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As the days go on, athletes in other sports have added a growing number of medals to the mix.

Team USA brought home themost medalsof any country at the 2024 Summer Olympics, but Norway came out on top in the medal count at the last Winter Games and also holds the all-time record for winter medals.

Here is a look at where the medal count stands as the competition heats up in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, thetwo host citiesfor the 2026 Winter Olympics in northern Italy.

Overall medal count for the 2026 Winter Olympics

One week into the Games, Norway and Italy topped the overall medal count, with Norway winning the most gold so far.

The chart below is updated hourly with the latest medal count of the 2026 Games. (There are87 teamstaking part in the Winter Olympics; only teams that have won medals are listed.)

Spotlight on Team USA's medal count for the 2026 Olympics

In the first two days after theopening ceremony, Team USA scooped up two medals, both of them gold.

Breezy Johnson won gold in the women's downhill, and American figure skaters won gold in the team event, helped by a dominant performance from Ilia Malinin, who isknown as the "Quad God"for executing the most difficult jumps.

On Tuesday, Ben Ogden became the first American man to win an Olympic medal in cross-country skiing since 1976,earning a silverin the sprint. Alex Hall took silver in the freestyle ski, while Jackie Wiles and Paula Moltzan won bronze in the team downhill event. Team USA had a shot at gold in mixed doubles curling, but fell short against Sweden and will go home with silver.

On Wednesday, skierElizabeth Lemleytook gold in moguls and speedskating starJordan Stolzwon gold in the 1,000 meters, setting an Olympic record in the process. Ice dancing duoMadison Chock and Evan Bateswon silver after being barely edged out of the top spot.

Thursday brought a silver forsnowboarder Chloe Kimin the halfpipe and a bronze for cross-countryskier Jessie Diggins.

On Saturday, Jalein Kauf and Elizabeth Lemley added to Team USA's tally with silver and bronze, respectively, in women's dual moguls. In speedskating, Stolz won hissecond gold medal and set his second Olympic record of these Gameswhen he won at the 500 meters. He's the first American since 1980 to win multiple speedskating gold medals.

Historic medal for South America

Brazilian ski racer Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, with a powerful final run in the Olympic giant slalom,won gold and earned South America's first-ever medal at a Winter Games.

Pinheiro Braathen, who comes from a family where his mother is Brazilian and his father is Norwegian, represented Norway until 2023 when he abruptly retired. He returned to the sport in 2024, representing Brazil and since then has accomplished plenty of "firsts" with his new country: first Brazilian Alpine racer to finish on a World Cup podium last year and first-ever World Cup win for the country this season.

What was the medal count for the 2022 Winter Olympics?

At the2022 Winter Games, Norway took home themost medals, winning 37 in all, including 16 gold.

Next came the ROC, the Russian Olympic Committee team, with a total of 32, followed by Germany with 27 and Canada with 26.

Team USA ranked fifth with 25 medals — nine gold, nine silver and seven bronze.

Who has the most Olympic medals of all time?

While the International Olympic Committee does not compile rankings, the Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage does keep a medal tally. It counts one medal for placing first, second or third in an event regardless of how many athletes were on a team.

In theoverall medal countfrom all previous Summer and Winter Games, the U.S. comes out on top with 3,103 medals.

The U.S. is followed in the medal count by the former Soviet Union, which earned 1,204 medals before its breakup in 1991. Germany comes third with 1,091 medals.

The U.S. has also won the most gold medals, with 1,220, according to the Olympic Foundation.

But when it comes to the history of the Winter Olympics alone, the U.S. dips to second place in the medal count behind Norway, a perennial winter sports powerhouse.

Athletes from Norway have taken home a total of 404 medals from past Winter Games. The U.S. has previously won 330, while Germany places third with 286.

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Bhatia shot 4-under-par 68 in the third round on Saturday to carry a two-stroke lead into the final round at Pebble Beach, Calif.

Bhatia lost some of his commanding lead by playing the final seven holes at 2 over after a sizzling start at windy Pebble Beach Golf Links.

"It's brutal," Bhatia said of the unpredictable winds. "It's just so hard to get settled in, especially when it gets late in the day."

He's at 19-under 197 heading to Sunday. He leads or co-leads a tournament for the fourth time after 54 holes, with a victory in one of the three previous situations.

"I'm excited for (Sunday) no matter what the challenge is," Bhatia said. "... (Sunday) is going to be hard for everyone."

With tee times moved up due to an inclement weather forecast, golfers will tee off in threesomes for the final round using No. 1 and No. 10 as starting holes.

Collin Morikawa made a big move, shooting 62 to share second place with Jake Knapp (66) and Austria's Sepp Straka (67). Jacob Bridgeman (68) is in fifth place at 16 under and Japan's Hideki Matsuyama (67), who played without a bogey in the third round, is sixth at 15 under.

Bhatia, who was the tournament's leader at the midway mark through Friday, began with birdies on six of the first seven holes Saturday. He finished with a par on the last hole after bogeying the 12th and 17th holes.

"Happy to make 5 on (No.) 18 with how the weather was," Bhatia said.

The top six golfers on the leaderboard have played all three rounds with sub-70 scores.

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That comes with increasingly tough conditions as winds are impacting nearly every shot, including putts.

"Any of those back pins, it gets really tough to fly it all the way back there," Knapp said.

Morikawa's 10-under round Saturday came with 11 birdies and one bogey. He hit every green in regulation, something he had done only twice previously on the PGA Tour.

The last golfer to hit every green in regulation at Pebble Beach Golf Links was Bhatia in the first round of the 2021 tournament.

Knapp's round included eagles on Nos. 1 and 18. He became the first golfer in a non-major at Pebble Beach Golf Links to bookend a round with eagles.

"Starting your day out with a hole-out like that isn't what you expect," Knapp said, referring to his fairway shot from 130 yards out finding the cup on the par-4 layout.

He sank a putt from about 13 feet away for the eagle on the last hole.

Straka, who led after the second and third rounds of the tournament last year, notched six birdies on the back nine Saturday.

"Once we turned to the back, I got the wind off to my left and was able to kind of hook it into the breeze," Straka said. "I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing, but it worked out."

Defending champion Rory McIlroy isn't in contention after Saturday's 72 put him at 9 under and tied for 39th place.

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Friars graduate forward Duncan Powell committed a Flagrant 2 foul on a driving Bryce Hopkins, a Red Storm graduate wing who spent the previous three seasons at Providence.

Massive brawl breaks out in Providence after an unnecessary Flagrant-2 foul from Duncan Powell on Bryce Hopkins.Punches thrown and Powell has been ejected.pic.twitter.com/t41E6EmZfW

— Brian Rauf (@brauf33)February 14, 2026

That led to a fight that resulted in six of the game's seven ejections. A raucous Friars student section had front-row seats to the unhinged altercation, which eventually shifted toward the Red Storm bench and then, notably, saw Powell try to swing on St. John's forward Dillon Mitchell, who ducked out of the way beneath the basket just in time.

Hopkins had been hearing jeers from the Providence crowd well before Powell took a hack at him on the break. Following a stoppage in play that lasted close to 20 minutes while the referees sifted through the punishments, St. John's (20-5, 13-1 Big East) took control of the game and took down Providence (11-15, 4-11) 79-69 in the testy affair.

The seventh ejection came later in the second half when Providence's Jamier Jones was thrown out after he was called for a Flagrant 2 foul on St. John's forward Zuby Ejiofor.

Here's the complete list of ejected players:

• F Dillon Mitchell (St. John's)

• G Kelvin Odih (St. John's)

• F Ruben Prey (St. John's)

• F Sadiku Ibine Ayo (St. John's)

• G Jaylin Sellers (Providence)

• F Duncan Powell (Providence)

• F Jamier Jones (Providence)

The six-ejection scuffle headlined the heated Big East contest, though. Four St. John's players were booted, and two Providence players got the hook because of that skirmish.

In the wake of the lengthy delay, the officials informed the coaches of the appropriate mid-game discipline, and Friar faithful chanted, "Duncan Powell!"

Providence fans chant Duncan Powell's name for getting tossed after a dirty foul on former Friar Bryce Hopkinspic.twitter.com/FQUUZW2tuQ

— The Field of 68 (@TheFieldOf68)February 14, 2026

As for the game itself, St. John's rebounded from Providence's rally that started at the end of the first half and continued into the beginning of the second.

The Red Storm, who have now won 11 games in row, were led by Dylan Darling's 23 points.

St. John's head coach Rick Pitino, who led Providence to a Final Four in 1987,told reporters postgamethat the league will handle Saturday's altercation and that he didn't want his players to be asked about it.

But, naturally, there was still some reflection.

"I feel like we responded in the best way possible," St. John's forward Zuby Ejiofor said,per The Associated Press.

"Coming into this game we knew exactly how rowdy this environment was going to be — not only for [Hopkins], but for all of us. We knew it was going be tough. You have to have a great mindset to come in here and win, and I think that's what we did."

Obama was asked about the social media post, which was taken down followinggrowing callsfrom both sides of the aisle hours after Trump shared it, during an interview with podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen posted on Saturday.

"Well, first of all, I think it's important to recognize that the majority of the American people find this behavior deeply troubling," Obama said.

He added, "And there's this sort of clown show that's happening in social media and on television ... What is true is that there doesn't seem to be any shame about this among people who used to feel like you had to have some sort of decorum and a sense of propriety, and respect for the office, right? So, that's been lost."

Trump hasn't disciplined or fired staffer he says posted video with racist image of Obamas

The minute-long video was posted on Trump's social media platform on Feb. 5 at 11:44 p.m. It largely focused on debunked claims about the 2020 election, but near the end abruptly showed the Obamas' faces on the bodies of apes without explanation and the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" playing over it.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt first brushed off criticism of the video the next morning as "fake outrage" and said the racist animation of the Obamas was from an "internet meme" that depicted Trump as king of the jungle and Democrats as various animals.

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But later a White House official claimed a "staffer erroneously made the post."

Several hours later, Trump maintained he "didn't make a mistake" and that he didn't see the entire video before he gave it to "the people" to have it posted to his account.

Trump told reporters this week that the unidentified staffer who allegedly posted the videohad not been disciplinedfor posting the video on his account.

Video Trump faces backlash for racist Obama post

Asked by ABC News' Fritz Farrow on Feb. 6 if he condemned the racist portion of the video, Trump said, "Of course I do."

Asked if he had any message to Americans who were offended by the post, Trump said, "Well, I have no message. I didn't know about it, so I mean, it went up. I really have no message."

Trump has not publicly apologized for the post.

-ABC News' Ivan Pereira contributed to this report.

The letter, required by law, includes a general description of the types of ‌redactions made, ⁠and a list of notable people mentioned in the files in ⁠any way.

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The letter also includes an extensive list of high-profile people ​or "politically exposed ​persons" referenced ​in the files, ‌even if they had no interactions with Epstein or his longtime associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, but were mentioned in sources such as press clippings. The ‌letter, sent to ​the leaders of the ​Senate and ​House Judiciary committees, does ‌not state in what ​context a ​name appears.

The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request ​for ‌comment.

(Reporting by Christian Martinez in Los ​Angeles; Editing by Sergio Non ​and Matthew Lewis)

Protect Our Care, a nonprofit advocating for better and more affordable health care,issued a statementfollowing Kennedy Jr.'s confession on comedian Theo Von's podcast "This Past Weekend," which aired on Feb. 12.

"With his statement today that 'I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats,' Trump HHS SecretaryRobert F. Kennedy Jr.continues to lay bare why he is the most dangerous, in over his head, ill-suited person ever to lead such an important federal agency that has life-and-death power," the statement reads.

President of Protect Our Care Brad Woodhouse addressed Kennedy Jr.'s remark with a one-word statement: "Resign."

The health secretary has been lambasted by critics over myriad issues ranging from vaccines to fluoride to dietary guidelines. USA TODAY has reached out to HHS for comment.

Robert Kennedy Jr. (R) speaks to the students at Pace University in New York Sept. 18, 2003, after endorsing Democratic Presidential hopeful John Kerry at a press conference. Kennedy endorsed Kerry citing his lifelong commitment and leadership to improve the environment.

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RFK Jr. discusses sobriety on Theo Von's podcast

Although Kennedy's brief comment about the extent of his past drug use has circulated online, his interview with Von began with the two discussing their sobriety.

Kennedy, who admitted to being sober for more than 40 years, said he and the comedian met during morning recovery meetings before the COVID-19 outbreak and later formed a "pirate" group that continued meeting during the pandemic.

"I said, 'I don't care what happens, I'm going to a meeting every day,'" Kennedy said, explaining his mindset during the pandemic.

Kennedy also recalled thinking, "I know this disease will kill me. If I don't treat it, which for me means going to meetings every day, it's just bad for my life."

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Von and Kennedy also had a wider discussion about helping people addicted to drugs and alcohol, including HHS looking more at the medical "cost of the addict."

Kennedy said that HHS can look at the "collateral damage" in the health care system caused by addiction, including medical costs, lost jobs and inefficiencies. He said HHS is trying to look at the addict and follow them over the lifespan of their addiction.

The department iscurrently doing pilot programsconsisting of early interventions, confronting addicts on the street, getting them out of crisis and into treatment, helping them find a job once sober and stabilizing them, according to the HHS secretary.

"HHS is delivering on our promise to the American people for a healthier, brighter future," Kennedy, Jr. said in a statement about the $100 million pilot initiative. "Through this pilot program, we are launching a comprehensive, integrated care model that not only cures HCV but also tackles critical risk factors like substance use, mental health challenges, and homelessness head-on."

When did RFK Jr. first use drugs?

By Kennedy's own account, his first experience with drugs happened in the summer following the1968 assassination of his father, former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. He said he took the hallucinogen LSD at a party, and was introduced to opioids by his neighbors while walking home later that day.

"They said, 'Try this,' and it was a line of crystal meth," he said during his speech at the Rx and Illicit Drug Summit in Nashville in April 2025. "I took it, and all my problems went away. My addiction came on full force. By the end of the summer, I was shooting heroin, which was my drug of choice the next 14 years."

Also during the speech, Kennedy spoke about how hispolicy perspectives were influencedby the 14-year heroin addiction he overcame.

"I know that the only way I stay sober is through taking responsibility for my daily actions," Kennedy said at the time. "I accept the things I can't control and try to practice gratitude for them. I can have control over my behavior, my daily conduct, but not the world around me."

Watch RFK Jr. on Theo Von's 'This Past Weekend' podcast

Contributing: Fernando Cervantes Jr./ USA TODAY

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