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Speaker Mike Johnson said Wednesday he believes Rep. Tony Gonzales’ primary election, now six days away, will be a referendum on the serious sexual harassment allegations plaguing the Texas Republican. “I’ve said to him publicly and privately, he’s got to address that directly and head on with his constituents,” Johnson told reporters. “There’s a primary there in less than a week, these things will play out.” Gonzales has been accused of having an affair with a staffer and pressuring her for sexually explicit photos. That staffer later died by suicide. While Johnson and fellow House GOP leaders have not pulled…

The US president focused on the economy, tariffs, border security, and foreign policy in a record-long address US President Donald Trump has delivered his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, using the primetime speech to defend his administration’s record and outline political and economic priorities ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.The address on Tuesday, the first State of the Union of Trump’s second term, ran for around 1 hour and 49 minutes, making it the longest such speech in modern history.Framing his remarks around the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Trump said…

U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres demanded an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine on Monday, slamming the war as “a stain on our collective conscience” with a peace deal needed that will be brokered and monitored by the increasingly sidelined globalist organization. Reuters reports in remarks for a session of the United Nations Security Council to mark the fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion, Guterres commended the efforts of the United States and others to end the war, but said concrete measures were needed to de-escalate and create space for diplomacy. Guterres said, “We have witnessed the cascading consequences of this blatant violation of…

WASHINGTON–President Donald Trump touted a long list of his administration’s accomplishments to begin his State of the Union address before Congress on Tuesday. Trump first zoomed in on the southern border. “After four years in which millions and millions of illegal aliens poured across our borders, totally unvetted and unchecked, we now have the strongest and most secure border in American history by far,” he said. “In the past nine months, zero illegal aliens have been admitted to the United States, but we will always allow people to come in legally, people that will love our country and will work…

During CNN’s State of the Union coverage on Tuesday, CNN host Abby Phillip argued that President Donald Trump’s non-economic message “is highly divisive. You’re talking about culture war stuff, trans children and what he claims to be forced sex changes in schools.” Phillip began by saying, “I thought President Trump actually delivered a higher energy speech than, I think, even his speech last year. He was much more engaged. And I think part of that was because they had planned this speech to be an interactive experience between him and the audience. There were things for him to announce, surprises,…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – A Turkish Air Force F-16 fighter jet crashed near a highway in western Turkey early Wednesday, killing its pilot, officials and media reports said. Radio and radar contact with the jet was lost shortly after midnight after it took off from the 9th Main Jet Base in Balikesir province, according to a defense ministry statement. Search and rescue operations were immediately launched, the ministry said, adding that the wreckage was soon located and the pilot had been “martyred.” The aircraft went down near a section of the Istanbul-Izmir highway, scattering debris across a wide area, Hurriyet…

The Anti-Tariff Paper Everyone’s Citing—and What It Doesn’t Really Show Well, here we go again. A new NBER working paper is being promoted as making a decisive case against tariffs. While the controversial New York Fed study claimed that recent tariff costs were being borne by Americans, this one claims to show that tariff increases reduce trade, output, and manufacturing. The paper, by economists Tamar den Besten and Diego R Känzig, is a serious affair. It constructs a narrative series of major U.S. tariff changes from 1840 to 2024 and estimates how tariff shocks correlate with later economic outcomes. Unlike the…

Tuesday on MS NOW’s special coverage of the State of the Union address, Sen Raphael Warnock (D-GA) said President Donald Trump “unleashes a kind of poison into our politics.” Warnock said, “He is a desperate and divisive demagogue, who’s trying to distract us because he doesn’t know how to lead us. And so it’s what we witnessed tonight is really deeper than Partizan politics. You know, I’m not naive about what happens in politics. We’ve all seen the brass knuckle politics. You know, it’s a contact sport. But I can tell you, someone who was sitting in the chamber tonight,…

President Donald Trump littered his record-breaking, nearly two-hour-long State of the Union address Tuesday night with dramatic tributes to American heroes, caustic attacks on congressional Democrats and a preview of his party’s midterm campaign pitch. But he also sprinkled in a handful of legislative demands that have uneven prospects at best on Capitol Hill. Here’s what caught our ears: — Targeting noncitizens: Trump repeatedly railed against illegal immigration and pushed lawmakers to pass the SAVE America Act, the GOP bill that would tighten proof-of-citizenship standards for voting. “Why would anyone not want voter ID?” Trump said at one point. “One reason…

The warning comes amid President Donald Trump’s repeated threats of military action unless Tehran signs a nuclear deal Upcoming talks on Tehran’s nuclear program will decide whether US soldiers “go to hell or return to America,” Ebrahim Rezaei, an Iranian MP and spokesman for parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, has warned.The remark came as US President Donald Trump ramped up threats of military action unless Iran accepts a deal curbing its nuclear and ballistic missile programs. Indirect talks resumed earlier this month under Oman’s mediation, with a third round due in Geneva on Thursday, where Tehran is expected…