Self-described moderate Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D.) praised anti-ICE school walkouts on Tuesday in her otherwise unremarkable rebuttal to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address.

No one thought it could happen, but Donald Trump believed. The president performed a miracle on Tuesday by compelling Democrats to stand and cheer for their country during his State of the Union address—by praising the USA women's hockey team and inviting them to the White House.

Before the State of the Union address, politicians and interest groups from the party opposite the president sometimes offer "prebuttals," denunciations of the president’s remarks even before they’ve been released or spoken. These anticipatory denunciations of unseen, undelivered remarks are the stuff of speculative, spin-cycle political talking points, not news.

President Donald Trump brought most members of the House chamber—including many Democrats—to their feet during Tuesday night's State of the Union when he honored the U.S. men’s hockey team for winning its first Olympic gold medal since 1980.

The Trump administration sued the University of California on Tuesday, alleging that its Los Angeles campus created a "hostile work environment" for Jewish employees and "turned a blind eye to—and at times facilitated—grossly antisemitic acts."

Rep. Ro Khanna (D., Calif.) said in an interview released Monday that he is "so careful" not to spread "conspiracy theories" about Jeffrey Epstein. He then claimed that Epstein visited CIA headquarters, seemingly citing a viral photograph that almost certainly shows Epstein at a design studio for Hermès, the luxury French leather goods company of which he was a connoisseur.

Organizers behind the anti-Israel demonstrations across U.S. schools and cities are expanding their playbook to another cause: agitating high school students against Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

New Yorker reporter Tad Friend posed a question for Texas Democratic Senate hopeful James Talarico as the two sipped red wine together for a recent magazine profile: If the Devil tempted you with a super PAC to handle the political dirty work for you, would you accept?

ProPublica, which describes itself as "an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism with moral force," but is in reality a left-wing investigative outlet bankrolled by left-wing foundations, left-wing donors, and anonymous benefactors, is facing a possible strike by workers who formed a union in 2023 but say management has been "unwilling to accept basic union protections" after more than two years of contract negotiations.

Iran is producing ballistic missiles armed with "chemical and biological capabilities" in preparation for a military confrontation with the United States and Israel, according to Israeli military adviser Amir Avivi, who told the Washington Free Beacon that such missiles must be "dealt with" in any strike on Iran.

Gavin Newsom, the California governor who is definitely running for president in 2028, has been denounced as racist after suggesting his lack of intelligence made it easier to relate to black people. "I'm like you," Newsom told Atlanta's black mayor, Andre Dickens, while adopting a bizarre MLK-style accent. "I'm... no... better... than... you. I'm a 960 SAT guy. Ha. And I'm not trying to offend anyone—you know, trying to act all there if you got 940. Haha."

Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez—whose Washington swing district makes her one of the most endangered members of Congress—has repeatedly claimed she was forced to work three jobs after her father cut her off financially because she stopped going to church. She says she struggled to pay her tuition at Reed College, a prestigious private institution in Portland, Ore., and resorted to unorthodox living arrangements to avoid paying rent.