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Today’s Top Stories from NBC News WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2022 Good morning, NBC News readers.
Is Russia pulling back troops from near Ukraine? The West is skeptical. Today we have the latest on that, including what an invasion could mean for President Joe Biden domestically. Plus, a shock defeat for Team USA in Beijing and how a boat made by New Hampshire children ended up in Norway.
Here's what we're watching this Wednesday morning. 
Russia said it was pulling back more forces from around Ukraine Wednesday, the latest move in an apparent effort to ease tensions that has done little to assuage Western fears Moscow might be planning an imminent invasion of its neighbor.
Russia says that it is pulling back some of the 150,000 troops that the United States and its allies warn have converged around Ukraine on three sides. But with the world searching for signs that a deadly new conflict on European soil might be averted, days of high-stakes signaling from Moscow has been with skepticism by the West.
In Kyiv, where Ukraine's leaders have sought to play down that alarm, the country held a defiant national day of unity.
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The U.S. men’s hockey team was eliminated Wednesday after falling to Slovakia in a shootout in the quarterfinals at the Beijing Olympics.
With a final score of 3-2, Slovakia moves on to the semifinals, where they will face the winner of the Canada vs. Sweden match.
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A boat launched in October 2020 by New Hampshire middle school students and containing photos, fall leaves, acorns and state quarters has been found 462 days later — by a sixth grader in Norway.
The 6-foot-long Rye Riptides, decorated with artwork from the kids and equipped with a tracking device that went silent for parts of the journey, was found Feb. 1 in Smøla, a small island near Dyrnes, Norway, the Portsmouth Herald reported Monday.
It had lost its hull and keel on the 8,300-mile journey and was covered in gooseneck barnacles, but the deck and cargo hold were still intact. The student who found it, Karel Nuncic, took the boat to his school, and he and his classmates eagerly opened it last week. The school in Norway plans a call with the Rye Junior High students soon.
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