The 2026 Winter Olympics are in full swing, but a chill isn’t the only thing in the Milan air. Love is in the air, too, as athlete romances steal the show. Breezy Johnson and Connor Watkins  Olympic gold medalist Breezy Johnson’s fiance, Connor Watkins, made her dreams come true when he proposed on Thursday at the finish line of Johnson’s super-G run   Johnson posted the news to social media saying, “It was everything I ever dreamed of. Kind of like Connor!” The engagement went viral, even soliciting the congratulations of Taylor Swift because the custom wooden box was engraved with Swift’s song lyrics. ?| Taylor Swift replied to Breezy Johnson’s Instagram post, where the engagement ring box featured Taylor Swift lyrics: “Honestly, who are we to fight the alchemy?” “Where's the trophy? He just comes running over to me" CONGRATULATIONS!!!” pic.twitter.com/VHmKY8vjRo— Taylor Swift Updates (@TSUpdating) February 12, 2026 Earlier in the games, Breezy delivered Team USA’s first Olympic gold medal in women’s downhill skiing since 2010. After winning the gold, Johnson told NBC, “There’s nothing better than doing well and having somebody to share it with.”  Watkins told The Atlantic he has been planning the proposal for over a year, knowing it was always Johnsons dream to get engaged at the Olympics.   Evan Bates and Madison Chock  This couple is melting heats as they take the ice for the red, white, and blue. Ice dancing duo Evan Bates and Madison Chock met as teenagers in Michigan and began performing together, but didn’t reveal their romance until 2017. The two were married in 2024.   The couple made their Olympic debut in 2014, returned in 2018, and won gold in 2022. Bates and Chock took home the silver medal in Milan this year after a controversial loss to a French duo. The pair’s results helped the USA take home the gold in the figure skating team event. "We're married, so we're gonna be fine. We're gonna go home, and we're gonna have a life." – Evan Bates "We've already won in so many ways." – Madison Chock pic.twitter.com/QLGX1hQLCg— Hadley Heath Manning (@HadleyHeath) February 12, 2026 Brett Gallant and Jocelyn Peterman  Brett Gallant and Jocelyn Peterman competed for Team Canada in mixed doubles curling. While they lost their event, they consider themselves winners because they still have each other. “It’s a sad hug at the end of the day, because you’re both going through that disappointment. But we’ll always have each other,” said Gallant walking off the ice.   Their romance started after becoming teammates. The two formed a team a decade ago when their sport was added to the winter Olympics. They are now married and have a two-year-old son, Luke.   Meet Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant: Canada’s world-class curling duo and proud parents to little Luke. ? Between throws and family life, they’re a perfect team on and off the ice. Learn more about them ?? pic.twitter.com/SYBx7y0STK— Team Canada (@TeamCanada) February 3, 2026 Sean Hollander and Paige Jones  Sean Hollander, Team USA luger, and Paige Jones, a Team USA ski jumper, are also engaged. Their love has taken them around the world. The pair met in 2023 in Lake Placid, New York, and got engaged after summiting Vychodna Vysoka in Slovakia. They married in Canada in May 2025.   It is Hollanders’ second Olympics but Jones is competing for the first time. “I’m excited to watch her compete,” Hollander told Lake Placid News. “I’m kind of reliving that first games experience vicariously through her and her excitement.” Hunter Powell and Kaysha Love Hunter Powell and Kaysha Love are bobsledders for Team USA. Powell is competing in his first Olympics this year in Milan. That may be nerve-racking, but his fiancee Love, who is competing in her second games, will be by his side. Powell and Love are both former track and field athletes. In 2020, Love made the switch to bobsledding. In 2024 Powell decided to try bobsledding, and he’s made his way to the Olympics in just 2 years. The couple got engaged in 2025.   The post Love Is in the Air at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Imagine it’s Valentine’s Day at Silicon Valley Middle School. The cafeteria is covered in construction-paper hearts. Everyone pretends not to care — while caring very much. And the most popular kids — the ones who decide who’s cool, who eats lunch alone, and who gets stuffed into lockers — are quietly deciding who deserves a Valentine and who gets the dreaded, “Sorry, we’re just friends.” Now swap out the middle schoolers for Apple News, Google News, Microsoft’s MSN, and Yahoo News, and you have a pretty good picture of today’s media ecosystem. Instead of candy grams, these platforms hand out something far more valuable: visibility, traffic, and perceived legitimacy. Algorithms play matchmaker. Editorial choices determine who gets asked to the dance, who goes stag, and who doesn’t even get through the door. The pattern is hard to ignore. Research from the Media Research Center examining the “Big 4 News Apps” found that left-leaning outlets dominate coverage, while right-leaning outlets are routinely sidelined or completely buried. Start with Google News, the alpha dog at the lunch table. Google appears especially fond of The New York Times — not a casual acquaintance, but the kind of devotion that fills a notebook margin with hearts. Between Halloween and Valentine’s Day, Google featured about twice as many New York Times stories (215) as its next most-featured outlets, CNN (122) and the BBC (105). Because Google’s news feed appears by default on millions of Android and Samsung devices, that preference carries enormous national reach. Looking at 106 days of data since Halloween, Google News promoted 1,757 stories. Almost 70% came from left-leaning outlets, 29% from centrist sources, but just 2% from right-leaning media. Like Google, Apple News also has a bestie from the print world. The Washington Post receives frequent top placement and prominent visibility. Since Halloween, Apple has featured the Post 109 times. Other regulars in Apple’s rotation include NBC News (89), Reuters (86), and the Associated Press (85). Michael Short/Getty Images Overall, of AllSides-rated outlets, Apple News featured 75% left-leaning outlets, 25% centrist outlets — and zero right-leaning outlets in the period studied. Zero is on purpose. Zero means being locked out of the dance. Zero is indefensible.  Next comes Microsoft’s MSN, whose reach comes from its enormous footprint on desktop computers. While its distribution is not quite as disturbing as Apple’s or Google’s, its preferences are still clear. MSN is more than smitten with Newsweek, publishing 316 Newsweek stories between Halloween and Valentine’s Day. That level of attention would make any publisher blush. MSN’s mix included about 10% right-leaning outlets and 37% centrist outlets — higher shares than its competitors, but still leaving Left-leaning sources with the largest slice of attention at 53%. And then there’s Yahoo News. It’s easy to joke about Yahoo, but the platform draws more than 200 million monthly views, something achieved by only three other outlets. Think of Yahoo as the bad boy who got held back a grade but has a date at every party. And Yahoo certainly plays the field. Yahoo occasionally features right-leaning outlets, but it has a serious thing for smaller, radical outlets — Buzzfeed, Salon, the New Republic, Rolling Stone, Huffington Post and Mediaite. Yahoo is also unique among the Big 4 in relying heavily on its own in-house reporting. Those stories leaned left and accounted for a large share of featured content (269 stories). Of the 1,715 stories Yahoo promoted in the study period, 88% came from left-leaning outlets (by far the most of any of the news apps), 6% from centrist organizations, and 6% from right-leaning sources. Defenders of these platforms argue they are simply promoting “mainstream” outlets with proven “reliability.” But Americans aren’t buying that claim. Gallup polling shows trust in national media has never been lower. There are reasons for that collapse in confidence. Many Americans remember years of breathless coverage of the Russia collusion narrative, the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story, the dismissal of the Wuhan lab-leak evidence, and persistent shielding of President Biden’s cognitive deficiencies. They’ve also watched elitist media advocate aggressively for DEI, ESG and anti-ICE movements — while insisting they are neutral observers. Distribution is power. A newsroom can produce solid reporting, but Apple, Google, MSN, and Yahoo are clearly trying to control the narrative. The political Left has long understood that institutions shape culture and public opinion. Today, the Big 4 news apps are the institutions: enormously powerful, largely opaque, and virtually unaccountable to the public. So yes, it’s Valentine’s Day. And in the digital cafeteria, Google, Apple, MSN, and Yahoo are still handing out cards to the favored few and pushing others into lockers. But another holiday is coming. The Fourth of July is only months away, and federal regulators are examining whether dominant tech platforms have unfairly restricted competition in parts of the media ecosystem. Congress should also continue to investigate the role Big Tech plays in shaping what Americans see and don’t see. In a free country, the biggest companies should not determine who is allowed into the dance and who is not, who gets a voice and who gets left out in the cold. Freedom must be available to all. * * * Dan Schneider is Vice President for Free Speech at the Media Research Center. The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

A single Minneapolis store manager’s political refusal to serve Border Patrol has now put 7-Eleven’s access to a major federal payment program on the chopping block. Story Snapshot U.S. Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino and federal agents were denied service at a Minneapolis-area Speedway store owned by 7-Eleven. A viral video captured a manager saying, “I don’t support ICE, and nobody here does,” as the agents left without buying fuel or store items. The Trump administration’s GSA sent a Feb. 5 letter demanding answers from 7-Eleven leadership and warning the incident could jeopardize SmartPay fleet-card acceptance. As of early February reporting, 7-Eleven had not publicly responded, and GSA’s review remained open-ended. What Happened at the Minneapolis Speedway—and Why It Matters On January 21, 2026, a confrontation at a Speedway gas station in Minneapolis quickly escalated from a routine stop into a national flashpoint. Reporting says Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino and federal agents were denied service, and the group left without purchasing fuel or items. The moment spread after conservative activist Cam Higby posted video showing a manager making an overt political statement opposing ICE. The key issue is not a private citizen expressing an opinion; it is a business location allegedly refusing ordinary service to federal law enforcement while those agents are performing official duties. If the account is accurate, it raises practical questions about whether federal personnel can reliably obtain basic support—fuel, food, and lodging—when operating in hostile political environments. That reliability becomes even more important when federal vehicles must use designated payment systems. GSA’s Pressure Point: SmartPay Fleet Cards and Federal Access The General Services Administration is treating the incident as more than a local HR problem. In a Feb. 5 letter to 7-Eleven COO Doug Rosencrans, GSA Deputy Administrator Michael Lynch asked for details about any internal investigation, employee training, and company policy—especially policies that affect the use of GSA SmartPay fleet cards. The letter warned that 7-Eleven’s participation could be at risk if the situation is not addressed. SmartPay is a core part of how the federal government buys everyday operational necessities, including fuel for non-tactical vehicles. The reporting frames the potential consequence as a threat to 7-Eleven’s continued ability to accept SmartPay fleet cards used by agencies including the Department of Homeland Security. For taxpayers, the point is straightforward: if vendors want access to federal payment channels, the government expects consistent, nondiscriminatory service tied to mission needs. Minneapolis as a Pattern: Prior Business Refusals and Corporate Cleanups The Minneapolis episode is also being reported as part of a broader local pattern of anti-ICE activity that has spilled into commerce. Prior examples cited include a Hampton Inn in Lakeville removed from GSA’s approved lodging list after reportedly denying ICE stays, and a McDonald’s that displayed “ICE/CBP not welcome” signage before corporate intervention ordered it removed. These cases suggest corporate headquarters often steps in only after public exposure. That history matters because it explains why GSA is asking for more than a press statement. The federal government is looking for compliance mechanisms: training, written policy, investigation results, and clarity on whether political activism at the store level can block service to federal users. Without documented controls, “this was just one employee” becomes hard to verify, especially when multiple incidents in the same metro area are cited by the same outlets. What’s Confirmed, What’s Not, and Where the Story Stands Multiple reports align on the basic timeline: the late-January denial incident, the viral video posting on January 21, and the Feb. 5 GSA letter demanding answers. They also align on the central quote captured on video. What remains unresolved is how 7-Eleven’s corporate leadership will respond publicly, what GSA will determine after reviewing the company’s actions, and whether any national change in policy or training will be announced. There is also a verification limitation that matters for careful readers: outside of the reporting and the circulated video, there is no primary, independently published statement in the provided materials from GSA or 7-Eleven that closes the loop with final findings. Until that happens, the story remains an active compliance dispute—one with real stakes for federal operations and for a major retailer’s relationship with the government’s fleet purchasing system. Why Conservatives Are Watching: Rule of Law vs. Political Gatekeeping The immediate takeaway is institutional: when a business reportedly refuses service to federal immigration agents based on politics, the federal government has limited tools to respond besides contract and procurement leverage. GSA’s letter represents that leverage. Supporters of limited government still expect basic rule-of-law functions—like enforcing immigration statutes passed by Congress—to be carried out without being sabotaged by ad hoc “woke” gatekeeping at the cash register. Trump Admin Threatens to Pull MASSIVE Federal Contract From 7-Eleven After Radical Leftist Employee Denies Service to US Border Patrol | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim HᴏftStop threatening to do things! Do it! https://t.co/MNCumjsg88 — Johnny B (@JohnnyAmerica52) February 13, 2026 For 7-Eleven, the path forward is likely procedural: show documented training, clarify nondiscrimination rules for serving lawful customers, and confirm fleet-card acceptance policies across the chain. For the Trump administration, the broader question is consistency—whether federal procurement standards will be enforced in a way that ensures agencies can operate in Democrat-led cities where political opposition to immigration enforcement is intense. As of the latest reporting, the ball remains in 7-Eleven’s court. Sources: Trump administration threatens 7-Eleven partnership after federal agents denied service at Minneapolis store 7-Eleven to Pay Record $4.5 Million Penalty to Settle FTC Antitrust Order Violation Case Trump administration warns 7-Eleven after Border Patrol’s Gregory Bovino refused service Shifting Gears: Trump Administration Launches High-Profile Worksite Enforcement Operations