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Veterans Affairs Sec. Doug Collins will serve as the designated survivor during Tuesday night’s State of the Union, making him the first Cabinet official selected for two consecutive presidential addresses to Congress after previously holding the role during a March 2025 joint address. Collins served as Georgia’s 9th District representative in the U.S. House from 2013 to 2021 before becoming Secretary of Veterans Affairs. While the president, vice president, members of Congress, and the rest of the Cabinet gather inside the Capitol for President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union since returning to office, Collins will be stationed at…

Kim Jong-un has vowed “terrible retaliatory attacks” on any aggressor during a key gathering of the ruling party North Korea will continue to expand its nuclear arsenal, both in size and capability, leader Kim Jong-un has pledged.Kim outlined the strategy during a weeklong congress of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea. He declared North Korea’s nuclear-armed status “irreversible and permanent,” and said Pyongyang will continue to bolster its arsenal “as long as nuclear weapons exist on the earth” and as long as the country is threatened by “US imperialists and their followers,” state media reported on Thursday.“We have a long-term…

Is Israel controlling the Epstein explanation? Paul Craig Roberts It seems that we finally have the Epstein files or at least some millions of pages of them. There are complaints that they have been redacted and that Trump and Bondi are responsible in order to protect Trump. However, I would be surprised if there are not laws requiring redaction. For example, security agencies such as the CIA and FBI would require protection for agents in covert or undercover operations to shield their lives from retribution, and one would not want to accuse a person of a crime prior to charges…

President Trump announced during the State of the Union Address on Tuesday that he would be awarding the Legion of Merit to Petty Officer 2nd Class Scott Ruskan, a U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer, for assisting in the evacuation of over 150 girls during the central Texas floods last year. “People watched Scott from a distance and they couldn’t believe what they were seeing. The winds were blowing, the rain was pouring, everything was going and that rapid water – nobody has ever seen anything like it – they said, ‘wow, that’s something!’” the president said. “Tonight, Scott and Millie Kate,…

The nation’s $38 trillion debt presents a growing risk to the global economy, the experts have warned US national debt will surge to 140% of GDP within five years, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned, urging Washington to slash its fiscal deficit to rein in outsized trade and current account gaps.  The US national debt has swelled to more than $38 trillion, and the fiscal shortfall is deepening, data shows. It represents a $2.25 trillion increase over the past year, with debt projected to hit $39 trillion by April. The federal budget deficit rose from roughly $1.4 trillion in…

Havana has said the crew of an American-flagged vessel attacked a coast guard patrol US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has denied any American government involvement in a deadly gunfight between Cuban border guards and a US-flagged speedboat, describing the incident as “very unusual.”Cuban authorities announced on Wednesday that border guard forces had killed four armed men aboard a US-flagged speedboat that allegedly opened fire during an identification check in the island’s territorial waters near Villa Clara province.The vessel did not belong to either the US Navy or the US Coast Guard, Rubio told reporters during a diplomatic visit to…

Pro-communist social media users have spent much of the past week attacking Cuban-American pop star Camila Cabello after the artist published a statement condemning the Castro regime for the devastating humanitarian crisis her family in her home country are facing. Cabello, who rose to prominence as a member of the girl group Fifth Harmony and has made political statements in support of leftist politicians and causes, nonetheless lamented in a social media post sharing photos of her childhood last week the sad state of the Cuban people. While offering a veiled dig at President Donald Trump, claiming that immigrants in…

President Donald Trump asked members of Congress to stand up for Americans over illegal aliens at Tuesday evening’s State of the Union (SOTU) address, to which all Democrat members attending the address refused. “Stand up if you agree with this statement: The first duty of American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens,” Trump asked lawmakers at the SOTU address. While Republicans stood for the statement, Democrats refused to stand, and members like Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) went on to shout at Trump. John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at [email protected]. Follow him…

The British government said it has “paused” progress on its law to give away the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean, home to a significant joint UK-U.S. military and intelligence base, after President Trump denounced the plan as stupid and dangerous. The bill to make Sir Keir Starmer’s treaty with Mauritius, to give the nation a chain of British islands in the Indian Ocean and to pay them for the privilege, has been “paused” to give the government time to negotiate with President Trump. While this announcement was made on Wednesday, there was a quick attempt to walk back the…

President Donald Trump, during Tuesday’s State of the Union address, touted that the country will have the lowest drug prices in the world. Trump said he is working to address the “crushing cost” of health care and blamed Democrats for passing the “Unaffordable Care Act,” or Obamacare. “I’m also ending the wildly inflated cost of prescription drugs,” Trump said. He joked that other presidents have tried to lower drug prices, but just could not quite do it. “They were all talk and no action, but I got it done,” he remarked. Trump said he enacted “most favored nation” agreements to…