President Trump has invited both the U.S. men's Olympic hockey team and women's Olympic hockey team to the State of the Union address and to the White House after their gold medal wins against Canada.

🚨 EPIC! Kash Patel put PRESIDENT TRUMP on the phone in Team USA’s locker room so that 47 could PERSONALLY congratulate them

“Congratulations! That was an UNBELIEVABLE game! We love you guys!”

“You’re going to be proud of that game for FIFTY YEARS!”

“I can send a MILITARY… pic.twitter.com/GGCUOadySq

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 23, 2026

U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn said Monday that surgery saved her left leg from amputation after she crashed in the women's downhill at the Milan Cortina Olympics.

242K likes, 12K comments - lindseyvonn on February 23, 2026: "I’m finally out of the hospital!!! 🙌🏻 After almost 2 weeks of laying in a hospital bed almost completely immobile, I’m finally well enough to move to a hotel. It’s not home yet, but it’s a huge step! I hope I explained my injury well enough. I’m not a doctor so if I don’t explain something perfectly please forgive me. When the injury happened the situation was quite challenging in many ways but in the end, the situation was brought back into control. Again, thank you Dr Tom Hackett 🙏🏻❤️ Now I will focus on rehab and progressing from a wheelchair to crutches in a few weeks. It will take around a year for all of the bones to heal and then I will decide if I want to take out all the metal or not, and then go back into surgery and finally fix my ACL. It will be a long road but I’ll get there. At least I’m out of the hospital 🙌🏻💪🏻 Love you all 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️❤️".

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The White House is defending Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee amid global fallout from his interview with Tucker Carlson in which he appeared to endorse an Israeli conquest of the Middle East.

BREAKING: US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee tells Tucker Carlson that Israel has the Biblical right to take over all of the Middle East.

“It would be fine if they took it all.” pic.twitter.com/BN4fXh03ga

— Tucker Carlson Network (@TCNetwork) February 20, 2026

Palm Beach County, FL Police Officer and Former NYPD Officer: "I personally arrested José Ibarra for endangering the welfare of a child. A few months later, I saw his face again in the news after he viciously murdered Laken Riley. I did my job. I put him in custody — the system… pic.twitter.com/3N1aMivjfw

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 23, 2026

The Department of Education announced Monday that it was giving two more of its responsibilities to other agencies as the Trump administration makes moves to shutter it.

The change comes after the Trump administration announced last year that it was giving the department's responsibilities to five different federal agencies, consisting of the Departments of Labor, Interior, Health and Human Services and State.

Washington, D.C., U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's office has reportedly stopped pursuing a criminal case against six Democratic lawmakers who participated in a controversial social media video last year, sources told NBC News Monday.

The decision comes after the Justice Department suffered a setback earlier this month by failing to secure a federal grand jury indictment against the video's participants. The 90-second video featured six prominent Democratic lawmakers who were either veterans or past members of the Intelligence Community.

President Trump has already indicated that Tuesday's State of the Union Address will be long, because there is a lot to talk about. Last year, in his address to Congress, which was not considered a State of the Union address because he had just taken office, he spoke for about 100 minutes. 

. @CNN is a total disgrace.

President Trump hosted a powerful event honoring Angel Families who lost loved ones at the hands of illegal alien criminals and deadly drugs – but CNN refused to cover EVEN one second of it.

That’s because CNN doesn't care about the victims of… https://t.co/8jJIYmkGOB

— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) February 23, 2026

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry’s approach of aligning state agencies with the private sector to attract business has produced a $12 billion investment in northwest Louisiana, promising significant economic revitalization.

The U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division is looking to intervene in a lawsuit that challenges a Los Angeles Unified School District taxpayer-funded program that allegedly uses racial demographics to determine school funding.

President Donald Trump is set to deliver his State of the Union Address Tuesday evening, when he is expected to highlight his accomplishments during his first year back in office and spotlight goals for the coming year.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced it will temporarily suspend two popular expedited travel programs, TSA PreCheck and Global Entry, as a partial government shutdown continues. 

The move, set to begin early Sunday morning, comes after funding for the department lapsed when Congress failed to pass a budget deal.