2026 Winter Olympics Kick Off Amidst Global News
The 2026 Winter Olympics officially began on February 6 and will run until February 22, hosted jointly by Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo in northern Italy, marking the first time the Winter Games have been co-hosted by multiple cities, according to Time. More than 3,500 athletes are expected to participate.
Milan, a financial and fashion hub, is hosting ice sports such as figure skating and hockey, while Cortina, a resort town in the Italian Dolomites, is hosting skiing, snowboarding, and other mountain events, Time reported. Milan and Cortina won the bid in 2019, beating a joint bid from Stockholm and Åre in Sweden.
Meanwhile, in Minneapolis, White House border czar Tom Homan announced Wednesday that 700 federal immigration agents would be leaving the city after a month-long enforcement surge, Time reported. Homan stated at a press conference that the drawdown was made possible by unprecedented cooperation between federal and local officials. He added that the departing agents would be drawn from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), but that around 2,000 federal law enforcement officers would remain in the area. "This is smart law enforcement, not less law enforcement," he said, according to Time. A complete pullback of federal agents would depend on Minnesotas cooperation.
Farther east, in Kyiv, Ukraine, residents are facing a brutal winter amid ongoing conflict with Russia. According to Joanna Kakissis of NPR Politics, the fourth winter of Russia's war on Ukraine has been the most brutal in recent times, with Russia repeatedly attacking Ukraine's energy grid. Candles have become a last option for light when emergency power sources fail. "February ... is sobbing," the Ukrainian poet said, as quoted by Kakissis.
In other news, Nature News reported on a new study that sheds light on mantle upwellings. The study suggests that the first melts generated in any solid-state mantle upwelling are kimberlitic CO2-rich silicate melts that form at about 250 km depth through oxidation of elemental carbon to CO2. The results define a framework in which redox melting accounts for the generation of kimberlites, ocean island basalts and mid-ocean ridge basalts.
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