Ilia Malinin, dubbed the "Quad God" for his mastery of quadruple jumps, led the US figure skating squad to gold in the team event at the 2026 Winter Olympics this week, while a SpaceX mission carrying four astronauts launched to the International Space Station from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Meanwhile, a bipartisan effort in Congress to address immigration enforcement tactics faltered ahead of a Friday deadline.
Malinin's performance at the Olympics was particularly notable, according to Wired, as he ended his short program with a backflip and still achieved a score of 108.16 without even performing his signature quad axel. Malinin, the child of two Olympic skaters, has quickly risen to fame in the skating world.
Simultaneously, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched four individuals to the International Space Station, as reported by NPR News. The crew included NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir, Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, and European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot. The launch occurred before dawn from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
In political news, a bipartisan effort to address immigration enforcement tactics in Congress is faltering, NPR News reported. The effort, which aimed to control immigration enforcement after officers killed two people in Minneapolis, faced a Friday deadline to fund the Department of Homeland Security. This mirrors a similar situation a month prior, when a bipartisan group failed to restore lapsed health insurance subsidies, according to Senator Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio.
In other news, Anthony Chen's Berlinale Competition entry "We Are All Strangers" has been sold to France, Variety reported. The film will be distributed by ARP Selection, a leading French arthouse distribution company.
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