LOADING ERROR LOADINGSeveral Republican lawmakers at the State of the Union address were caught on camera trying to physically remove Democratic Rep. Al Green’s protest sign from his hands. Advertisement“Black people aren’t apes!” Green’s sign read. When Green held up the sign as Trump entered the chamber, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) “Otherwise, you don’t believe in free speech.”AdvertisementExperts say it reveals a lot that GOP lawmakers thought it was appropriate to grab Green’s sign. Winter emphasized that anyone “grounded in basic morality” would know that there’s “nothing remotely objectionable” about what Green’s sign said.

The Cuban government said it exchanged gunfire with a Florida-based speedboat that had entered its territorial waters Wednesday, killing at least four people and wounding six others. Other WRAL Top StoriesCuban border-guard troops on a government boat approached the speedboat seeking identification when the people aboard the boat opened fire on the Cuban personnel, wounding the Cuban vessel’s commander, the statement said. “As a result of the confrontation, at the time of this report, four foreign attackers were killed and six were wounded,” the government said. The government’s statement included what it said was the boat’s Florida registration number. The Cuban government is in the throes of a critical energy crisis, largely because of Trump administration moves to block foreign oil shipments.

Given his position as FBI director, Patel is required to travel via private jet for security and communications reasons. But as videos of the men's team celebrating their victory began appearing online, many people noticed they featured an unexpected guest — FBI Director Kash Patel. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementMS NOW estimated Patel's Milan trip cost "as much as $75,000," under the assumption that the jet cost taxpayers about $5,000 per flight hour to operate. "Shot/Chaser: Kash Patel Criticizes Government Funded Trips Then Charges Taxpayers ~$100,000 For Private Jet to Milan." FBI Director Kash Patel Takes Agency Jet to Italy, Plans to Attend Olympic Hockey Games, Sources Say - CBS News.

President Donald Trump applauds as U.S. veteran Captain E. Royce Williams receives the Medal of Honor during the State of the Union address. At the State of the Union speech, a venue that in recent years has been understood as preaching to the converted, Trump leaned into the friendly audience. Chip Somodevilla via Getty ImagesThis version of Trumpian rhetoric is coming out at a time when Trump is struggling. This was also one of just three legislative proposals that Trump put forward to Congress in his State of the Union. But it’s an open question whether the American people, beyond those who already support Trump, are going to buy any of this.

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It was the Los Angeles Hispanic Republican Club’s potluck party for President Trump’s State of the Union address, but there was a problem:Not many Hispanics showed up. The Hispanic Republican Club opened chapters in Ventura and Orange counties. His father came to the United States from Mexico illegally then became a pioneering Mexican restaurateur in Los Angeles. Obama deported more people.”Various political flyers for various republican candidates sit on a table at the offices of L.A. Hispanic Republican Club on Tuesday in Woodland Hills. When I and a Times photographer thanked the group and left, the number of Latinos at the Los Angeles Hispanic Republican Club State of the Union potluck, already small, dropped by a quarter.

Fortunately we are still blessed with Daniel Dale, the phenom lie detector who CNN still retains to fact check Trump. You should be ashamed of yourselves.”Source: PBS (includes a link to video of this moment)POTUS’ first job — and only job — is not playacting at protecting American citizens. The GOP caucus went along with the spectacle, providing Trump’s narcissistic supply with their standing to applaud his bullshit statement. The heightened partisan schism Trump intended to portray was intended to create headlines to prop up Trump and his party of minions. Unsurprisingly it is Fox News, Fox affiliates, and other Murdoch-owned outlets which either pushed Trump’s spectacle or focused on Trump’s policies still popular with MAGA voters.

Veteran NASA astronaut Mike Fincke has confirmed that he was the crew member who had a concerning “medical event” that led to an early exit from the International Space Station last month. The group’s sudden departure marked the first time in history NASA had to cut short an ISS staffing mission for health reasons. At the time, the space agency did not disclose which astronaut had the medical concern or reveal the nature of the issue. “I experienced a medical event that required immediate attention from my incredible crewmates,” Fincke said in a statement on Wednesday. But it’s still not clear whether the medical event amounted to a life-threatening emergency or how Fincke’s crewmates were able to address the issue.

No esperen que se una a los demás candidatos en su pugna por ser el principal oponente del presidente Donald Trump. Profesora de derecho en la Universidad de California en Irvine, se postuló sin éxito para el Senado de los EE. Todos han dicho que quieren que California sea más asequible y contrarrestar el impacto de la administración Trump en el estado. y un micrófono prendido en la solapa, se encuentra frente a un grupo de personas que hablan y gesticulan. Se jacta de su gestión en la ciudad más grande del estado, durante la cual reforzó la fuerza policial.

Tonight, as we watched our nation’s lawmakers gather for a joint session of Congress, we did not hear the truth from our president. Since this president took office last year, his reckless trade policies have forced American families to pay more than $1,700 each in tariff costs. Small businesses have suffered. Every minute spent sowing fear is a minute not spent investigating murders, crimes against children, or the criminals defrauding seniors of their life savings. So I’ll ask again, is the president working to make life more affordable for you and your family?

The emerging technologies that are the focus of this issue call into question whether strategic stability as it was originally conceptualized is still possible. Emerging technologies also have the potential to impact the psychology of human decision-making during crises in ways that undermine strategic stability. Emerging Technologies, Crisis Stability, and the Psychology of Decision-MakingIn its focus on the intersection of emerging technologies and strategic stability, this Roundtable examines not only how different characteristics of technology affect stability, but also how these characteristics interact with human choices and biases to impact crises. Emerging Technologies May Eventually Favor the DefenderIt is at least theoretically possible that emerging technologies will alter cost-benefit calculations to favor a defender by increasing the risk associated with preemption. Emerging technologies also influence strategic stability via a second path—their psychological impact on decision-makers.

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President Donald Trump has keyed in on an old standard while framing up the 2026 midterm elections: immigration. But in four recent polls that asked respondents to pick between Republicans and Democrats on immigration, Republicans led by between 4 and 11 points in all of them. AP-NORC polling, for instance, showed Democrats faring better on the economy in 2021, 2017 and 2016. Back in 2018, when Trump’s numbers on immigration were also depressed, the Post’s polling showed voters favored Democrats in Congress over Trump on the issue by 8 points. And CNN’s recent poll showed Democrats leading on that measure by 5 points.

By Susanne Rust | Los Angeles TimesThe H5N1 bird flu virus that devastated South America’s elephant seal populations has been confirmed in seals at California’s Año Nuevo State Park, researchers from UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz announced Wednesday. The death toll so far was not provided, although a press release from UC Davis noted at least some animals had succumbed. “This is exceptionally rapid detection of an outbreak in free-ranging marine mammals,” said professor Christine Johnson, director of the Institute for Pandemic Insights at UC Davis’ Weill School of Veterinary Medicine. Scientists at UC Santa Cruz and UC Davis increased their surveillance of the elephant seals in Año Nuevo in recent years. Beltran’s lab leads UC Santa Cruz’s northern elephant seal research program at Año Nuevo.

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