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1. Lunar New Year prayers and festivities usher in the Year of the Horse

   People are celebrating the Lunar New Year with prayers, fireworks, and street festivals for the Year of the Horse

2. Protesters block New York’s 5th Avenue during flashmob in front of Trump Tower on Presidents Day

   The profanity-packed action was one of numerous demonstrations held across the country, from New England to California’s Coachella Valley

3. Coventry can believe in Premier League dream again after Haji Wright’s hat-trick sinks title rivals Middlesbrough

   Coventry City 3-1 Middlesbrough: Haji Wright scored a well-taken hat-trick to send Frank Lampard’s side back above rivals Boro to the top of the Championship

4. Steve Bannon told Epstein that Trump should be removed during his first term using the 25th Amendment

   Bannon served a four-month prison sentence in 2024 for defying a subpoena as Congress investigated the pro-Trump January riot at the U.S. Capitol

5. Billionaire Thomas Pritzker steps down as Hyatt executive chairman over Epstein ties

   Thomas Pritzker, cousin to Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, had communicated with Jeffrey Epstein long after he pleaded guilty to sex crimes

6. The little-known health condition you may experience after taking a cruise

   Symptoms include a rocking or swaying sensation and brain fog

7. ‘Everyone needs to see the faces of the rapists’: Gisèle Pelicot’s memoir reveals moment she went for public trial

   Tara Cobham looks at Pelicot’s narrative ‘A Hymn to Life’, which details her ordeal in France’s most shocking mass rape case

8. Anderson Cooper to depart CBS ‘60 Minutes’ to focus on CNN and his family

   The long-running news show has been at the center of controversy in recent weeks after CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss intervened in a broadcast

9. ‘Like a Virgin’ and ‘Eternal Flame’ songwriter Billy Steinberg dies at 75

   Together with his songwriting partner Tom Kelly, Steinberg wrote some of the biggest hits of the 1980s

10. Father suspected of targeting family members in mass shooting with two dead at Rhode Island hockey rink: reports

    The suspected shooter also died during the incident at Dennis M. Lynch Arena in Pawtucket, police say