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Canada’s men’s hockey team narrowly beats Finland in the Olympic semifinal, advancing to the gold‑medal match

February 20, 2026 / 1:46 PM EST / CBS News

Canada’s men’s hockey team is headed to the Olympic finals after beating Finland 3-2 in the semifinals. They will play for the gold on Sunday, while Finland will play for the bronze on Saturday.

Canada’s opponent in the finals will be determined later Friday, when the U.S. men’s team faces off against Slovakia.

The match came one day after the U.S. women’s team defeated Canada and scored a gold medal in a thrilling 2-1 overtime comeback.

Canada played an offensive game, taking 39 shots on goal. Finland played defensively and took 17 shots.

Finland’s Mikko Rantanen scored the game’s first goal while the team was on a power play with just three minutes left in the first period. He managed to get the puck seconds after a face-off near Canada’s net, then sent it hurtling past Canadian goalie Jordan Binnington.

Early in the second period, Erik Haula scored a second goal for Finland after breaking away from the pack and speeding down the ice to shoot the puck past Binnington.

Erik Haula, center, celebrates his goal during the Finland-Canada men’s semifinal match at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games. Xavier Laine / Getty Images

Canada scored its first goal in the last minutes of the second period while on a power play. Team Canada’s Sam Reinhart was credited with the goal after deflecting a down-the-ice shot from teammate Cale Makar into the net to roars from the crowd.

Canada tied it up in the third period when Shea Theodore shot the puck past Finnish goalie Juuse Saros during a scrum at Finland’s net.

Shea Theodore, left, celebrates his goal during the Finland-Canada men’s semifinal match at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games. RvS.Media / Monika Majer / Getty Images

Canada took the lead in the final 35 seconds of the game when Nathan MacKinnon scored during a power play. The goal happened after a series of rapid passes just in front of Finland’s net.

The play was immediately challenged, with referees reviewing at multiple camera angles to ensure it had not gone offside, but it was confirmed by the referees.

The last 20 seconds of the game were played as a five-on-five faceoff, with Finland pulling their goalie from the net. Finland took a shot on goal in the last seconds, but the puck was caught by Binnington.

The crowd, which Canadian outlet CBC reported was mostly Canadian, burst into cheers in the final seconds of the game and roared with approval when Canada was victorious. The players stayed on the ice for several minutes to celebrate their win, and could be seen embracing and shaking hands as the crowd cheered.

Team Canada celebrates after the Finland-Canada men’s semifinal match at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games. Jamie Squire / Getty Images

Canada’s Brad Marchand told a NBC News correspondent that the team is made up of “an incredible group of guys” who were able to “keep pushing” when they were down by two goals. He said that multiple players “stepped up in leadership” with captain Sidney Crosby out due to an injury.

“Those guys are so dominant when they get out there together, especially on a power play,” Marchand said. “You can just kind of feel it. You can feel it coming. All you need’s an opportunity.”

Marchand added that the team is ready to face either the U.S. or Slovakia on Sunday.

“Both teams are so competitive and so deep,” Marchand said. “Whoever it is, we’ll be ready for that.”

The Supreme Court on Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s use of an emergency law to unilaterally impose sweeping tariffs on most U.S. trading partners, delivering a blow to the president in a case centered on one of his signature economic policies — one he characterized as “life or death” for the U.S. economy.

In a 6-3 decision, the justices invalidated Trump’s tariffs. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh dissented.

“The Framers gave that power to ‘Congress alone’ — notwithstanding the obvious foreign affairs implications of tariffs,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority. “And whatever may be said of other powers that implicate foreign affairs, we would not expect Congress to relinquish its tariff power through vague language, or without careful limits.”

Roberts noted that Trump used “two words” that were “separated by 16 others” in the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), “regulate” and “importation,” to justify that he had the “independent power to impose tariffs on imports from any country, of any product, at any rate, for any amount of time.”

“Those words cannot bear such weight,” Roberts wrote.

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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in November in the case, which centered on Trump’s use of the IEEPA to enact his “Liberation Day” tariffs on most countries, including a 10% global tariff and a set of higher, so-called “reciprocal” tariffs on certain nations.

In April, Trump declared the U.S. trade deficit a “national emergency,” and lawyers for the administration have cited that declaration as the legal basis for invoking IEEPA, which allows the president to respond to “unusual and extraordinary threats” when a national emergency has been declared.

The high court agreed to take up the case last fall after lower courts, including the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, blocked Trump’s attempt to use IEEPA to enact import duties.

Lower courts pressed the Justice Department to explain why Trump invoked IEEPA when other, more narrowly tailored statutes enacted by Congress more specifically address tariffs — including laws that cap tariffs at certain levels or set timeframes subject to congressional review.

The law authorizes the president to “regulate … importation” during a declared national emergency, but it does not mention the word “tariffs” — an omission that was at the heart of the hours-long arguments before the high court in November. The absence of the word was a key factor in the majority’s decision.

During oral arguments, justices pressed Solicitor General John Sauer, who argued on behalf of the government, on whether IEEPA applies to tariffs or taxation powers and what guardrails — if any — would limit the executive branch should the high court rule in Trump’s favor.

TRUMP DENOUNCES COURT’S ‘POLITICAL’ TARIFF DECISION, CALLS ON SUPREME COURT TO ACT QUICKLY

Sauer told the justices that IEEPA allows a president to “regulate” “importation” of goods, which he said was the practical equivalent of a tariff.

But justices, including Trump’s conservative appointees, appeared skeptical, pressing Sauer on whether there has “ever been another instance in which a statute has used that language to confer the power” Trump seeks.

Other conservative justices questioned whether an “economic equivalent” to tariffs — such as sanctions, embargoes, licenses and quotas — could be used by the president under the law.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh raised in a fiery dissent what he said would be “serious practical consequences” of the high court’s decision in terms of refunding illegitimately imposed tariffs. The majority did not address refunds, an issue now likely to be raised in lower courts.

“The United States may be required to refund billions of dollars to importers who paid the IEEPA tariffs, even though some importers may have already passed on costs to consumers or others,” Kavanaugh wrote. “As was acknowledged at oral argument, the refund process is likely to be a ‘mess.’”

Lawyers for the Trump administration have argued in lower courts that the IEEPA allows a president to act in response to “unusual and extraordinary threats” and in cases where a national emergency has been declared.

TRUMP TARIFF PLAN FACES UNCERTAIN FUTURE AS COURT BATTLES INTENSIFY

Trump has claimed that deep and “sustained” trade deficits amount to a national emergency that is sufficient to trigger his executive powers under the emergency law.

The DOJ urged the Supreme Court to allow the tariffs to remain in place, warning that denying Trump the tariff authority under IEEPA “would expose our nation to trade retaliation without effective defenses.”

Plaintiffs countered that in the 50 years since its passage, the law has never been used by a president to impose tariffs. They also argued that, by the administration’s own admission, the trade deficit cited by Trump has persisted for nearly 50 years — a fact they said undermines his claim that there is an “unusual and extraordinary” trade emergency.

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They argued that authorizing Trump’s use of IEEPA to continue his universal tariffs would drastically expand executive power at the expense of the other branches of government.

Judges on a three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of International Trade voted unanimously last year to block Trump’s tariffs from taking effect, ruling that as commander in chief, Trump does not have “unbounded authority” to impose tariffs under the emergency law. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit also rejected the administration’s use of IEEPA.

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From longshot lawsuit to landmark ruling: How a family toy business took on Trump’s tariffs

By Nicholas P. Brown and Eric Cox
February 20, 2026 5:48 PM UTC Updated 2 hours ago

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Item 1 of 3 Rick Woldenberg, CEO of Learning Resources and hand2mind, who sued the Trump administration over tariffs that adversely impacted his toy companies and won, poses for a picture, in Vernon Hills, Illinois, U.S., February 20, 2026. REUTERS/Eric Cox

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• Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s tariffs under IEEPA
• Learning Resources among first to sue, could get refunds
• Refund process expected to be complex, uncertain
• Trump may use other legal frameworks in place of rejected tariffs

NEW YORK, Feb 19 (Reuters) – When Rick Woldenberg took the reins of his family’s toy business, Learning Resources Inc, nearly three decades ago, politics and litigation were not on his agenda. Then he became a central figure in one of the most significant U.S. Supreme Court rulings of the last several years.

The court on Friday struck down President Donald Trump’s imposition of unprecedented tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, after a rash of importers, U.S. state governments and others sued.

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Illinois-based Learning Resources, which imports most of the educational toys it sells from China, was one of the first small businesses to bring a lawsuit against Trump’s tariffs last April. Along with other importers, the company could now be entitled to a share of billions of dollars in refunds – although the Supreme Court did not decide how or when that may happen.

“My hope is that this ruling is an opportunity for everyone to take a breath and think about what is important and what needs to get done,” Woldenberg told Reuters on Friday.

The White House did not immediately comment on the ruling.

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Small businesses like Learning Resources and its sister company, hand2mind, represent about 97% of U.S. importers and bring in some $868 billion worth of goods annually, according to a 2025 U.S. Chamber of Commerce report that described Trump’s tariffs as a threat to such businesses’ survival.

Within days of Trump’s tariff announcement last April, Woldenberg was speaking out against the duties. In June, after Learning Resources won its lawsuit in the district court, it asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up an early review.

“I decided that I would have a lot harder time dealing with not acting than acting,” Woldenberg told Reuters in a separate interview on Thursday, adding he did not see his legal battle as political.

“It’s about taxes,” he said. “They owe us money… every American agrees we pay too much in taxes, and no one will want to pay a tax they don’t have to pay.”

Despite Friday’s Supreme Court ruling, the issue is far from resolved. Experts say the process of getting refunds will be long and legally complex, and that Trump could try to salvage tariffs by using other legal frameworks.

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For Woldenberg, toys are in the blood. Learning Resources was founded in 1984 by his mother and has roots in a business started by Woldenberg’s grandfather more than a century ago.

Together with hand2mind, it makes educational items like Alphabet Coffee Cups – which help kids distinguish uppercase and lowercase letters – and Numberblocks, a toy set for math learning inspired by a British TV series of the same name.

Learning Resources has about 500 employees and sells in some 100 countries. Most of its production is in China – which faced some of the most crippling tariffs – and Woldenberg estimated he paid some $10 million in duties in 2025.

He also had to cut back on company expansion plans, such as adding 600,000 square feet of warehouse and office space in Illinois, and divert employees to tasks like re-engineering the company’s supply chain. Sales, marketing and product development plans changed overnight. The company went from trying to innovate to trying to react and survive. It spent less. It took in less. “We shrank last year,” he said.

A key focus of his anti-tariff campaign, he said, was to illustrate the practical challenges of what the Trump administration was pushing companies to do: move manufacturing back to the U.S.

“Moving a supply chain out of a country on an emergency basis, as if bombs are falling on your head, is a project no one is prepared for,” he said.

To make toys, Woldenberg’s businesses use more than 30 injection machines, each weighing several tons, which pump molten plastic into thousands of steel casings. Moving it would be prohibitively expensive, he said, and next to impossible logistically, demanding dozens of flatbed trucks and a series of cranes.

There is also the issue of expertise. Woldenberg’s partner factory in China has been making toys for years, with a highly specialized workforce and the ability to meet the toy industry’s high safety standards. Replicating that, he said, could take months or years.

Now, after the ruling, Woldenberg hopes to guide the company back to normalcy after spending much of his energy this past year in court. He is hopeful the money Learning Resources has paid in tariffs will be refunded by the government.

“And as soon as they do, we’ll start spending it,” he said. “We want to run our company again.”

Reporting by Nicholas P. Brown; editing by Peter Henderson and Nia Williams

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Walmart and other big companies say tariffs are forcing them to hike prices

February 20, 2026 / 1:23 PM EST / CBS News

Some of the biggest U.S. companies say they are passing tariff-related costs on to consumers, with Walmart this week attributing a jump in prices for certain goods sold by the retailer to higher import duties.

In a fourth-quarter earnings call on Thursday, Walmart said that inflation for general merchandise — or the prices it charges consumers for products like electronics and appliances — rose more than 3%, up from 1.7% between July and September. Most of those products are imported from overseas and are subject to Mr. Trump’s tariffs.

“[T]ariff-related costs lifted prices across many categories,” Walmart Chief Financial Officer John David Rainey told analysts.

Other companies have also recently pointed to Mr. Trump’s tariffs as one factor driving up prices. Columbia Sportswear executives said in an earnings call earlier this month that the outdoor clothing retailer plans to raise its prices for spring and fall merchandise by a “high single-digit percent.”

The company also noted it has taken other steps to mitigate the impact of tariffs, including negotiating lower manufacturing costs with its factories and shifting overseas production to countries facing lower U.S. tariffs.

Also in the apparel sector, denim company Levi Strauss recently cited the impact of steeper levies in raising prices, noting in a January call with analysts that “we implemented additional pricing actions to further mitigate tariffs.”

Other factors companies say have forced them to raise prices include rising labor and health insurance costs.

The White House disputes that tariffs are fueling inflation and hurting the economy.

“Americans have been hearing about one imminent inflation crisis or economic disaster after another for the past year because of President Trump’s tariffs,” White House spokesman Kush Desai said in a statement to CBS News. “Americans have instead experienced cooling inflation, $1,400 in increased real wages and accelerating GDP growth. The Trump administration will continue to deliver a pro-growth affordability agenda of tax cuts, deregulation and energy abundance.”

The Consumer Price Index, which measures changes in the cost of commonly purchased goods, rose a cooler than expected 2.4% in January compared to the same month a year ago — the slowest pace of inflation since May 2025.

Trump administration officials have said tariffs will also shrink the U.S. deficit by establishing fairer global trade terms, energize the domestic manufacturing sector and generate billions in federal revenue.

Are tariffs driving up inflation?

Although inflation cooled last month, it remains sticky. Government data released on Friday shows that another closely watched price gauge — Personal Consumption Expenditures — accelerated at the end of 2025, according to PNC chief economist Gus Faucher.

“Goods prices, which were falling on a year-ago basis as recently as April 2025, were up 1.7% in December as businesses pass along higher tariffs to consumers,” he said in a note to investors.

Data from Adobe also shows that the cost of goods sold online jumped 4% in January from the previous month — the largest one-month increase in the 12 years since the market research firm began tracking e-commerce prices. Higher prices on electronics, computers, appliances, furniture and bedding drove the higher average price increases, according to Adobe.

Recent research from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found that U.S. businesses and consumers bore almost 90% of the cost of the Trump administration’s levies in 2025.

The Trump administration disputes those findings. In a CNBC interview on Wednesday, White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett dismissed the New York Fed’s research, calling it “the worst paper I’ve ever seen.”

In a Feb. 5 research note, economists from Pantheon Macroeconomics said that businesses had passed only about half of the cost of tariffs to consumers by the end of 2025. But the investment advisory firm expects retailers to further hike prices early in 2026.

As of Jan. 19, the average U.S. tariff rate on imports was 16.9%, its highest level since 1932, according to the Yale Budget Lab, a nonpartisan policy research center focused on the economy. The group noted that goods including apparel, leather products, electronics and motor vehicles are among the product categories most exposed to higher import costs.

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‘Tariffs suck’: Some Republicans privately celebrate as Supreme Court blocks Trump policy

‘It’s the right result,’ one House conservative granted anonymity to speak freely said

By Elizabeth Elkind, Alex Miller
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Published February 20, 2026 12:43pm EST

Some Republicans are quietly cheering the Supreme Court’s decision blocking most of President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Friday, even as it deals a blow to a cornerstone of the commander in chief’s foreign policy and economic strategy.

One conservative House GOP lawmaker granted anonymity to speak freely, for example, said they were “relieved.”

“It’s the right result,” they said. “I am already seeing messages of relief and approval from other members of the Republican conference, as well. I expect that even more will express that relief. This helps to ensure Congress keeps its power over tariffs and preserves separation of power.”

Another Trump-aligned House Republican told Fox News Digital, “I think the Supreme Court rightfully decided that this was an Article I authority.”

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“Conservatives don’t like tariffs as a long-term strategy,” the second House Republican said. “The president was right to use them as a tool, and he was right to use them to get outcomes on certain things. But in a long-term way… it’s a tax on consumers.”

The conservative-majority high court ruled on Friday that Trump did not have the authority to impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). The White House’s interpretation of the 1977 law was used as the basis for sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs that Trump first unveiled last year.

But Chief Justice John Roberts argued that the law would have more expressly mentioned tariff authority if that is what it was meant for.

Roberts said “the president must ‘point to clear congressional authorization’ to justify his extraordinary assertion of the power to impose tariffs,” which “he cannot.”

TRUMP’S TARIFF BOOM HITS RECORD HIGHS AS SUPREME COURT SHOWDOWN LOOMS

The ruling, and subsequent wave of relief, isn’t the first time Republicans have bucked Trump and his tariffs. The Senate on several occasions has voted against specific parts of the strategy, and the House voted last week to end Trump’s emergency declaration on Canada aimed at ending tariffs there.

“Article One gives tariff authority to Congress. This was a common sense and straightforward ruling by the Supreme Court. I feel vindicated as I’ve been saying this for the last 12 months,” Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., one of six House Republicans who voted against the Canada tariffs last week, told Fox News Digital. “Besides the Constitutional concerns I had on the Administration’s broad-based tariffs, I also do not think tariffs are smart economic policy. Broad-based tariffs are bad economics.”

One GOP aide bluntly told Fox News Digital after the ruling, “Tariffs suck and are useless.”

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., one of the most vocal opponents of tariffs in the Senate, contended in a post on X shortly after the ruling that the Supreme Court “struck down using emergency powers to enact taxes.”

“No future administration, including a socialist one, can use ‘emergency’ powers to get around Congress and tax by decree,” Paul said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

WHITE HOUSE ‘LASER FOCUSED’ ON AFFORDABILITY AS TRUMP SOFTENS TARIFF STRATEGY

But not every Republican was thrilled by the result, nor their colleagues’ attitude toward the hefty blow dealt to Trump’s agenda and the ripple effect it could have on his economic policies. One Republican source described the outpouring of relief or opposition as “50/50.”

A GOP Senate source told Fox News Digital, “If this is a relief to any Republican, then they clearly don’t care about their president’s agenda.”

“The administration will find a way around this, and should, but anyone who’s celebrating right now is probably missing a part of their brain,” the source said. “I don’t understand how someone can see President Trump and the American people lose trillions of dollars and smile.”

Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., told Fox News Digital that he was disappointed by the decision, but not surprised, and noted that the court was divided on the issue.

“President Trump’s tariffs were delivering results — bringing our trading partners to the table, securing ten trade agreements, and driving supply chains and manufacturing back to the United States,” Marshall said. “These tools were also advancing our national security interests, including pressuring countries like India to stop purchasing Russian oil.”

A third House Republican, granted anonymity to speak candidly, told Fox News Digital the Supreme Court decision was “a severe blow” because the tariffs “were making progress that we finally have on fair trade.”

Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.

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The latest GDP data isn’t as bad as it looks. Here’s what to know.

February 20, 2026 / 1:20 PM EST / CBS News

After humming along at a robust pace for much of 2025, the economy hit a wall in the fourth quarter, with a six-week government shutdown and slowdown in consumer spending stunting growth at the end of the year.

Gross domestic product — which measures the nation’s output of goods and services — grew at a meager 1.4% annual rate in the fourth quarter, the Commerce Department said Friday. That came in well under economists’ forecasts of roughly 2% growth and is down sharply from the previous three months, when the economy expanded at blistinerg 4.3% pace.

Yet while the GDP number was weaker than expected, analysts say the economy remains on firm ground and is likely to accelerate in the coming months.

“Today’s headline number is certainly disappointing,” eToro U.S. investment analyst Bret Kenwell told CBS News. “When you peel back the layers a little bit, it’s not quite as bad as it appears on the surface.”

The latest GDP data, which was delayed due to the recent government shutdown, was the first snapshot of fourth-quarter economic growth. The Commerce Department will deliver two more readings for the quarter in the coming months.

The government also released the Personal Consumption Expenditures, or PCE, report on Friday, the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation. Headline PCE grew at an annual rate of 2.9% in December, a sign that inflation remains sticky.

Here are other key takeaways from Friday’s GDP report.

Government shutdown tipped the scales

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The main reason the economy slumped in the final three months of 2025, according to economists: the 43-daygovernment shutdownlast year,during which hundreds of thousands of federal workers were furloughed and federal funding for a range of programscame to a halt.

Gregory Daco, chief economist at consulting firm EY-Parthenon, in an email called the shutdown a “self-inflicted black eye.”

“The disappointing end to the year largely reflected a self-inflicted drag from the longest government shutdown in U.S. history,” he said.

The lapse in federal spending lasted for nearly half of the fourth quarter, stretching from October to early November. According to Friday’s GDP report, the shutdown reduced fourth-quarter growth by about 1 percentage point, largely due to a reduction in federal government services. The shutdown also contributed to a steep drop in government spending in the fourth quarter.

Consumers pulled back on spending

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A slowdown in consumer spending also modestly weighed on economic activity last quarter. Spending rose by 2.4% in the final three months of the year, down from 2.9% in the third quarter.

“Spending didn’t fall off a cliff, but it certainly slowed and decelerated from the pace we had earlier this year,” Kenwell said.

Consumer spending is the nation’s main engine of growth, accounting for around two-thirds of economic activity.

Economists expect a rebound

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Friday’s GDP print comes as other sectors of the economy display strength. Job growth came in higher than expected last month, with employers adding 130,000 positions. Inflation is also cooling.

With the 2025 government shutdown in the rearview mirror, analysts expect the economy to rebound this year. Investment advisory firm Capital Economics expects the economy to grow at a 3% annual rate in the first quarter of 2026.

Michael Pearce, chief U.S. economist at Oxford Economics, also thinks the economy will pick up because of softening tariff pressures and ongoing tax cuts, which he said will boost spending.

“We expect a sharp rebound in the coming months, driven by a larger tax refund season,” he said in a research note.

Edited by Alain Sherter

Trump says he is ‘considering’ a limited military strike to pressure Iran into nuclear deal

U.S. has been building up its military presence in the Middle East

By Greg Norman-Diamond
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Published February 20, 2026 10:45am EST | Updated February 20, 2026 11:48am EST

[Donald Trump] said Friday he is “considering” a limited military strike on Iran to pressure its leaders into a deal over its nuclear program.

“I guess I can say, I am considering that,” Trump said at a breakfast with governors at the White House, after being asked by a reporter, “Are you considering a limited military strike to pressure Iran into a deal?”

The president on Thursday suggested the window for a breakthrough is narrowing, indicating [Iran has no more] than “10, 15 days, pretty much maximum” to reach an agreement.

“We’re either going to get a deal, or it’s going to be unfortunate for them,” he said.

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Trump’s remarks come as the U.S. is building up military assets in the Middle East, sending the USS Gerald R. Ford and its strike group toward the region.

The [USS Abraham Lincoln] and three guided-missile destroyers arrived in the Middle East more than two weeks ago.

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On Wednesday, U.S. Central Command posted photos showing F/A-18 Super Hornets landing on the decks of the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea.

The next day, Russia warned Iran and “all parties in the region to exercise restraint and caution.”

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“Russia continues to develop relations with Iran, and in doing so, we call on our Iranian friends and all parties in the region to exercise restraint and caution, and we urge them to prioritize political and diplomatic means in resolving any problems,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, [according to Reuters.]

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US Supreme Court ruling overturning Trump tariffs could spook bond vigilantes

By Laura Matthews and Suzanne McGee
February 20, 2026 4:58 PM UTC Updated 7 mins ago

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• Stocks, bond yields edge higher as justices strike down IEEPA tariffs
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• Potential for Treasury selloff remains amid deficit concerns

Feb 20 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court’s Friday ruling striking down President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs produced a muted rally in global stock markets while stoking worries among so-called bond vigilantes about government finances and higher bond yields.

The decision could dent risk appetite among investors, especially after Trump announced Friday afternoon, as widely expected, that he will explore other options to re-impose the import duties. That could weigh on sectors with high foreign revenues or those sensitive to changes in the price of raw materials and components, investors said, citing tech, materials, energy, and industrials.

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The court upheld a lower court’s decision that the Republican president exceeded his authority under the 1977 law that he used to justify the duties. The government may now have to pay back $150 billion to $200 billion to U.S. and foreign companies that paid them. This could boost automakers, consumer goods importers and other sectors, said investors.

The benchmark S&P 500 stock index (.SPX), opens new tab initially rose about 0.5% on the news and after a bumpy trade was up 0.4% mid-afternoon. Retailers, other consumer cyclical stocks and ETFs with exposure to overseas markets enjoyed a healthy bounce initially, while the State Street SPDR S&P Retail ETF, which tracks large retailers, gyrated from a small loss to a small gain of 0.5%.

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Shares in some major U.S. trading partners fared better, with the iShares MSCI Mexico ETF (EWW.P), opens new tab 1.26% ahead, the iShares MSCI South Korea ETF (EWY.P), opens new tab logging a 4.29% gain and Canada’s TSX Composite Index (.GSPTSE), opens new tab rallying 0.40%.