The Post was at the scene Sunday morning when a torn-up black backpack was found in a storm drain that doubles as a homeless encampment.

European foreign policy chief says ‘there is not going to be progress’ on sanctions package today

One other thing we will be keeping an eye on today is the latest on the EU-US trade relationship after last Friday’s US supreme court ruling on Trump’s tariffs.

The European Parliament is expected to discuss what to do with the EU-US trade deal later today.

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Law enforcement confirm man, who was armed with a shotgun and gas canister at Trump’s Florida home, was 21-year-old Austin Tucker Martin

The Moore County Sheriff’s Department in North Carolina said a relative of Martin’s reported him missing early on Sunday morning.

In a statement posted to Facebook, the Moore County Sheriff’s Office wrote:

The Moore County Sheriff’s Office confirms that on February 22, 2026, at approximately 1:38 a.m., a relative of 21-year-old Austin Tucker Martin approached a deputy at a local business and reported him missing. He was subsequently entered into a national missing person database.

Following that report, federal authorities informed the Sheriff’s Office that they are conducting an active investigation in Florida involving Martin. At their request, the missing person case information has been turned over to federal investigators.

Is an artwork company that mainly focuses on bringing to life the hopeful feeling of being on a golf course by illustrating golf course scenes and providing framed copies of handmade works in various golf course gift shops while handling personal commissions on the side.

Combining the aesthetics of the sunny outdoors, and old digital aesthetics from the mid 2000s, Fresh Sky Illustrations hopes to awaken a sense of hope and comfort with this handcrafted webpage design.

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A New York City university professor has sparked widespread fury after she was caught on a hot mic making a crass comment about Black students – which education officials have described as “blatantly racist.”

Once-a-week injection achieved weight loss of 23%, which is lower than some existing treatments

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news

The London stock market has dipped slightly in early trading.

The FTSE 100 index is down 19 points, or 0.18%, at 10,668 points.

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© Photograph: Brendan McDermid/Reuters

The latest in our series of writers on their most important comfort films is a celebration of Nicolas Cage’s finest action moment

It’s easy to poke fun at Nicolas Cage. Between the meltdown memes, dodgy hairdos and his more taxman-friendly choices of roles, he has frequently made himself a target for ridicule among the masses.

Fresh off an Oscar win for Leaving Las Vegas, the actor’s decision to follow up with three action films must have seemed baffling at the time. The gambit paid off, though. Consisting of The Rock, Con Air and Face/Off, this unofficial “trilogy” of blockbusters would showcase the fundamental unknowability of Nicolas Cage.

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A huge vaccination drive has been launched after the country’s first outbreak in years of the paralysing disease. But the battle to wipe out the virus is struggling elsewhere, so how can it be eradicated?

As a seven-year-old boy is treated for polio at a hospital in Malawi, the country has launched a major vaccination campaign to stem an outbreak of the disease.

The effort in Malawi, one of the world’s poorest countries and badly hit by the aid cuts, has seen an astonishing 1.3 million children already vaccinated against the disease in just four days after emergency supplies were airlifted in by the World Health Organization (WHO) just over a week ago.

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Arousal may be spontaneous, or arise in response to sensory stimulation, memory, fantasy or emotional connection. Here’s how to understand the differences

What turns you on? Depending on the person, the answer to that question will vary wildly. But what is really going on under the, ahem, hood when we start to get in the mood?

The first scientists to really take the physiology of sex seriously – or at least break the taboos around talking about it – were William Masters and Virginia Johnson, sexologists who began their studies in the 1950s (and got married in 1971). “They came up with what’s known as the four-stage model, which was that the body gets aroused, you hit a plateau, you have an orgasm, you go back down to baseline,” says Dr Angela Wright, a GP and clinical sexologist based in Yorkshire.

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© Composite: Guardian Design; Posed by models; Antonio_Diaz/Getty Images

© Composite: Guardian Design; Posed by models; Antonio_Diaz/Getty Images

New Art UK chair Ben Terrett appointed as charity marks 10 years of building online database

From a bronze Rodin sculpture of the naked Eve outside a Nando’s in Harlow to more than 6,000 artworks by JMW Turner, to a crumpled-up piece of A4 paper owned by Manchester Art Gallery, the UK’s public art collection is a wonderful and varied thing.

It is huge, as demonstrated by the charity Art UK, which has announced it has reached a million artworks on its database and appointed a new chair who said: “We’ve only scratched the surface.”

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© Photograph: Photographed by Rhian Israel. Amgueddfa Cymru/By Permission of Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales

© Photograph: Photographed by Rhian Israel. Amgueddfa Cymru/By Permission of Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales

© Photograph: Photographed by Rhian Israel. Amgueddfa Cymru/By Permission of Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales

Activists have stormed into one of the world’s most famous art museums to send a message to former prince Andrew following his arrest last week.

With the Winter Olympics dominating screens, Dougie Wallace instead took his camera to Scotland’s ski areas of Glenshee, Cairngorm Mountain, Glencoe and Nevis Range, where a thaw, a band of rain, or a gust can change everything

When the snow comes, the car parks fill. Word spreads quickly, a good week, a belter of snow, and by mid-morning the access roads are tight with hatchbacks, hire skis and cautious optimism. In Scotland, the difference between a strong season and a poor one can be a weather front drifting 10 miles too far north. A thaw, a gust, a band of rain, and everything changes.

The project was partly inspired by the approach of the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics and the idea of what they might look like if staged in Scotland. It was not about shiny podiums, more an exercise in imagining how weather, people and place might shape a very different kind of Games.

Cold air, small talk, a few quiet minutes before the ride, Glencoe.

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© Photograph: Dougie Wallace

New version of the sci-fi day-on-repeat sees a perplexed duo repeatedly battle monstrous plants but leaves you feeling as bored as the protagonist appears

The second film adaptation of Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s 2004 eponymous novel, this new one is considerably inferior to Edge of Tomorrow from 2014, Tom Cruise’s own Groundhog D1ay with mechs. It’s not a question of budget or aesthetics – simply a gaping hole of engaging characterisation and inner spark that makes this time loop a grinding chore, rather than a thrilling jailbreak from eternal recurrence.

Directors Ken’ichirô Akimoto and Yukinori Nakamura do, to be fair, switch things up. Instead of the original story’s extraterrestrial “Mimics”, they concoct an entirely new big bad: a dormant alien flower, nattily named Darol, that one day begins spitting out what look like killer nasturtiums. The protagonists have been swapped: the point of view in this version is Rita (voiced by Ai Mikami), the female badass working for the United Defense Force that surveys the colossal plant. Exposure to its quartz spores are what forces her to live her imperfect day over and over.

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© Photograph: ©Hiroshi Sakurazaka / Shueisha, ALL YOU NEED IS KILL Project

© Photograph: ©Hiroshi Sakurazaka / Shueisha, ALL YOU NEED IS KILL Project

Two uncannily similar men switch places in an existential farce that playfully explores the precarity of working life

In Isabel Waidner’s previous novel, 2023’s Corey Fah Does Social Mobility, a working-class writer wins a literary prize. As the trophy takes the form of an elusive UFO, Corey Fah – an outsider unfamiliar with the baffling inner workings of the system – is unable to collect or even confirm the award. Waidner has said that the novel was partly inspired by the experience of winning the Goldsmiths prize for their previous work Sterling Karat Gold, and by the ephemeral nature of success, with its “unfamiliar contexts of social power and opportunity”.

In Waidner-world the surreal is always lurking, gleefully waiting to trip the reader up. As If uses the acting profession and its inherent themes of performance and doubleness to explore the precarity of work. A Waiting for Godot transported to the housing estates and grotty sublets of Clerkenwell, London, the book opens with a gnomic Vladimir/Estragon-type exchange between two startlingly similar strangers in a flat. They are both in their late 40s, very tall, dark-haired, a mirror image of each other – “my unremarkable eyes, they were looking back at me”, Aubrey Lewis, who is subletting the flat, notices with some alarm. “Were we ever to be seen together, I thought, we would reflect badly on each other.” The other man, dressed in “a novelty T-shirt, the less said of it the better, and pyjama bottoms”, had “walked in through the door as if he owned the place”. He introduces himself as Lindsey Korine and announces he is cold. Rifling, with Pinteresque fuss and deliberation, among the “historic arrangement” of heavy coats left by the previous subtenant, he assumes a new guise for his next role in the narrative.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered a surprisingly conciliatory speech at the Munich Security Conference, and European leaders gave addresses that responded to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s powerful Davos speech and the need for a stronger, more independent Europe. Read More

United, Southwest, American Airlines and Air Canada suspended operations to Puerto Vallarta amid clashes in parts of Mexico.

Rocket launchers capable of shooting down planes were among the arsenal seized by Mexican military forces in the daring raid that saw notorious Jalisco New Generation cartel boss “El Mencho” killed. 

Troubles at New York-based asset manager have made investors nervous about the wider industry

Oxford university chancellor calls for ‘national conversation’ around young people facing high student debt and living costs

Lenders have prospered under Trump as they pay lower rates of interest to savers and write more loans

Longtime bank chief executive will present spending plans at slimmed-down investor presentation on Monday

• Manchester United manager last saw Ratcliffe on 25 January

• ‘I’m fine with that,’ says Carrick, in buildup to Everton game

Michael Carrick has revealed he and his Manchester United squad have not received an apology or a message of any sort from Sir Jim Ratcliffe after his claim that the United Kingdom has been “colonised by immigrants”.

Ratcliffe, United’s largest single shareholder and head of the club’s football policy, made the comments during a Sky News interview on 11 February. The outcry was strong and immediate, leading the 73-year-old to say the next day he was sorry if his “choice of language has offended some people in the UK and Europe”.

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© Photograph: Ash Donelon/Manchester United/Getty Images

President Trump could lower costs quickly if he would follow through on his campaign promise to put a 10% cap on credit card interest rates.

Iran's military tactics against US forces include ballistic missiles, Shahed drones, and swarming boats, but American forces have proven countermeasures.