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Trump considers new national security tariffs after Supreme Court ruling, WSJ reports

February 23, 2026 11:10 PM UTC / Reuters

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Feb 23 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is considering new national security tariffs on a half-dozen industries after a Supreme Court decision last week that invalidated many of his second-term levies, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

The new tariffs, to be issued under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, would be separate from a 15% global levy Trump announced on Saturday, the report said, citing people familiar with the plans.

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Reuters could not immediately confirm the report. The White House did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

The U.S. Supreme Court last week struck down Trump’s sweeping tariffs that he pursued under a law meant for use in national emergencies. In response, Trump imposed a temporary tariff of 10% on U.S. imports from all countries before raising it to 15%.

The new levies could cover industries like large-scale batteries, cast iron and iron fittings, plastic piping, industrial chemicals and power grid and telecom equipment, the report added.

Reporting by Gnaneshwar Rajan in Bengaluru; Editing by Nia Williams

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Anthropic称深度求索通过蒸馏Claude模型谋取优势

发布/2026年2月24日 07:40

Anthropic称，包括Deepseek在内的三家中国人工智能企业试图“蒸馏”其AI模型结果，以增强各自能力。 （路透社档案照）

美国人工智能初创公司Anthropic称，包括深度求索（Deepseek）在内的三家中国人工智能企业试图“蒸馏”其AI模型结果，以增强各自能力。

据彭博社报道，这家总部位于旧金山的公司星期一（2月23日）在博客文章中称，深度求索、稀宇科技和月之暗面使用数以千计的虚假账户，与其Claude模型进行了总计逾1600万次交互，违反服务条款。

Anthropic表示，采用这种被称为“蒸馏”（distillation）的做法，中国AI实验室得以通过在更强大的系统输出结果上进行训练，从而快速提升自身模型的能力。

另一家美国人工智能巨头OpenAI本月早些时候也曾警告，深度求索利用蒸馏技术，从ChatGPT模型获取能力。

包括白宫AI事务负责人大卫·萨克斯（David Sacks）在内的美国官员也对深度求索可能采用这一方法表示担忧。

This is Trump 2.0, bro. What do you bench?

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PUBLISHED Feb 23, 2026, 5:53 PM ET

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Their policies may divide the country, but on social media, the president’s men are all crushing it as influencers, bro.

They’re in the locker room and the gym, and they’re not going to let matters of state force them to skip leg day.

► FBI Director Kash Patel took a break from law enforcement to chug a celebratory beer with the US men’s hockey team after their gold medal win, his latest trip on a government jet controversially blending work and pleasure.

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► Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s most recent workout video is a banger in which the chiseled politician exercises shirtless in jeans in a wood-paneled sauna with the entertainer Kid Rock before they drink whole milk together in a hot tub.

Kennedy has bonded with the music star since Kid Rock “made the decision to change his depraved, debauched and famous dissolute lifestyle,” Kennedy told Fox News.

In recent weeks, Kennedy, a recovering addict, also opened up to the podcaster Theo Von about his drug-fueled past.

“I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats,” Kennedy said, explaining that he wasn’t afraid of Covid-19.

Kennedy also teamed up this month with Mike Tyson, who served three years in prison for rape in the 1990s, for a PSA to spread the gospel of weight loss by eating “real food.”

► Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth has posted multiple videos of himself bench-pressing. Hegseth has worked himself up to 315 pounds on the bench. That impressive weight could make up for the questionable form he exhibited in previous videos featuring pullups and kettlebells.

Who says the leader of the Department of War, as the Trump administration calls the Pentagon, can’t have a little fun while preparing for possible military action against Iran? Hegseth would not have been able to join in the beer chugging, however; he swore to give up alcohol while in office after his pre-Pentagon partying became an issue at confirmation hearings.

For these middle-aged men, proving they can be one of the boys is a key part the image they’re presenting online.

Social media strategy has been an important part of the Trump administration’s PR, including the propagandist action movie-style videos produced by the Department of Homeland Security and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s much-discussed photo ops in various uniforms.

Noem’s videos put her at the center of immigration enforcement. Other top members of Trump’s administration want to seem fit for military service.

► Vice President JD Vance posted photos of himself joining Navy SEALs for a beach workout in December. He climbed ropes, jogged and hopped in an inflatable boat. (Vance, a former Marine, deployed to Iraq as a public affairs specialist in 2005.)

Vice President JD Vance works out with US Navy SEALs at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado in California in this image posted on December 22, 2025.

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The man at the top, President Donald Trump, is known for engaging in locker room talk — but he is also a teetotaler and is notoriously opposed, on a philosophical level, to the idea of exercise, so don’t look for beer-drinking or workout videos from him. But his campaign benefactor and former DOGE chief Elon Musk posted an AI-generated video of Trump, in a business suit, playing hockey against Canadian players.

Trump called in on Patel’s phone to congratulate the men’s team after their overtime win and invite them on the fly to Tuesday’s State of the Union Address.

Trump promised he would do whatever is necessary, including dispatching a military plane, to get the men’s hockey players to Washington, even if it requires landing in the snow.

He did caution he would also have to invite the women’s team, which also won a thrilling overtime win against Canada last Thursday, or else, “I would probably be impeached.”

The president has spent a good bit of time during his second term promising to save women’s sports from what he and others frame as the threat of transgender athletes, so it was jarring to hear him mention the dominant women’s team almost as an afterthought.

The women’s team in a statement on Monday thanked Trump for the offer but declined, citing previous “academic and professional commitments.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters Monday that the House would try to figure out the logistics of accommodating hockey players for the speech, Politico reported. The address takes place in the House chamber, which is typically overstuffed for the annual event.

This screengrab taken from a video shows FBI Director Kash Patel celebrating the US men’s hockey team’s Olympic win in their locker room, in Milan, Italy, on February 22, 2026.

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The Patel video shows the noted hockey fan in a locker room celebration, but he has, like Hegseth, also moved to impose new fitness standards at his agency. He wants FBI agents to be like police in addition to their more traditional investigative role. That includes requiring female agents to do at least one pullup.

“If you wanna chase down a bad guy and put him in handcuffs, you better be able to do a pull-up,” Patel said during congressional testimony.

Patel has also posted workout videos, including his attempt at Kennedy and Hegseth’s challenge for service members and others to do 50 pullups and 100 pushups in less than 10 minutes. Patel posted his version from his official FBI director account on X.

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Why some Democratic congresswomen will wear white to Trump’s State of the Union

February 23, 2026 / 3:15 PM EST / CBS News

Washington— When President Trump gives his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, more than a dozen Democratic congresswomen plan to again make a sartorial political statement by wearing white, according to the Democratic Women’s Caucus.

Democratic congresswomen have used fashion as a form of protest against Mr. Trump since his first address to a joint session of Congress in 2017, then donning suffragist white in support of women’s rights.

In the years since, they’ve mostly stuck with that choice, with the exception of 2018, when some wore black in support of the #MeToo movement. They also broke tradition during last year’s speech, which wasn’t technically a State of the Union,wearing pinkto highlight their opposition to Mr. Trump’s policies.

Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández of New Mexico, who leads the 96-member Democratic Women’s Caucus, told CBS News that the color choice

特朗普警告各国“别玩把戏”背弃美国贸易协议

发布时间 / 来源：2026年2月24日 07:08 / 联合早报

美国总统特朗普说，最高法院的裁决确认他有权动用其他法律，“以更强大、更冒犯性的方式合法征收关税”。 （法新社）

美国总统特朗普警告世界各国，不要背弃近期与美国达成的贸易协议，否则他将根据不同的贸易法向这些国家征收更高的关税，并可能对贸易伙伴征收许可费。

路透社报道，目前围绕特朗普下一步关税举措的不确定性笼罩全球经济，并导致股市下跌。特朗普星期一（2月23日）在社媒平台接连发出多条贴文，警告各国勿“玩把戏”。

特朗普在Truth Social写道：“任何想利用美国最高法院荒谬裁决‘玩把戏’的国家，尤其是那些多年来、数十年来一直在‘剥削’美国的国家，将面临比他们近期同意的更高关税，后果将会更糟。买者自慎！！！”

特朗普说，尽管最高法院裁定他援引《国际紧急经济权力法》征收的关税无效，但法院的裁决确认他有权动用其他法律，“以更强大、更冒犯性的方式合法征收关税”。

他还暗示美国可能会对贸易伙伴征收新的许可费，但没有提供任何细节。

美国贸易代表办公室未针对特朗普的计划回应置评请求。

在布鲁塞尔，欧洲议会23日决定推迟对核准欧盟-美国贸易协议的投票。根据协议，欧盟商品将面临15%的美国关税，但数百种食品、飞机零部件、关键矿产、药品原料和其他商品可获得豁免。与此同时，欧盟将取消对许多美国进口商品包括工业品的关税。

美国最高法院2月20日裁定特朗普援引1977年《国际紧急经济权力法》（IEEPA）加征关税逾越总统权限，构成违宪。特朗普当晚即签署行政令，援引《1974年贸易法》122条款向全球征收10%的新关税，不到24小时又将税率上调至法律允许的15％上限，并立即生效。

特朗普还下令贸易代表办公室引用《1974年贸易法》301条款启动“不公平贸易行为”调查，寻求对各别贸易伙伴和领域商品加征关税。

Trump’s Section 122 tariffs could spur new legal battle, experts say

February 23, 2026 / 5:55 PM EST / CBS News

President Trump’s move to invoke an obscure legal tool to impose a global15% tariff on U.S. imports could face its own legal challenges, trade experts told CBS News.

The White House said in a fact sheeton Friday that the temporary import duty, imposed under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, addresses a “fundamental international payments problem” and that it will help the Trump administration rebalance the nation’s trade relationships.

Mr. Trump’s use of Section 122 to apply new tariffs, which will take effect on Tuesday, is unprecedented, legal experts told CBS News.

“No president has used it until now, so it could be ripe for legal challenges,” Luis Arandia, a partner with Washington, D.C., law firm Barnes & Thornburg focused on customs and international trade partner, told CBS News.

What is Section 122?

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Section 122 authorizes the U.S. president to impose tariffs to rectify what the statute describes as “large and serious United States balance-of-payments deficits.”

Yet Mr. Trump is the first president to take any action under Section 122,accordingto the Congressional Research Service, which analyzes legislation for lawmakers. “Section 122 has never been used, and therefore courts have had no occasion to interpret its language,” the agency states.

But trade and legal experts said Section 122 might not apply in the current context because the large U.S. trade deficit, which Mr. Trump has invoked to justify tariffs, does not qualify as a balance-of-payments deficit. This measure encompasses all the financial and commercial transactions between one country and another.

By contrast, a trade deficit occurs when a country imports more goods and services than it exports, and it is that imbalance that Trump administration officials have pointed to as justifying sharply higher tariffs.

“Section 122 is for a balance of payments crisis, which is when you don’t have enough foreign reserves to pay external debts,” Philip Luck, director of the economics program at the nonpartisan Center for Strategic and International Studies. “The U.S. has a very large trade deficit, but so long as we can continue to sell assets to the global market, we have no challenge conducting international trade.”

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on possible challenges to its legal basis for imposing Section 122 levies.

The scope of Section 122 is also much more limited than the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) — the 1977 law that the Supreme Court ruled last week did not, in fact, legally authorize Mr. Trump to impose more than half of his administration’s tariffs.

Notably, any tariffs implemented under Section 122 can only remain in place for 150 days. giving Mr. Trump’s 15% tariff an expiration date of July 24. After that date, Congress would need to vote to extend the tariffs, and that could prove politically challenging, according to Cato Institute trade expert Colin Grabow.

What is the U.S. tariff rate under Section 122?

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The new, global 15% tariff under Section 122 brings the average effective tariff rate to 14.5%, according to Capital Economics, an investor advisory firm.

That figure includes exemptions for goods from Canada and Mexico under the 2020 United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, plus pharmaceuticals, electronics, agricultural goods, and products like steel and aluminum that are already subject to sectoral tariffs.

Can Section 122 tariffs be extended?

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Yes, lawmakers can vote to extend Section 122 tariffs an additional 150 days. But even if Congress opts against that, the Trump administration has signaled it plans to use the five-month period to impose more durable tariffs under alternative legal trade laws.

As such, Section 122 tariffs are effectively a fallback plan for the Trump administration as it tries to match the tariffs that were in place under IEEPA, according to Washington, D.C.-based attorney Nate Bolin, head of K&L Gates’ international trade group.

Bolin also thinks the administration’s use of Section 122 is on a stronger legal footing than its reliance on IEEPA to impose tariffs.

“There have to be these balance-of-payment issues, which the White House has demonstrated,” he told CBS News. “This is reflective of the fact that the administration has had this in the works and has been planning on this for many months.”

What does this mean for U.S. businesses?

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The move to replace IEEPA tariffs with Section 122 duties sows more uncertainty for businessesas U.S. trade policies remain in flux, experts said.

“It’s more harmful than having higher tariffs, because businesses don’t want to invest when they’re not sure what is going to happen,” international trade economist Asha Sundaram, chair of the economics department at Northeastern University, told CBS News.

“The issue with uncertainty is that companies don’t know if tariffs will remain at that level or change,” she added. “So they will hesitate to make any business decision that’s medium to long-term. They might even stop investing, and that could potentially have negative implications for growth and jobs.”

US women’s hockey team declines Trump’s State of the Union invite, citing scheduling

Published Feb 23, 2026, 3:17 PM ET / Source: CNN

By [Betsy Klein]

The gold medal-winning US Olympic women’s hockey team has declined an invitation to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, citing scheduling issues.

The invite came after Trump regaled the US men’s team by phone Sunday as the players celebrated their historic Olympic victory, even offering to send a military plane to bring them to Washington, DC.

“We’re giving the State of the Union speech on Tuesday night. I could send a military plane or something, if you would like to. It’s the coolest night. It’s the biggest speech,” the president — over a speakerphone held by FBI Director Kash Patel in the locker room — said to raucous cheers and shouts of “we’re in.”

Trump added: “I must tell you, we’re gonna have to bring the women’s team — you do know that.” If they weren’t invited, the president said, “I do believe I probably would be impeached, OK?”

Members of the team laughed. The moment — and the players’ response —prompted significant backlash on social media.

Both the men’s and women’s hockey teams were formally invited to attend Trump’s address Tuesday, according to a spokesperson for the women’s team. It is not clear whether the male athletes will follow through on the plans, but the women have declined the invitation.

“We are sincerely grateful for the invitation extended to our gold medal-winning U.S. Women’s Hockey Team and deeply appreciate the recognition of their extraordinary achievement,” the team spokesperson said in a statement.

“Due to the timing and previously scheduled academic and professional commitments following the Games, the athletes are unable to participate. They were honored to be included and are grateful for the acknowledgment.”

The men’s team, which was traveling back to the US from Italy, did not immediately respond to CNN’s inquiry on whether they would attend the speech. The White House did not respond to CNN’s request for comment.

Both American teams secured Olympic gold in extraordinary games against Canada, the women 2-1 in overtime on Thursday and the men in their own 2-1 overtime win Sunday.

Jack Hughes, who scored the men’s game-winning goal, said one of his first thoughts was women’s team star Megan Keller.

“The first person I thought of was Megan Keller, who had the gold medal goal the other night,” the New Jersey Devils center said in an interview moments after his win, recalling running into Keller in the Olympic cafeteria after the women’s victory.

“I saw her in the (cafeteria), and I just said how happy and proud I am of their group and that was one of my first thoughts, was her.”

Neither Olympic team has much time to soak in their victories as they return to their professional and college-level hockey teams. The Professional Women’s Hockey League resumes its season Thursday, and the National Hockey League resumes on Wednesday.

The women’s team most recently won gold in PyeongChang during Trump’s first term. They were among the athletes invited to the White House in April 2018 as part of a broader Olympic celebration. The men’s win was the first since the 1980 “Miracle on Ice.”

Maryland sues Trump administration to halt construction of ICE facility

February 23, 2026 9:19 PM UTC / Reuters

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Maryland Governor Wes Moore speaks on the day U.S. President Joe Biden visits to Dundalk Marine Terminal in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., October 29, 2024. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo

WASHINGTON, Feb 23 (Reuters) – Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown said on Monday that the state had filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration to halt construction of a new federal immigration detention center in the state.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which has federal oversight of immigration, spent more than $100 million on a 54-acre square-foot warehouse in Maryland’s Washington County to convert into a detention center capable of holding 1,500 people at a time, Brown said.

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The Trump administration, according to Maryland’s attorney general and government, purchased the property without conducting an environmental review or receiving public input.

However, according to Washington County last month, the federal government did not need to seek local zoning approval for the project. As a result, it said, the county could not legally restrict the Trump administration’s ability to proceed with the detention center.

“Our people must be heard when the federal government makes decisions that affect their health, their safety, and their communities,” said Maryland Governor Wes Moore, a Democrat.

He added: “The State of Maryland is filing this lawsuit because DHS must be held to the same legal standard as every other federal agency.”

DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The department plans to spend more than $38 billion in 2026 on detention centers as the Republican Trump administration seeks to ramp up its already aggressive immigration agenda. This would increase Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) total bed capacity to 92,600 at its detention centers.

There are currently more than 200 federal immigration detention centers in the United States.

The move to increase detention centers in states across the U.S. states has been met with some bipartisan criticism.

Amid the criticism, four Democratic members of Congress on Monday announced a plan to introduce a bill requiring DHS to seek written approval from state and local officials before constructing, acquiring or operating any ICE processing facility or detention center.

Reporting by Jasper Ward in Washington; Editing by Alistair Bell

美国指中国“大幅扩充”核武库

发布/2026年2月24日 07:20

美国指责中国大幅扩充核武库，并再次重申北京进行秘密核试验的说法，同时要求中国加入任何未来的军控条约。

法新社报道，华盛顿方面星期一（2月23日）说，2月早些时候美俄两大核大国之间最后一份《新削减战略武器条约》（New START）失效，为达成一项包含中国在内的“更好的协议”提供了可能性。

美国国务院负责军控和防扩散事务的助理国务卿耶奥（Christopher Yeaw）在日内瓦裁军谈判会议上说，《新削减战略武器条约》存在严重缺陷，而且“没有考虑到中国前所未有、蓄意、迅速且不透明的核武器建设”。

他说：“尽管中国否认，但事实上，中国蓄意且不受约束地大规模扩充了核武库，既不透明也没有透露中方意图或最终目标。”

中国裁军事务大使沈健在会上说，中方“坚决反对某些国家不断歪曲和抹黑中国的核政策”，并坚称北京“不会与任何国家进行任何形式的核军备竞赛”。

Trump again centers crime in immigration debate with White House vigil

February 23, 2026 at 3:20 p.m. EST / The Washington Post

The vigil, held on the eve of Trump’s State of the Union address, centered victims’ families and crime in defense of his deportation campaign, even as public support for his approach softens.

President Donald Trump signs a declaration commemorating Feb. 22 as “Angel Family Day” during an event Monday at the White House. (Anna Rose Layden/For The Washington Post)

By Matt Viser

President Donald Trump on Monday spotlighted victims of crimes by undocumented immigrants with an official proclamation, returning on the eve of his State of the Union address to an issue that most animates his base even as broader public support for his approach erodes.