Ilia Malinin led Team USA to a second consecutive gold medal in the Olympic figure skating team event at the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, while Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi secured a landslide victory in a snap election. Meanwhile, political tensions remain high in Washington, D.C., and the war in Ukraine continues to escalate.
Team USA defended its Olympic figure skating team event gold medal on Sunday, according to CBS News, after Ilia "Quad God" Malinin's performance in the men's free skate. Malinin, attempting five quad jumps, earned a score of 200.03, topping Japan's Shun Sato (194.86). The U.S. and Japan were tied at 59 points before the men's free skate, making Malinin's performance crucial to the final outcome.
In Japan, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's ruling party is on course to win Sunday's snap election by a landslide, according to BBC World. The coalition led by Takaichi's Liberal Democrat Party (LDP) won 352 of 465 seats in Japan's House of Representatives, with the LDP alone securing a majority of 316. Takaichi, the country's first female prime minister, called the election just four months after becoming party leader, seeking a clear public mandate.
In Washington, lawmakers are locked in a standoff over reforming the nation's immigration enforcement operation as a deadline to fund the Department of Homeland Security approaches, CBS News reported. Congress passed a short-term funding measure to keep the department funded through February 13, designed to give lawmakers more time to negotiate.
Adding to the political tensions, Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff said Sunday that former President Donald Trump intends to take action to overturn the results of the 2026 midterm elections should Republicans lose seats in Congress, according to ABC News. "I think Trump intends to try to subvert the elections," Schiff told ABC News' "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl.
Meanwhile, the war in Ukraine continues to escalate. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged the world not to "turn a blind eye" to Russia's intensifying long-range attacks on Ukrainian cities and critical infrastructure, according to ABC News. Zelenskyy said the past week saw Russia launch more than 2,000 attack drones, 1,200 guided aerial bombs, and 116 missiles into Ukraine. "Almost every day, they strike energy facilities, logistics infrastructure, and residential buildings," Zelenskyy said.
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