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There were very few moments that led to bipartisan standing on Tuesday night, and one of them was President Donald Trump’s call to stop insider trading in Congress.
It got Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts to stand up, even. Which had Trump asking the question: Did former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California representative, stand up?
It doesn’t appear that way — and Pelosi herself answered with a word salad when asked about it on CNN after the speech.
During his State of the Union address last night, President Trump touted many of the things going well in America, thanks to his administration. One of those things was the historically low murder rates we’re seeing.
As tradition, the opposition party gave its rebuttal following the President’s State of the Union address.
This year, the speech was given by Democrat Governor Abigail Spanberger from Virginia.
In her speech, the newly elected Governor spent most of her time calling out the Trump administration for its immigration polices.
She also claimed that, under Trump, Americans are now in an affordability crisis.
Fox News provided an overview of her speech:
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger slammed President Donald Trump over his mass deportation operations in her official Democratic response to the State of the Union and repeated claims her party favors “affordability” even as the Old Dominion sees scores of new taxes.
Spanberger, elected in November to succeed conservative Gov. Glenn Youngkin, has sought to claim the mantle of “affordability,” even as she and Richmond Democrats move to enact or raise new taxes in multiple forms.
Speaking from the original historic House of Burgesses at the head of Colonial Williamsburg’s Duke of Gloucester Street, Spanberger noted how in 1705, the colony first gathered with the “extraordinary task of governing themselves.”
“The United States was founded on the idea that ordinary people could reject the unacceptable excesses of poor leadership, band together to demand better of their government, and create a nation that would be an example for the world,” she said, contrasting that vision with what Trump has brought.
“Tonight, as we watched our nation’s lawmakers gather for a joint session of Congress, we did not hear the truth from our president,” she said, going on to rhetorically ask three questions:
“Is the President working to make life more affordable for you and your family? Is the President working to keep Americans safe — both at home and abroad? Is the President working for you?”
Spanberger recounted her 2025 election season, traveling around Virginia and addressing, “housing, healthcare, energy and childcare.”
She blamed Trump’s tariff policies for increasing costs, and claimed it has been Republicans trying to “make your life more expensive.”
Hardly a week goes by now that we don’t get a cautionary tale coming out of Britain, where the political elite are determined either to destroy the nation’s ethnic majority through the mass importation of third-world migrants, or to pretend that there is no ethnic majority to destroy in the first place.
Among the pretenders is none other than Nigel Farage, whose right populist party Reform UK is poised to win an outright parliamentary majority in the next general election. Farage has been a fixture in British politics for a quarter-century now and has always presented himself as counter-establishment. Yet he is also a man who likes to be liked, which means he will not speak candidly about Britain’s migrant crisis and what must be done to save the country.
In June, a Pennsylvania woman appeared in federal court in connection with a $1 million-plus home care fraud scheme. Hemal Patel was charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiracy to violate the federal anti-kickback statute. The 59-year-old Bucks County resident, according to the U.S Attorney’s Office for Pennsylvania’s Eastern District, pocketed payments for referring patients to home care agencies. Patel and others schemed to fraudulently bill Medicaid for ghost home care services.
The scam targeted Pennsylvania’s Community HealthChoices, which uses Medicaid funds to pay for home- and community-based personal assistance services for individuals with disabilities to help keep them out of nursing homes, according to court filings. Patel was one of hundreds of people charged in the Department of Justice’s National Health Care Fraud Takedown, the largest sweep of its kind covering some $14.6 billion in intended Medicaid losses.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump broke his own record for a president’s longest-ever State of the Union speech at 108 minutes.
Trump began speaking at 9:11 p.m. ET and concluded his remarks at 10:59 p.m. ET, eclipsing the record he set in his 2025 joint address to Congress at 100 minutes on the dot, according to Axios.
For 25 years before that, former President Bill Clinton’s 2000 address was the longest at 89 minutes. Other marathon State of the Union addresses, per Axios, include:
Predictably, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel was not a fan of President Trump’s Tuesday State of the Union address, but even by his standards, Kimmel went off the rails.
Kimmel began by declaring, “It was an angry speech. The theme of tonight’s speech was all foreigners are murderers. And Trump just—he said zero illegal aliens have been allowed into the United States on his watch, but the door is always open to those who come in legally to be his next wife. So, that’s something. He bragged about ending DEI, he bragged about kicking two million people off food stamps. It was like a Christmas message from the Grinch.”
Jimmy Kimmel rants “It was an angry speech… It was like a Christmas message from the Grinch. Trump applauded the efforts of a World War II vet who liberated an internment camp, at the same time he is building new ones here in the United States.” (1/4) pic.twitter.com/RcxwpfDzx7
— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) February 25, 2026
The state of the union is fantastic and hashtag this is what I voted for. The “State of the Union” is, R or D, the most useless piece of political theatre that We The People put ourselves through. However, if you’re going to put on a show, it helps to have the world’s greatest song-and-dance man on your side. Donald Trump took the pomp and circumstance of the event and the Democrat party’s telegraphed theatrics and crammed both down the throats of haters and losers alike. CNN was the hardest hit.
Democrat leaders advertised that they told members NOT to stand up an aplaud anything Trump did. It’s been the Democrat tactic since George W. Bush. He was literally Hitler before Trump was literally Hitler. Also, before John McCain and Mitt Romney were literally Hitler. The jury is still out if JD Vance or Marco Rubio will be the next literally Hitler, but I digress.
CBS News’ Major Garrett reported that the GOP gameplan going into the State of the Union was to, and I quote, “Make sure Americans after this speech had a sense that the opposition party was off the rails [and] crazy.” While Trump was doing that, the opposition party was counter-programming dressed as animals and chanting “F*ck ICE.” Why? Because the opposition party is super serious people who demand you take them super seriously.
“Through your hands comes the relief for the believers and the killing of the infidels by your sword.”
While the NYPD is being attacked with balls of ice…..
He was at the Al-Khoei Islamic Center in Queens.
(LifeSiteNews) – Regular readers of LifeSiteNews, and in fact those who read most independent media, most likely are already aware that the People’s Republic of China, through its Communist Chinese Party’s (CCP) many arms, has been meddling in Canada’s elections, as well as democracy in general, for years.
What may not be as well known is that in Canada’s smallest province, the picturesque Prince Edward Island (PEI), the CCP has been accused of using Buddhist monasteries as money laundering fronts to the tune of half a billion dollars.
Indeed, a report from late last year noted how Buddhist monks and nuns from a group called Bliss and Wisdom showed recent tax filings with about $500 million in assets.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has unveiled his new budget — and it’s every bit as ridiculous as BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales anticipated.
“On another episode of ‘I told you so,’ it took less than two months for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to turn, I think, into a Batman villain,” Gonzales jokes.
“You guys are going to be shocked to hear this. You’re going to be shocked to hear all of these promises of free everything, free child schools, free child care, free schools, free buses, all the free s**t, doesn’t have enough money to pay for all of the free,” she explains.
“So he’s announced that he’s basically taking the entire city hostage, and if the state government doesn’t give into his demands and implement his billionaire tax, he’s going to make you pay,” she continues.
“For those who have watched budget after budget, it is tempting to assume that we are engaging in the same dance as our predecessors. Let me assure you, nothing about this is typical. That’s why our solutions won’t be either. There are two paths to bridge this gap. The first is the most sustainable and the fairest path,” Mamdani explained at New York City Hall.
Iranian university students for the last two days have engaged in a new wave of anti-government demonstrations across the country, marking the first major rallies since a violent state crackdown in January.
The protests have reportedly taken place on at least seven campuses as students demand increased political freedom, leading to confrontations with government loyalists, according to various news reports, citing videos of the incidents.
The protests “come as Iran’s clerical leaders struggle to manage uprisings at home and a looming risk of war with Washington,” the New York Times reported.
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is sounding the alarm after reviewing the full, unredacted Jeffrey Epstein files, warning that the documents expose horrifying acts committed by powerful elites.
Boebert spoke about the “gross” revelations during an appearance on the talk show “Real Time with Bill Maher.”
During the show, the discussion turned to the latest Epstein Files.
A student believed to be part of an anti-ICE walkout in West Palm Beach, Florida, was hit by a car Monday and suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
Police said officers responded to the incident around 12:30 p.m. near the South Wind Plaza on North Military Trail, CBS 12 reported Monday.
The driver remained at the scene, and the young person was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
Video footage showed firefighters and police officers surrounding the student, who was lying on the ground as traffic passed. The minor was reportedly a student from Palm Beach Lakes Community High School:
“The minor being struck by a vehicle comes as hundreds of students from at least four Palm Beach County high schools took to the streets in coordinated protest against ICE. The schools involved were reported to be Lake Worth Beach High School, John I. Leonard High School, Royal Palm Beach High School, and Palm Beach Lakes High School,” the CBS article said.
President Donald Trump said Thursday that the United States will contribute $10 billion toward the Board of Peace.
Trump made his announcement during the board’s second official meeting, the first convening of the group in Washington, D.C.
“The United States is going to make a contribution of $10 billion to the Board of Peace,” said Trump. “We’ve had great support for that number and that number is a very small number when you look at that, compared to the cost of war. That’s two weeks of fighting.”
A video of New York Police Department officers getting pelted with snowballs by residents went viral Monday evening, and critics are blaming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s anti-police rhetoric.
The video circulating on social media shows a group of people in Washington Square Park engaging in what began as a spontaneous snowball fight after heavy snowfall hit the city, and then turning their attention toward uniformed officers who had arrived at the scene.
NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said in an X post that the department is aware of the incident, calling it “criminal,” and said detectives are investigating the matter.
President Joe Biden’s domestic policy chief is promising revenge against the voters, business executives, and appointees who support President Donald Trump’s 2024 election mandate.
“A very prominent public figure, who has served at nearly the very highest levels, once told me … ‘Revenge is best served cold,’ and the older I get, the more I see the wisdom of that,” Susan Rice said in a February 19 video interview by a fellow Democrat.
She added:
When it comes to the elites, you know, the corporate interests, the law firms, the universities, the media … it’s not going to end well for them, for those that decided that they would act in their perceived very narrow self-interest, which I would underscore, is very short-term self-interest, and, you know, take a knee to Trump.
Abortion bans will expose women giving birth to “44 to 70 times higher than the mortality risk from abortion,” according to a new study from the University of Maryland and Brown University.
The lead author, Maria Steenland, an assistant professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Health, claims, “Our new analysis shows that it is far more dangerous to be pregnant than to have an abortion, and this gap in mortality risk is even larger than previously recognized.”
But what is the new evidence their analysis is based on?
President Donald Trump dramatically expanded a little-known program allowing local law enforcement to assist deportation operations even in liberal states, documents show.
Since 2019, more than 1,350 local agencies have penned agreements with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, including 68 from Democratic states and 88 in swing states, a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis of ICE records found.
Liberal activists and officials are coming up with ways to thwart the contracts, known as 287(g) agreements, after Trump’s officials gained a foothold for ICE around the country under his first and second terms.
The U.K. appears to be done with the transgender movement and its insatiable demands, even as the European Union continues to double down.
In the aftermath of a landmark Supreme Court ruling declaring that transgenders can’t legally change their biological sex, the U.K. has been slowly bringing “clarity and confidence” and reestablishing gender normalcy in schools, sports, healthcare, business, and the law through governmental guidance and court decisions.
Over 100,000 students have already applied after the explosive launch of Texas School Choice — which Gov. Greg Abbott (R) calls “the biggest and best rollout of school choice in the history of the United States of America.”
“And it’s really a gamechanger for education in our state. You know, one thing about school choice is it provides school competition,” Abbott tells Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on “The Glenn Beck Program.”
A Somali daycare operator accused of siphoning millions in taxpayer dollars through fraudulent schemes in Minnesota has been arrested after she was caught attempting to flee the country.
Fahima Egeh Mahamud, the owner of Future Leaders Early Learning Center, was taken into custody after booking travel to the United Kingdom, according to court documents and local reports.
She is now the 79th defendant charged in connection with the sprawling Feeding Our Future fraud investigation.
For years, corporate America has fallen all over itself to be applauded by activists like the Human Rights Campaign, falsely believing HRC’s approval meant they were doing something right and good for business. This year, hundreds of companies, realizing they’ve been led astray, marched the other way.
Participation in the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index (CEI) was once treated as all but mandatory for Fortune 500 companies. But 2026 marks a cataclysmic collapse for that assumption.
In 2026, HRC saw a dramatic 65 percent drop in Fortune 500 CEI participation from 2025. And the number of companies achieving the “perfect” 100 score dropped approximately 30 percent from roughly 750 to 534. That’s not a rounding error. It’s a rapid retreat. And it’s overdue. But why such a dramatic shift? Why now?
Peter Attia, a physician and prominent voice in the field of longevity science, has stepped down from his role as a contributor to CBS News after newly released government records revealed extensive communications between him and Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender. The departure came weeks after Attia had been added to the network’s roster as part of an editorial overhaul.
CBS News announced Attia’s hiring on January 28 of this year, alongside 18 other contributors in a move overseen by editor in chief Bari Weiss. The additions were presented as an effort to expand the network’s expertise in health and science coverage. Within days, however, the Department of Justice released millions of pages of documents tied to its long-running investigation into Epstein, under the requirements of the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Attia’s name appeared repeatedly in the materials.
The last time I covered the topic of the week-killing compound called glyphosate, it was in the context of concern over chemical supply shortages in 2022.
In that report, I shared concerns about the lack of phosphorus, used in compounds that support agriculture. I also noted that farmers were struggling because weeds had developed resistance to the exposure levels of this chemical, usually linked to the product Roundup.
This week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order using the Defense Production Act (DPA) to prioritize and expand U.S. production of elemental phosphorus and ensure adequate production of glyphosate‑based herbicides, designating them as “critical” to national defense and food security and extending liability protections to producers that comply with the order.
“I find that ensuring robust domestic elemental phosphorus mining and United States-based production of glyphosate-based herbicides is central to American economic and national security,” Trump said in the order. “Without immediate Federal action, the United States remains inadequately equipped and vulnerable.”
…Phosphorus, which is also covered in the order, is a precursor to the production of glyphosate and is also used in the manufacturing of certain military equipment.
The order will require Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to issue orders and regulations to implement the increased supply of phosphorus and glyphosate.
A White House Fact sheet on the executive order said Trump signed it to “ensure domestic production of elemental phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides, the loss of which would cripple critical supply chains.”
FOOD SECURITY IS NATIONAL SECURITY: Thank you, President Trump, for acknowledging the importance of glyphosate-based herbicides in American agriculture. This is a vital step forward in ensuring a domestic supply of this critical crop input remains available for our producers. pic.twitter.com/SE9ebKUgoW
— House Committee on Agriculture (@HouseAgGOP) February 19, 2026
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The White House is engaging against a Florida bill that would establish limits on artificial intelligence, including protections for minors, sources familiar with the matter tell The Daily Signal.
The White House has contacted Florida Speaker of the House Daniel Perez and his staff members about opposing Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Artificial Intelligence Bill of Rights, sources said.
So far, Perez has sent the bill through four committees in the House since its introduction early this year. Perez told reporters on Tuesday that he is skeptical that states should pass legislation on an issue where the federal government has “first dibs.”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office is conducting an investigation into Screwston Antifa.
AUSTIN, Texas — A Houston-area Antifa cell is under criminal investigation by the Texas attorney general for possible involvement in aiding terrorism and doxing targets.
The Screwston Anti-Fascist Committee, which calls itself an organization, maintains a large online presence where it spreads radical propaganda, targets private citizens and law enforcement officers, and sells merchandise to bankroll its activities.
For years, the fight over Iran has centered on centrifuges, uranium stockpiles, and enrichment percentages. That framework may now be outdated. If the latest assessments are accurate, Tehran is not merely edging back toward nuclear capability but pairing advanced ballistic missiles with alleged chemical and biological payload potential. That is not incremental pressure. It is strategic escalation.
California’s Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing allegations of “liberal racism” after remarks he made about black people at a Sunday night event in Atlanta while promoting his new book.
Speaking with Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, Newsom attempted to relate to the mostly black audience by downplaying his academic credentials.
“I’m not trying to impress you,” Newsom said.
“I’m just trying to impress upon you, ‘I’m like you. I’m not better than you.’