2 killed, gunman dead, in shooting at Rhode Island high school hockey game
2 killed, gunman dead, in shooting at Rhode Island high school hockey game Gunman may have been targeting family members, Pawtucket police chief saidRIGHT NOW. MULTIPLE PEOPLE ARE DEAD AFTER A SHOOTING AT AN ICE RINK IN PAWTUCKET, RHODE ISLAND. SEVERAL SCHOOLS WERE PARTICIPATING IN THIS GAME, INCLUDING SAINT RAPHAEL ACADEMY, PROVIDENCE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL, NORTH PROVIDENCE, NORTH SMITHFIELD, AND COVENTRY. INVESTIGATORS STILL INSIDE RIGHT NOW. THE CAMERA THEN PANS OVER TO A SPECTATOR SESSION WHERE THERE IS SOME COMMOTION, AND PRESUMABLY WHERE THE SHOOTING HAPPENED.
Source:CNN
February 16, 2026 21:42 UTC
Gold for Elana! Meyers Taylor, 41, wins Olympic monobob title at Milan Cortina Games
Elana Meyers Taylor of United States celebrates after winning the gold medal in the women's monobob in the bobsleigh competitions at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, February 16, 2026. Elana Meyers Taylor of United States celebrates after winning the gold medal in the women's monobob in the bobsleigh competitions at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, February 16, 2026. Elana Meyers Taylor of United States celebrates after winning the gold medal in the women's monobob in the bobsleigh competitions at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, February 16, 2026. Rallying in the fourth and final heat, Meyers Taylor won the women’s monobob title at the Milan Cortina Games on Monday night, dropping to her knees in tears when the result became official. Humphries Armbruster won the gold medal in the inaugural running of monobob at the 2022 Beijing Games, with Meyers Taylor winning silver.
Source:ABC News
February 16, 2026 21:29 UTC
NY Giants free agency 2026: 5 wide receivers to consider
Hall is a 39-year-old former player who was the assistant quarterbacks coach for the Giants last season and the Jacksonville Jaguars coach in 2023-2024. Hall is familiar with Wan’Dale Robinson, who is an impending free agent for the Giants, after a career year. Palmer, who was less accomplished than Robinson at the time, signed a three-year, $29 million contract with the Bills that included $18 million guaranteed. Even if Robinson is retained, the Giants need to add more help to the wide receiver room. Alec Pierce, INDPierce makes sense if the Giants don’t re-sign Robinson, but still want to pursue an expensive wide receiver option.
Source:New York Times
February 16, 2026 21:04 UTC
Live updates: Nancy Guthrie case continues, family members cleared as suspects in disappearance, sheriff says
Today’s statement from the Pima County sheriff is a direct response to so-called “armchair detectives” who have wildly – and sometimes irresponsibly – speculated about suspects in Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance. “The Guthrie family are victims plain and simple,” Sheriff Chris Nanos said Monday, suggesting that claims to the contrary risk revictimizing the family members. Now that the point has been made publicly, that the family members are not suspects, “let’s hope this puts an end to the reckless and malicious nonsense,” a longtime friend of Savannah Guthrie’s remarked to CNN. There has been a yawning gap between what traditional news outlets have been saying about the Nancy Guthrie investigation and what new-media influencers have been saying. A television journalist prepares to go live outside of Nancy Guthrie's residence in Tucson, Arizona, on Sunday.
Source:CNN
February 16, 2026 21:03 UTC
NYT Connections hints and answers for February 16. Tips to solve 'Connections' #981.
Everything you need to solve 'Connections' #981. The NYT Connections puzzle today is not too difficult to solve if you keep calm. If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for today's Connections solution. Here's a hint for today's Connections categoriesWant a hint about the categories without being told the categories? This is your last chance to turn back and solve today's puzzle before we reveal the solutions.
Source:New York Times
February 16, 2026 20:25 UTC
On the Second Anniversary of his Murder, Remembering Alexei Navalny
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/17/navalny-friendship-activism-heroism-mcfaul/“Vladimir Putin killed my friend Alexei Navalny this week. There will be a time and place to discuss the politics and how the free world should respond. The Alexei Navalny I knew was super smart. Navalny dreamed of a free Russia. I do not know when, but I am confident that Navalny’s ideas of freedom will outlive Putin’s ideas of tyranny.”
Source:Washington Post
February 16, 2026 20:02 UTC
Remembering the long career of Oscar-winning actor Robert Duvall
Robert Duvall, the Oscar-winning actor best known for “The Godfather,“ “Apocalypse Now” and many other tough-guy roles over an acclaimed screen career that spanned six decades, has died. Duvall died “peacefully” at his home in Middleburg, Virginia on Sunday, according to a statement sent by his public relations agency on behalf of his wife, Luciana. (He later named one of his dogs “Boo.”)Robert Duvall, center, in 1962's "To Kill a Mockingbird." Advertisement AdvertisementThat came out the year before “The Godfather,” and his role as Corleone family attorney Tom Hagen propelled Duvall into another echelon. President Bush, center, stands with National Medal of Arts recipients, from left to right: Leonard Garment, Louis Auchincloss, Paquito DRivera, James DePreist, Tina Ramirez, Robert Duvall, Ollie Johnston, Wynton Marsalis and Derek Gillman, in the Oval Office on November 10, 2005.
Source:CNN
February 16, 2026 19:44 UTC
Trump’s brazen meddling in foreign politics is starting to backfire - The Washington Post
President Donald Trump trashes so many norms that it’s easy to overlook how outlandish some of his actions are. But seldom, if ever, have presidents interjected themselves as brazenly as Trump has done in foreign politics. In an unsuccessful attempt to force Brazil’s judiciary to free Bolsonaro, Trump even imposed 50 percent tariffs on that country. By aligning the U.S. with individual leaders, Trump also risks making an enemy of the political opposition in their countries — and thereby inviting a backlash. Little wonder that far-right leaders in Europe denounced Trump’s attempted takeover of Greenland and sought to distance themselves from the American leader.
Source:Washington Post
February 16, 2026 19:31 UTC
Aliens are ‘real,’ Obama says, as Washington shrugs
Former president Barack Obama this weekend appeared to drop an otherworldly bombshell: extraterrestrials exist. “They’re real, but I haven’t seen them,” Obama said in a podcast released Saturday. “Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there,” Obama wrote on Instagram. “I don’t know, and I don’t presume to know,” Obama responded, quickly pivoting from the question. It’s a “legitimate question now,” former president Bill Clinton said in a 2022 appearance on “The Late Late Show with James Corden.”That curiosity is bipartisan.
Source:Washington Post
February 16, 2026 19:25 UTC
Ex-FBI negotiator breaks down Guthrie’s plea to captor
Savannah Guthrie to kidnapper: 'It is never too late to do the right thing'In a newly posted Instagram video, Savannah Guthrie shares a message to the kidnappers of her 84-year-old mother, Nancy Guthrie, saying, "It is never too late to do the right thing." There are currently no suspects named in Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance, according to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department.
Source:CNN
February 16, 2026 19:08 UTC
Today's NYT Connections Hints (and Answer) for Monday, February 16, 2026
Read on if you want some hints (and then the answer) to today’s Connections game. If you want an easy way to come back to our Connections hints every day, bookmark this page . Below, I’ll give you some oblique hints at today’s Connections answers. You May Also LikeCredit: Connections/NYTThe category types in today’s Connections puzzleHere are spoiler-free hints that describe the type of each category in today’s Connections:Yellow category - Similar nouns. Hints for the themes in today’s Connections puzzleHere are some spoiler-free hints for the groupings in today’s Connections:Yellow category - How you might describe a comedy.
Source:New York Times
February 16, 2026 19:07 UTC
CNN WIRE — Oscar-winning actor Robert Duvall dead at 95: VIDEO
(CNN) — Robert Duvall, the Oscar-winning actor best known for “The Godfather,“ “Apocalypse Now” and many other tough-guy roles over an acclaimed screen career that spanned six decades, has died. Duvall died “peacefully” at his home in Middleburg, Virginia on Sunday, according to a statement sent by his public relations agency on behalf of his wife, Luciana. During that period, he shared an apartment with Dustin Hoffman and hung out with Gene Hackman, another young actor who would go on to great success. That came out the year before “The Godfather,” and his role as Corleone family attorney Tom Hagen propelled Duvall into another echelon. He attended George W. Bush’s inauguration, raised money for Mitt Romney’s candidacy and narrated a video at the Republican National Convention in 2008.
Source:CNN
February 16, 2026 19:00 UTC
After years of trauma, Amber Glenn and other U.S. stars are grateful skating is changing
But as women’s figure skating opens a new era with a minimum age limit of 17, 20-something champions could soon become common again. But the age limit doesn’t go far enough, said U.S. American Alysa Liu competes during the figure skating women’s team event at the Winter Olympics in Milan on Feb. 6. An ISU athletes commission survey found that injury prevention was the most common response from coaches, athletes and officials in favor of increasing the age limit. Under constant scrutiny in a judged sport that often pits girls against one another from a young age, Glenn struggled with anxiety, depression and an eating disorder.
Source:Los Angeles Times
February 16, 2026 18:31 UTC
Oscar-winning actor Robert Duvall dead at 95
Robert Duvall, the Oscar-winning actor best known for “The Godfather,“ “Apocalypse Now” and many other tough-guy roles over an acclaimed screen career that spanned six decades, has died. (Matt Sayles/AP via CNN Newsource)FILE - Robert Duvall attends the premiere of "Widows" at the Toronto International Film Festival, Sept. 8, 2018. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)This photo released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows, Robert Duvall as Joseph Palmer, in "The Judge." (AP Photo/Warner Bros. Pictures)(L-R) Robert Downey Jr. as Hank Palmer and Robert Duvall as Joseph Palmer and Dax Shepard as C.P. Robert Downey Jr. as Hank Palmer and Robert Duvall as Joseph Palmer in Warner Bros. Pictures' and Village Roadshow Pictures' drama "THE JUDGE," a Warner Bros. Pictures release.
Source:CNN
February 16, 2026 18:29 UTC
Italy’s famous ‘Lovers’ Arch’ collapses on Valentine’s Day
Advertisement AdvertisementIts collapse has dealt a “devastating blow to the image of Salento and to tourism,” Maurizio Cisternino, mayor of the town of Melendugno, near the fallen arch, told CNN. The site, once a strategic lookout used to warn of pirates, became a magnet for lovers during the late 18th century. Advertisement Advertisement“It’s a tragedy we knew was inevitable, we just didn’t expect it to happen so soon,” he told local media on Sunday. He told CNN that “nature has reclaimed the arch, just as it created it,” and said that resources were needed to tackle the situation along the coast. Advertisement AdvertisementNow gone, the remnants of the arch will be left to wash out at sea, the municipality says.
Source:CNN
February 16, 2026 18:25 UTC