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1. This year's Olympic medals are generating chatter — for their defects and price

   A bunch of athletes reported their medals detaching from their ribbon, causing dents and in one case, breaking in half.In response, the Olympics organizing committee is re-checking all the medals.

2. Israel accuses two of using military secrets to place Polymarket bets

   The Tel Aviv indictment is the first publicly known instance of people being accused of leveraging military secrets to place bets on the popular prediction market.

3. Report finds children with mental health diagnoses often incarcerated instead of getting treatment

   Dozens of juvenile detention centers in 25 states reported holding children weeks or months as they awaited space at long-term psychiatric treatment facilities, according to a new survey.
   
   

4. What will the cities of tomorrow look like? These middle schoolers have thoughts

   At the Illinois gathering of the Future City competition, 16 middle school teams presented their concepts for cutting-edge cities.

5. What the data tells us about kidnapped people — and how Nancy Guthrie is an outlier

   Nancy Guthrie is among the thousands of people who go missing in the U.S. each year. But experts describe her case as "strange," with many unique details, from her age to her celebrity daughter.

6. Chloe Kim's protégé foiled her Olympic three-peat dreams. She's celebrating anyway

   Korea's Gaon Choi, 17, rebounded from a hard fall to win gold — and end her role model's historic bid for three in a row in the Winter Olympic halfpipe.

7. DHS expected to shut down as immigration talks falter

   Senate Democrats blocked two Republican-backed measures Thursday to keep the department open, including a short-term funding extension for two weeks as negotiations continue.

8. Ukrainians rally in support of Olympian Vladyslav Heraskevych, banned for his helmet

   Ukrainians are uniting in solidarity with Olympic skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych after he was disqualified for wearing a helmet with images of Ukrainian athletes killed during Russia's invasion.

9. ICE conducted 37 investigations into officer misconduct in last year

   The disclosure from the agency's acting director came after immigration officers shot two U.S. citizens, intensifying questions about ICE officers' tactics, training and use of force.

10. 54-year-old U.S. curler sets new American Winter Olympics age record

    Rich Ruohonen has tried to get to the Olympics for almost 40 years. He finally got his chance, taking to the ice at the Milan Cortina Games representing the U.S. on Team Casper for curling.