Author: Press Room

President Donald Trump sketched out his vision Tuesday night of Republican governance heading into the midterms. Congress is barely in the picture. From a legislative perspective, Trump’s State of the Union address was notable for what it didn’t include. He gave Republicans a pass on trying to revive his global tariff campaign after a major Supreme Court setback. He didn’t demand another party-line domestic policy bill before November, and he even skipped a jab at one of his favorite punching bags, the Senate filibuster. Instead, Trump used the bulk of the speech to lean into red-meat issues like illegal immigration…

Havana said the armed “aggressors” opened fire on Cuban personnel during an identification check A group of armed men aboard a US-registered speedboat reportedly opened fire on Cuban border guard forces in the island’s territorial waters, escalating already strained relations between Havana and Washington.According to Cuba’s Interior Ministry, the incident occurred on Wednesday near the northern coast of Villa Clara province, when Cuban coastguard units intercepted a Florida-registered speedboat operating roughly one nautical mile from shore. The vessel reportedly entered Cuban waters illegally and was approached for identification before gunfire broke out.Cuban authorities said individuals aboard the speedboat opened fire first, wounding…

Nicaragua’s communist regime prohibited 406 Catholic Via Crucis (Stations of the Cross) processions during the first week of Lent, the newspaper La Prensa reported this week. Catholics around the world are presently observing Lent, a 40-day period of fasting and reflection in anticipation of Holy Week and Easter. As it is a movable observance, 2026’s Lent period began on February 18, Ash Wednesday, and will run through April 2, Holy Thursday. The Stations of the Cross is a public Catholic procession that commemorates Jesus Christ’s last day on Earth prior to His resurrection. Nicaraguan activist and researcher Martha Patricia Molina denounced…

Tuesday on MS NOW’s special coverage of the State of the Union address, host Rachel Maddow said President Donald Trump was “wound up and weird.” Maddow said, “At the very beginning, he was speaking very quickly and very excitedly, and he ran through a number of striking lines on economic matters. The very beginning of the speech, he, talked about having inherited the worst inflation in the history of the country, completely ignoring the worst inflation in the history of the country was in the 1980s and the 1920s. He then talked about gas prices and misstated them dramatically.” She…

House members are eyeing a new phase in their monthslong investigation into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein: a race to produce results that match the stunning Epstein fallout across the globe and satisfy an electorate clamoring for accountability. This week’s interviews of Bill and Hillary Clinton — who are scheduled to testify to lawmakers under subpoena and behind closed doors about their relationships with Epstein and his convicted co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell — could be a pivotal moment in this effort. Bill Clinton has maintained that he was an acquaintance of Epstein’s but stopped communicating with him at least a…

Spanish police have arrested the alleged gunman in the 2025 assassination of Andrey Portnov, a former senior aide to ex-Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich, in a joint operation with German authorities in the western German town of Heinsberg.The suspect, whose identity has not been released, was detained by Spain’s Grupo 5 de Homicidios (Homicide Group Unit) with support from Germany’s BKA special operations forces, Spain’s National Police announced on Wednesday.A European Arrest Warrant and European Investigation Order had been issued for the suspect, allowing authorities to also search his residence in Heinsberg, located near the Dutch border.Portnov, 53, was shot multiple…

The New York Times praised Eileen Gu, an American-born Olympic skier who chose to compete for China, and criticized the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team, claiming they “lost the room” for visiting President Donald Trump after their gold medal win. In the newspaper’s sports section, The Athletic, the Times published a headline titled “Inside the mind of Eileen Gu, Winter Olympics superstar — and so much more,” which lauded the athlete as “the most decorated freestyle skier.” “With three silvers and three golds to her name across two Olympics, Gu is a freak of nature, extraordinary in every sense of the word. So…

President Donald Trump announced during his State of the Union address that the U.S. women’s hockey team will also be visiting the White House “soon” after their male counterparts. The men’s and women’s hockey teams made history in Milan after they both beat Canada for the gold, making it the first Winter Olympics since 1980 that both U.S. squads won.  While the men immediately accepted Trump’s invitation to go to the White House and State of the Union, a spokesperson for the women’s team initially declined due to prior commitments.   “We are sincerely grateful for the invitation extended to our…

The Inflation Victory Lap Economists Said Trump Couldn’t Take President Trump led off his State of the Union speech by addressing the state of the economy, highlighting the progress on bringing down inflation after the Biden-Powell surge that undermined America’s post-pandemic recovery. “The Biden administration and its allies in Congress gave us the worst inflation in the history of our country, but in 12 months, my administration has driven core inflation down to the lowest level in more than five years, and in the last three months of 2025 it was down to 1.7 percent,” Trump said. The math here is…

Tuesday, during her network’s coverage of the State of the Union address, host Kaitlan Collins said President Donald Trump became “increasingly irritated” during the speech. Collins said, “I think what stood out to me as we were watching this is, you know, this is not unfamiliar territory for the president. He has delivered many of these addresses. He’s now broken his own records on how long he has spoken.” She continued, “But these moments as he was in there and at the beginning, obviously getting started, he was largely looking over to the left side of the chamber where a…