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Murakami shakes off traffic delay ahead of Cactus League debut with the White SoxFeb 21, 2026 4:19 pm - Munetaka Murakami was a late arrival for his first spring training game with the Chicago White Sox. Once he got to the ballpark, everything went pretty smoothly.
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Trump administration to stand by tough Biden-era mandates to replace lead pipesFeb 21, 2026 1:56 pm - The Trump administration said Friday it backs a 10-year deadline for most cities and towns to replace their harmful lead pipes, giving notice that it will support a tough rule approved under the Biden administration to reduce lead in drinking water.
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President Trump wants to impose 15% tariff, up from 10% he announced after Supreme Court decisionFeb 21, 2026 11:25 am - President Donald Trump said Saturday that he was raising the global tariff he wants to impose to 15%, up from 10% he had announced a day earlier.
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Unbeaten Floyd Mayweather says he will return to pro boxing 9 years after his retirementFeb 20, 2026 9:33 pm - Floyd Mayweather says he is ending his nine-year retirement and returning to competitive boxing this summer.
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Speaker denies request for Rev. Jesse Jackson to lie in honor at Capitol, citing precedentFeb 20, 2026 9:25 pm - The late Rev. Jesse Jackson will not lie in honor in the United States Capitol Rotunda after a request for the commemoration was denied by the House Speaker Mike Johnson's office due to past precedent.
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Scientists change how El Niño is labeled to keep up with spike in temperatureFeb 20, 2026 7:04 pm - The natural El Nino cycle, which warps weather worldwide, is both adding to and shaped by a warming world, meteorologists said.A new study calculated that an unusual recent twist in the warming and cooling cycle that includes El Nino and its counterpart La Nina can help explain the scientific mystery of why Earth's already rising temperature spiked to a new level over the past three years.
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Police search former Prince Andrew’s home a day after his arrestFeb 20, 2026 4:55 pm - Police searched the former home of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor again on Friday, a day after he was arrested and held in custody for nearly 11 hours on suspicion of misconduct in having shared confidential trade information with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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A movie that takes liberties with ‘Wuthering Heights’? Scholars are OK with thatFeb 20, 2026 3:07 pm - When British author Lucasta Miller had the chance to see Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights” last week, she was well aware of the liberties taken by the director, but was otherwise unbothered. “It would be meaningless to criticize it for that, just as it would be to criticize a grand opera that plays fast and loose with the plot,” she says.
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Trump has other tariff options after Supreme Court strikes down his worldwide import taxesFeb 20, 2026 1:55 pm - President Donald Trump still has options to keep taxing imports aggressively even after the Supreme Court struck down the tariffs he imposed last year on nearly every country on earth.
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Trump administration eases limits on coal plants for emitting mercury, other toxinsFeb 20, 2026 1:52 pm - The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday weakened limits on mercury and other toxic emissions from coal-fired power plants, the Trump administration’s latest effort to boost the fossil fuel industry by paring back clean air and water rules.