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In today's newsletter:The Seahawks dominated the Patriots to win their second Super Bowl.Border czar Tom Homan warned that public support for aggressive immigration tactics could falter months before he took over in Minneapolis.And the highs and lows of the Winter Olympics.

Here's what to know today.

Seahawks beat Patriots to win Super Bowl 60 and Bad Bunny's historic halftime show

The Seattle Seahawks won their second Super Bowl, riding a dominant defensive performance to beat the New England Patriots 29-13 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California.

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Seattle swarmed quarterback Drake Maye all game, sacking him six times and forcing three turnovers, leaving New England scoreless through the first three quarters. It was perhaps retribution for when the two teams first met in the big game 11 years ago — which ended in a notoriously shocking loss for the Seahawks.

The Seahawks' offense was mostly powered by kicker Jason Myers, who set a Super Bowl record with five field goals. Running back Kenneth Walker III also excelled andtook home the MVP award, which he described as a "surreal moment."

Arguably, football was a sideshow to the main event:Benito Bowl.Bad Bunny made history as the first Spanish-language solo artist to headline the halftime show. He paid tribute to his Puerto Rican roots in a performance that featured a myriad of dancers, Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin.

The Grammy winner emphasized a message of unity, holding a football that said "Together we are America." There was a literal union too — yes, thewedding that happened on stage was real.

Read our full recap here.

Border czar warned immigration operations should be targeted to 'keep the faith of the American people'

Long before border czar Tom Homan took over in Minneapolis, he warned that a targeted approach to immigration enforcement would be needed to "keep the faith of the American people."

Homan, who has served as a Homeland Security official under Obama and both Trump administrations, has long said immigrants who have committed additional crimes should be prioritized for arrest and deportation.

In an interview in June for an upcoming book, he warned that failing to do this could cost the Trump administration support with the public.

"I think the vast majority of the American people think criminal illegal aliens need to leave. And if we stick to that prioritization, I think we keep the faith of the American people," Homan told NBC News, as Border Patrol agents were conducting their first large-scale raids in Los Angeles.

Read the full exclusive interview here.

Olympic recap: What you missed and what to watch

It was a weekend of highs and lows at the Winter Olympics.

Skier Lindsey Vonnsuffered a devastating crashand was airlifted off the course with a broken leg just 13 seconds into the downhill final.Breezy Johnsonended up taking home gold in the event to give the U.S. its first medal of the Games.

In the figure skating team event, Team USA was tied with Japan for first place heading into the final segment. "Quad God"Ilia Malinin landed a backflipduring his freeskate, which clinched the group's spot at the top of the podium.

Five medal events are on tap today, including thewomen's 1000m speedskating, where world record holder Brittany Bowe and champion Erin Jackson will compete. Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates look to continue their dominant start in rhythm dance and the U.S. women's hockey team faces Switzerland.

Follow live updateson our blog. And see today's full schedulehere.

More from Milan Cortina:

• Norway's Sander Eitrem set an Olympic record as he took home gold in the men's 5,000-meter speedskating competition.

• Stevenson Savart made history as the first man to represent Haiti in cross-country skiing at the Winter Games.

Trump accepts ownership of the economy: 'I'm very proud of it'

In an interview with "NBC Nightly News" anchor Tom Llamas, the 47th president said the country is already experiencing the Trump economy.

"I'd say we're there now," the president said. "I'm very proud of it."

His remarks come at a time when most Americans tell pollsters they are not satisfied with the state of the economy and as Trump executes a barnstorming strategy to bring his economic message to political battlegrounds before the November midterms.

An NPR/Marist/PBS News survey released last week showed that 36% of adults say they approve of Trump's handling of the economy, while 59% disapprove.

In the interview, the president blamed Joe Biden for stubbornly high costs on some staples. Here'show grocery prices have changedsince Trump took office.

Read the full story here.

The full interview transcript is here.

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• As the search for Nancy Guthrie enters its second week, parishioners were asked to pray for the missing 84-year-old yesterday at the church where she's been a congregant for decades. Follow live updates on our blog.

• State officials say the Trump administration has been absent on election security, with cuts to a key federal agency leaving some scrambling to fill in the gaps to ensure the election process is secure.

• Pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai was sentenced to 20 years in a case that became a symbol of China's crackdown on dissent in Hong Kong.

• This test may predict heart disease better than "bad" cholesterol, but it's not a part of routine screening.

Staff Pick: Nashville is furious about power outages. Republicans say 'woke' is to blame.

As thousands of residents in the Nashville area closed in on their second week without power after a brutal winter storm, there were frustrations anda lot of questions about what went wrong.

An announcement over the weekend by the Nashville Electric Service that power has been restored "to all customers capable of receiving it" is long overdue for residents who slept in their coats and huddled in their cars to keep warm.

But don't expect the questions to stop. Nashville's mayor has launched a review.

And some conservatives are scrutinizing the utility's DEI training and calling for an overhaul of the electric company. Lights might have come back on, but the culture war issue shows no sign of thawing soon.

—Bracey Harris,national reporter

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Damian Lillard is apparently going to wear his Portland uniform again, in a most unexpected manner.

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And he'll have the Olympics as the television lead-in for his return.

Lillard — who has not played this season while recovering from a torn Achilles tendon — will participate in the 3-point contest on All-Star Saturday, the NBA announced.

Viewers won't have to wait long to see Lillard's return. All-Star Saturday will lead off this year with the 3-point contest, a major change from the norm and a move that could command big ratings — with NBC's coverage of the event immediately following broadcasts from theMilan Cortina Winter Olympics, which the network also airs.

In other words, NBC is going from skating, sliding and skiing to shooting.

Lillard is joining 2018 3-point contest champion Devin Booker of the Phoenix Suns in the field, along with Charlotte's Kon Knueppel, Philadelphia's Tyrese Maxey, Cleveland's Donovan Mitchell, Denver's Jamal Murray, Milwaukee's Bobby Portis Jr. and Miami's Norman Powell.

If Lillard wins, he would join Larry Bird and Craig Hodges as the only three-time winners of the event, which will be held at the Los Angeles Clippers' home in Inglewood, California.

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Saturday night's 3-point contest will be followed by thereturn of the Shooting Stars competition, then the dunk contest will close the Saturday night schedule. The skills competition is out, at least for this year.

It would be Lillard's first time playing — or at least shooting — in front of fans sincehe rejoined Portlandgoing into this season. Lillard got hurt last spring while a member of the Milwaukee Bucks, who wound up waiving-and-stretching the remaining $113 million on his contract to make him a free agent and give him the opportunity to re-sign with his original NBA club.

He's not the first 3-point participant without a made 3-pointer in that season: In the 1989 contest, the NBA invited Rimas Kurtinaitis of Lithuania to participate. Kurtinaitis never played in the NBA.

Lillard was the sixth pick in the 2012 NBA draft by the Trail Blazers and spent 11 seasons with Portland before he was traded to Milwaukee just before the 2023-24 season. Lillard won back-to-back 3-point contest titles in 2023 and 2024, before Miami's Tyler Herro — who has missed most of this season because of injuries — won the event last season.

Herro is not in the lineup of 3-point participants this year.

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North Dakota State has reached an agreement to join the Mountain West Conference for football, multiple outlets reported on Sunday.

The Bison, a Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) heavyweight over the last 15 years with 10 national championships over that span, have long been rumored to be a candidate to jump up to the next level.

According to ESPN, the school will pay roughly a $12 million entrance fee to its new league, as well as $5 million to the NCAA in order to move up to the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) level. Per standard NCAA arrangement, the NDSU football team will not be eligible for a bowl or College Football Playoff berth until 2028.

The school had yet to confirm the move Sunday evening. On Saturday, a statement was posted to social media.

"North Dakota State University is regularly involved in conversations about the future of collegiate athletics, including conference affiliation. We are aware of media reports and will have no further comments," the school said.

The Mountain West has been active about pursuing new members since a split occurred among its membership and five schools (Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, San Diego State and Utah State) left for the new-look Pac-12 in 2024.

North Dakota State becomes the league's 10th football team for 2026, joining newcomers Northern Illinois (football only) and UTEP along with Air Force, Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico, San Jose State, UNLV and Wyoming.

North Dakota State most recently won the FCS national title in 2024. The Bison finished 12-1 last season, losing to Illinois State in the second round of the playoffs.

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From the bridge of their charter boat High Class Hooker, Susanna Pope and her husband can look out at the sparkling 65-degree saltwater off Key West, Florida, and envision customers fishing for marlin, wahoo and mahi mahi.

Where will they take the tourists today? What fish will be biting? Will the blue skies and calm seas hold? And what the heck should they be calling the water they're fishing in?

A year ago, PresidentDonald Trump'sedict to rename the Gulf of Mexicoformally took effect, and the United States abruptly ‒ legally, anyway ‒ began referring to it as the Gulf of America.

Along the gulf coast

But old habits do indeed die hard, and a USA TODAY Network survey of communities along the coastline – from Florida's Key West, Destin and Panama City to Dulac, Louisiana, and Corpus Christi, Texas – found there's little agreement about what, exactly, people are calling the body of water they live next to. In many cases, locals just call it the same thing they've always called it.

"Down here, we just refer to it as the Gulf," Susanna Pope, 44, said. "It's like saying you're going into town. You don't have to say Key West. You just say town."

What's it called in real life?

In Corpus Christi, a vacationing Jeremiah Orta, 22, said he's only heard people who are being "edgy" online use the new name: "I don't think in real life I've ever heard anyone say Gulf of America."

Although these coastal communities are home to some of Trump's strongest supporters, few people said they simply fell in line behind the president's declaration. Many locals interviewed by the USA TODAY Network declined to speak publicly, citing concerns about potential political retribution if they were quoted picking one name over the other.

Place-naming experts say it's common for new names to take a long time to stick, particularly if the renaming was done abruptly and without public discussion.

In Sarasota County, Florida, Lueanne Wood, who has been living on the Gulf for the past 41 years, says she sticks to tradition.

"As someone in the real estate industry, most of the people that want to move here are older and it can get confusing to call it anything other than what they've heard their whole lives, the Gulf of Mexico," she said. "Everyone in my life and almost everyone I know calls it the Gulf of Mexico, that's the only name for it."

On Marco Island in Florida, Michigan tourist Annette Myers collected shells from what she called the Gulf of Mexico. "This is always going to be the Gulf of Mexico to me," she said.

In Dulac, shrimp boat Capt. Jared Theriot said he's not inclined to consider using the new name. More important to him, he said, was quickly unloading 318 100-pound boxes of frozen shrimp so he could get back onto the water while the fishing remained good.

"I really don't give a f--- what they call it," he said. "It'll always be the Gulf of Mexico to me."

Some take pride in the 'Gulf of America' name

In Destin, Realtor Mary Anne Windes said most people just say the "Gulf," but aboard her husband's charter fishing boat Sunrise, it's most definitely the Gulf of America.

"We've got the Gulf of America [flag] flying on our boat," Windes said, and they wear Gulf of America T-shirts. "It's absolutely the Gulf of America."

The company's Facebook page, however, advertises charter fishing trips on the Gulf of Mexico.

In Panama City, Florida, Iowa tourist Jim Nelson said it's the Gulf of America as far as he's concerned. Trump changed the name, and Nelson feels it's justified.

"There's a lot more coastline, or beach line, for the United States than there is Mexico," Nelson said.

Why the name change?

In renaming the Gulf, Trump said the new name would better reflect the body of water's important role in fishing, shipping, and oil and gas extraction. Supporters of the change said they hoped it would bring new attention to the important body of water.

But critics noted Trump's decision had more than a whiff of colonial imperialism, where White conquerors renamed places to reflect their worldview – and minimize those of people who called it something else.

"As my administration restores American pride in the history of American greatness, it is fitting and appropriate for our great nation to come together and commemorate this momentous occasion and the renaming of the Gulf of America," Trump said in declaring Feb. 9, 2025, as "Gulf of America Day."

In Fort Myers Beach, Florida, sailboat-dwelling Ian Wylie said he's pleased the president renamed the place he calls home.

"I think people refuse to accept that the name has changed for several different reasons ‒ some political, some not … but I'm actually proud that we have a gulf now named after us," said Wylie, who rents beach chairs to tourists.

What's in a name?

Piloting a boat running supplies to an under-construction bridge at the south end of Fort Myers Beach, Mike "Popeye" Dearden says not only does the name change make sense, but it's part of a human tendency to change geographical names throughout history. He said he thinks opposition to the change comes from people disliking Trump, not the name itself.

"Did you know the Gulf has enjoyed nine official names in its history? Gulf of Mexico may have been the longest, but it's had nine in its history. … They change the maps and get over it," the self-described history buff and trivia geek said. "William Shakespeare said, 'What's in a name?'"

But what is in name? Plenty, said place-naming expert Derek H. Alderman, a chancellor's professor at the University of Tennessee. It's easy to dismiss the Gulf name change as a stunt, Alderman said, but Trump's decision served far deeper purposes than you might at first think.

First, he said, it was an early shot at Mexico, a longtime Trump target. Second, Trump has long understood the power in branding and how names shape perception. And third, it allowed the president to set out ‒ very early in his term ‒ the kind of muscular, go-it-alone approach we've seen unfold over the past year, Alderman said.

"The president recognizes the power of names, the power of brands. And he's extended that in a geopolitical sense, applied some of that same logic to the geopolitical realm," he said. "He was not simply changing the name. He was actually enacting a different worldview that said we're going to be signaling in a nationalistic, almost imperialistic way, America is absolutely first and it's all about American interests."

Alderman, who served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Reconciliation in Place Names during the Biden administration, said he wonders what impact the name change will have on high school students learning about geography, history and social studies.

For generations, America's borders have remained unchanged, but Trump has said he wants to expand the country's boundaries. Naming and claiming the Gulf is a step in that process, Alderman said.

"When you rename the Gulf, you're taking about extending territory in a symbolic sense," he said. "This idea that you simply and in a unilateral way rename a place, claim it, that is a pretty old process that's been going on since the days of colonializations. … That worldview will ripple across classrooms and affect how students' worldviews form."

Aboard the Louisiana-based shrimp boat Ensliegh, Capt. Easton Rodrigue said that no matter what people call the Gulf, he just wishes more Americans would buy from shrimpers like him, instead of buying cheaper imported shrimp often farmed under unhealthy and dangerous conditions internationally.

"They have the guys who call it the Gulf of America, but it's not changin' nothin cuz they still buyin' imports," he said.

Contributing: Colin Campo, Houma Courier-Thibodaux Daily Comet;Olivia Garrett, Corpus Christi Caller-Times; J. Kyle Foster, Naples Daily News; Amy Bennett Williams, Fort Myers News-Press; Francesca Abarca, Sarasota Herald-Tribune; Tyler Orsburn, Panama City News Herald; Tina Harbuck,The Destin Log

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Trump renamed this body of water. But what do people really call it?

NAIROBI, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Uganda's Information Minister Chris Baryomunsi condemned a military raid on opposition leader Bobi Wine's home last month, telling Reuters that the popstar-turned-politician had ​not committed any crime and was free to return there.

Wine has been in hiding ‌for weeks after fleeing his home in the capital, Kampala, hours before he was announced the runner-up to President ‌Yoweri Museveni in the January 15 presidential election.

On January 24, Wine said his wife had been taken to hospital after soldiers invaded their residence, alleging that they partially undressed and choked her.

Uganda's military chief, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, who is also Museveni's son, denied soldiers assaulted Wine's wife, but later said on ⁠X that they had "captured and then ‌released" her.

Baryomunsi, who is also a spokesperson for the government, said the authorities would investigate the incident.

"We do not condone any acts of indiscipline on ‍the side of the army and security forces," he said in an interview. "So invading his (Wine's) home, causing damage, assaulting his wife, or anybody, is wrong."

He declined to say if security personnel would face any penalties ​if they were found to have violated the law.

A spokesperson for Wine's National Unity Platform ‌party did not respond to calls or messages requesting comment.

Kainerugaba has stated in social media posts that the military is looking for Wine, who has rejected the election results, alleging fraud. The army chief has not said why they are looking for Wine or what crime he may be charged with.

Rights groups and the opposition have long accused the government of Museveni, who has ⁠been in power for four decades, of using the ​military to suppress dissent, accusations the government denies.

Baryomunsi also ​said that Uganda had no plans to withdraw its military contingent from an African Union mission to fight jihadists in Somalia, contradicting recent comments from Kainerugaba, ‍who last week threatened in ⁠a post on X to pull troops out of Somalia over financing issues.

Kainerugaba has a history of controversial social media posts that he often later deletes. He once threatened ⁠to behead Wine and also boasted the military had killed 30 opposition supporters.

Baryomunsi said Kainerugaba's posts should be taken ‌as "casual comments that do not reflect state policy and state decisions."

(Reporting by Nairobi ‌Newsroom; Editing by Ammu Kannampilly and Ros Russell)