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An Airbus A321 Delta Airlines passenger aircraft is seen at gate while a Boeing 737 MAX 8 United Airlines passenger aircraft takes off at LaGuardia Airport in New York on February 22, 2026. A fast-developing storm is threatening to pummel the US East Coast with a foot or more of snow beginning Sunday, bringing Mother Nature’s wrath to a region that only just dug out from a previous winter wallop. Meteorologists issued blizzard warnings for New York and parts of at least six states, warning Saturday that heavy snow and gale-force winds are forecast to slam all major cities along the densely populated Interstate 95 northeast corridor, including Philadelphia, Boston and even Washington further south. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP via Getty Images)

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Delta expects to halt flights at NYC, Boston airports for storm

By Maria Paula Mijares Torres and Bloomberg

COLIMA, MEXICO – FEBRUARY 22: An army member stands guard with a machine gun on top of a car on February 22, 2026 in Colima, Mexico. Road blockades and vehicle burnings have been reported in several parts of Mexico since early morning. The Secretariat of National Defense of Mexico has confirmed that during a security operation in Tapalpa, Jalisco, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as ‘El Mencho’ leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel was killed, along with four other members. Three Mexican soldiers were wounded during the operation. (Photo by Leonardo Montecillo/Agencia Press South/Getty Images)

U.S. asks citizens in Mexico to shelter after cartel leader killed

By Maria Paula Mijares Torres and Bloomberg

US President Donald Trump gives a speech about the economy at the Coosa Steel Corporation factory in Rome, Georgia, on February 19, 2026. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump boosts new tariff rate to 15% a day after announcing 10%

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OpenAI hires OpenClaw AI agent developer Peter Steinberg

By Maria Paula Mijares Torres and Bloomberg

MUNICH, GERMANY – FEBRUARY 13: Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, attends the Panel Discussion ‘Playing With Fire: The Need for Decisive Climate Action’ at the 62nd Munich Security Conference on February 13, 2026 in Munich, Germany. The conference, which brings together government leaders, security experts and defence ministers, is taking place at a time when the traditional western political and military alliance is facing rupture due to the policies of U.S. President Donald Trump. (Photo by Johannes Simon/Getty Images)

Newsom pleads with U.S. allies in Europe to see Trump as temporary

By Maria Paula Mijares Torres and Bloomberg

Gold bars arranged at the Perth Mint Refinery, operated by Gold Corp., in Perth, Australia, on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026. The reversal came as the stock market was whipsawed by volatility, Bitcoin tumbled and what had been a steep run-up in gold and silver prices abruptly reversed, all of which drove investors into the safety of US Treasuries. Photographer: Matt Jelonek/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Bessent sees ‘unruly’ Chinese trading behind gold price swings

By Maria Paula Mijares Torres, Hadriana Lowenkron, and others

Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., arrives ahead of an event with Javier Milei, Argentina’s president, not pictured, at the National Museum of Decorative Art in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025. Milei will hold talks with Dimon and other JPMorgan executives on Friday and deliver a speech to Latin American CEOs at an event organized by the Wall Street bank. Photographer: Tomas Cuesta/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Trump blasts Dimon, threatens to sue JPMorgan over debanking

By Josh Wingrove, Maria Paula Mijares Torres, and others

US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem attends a press conference in New York City on January 8, 2026. (Photo by TIMOTHY A.CLARY / AFP via Getty Images)

Hundreds more federal agents heading to Minnesota, Noem says

By Maria Paula Mijares Torres and Bloomberg

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – DECEMBER 20: Waymo driverless car is not able to detect traffic lights after a major power outage in San Francisco, California, United States on December 20, 2025. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Waymos froze, blocked traffic during San Francisco power outage

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The silhouettes of National Guard members against the sunlight

Trump orders new immigration curbs as FBI probes guard shooting

By Josh Wingrove, Maria Paula Mijares Torres, and others

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – OCTOBER 31: People detained earlier in the day are taken to a parking lot on the far north side of the city before being transferred to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility on October 31, 2025, in Chicago, Illinois. Chief Patrol Agent of the El Centro Sector for U.S. Customs and Border Protection Gregory Bovino was part of the caravan of federal officers making the arrests amid President Donald Trump’s administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz,” an ongoing immigration enforcement surge across the Chicago region. (Photo by Jamie Kelter Davis/Getty Images)

Trump says immigration raid efforts ‘haven’t gone far enough’

By Maria Paula Mijares Torres and Bloomberg

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – JULY 23: Workers enter a building on the Google headquarters campus on July 23, 2025 in Mountain View, California. Google parent company Alphabet reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings with revenue of $96.43 billion compared to analyst expectations of $94 billion. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Tech companies warn H-1B visa holders to avoid foreign travel

By Georgia Hall, Maria Paula Mijares Torres, and others

WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 10: The flag atop the White House is lowered to half-staff following US President Donald Trump’s post on Truth Social that political activist Charlie Kirk had died on September 10, 2025 in Washington, DC. Kirk, who was a close ally of President Trump and the founder of the conservative youth group Turning Point USA, was fatally shot on Wednesday while speaking at Utah Valley University. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

White House wants $58 million security boost after Kirk shooting

By Maria Paula Mijares Torres, Gregory Korte, and others

UNITED STATES – JANUARY 16: William Beach, director of the Center for Data Analysis at the Heritage Foundation, speaks at a Joint Economic Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2008. Charles Schumer, Democratic U.S. senator from New York and chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, said at the hearing that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is “generally supportive” of fiscal measures to stimulate the economy. (Photo by Ken Cedeno/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Trump’s former jobs data chief decries firing of successor

By Maria Paula Mijares Torres, Catherine Lucey, and others

Students are seen on the campus of Columbia University on April 14, 2025, in New York City. An immigration judge ruled on April 11 that Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian student protester from Columbia University and a US permanent resident detained by the Trump administration, can be deported, his lawyer said. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP) (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)

Columbia may be nearing a truce with Trump in funding fight

By Maria Paula Mijares Torres and Bloomberg