Trump should view the court’s decision for what it is: a boon for his presidency and legacy.
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Arsenal answer title pressure with resounding derby win at Spurs
LONDON — Eberechi Eze and Viktor Gyökeres both scored twice in an emphatic 4-1 north London derby win for Arsenal as the Gunners restored their five-point lead over Manchester City at the top of the Premier League with 10 matches remaining.
Eze, who became the first Arsenal player to score a Premier League hat trick against Spurs in a 4-1 win at the Emirates last November, extended his scoring streak against the side he rejected in favor of a move to his boyhood team from Crystal Palace last summer, netting twice. Meanwhile, Gyökeres (two second-half goals) produced his best performance since arriving from Sporting CP last summer. Although Randal Kolo Muani briefly gave Spurs hope for a positive result when he canceled out Eze’s first-half opener, new coach Igor Tudor suffered a heavy defeat in his first game in charge, and his team is facing a battle against relegation at the wrong end of the table.
With City turning up the pressure on Arsenal with a 2-1 home win against Newcastle on Saturday, Mikel Arteta’s team responded with character to claim victory against its local rival and deliver a message to City that it is prepared to go the distance in order to win its first league title since 2004. — Mark Ogden
Braces from Viktor Gyökeres and Eberechi Eze give Arsenal their 5th North London Derby win in a row! pic.twitter.com/8swPaZX0YU
— NBC Sports Soccer (@NBCSportsSoccer) February 22, 2026
Arsenal respond to mounting pressure
Regardless of Tottenham’s current struggles, this was billed as a huge test of Arsenal’s character after the Gunners dropped four points against Brentford and Wolves in the past 10 days.
Manchester City cranked up the pressure even further with a 2-1 win over Newcastle, which cut the gap to just two points at kickoff, and when Randal Kolo Muani equalized at 34 minutes, catching Declan Rice in possession and finishing from a narrow angle beyond David Raya, they could have easily folded once again. However, the gulf in class between these two sides was obvious and, for once of late, Arsenal kept playing with purpose to eventually translate that superiority to the scoreline.
They might have been expected to win given that Spurs had only 13 senior fit players available and have won just two home league games all season, but nevertheless this is a result that should lessen — if not silence — the talk of Arsenal losing their ”bottle” with three months still to go. — James Olley
Let’s not deny it: Spurs are in a relegation battle
Igor Tudor now has 11 league games to save Tottenham Hotspur from relegation from the Premier League. It sounds incredible, but it’s a fact that everyone at the club needs to accept quickly.
Sunday’s heavy defeat left Spurs just four points above West Ham, who occupy the third relegation spot right now, but the Hammers, Nottingham Forest and Leeds have shown signs in recent weeks of being able to escape the drop zone. Spurs, meanwhile, haven’t won a league game in 2026, and they really don’t look close to ending that streak anytime soon if they continue to play without any kind of goal threat.
Their next fixture is a difficult trip to in-form London rivals Fulham before a potentially crucial home game against Crystal Palace on March 5. Alongside Spurs, West Ham, Leeds and Forest, Palace are the other team in the five-way battle to avoid the drop, and their form is almost as bad as Tottenham’s, with Oliver Glasner’s future as coach continuing to be a major question.
Spurs have the games to get themselves out of trouble, but when you haven’t won since December and your squad is lacking top quality and the ability to scrap, then you have a problem. Spurs have that problem, and denial about the situation they’re in could see them spiral toward a once-unthinkable relegation. — Ogden
Eze excels and Gyökeres produces his most important goal
Of all the failed transfer moves Tottenham have endured, their inability to sign Eberechi Eze from Crystal Palace last summer must haunt the club more than most. Spurs had agreed a £60 million deal with Palace only for Eze to choose to join the Gunners at the last minute.
How has he fared? Well, the 27-year-old has scored seven goals for Arsenal this season, with five of them coming against Tottenham. Amazingly, Eze’s 32nd-minute strike Sunday was his first shot on target in the league since his hat trick in November’s reverse fixture.
While Eze has struggled for consistent minutes this season, Viktor Gyökeres has faltered under the weight of expectation following his summer move from Sporting Lisbon. He wasn’t entirely convincing again Sunday, but his superb 47th-minute strike probably ranks as the most important goal he has scored for the Gunners. It might surprise you to know it was his 14th of the season, but many of those have come against weak opposition or late in games with the result already beyond doubt.
Spurs are of course 16th in the league, but the match was firmly in the balance when Gyökeres picked the ball up on the edge of the box and finished emphatically to restore the visitors’ lead. It is a moment that continues an upward trend of late and he built on it further in stoppage time — scoring the sort of goal we have seen more often to reach 15, muscling in on goal and curling the ball in from a narrow angle — as Arsenal counterattacked quickly. — Olley
Tottenham fans buy into Tudor … for now
The game was less than half an hour old when the Spurs fans started singing “Igor Tudor’s blue and white army,” and that was at least one positive for the new Tottenham coach during a humbling first game in charge.
It was the displeasure of the Spurs fans that sparked Thomas Frank’s downfall after half a season in charge, so the voice of the supporters does have an impact on decisions made at the top levels of all clubs. And although the Spurs hierarchy were initially resistant to calls for Frank to go, the combination of bad results and fan anger ultimately cost him his job earlier this month.
It’s very early days for Tudor, but the Spurs fans never warned to former Brentford coach Frank, so the fact that he already has buy-in from the supporters is something on which he can build.
Tudor was a left-field appointment, and the majority of fans were — and might still be — skeptical of the former Lazio and Juventus boss, but the tenacity and desire shown by the Spurs players early in this game was down to Tudor’s management and motivation and it impressed the supporters. The result clearly didn’t, and Spurs still have a long way to go, but the fans at least seem to believe in their new coach. — Ogden
Arsenal’s individual errors continue, but aren’t costly this time
Moments after Eberechi Eze gave Arsenal a 1-0 lead, Declan Rice could be seen on the pitch telling his jubilant teammates to stay focused and switched on. It was a message repeated from interviews he gave in the buildup to Sunday’s derby, citing a need to cut out individual mistakes that had cost Arsenal of late. And yet, just two minutes later, Rice was caught in possession deep in his own half by Randal Kolo Muani, who turned and drove a low finish past David Raya to make it 1-1.
It was the fourth such mistake leading to a goal in 2026 alone, following on from Gabriel Magalhães at Bournemouth, Martín Zubimendi against Manchester United and the mix-up between Gabriel and Raya at Wolves. This time it didn’t cost them three points, but there is still work to do to stop making games harder for themselves, as Rice rightly identified beforehand. — Olley
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Eric Church Shares Two Regrets About His Brother’s Death
Eric Church spoke about a wide range of his experiences with grief during a new appearance on Anderson Cooper’s All There Is podcast last week.
Some of the traumatic instances he discussed were collective grieving experiences. He spoke about the 2017 Route 91 Harvest Festival mass shooting as well as the 2023 mass shooting at Nashville’s Covenant School, which happened close to the school that Church’s own children were attending.
But one of the instances he brought up was a devastating personal loss that he hasn’t spoken about much. That was the death of his brother Brandon, who died in 2018 at just 36 years old.
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Church admits he tends to “bury stuff like that” when it comes to grief emotions, and that he’s had to learn to talk more openly about what he’s feeling during those difficult times.
The singer also says he regrets not letting his two children be a part of one of his rawest moments after his brother’s death.
Eric Church Shares What He Regrets About How He Handles His Brother’s Death With His Kids
In the interview, Church admits it was a “mistake” not to bring his children to Brandon’s funeral. They were about seven and five years old at the time.
“We left them back with a relative,” he recounts. “At the time, it sounded like the exact right thing to do. ‘Cause I was a wreck. I was a mess. My family was a mess.”
In hindsight, though, he wishes the two boys had been able to be the adults in their lives navigating that grief.
“I look back on it now and sometimes it’s good for a child, if they’re in that age, to see everybody hurting, to see the life changing, to see what that death is,” Church continues. “So that’s one thing I regret. If I could go back, I would do that different.”
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“I did a little bit of the, ‘You’re not doing the things you’re supposed to be doing,’ and it was a little bit of the ‘tough love,’ big brother thing. I wish I’d had more grace and been more compassionate, now.
“But at the time, you think, ‘Oh, come on, get your s–t together.’ I regret that now,” Church reflects.
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He also says that his grief over that loss still comes in strong, unpredictable waves.
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Iranian foreign minister says “we have every right to enjoy a peaceful nuclear energy, including enrichment”
Washington — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday that Iran has “every right to enjoy a peaceful nuclear energy, including enrichment” as the U.S. pushes for a deal on its nuclear program.
Negotiators for the U.S. and Iran met last week in Geneva, where both sides said progress was made. President Trump said on Friday, amid a massive military buildup in the region, that he’s considering a limited military strike on Iran, after warning that Tehran had a matter of days to reach a deal on its nuclear program, or “bad things” would happen.
Araghchi announced Sunday on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” the two sides will come together again Thursday in Geneva.
He said that the only way to find a resolution for Iran’s nuclear program is through diplomacy, while stressing that a solution is within reach.
“So there is no need for any military buildup, and military buildup cannot help it and cannot pressurize us,” he said.
The Iranian foreign minister, who helped negotiate the 2015 nuclear deal under the Obama administration, said the Iranians are still working on a draft proposal for Steve Witkoff, the U.S. special envoy to the Middle East. Araghchi said that when the two sides meet again Thursday, “we can work on those elements and prepare a good text and come to a fast deal.”
U.S. officials have expressed widespread skepticism about Iran’s nuclear program, including the bulk of Republicans in Congress who have called on the president to demand zero enrichment and a full dismantlement of the program. But Araghchi argued that “enrichment is our right.”
Araghchi said enrichment is a “sensitive part” of the negotiations, noting that the U.S. negotiators are aware of Iran’s position and “we have already exchanged our concerns.”
“I think a solution is achievable,” Araghchi added.
Asked by Brennan whether demanding a right to enrich on Iranian soil is worth the risk amid the American military buildup, Araghchi said “as a sovereign country, we have every right to decide for ourselves, by ourselves.”
“We have developed this technology by ourselves, by our scientists, and it’s very dear to us,” Araghchi said. “So that is now a matter of dignity and pride for Iranians, and we are not going to give it up. There is no legal reason to do that while everything is peaceful, while everything is safeguarded by the agency.”
Araghchi said “if the U.S. attacks us, then we have every right to defend ourselves.”
“Our missiles cannot hit the American soil,” Araghchi said. “So obviously we have to do something else. We have to hit, you know, the Americans’ base in the region.”
Still, Araghchi questioned why conflict would be necessary “when there is every possibility for a peaceful solution.”
Mar-a-Lago trespassing incidents highlight mental health crises and legal outcomes
Mar-a-Lago, the Florida residence of President Donald Trump, has been the location of several trespassing incidents since he became the president in 2017. Sunday’s recent apparent trespassing and deadly shooting adds to the list of trespass incidents at the resort on Palm Beach.Here’s a look back at some incidents:Kelly Weidman – 2017A then resident of Clearwater, Weidman was arrested on Jan. 20, 2017, on accusations she snuck into Mar-a-Lago, smeared bananas on cars and left explicit messages on a computer inside the resort. This incident occurred hours before Trump was sworn in as president during his first term as president.Court documents note that on April 30, 2018, the trespassing charge was dropped by the state attorney’s office after Weidman completed a diversion program.LU JING – 2019A Chinese national was found not guilty of trespassing, but guilty of resisting arrest from a Dec. 18, 2019, incident at the resort.The woman, who does not speak English, said during trial she was dropped off at the property by a tour guide and did not see anything to indicate that she was not allowed on the property. After security guards told her to leave the property, she was found on Worth Avenue in Palm Beach by Palm Beach Police Department Officers and taken into custody.Hannah Roemhild – 2020Two Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office deputies shot at an SUV operated by Hannah Roemhild from Connecticut after she sped past a checkpoint outside Mar-a-Lago. Roemhild reportedly had a mental health crisis when she sped through the checkpoint on Jan. 31, 2020. Roemhild was not hurt during the shooting. The deputies who shot at Roemhild were cleared of any wrongdoing in 2023.On Jan. 18, 2022, in Palm Beach County, Roemhild was found not guilty on two counts of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer with a deadly weapon, fleeing of attempting to elude at a high speed and reckless and resist officer without violence charges by reason of insanity.She was also found not guilty because of insanity on Aug. 26, 2021, in federal court in South Florida.Donald W. Cleveland – 2022He was arrested on June 29, 2022, for trespassing after warning. The Palm Beach Police Department told the Secret Service that the man had been on the property at least the night before. The man said he wanted to talk to then-President Trump.Police searched the man’s vehicle and discovered a black battery pack with multiple wires sticking out, a white pillowcase with cables and unknown items wrapped in duct tape, and multiple baking sheets. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office Bomb Squad and K-9 dogs were called to the scene. Cleveland was Baker acted.According to Palm Beach County court documents, Cleveland did not appear for his July 20, 2022, court hearing and an arrest warrant remains active.Jeffrey D. Olson – 2025According to a federal complaint, Olson jumped over the north wall of Mar-a-Lago and entered the restricted area. He moved to the East lawn of the property, where he was detained by U.S. Secret Service personnel. Olson told law enforcement that he entered the property to contact President Donald Trump.
Mar-a-Lago, the Florida residence of President Donald Trump, has been the location of several trespassing incidents since he became the president in 2017.
Sunday’s recent apparent trespassing and deadly shooting adds to the list of trespass incidents at the resort on Palm Beach.
Here’s a look back at some incidents:
Kelly Weidman – 2017
A then resident of Clearwater, Weidman was arrested on Jan. 20, 2017, on accusations she snuck into Mar-a-Lago, smeared bananas on cars and left explicit messages on a computer inside the resort.
This incident occurred hours before Trump was sworn in as president during his first term as president.
Court documents note that on April 30, 2018, the trespassing charge was dropped by the state attorney’s office after Weidman completed a diversion program.
LU JING – 2019
A Chinese national was found not guilty of trespassing, but guilty of resisting arrest from a Dec. 18, 2019, incident at the resort.
The woman, who does not speak English, said during trial she was dropped off at the property by a tour guide and did not see anything to indicate that she was not allowed on the property.
After security guards told her to leave the property, she was found on Worth Avenue in Palm Beach by Palm Beach Police Department Officers and taken into custody.
Hannah Roemhild – 2020
Two Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office deputies shot at an SUV operated by Hannah Roemhild from Connecticut after she sped past a checkpoint outside Mar-a-Lago.
Roemhild reportedly had a mental health crisis when she sped through the checkpoint on Jan. 31, 2020.
Roemhild was not hurt during the shooting. The deputies who shot at Roemhild were cleared of any wrongdoing in 2023.
On Jan. 18, 2022, in Palm Beach County, Roemhild was found not guilty on two counts of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer with a deadly weapon, fleeing of attempting to elude at a high speed and reckless and resist officer without violence charges by reason of insanity.
She was also found not guilty because of insanity on Aug. 26, 2021, in federal court in South Florida.
Donald W. Cleveland – 2022
He was arrested on June 29, 2022, for trespassing after warning.
The Palm Beach Police Department told the Secret Service that the man had been on the property at least the night before. The man said he wanted to talk to then-President Trump.
Police searched the man’s vehicle and discovered a black battery pack with multiple wires sticking out, a white pillowcase with cables and unknown items wrapped in duct tape, and multiple baking sheets.
The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office Bomb Squad and K-9 dogs were called to the scene. Cleveland was Baker acted.
According to Palm Beach County court documents, Cleveland did not appear for his July 20, 2022, court hearing and an arrest warrant remains active.
Jeffrey D. Olson – 2025
According to a federal complaint, Olson jumped over the north wall of Mar-a-Lago and entered the restricted area. He moved to the East lawn of the property, where he was detained by U.S. Secret Service personnel.
Olson told law enforcement that he entered the property to contact President Donald Trump.
FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY Announce Headlining Shows Around LAMB OF GOD Tour
Deathcore veterans Fit For An Autopsy have announced three special headlining performances coinciding with their upcoming spring tour supporting Lamb Of God, alongside Kublai Khan TX and Sanguisugabogg. Those dates (and their openers) are available below, and you can get your tickets right here.
3/18 Syracuse, NY Song & Dance (w/ Quantifier & Slum Lord)
3/31 Lakewood, OH Mahalls (w/ Sterilizing The Deceased & 6deep)
4/22 Pittsburgh, PA Spirit Hall (w/ Victims Of Contagion & Underneath)
w/ Lamb Of God, Kublai Khan TX & Sanguisugabogg
3/17 National Harbor, MD The Theater at MGM National Harbor
3/19 Montreal, QC Bell Centre
3/20 Toronto, ON GCT Theatre
3/22 Detroit, MI Fox Theatre
3/24 Minneapolis, MN Armory
3/25 Chicago, IL Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom
3/27 Denver, CO Fillmore Auditorium
3/28 Salt Lake City, UT The Union Event Center
3/30 Portland, OR Theater of the Clouds
3/31 Seattle, WA WAMU Theater
4/1 Vancouver, BC PNE Forum
4/3 San Francisco, CA The Masonic
4/4 Inglewood, CA YouTube Theater
4/5 Phoenix, AZ Arizona Financial Theatre
4/7 Albuquerque, NM Revel Entertainment Center
4/10 Austin, TX Moody Amphitheater
4/11 Irving, TX The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
4/12 Houston, TX 713 Music Hall
4/14 Nashville, TN War Memorial Auditorium
4/15 Atlanta, GA Coca-Cola Roxy Theatre
4/16 Raleigh, NC Red Hat Amphitheater
4/18 Reading, PA Santander Arena
4/19 Virginia Beach, VA The Dome
4/21 Buffalo, NY Buffalo RiverWorks
4/23 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Paramount
4/25 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena
4/26 Boston, MA MGM Music Hall at Fenway
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