraine and the United States met in Geneva on Tuesday and Wednesday for trilateral negotiations intended to halt Moscow’s war in Ukraine. The sessions ran late on Tuesday and lasted about two hours on Wednesday, but ended without an agreement on territorial issues, which are central to any ceasefire. Delegations reported … Read more

Lead: The Kansas City Chiefs have converted portions of Patrick Mahomes’ 2026 compensation into a fully guaranteed roster bonus, a move announced on Wednesday that created approximately $43.56 million in immediate cap room. The change repackaged $44.05 million of Mahomes’ 2026 base salary plus a $10.4 million roster bonus into a guaranteed roster bonus. That … Read more

Lead On Feb. 18, 2026, Moderna said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reversed a recent refusal and agreed to review the company’s influenza vaccine that uses messenger RNA (mRNA) technology. The agency had rejected the application last week, citing flaws in the study design, but resumed talks and accepted the submission for formal review. … Read more