4 things to watch in Trump’s State of the Union

Republicans want Donald Trump to hard launch a midterm message on affordability and the economy, and the president will likely address tariffs again. Here’s what to watch.

First lady Melania and Donald Trump bringing separate guests to SOTU in break with precedent

First lady Melania Trump will bring guests to the State of the Union address representing her foster care and responsible AI platforms while President Donald Trump has invited his own set of guests – ...

Father of Georgia school shooter said ‘Santa Claus’ bought his son a rifle

Not long after his teenage son’s deadly rampage at a Georgia high school, Colin Gray explained to police why he bought the boy an AR15-style rifle, despite his son’s increasingly aggressive behavior ...

Tracking the length of Trump’s State of the Union speech compared with past presidents

President Donald Trump’s 2026 State of the Union address to the 119th Congress is likely to be lengthy. Trump is expected to address the nation’s most pressing issues and the impact of his ...

Judge bars Justice Department from searching through devices seized from Washington Post reporter as part of leak probe

The Justice Department may not search through the contents of several devices investigators seized from a Washington Post reporter earlier this year as part of a probe into leaked classified documents ...

Dozens of FBI records apparently missing from Epstein files, including Trump accuser interviews

Three interviews related to a woman who accused President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her decades ago appear to be among the missing files in the DOJ release.

Zohran Mamdani and NYC police are at odds after two officers were injured in a snowball fight

It started as a viral snowball fight in a historic blizzard. It ended up putting New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on the opposite side of his city’s police, creating a politically sensitive moment ...

Kash Patel’s use of the FBI jet sparks outrage. Here’s why he couldn’t travel to the Olympics any other way

Top officials at FBI headquarters were tracking the outbreak of violence in Mexico on Sunday after its military killed a drug cartel boss when social media erupted with viral images of Director Kash ...

Justice Department suit accuses UCLA of failing to protect Jewish employees from campus hostility

The Justice Department is suing the University of California over allegations that UCLA failed to protect Jewish employees from antisemitic harassment amid pro-Palestinian protests that roiled the ...

Pentagon threatens to make Anthropic a pariah if it refuses to drop AI guardrails

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei a Friday deadline to comply with demands to peel back safeguards on its AI model or risk losing a Pentagon contract.

Why some Democrats plan to skip President Trump’s State of the Union address

U.S. House Democrat Mike Quigley explains why he’ll be sitting out President Trump’s State of the Union address.