With nuclear talks hanging in the balance, and the potential for yet another US war of choice in the Middle East, President Donald Trump escalated the rhetoric Tuesday night, warning that Iran is moving beyond just regional missile capabilities and setting its sights farther west by developing missiles capable of hitting the United States.
Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times,
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said she is considering legal action after tech billionaire Elon Musk alleged on social media that she was taking orders from drug cartels.
Speaking at a Feb. 24 news conference in Mexico City, Sheinbaum said government lawyers were reviewing the matter.
The June 13-24, 2025, “12-Day War” was a direct escalation of long-standing tensions.
Israel launched Operation Rising Lion with massive airstrikes on Iranian nuclear and military targets, later joined by U.S. strikes on June 22 targeting key enrichment and conversion sites.
Authored by Jennifer Kabbany via The College Fix,
A California community college professor cannot be required to embed diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility practices in his classroom, a federal judge has ruled.
The decision is the latest development in a nearly three-year-old lawsuit filed by Daymon Johnson, a history professor at Bakersfield College, part of the Kern Community College District.
This is a lightly edited transcript of a segment from today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.
A 13-page report from FTI Consulting is providing some insight on how the U.S. government has rewritten the rules for critical minerals.
Our readers have been ahead of this curve for months. We have covered the accelerating U.S. push extensively, including our heads up way back in July to keep an eye on MP Materials and USA Rare Earth Corp. Our article was immediately followed by the Pentagon investing in MP Materials and eventually the U.S. government investing in USA Rare Earth. We even noted some abnormal call buying in USAR just before the market closed the trading day prior to the government investment announcement.
Damon Wilson, the head of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), was interrupted by a member of Congress during a House oversight hearing on Tuesday after revealing that his agency "began supporting the deployment [and] operation of about 200 Starlinks early on" amid the violence which swept through Iran last month.
More than 70 Democrats skipped President Donald Trump's 2026 State of the Union address Tuesday night, with some participating in rival events. But, most of the caucus did show up at the Capitol, delivering a masterclass in theatrical contempt: stone-faced silence, open heckling, and a near-universal refusal to applaud anything the president said.
The newest form of subliminal messaging — and how we play into it every single day
Turn on the news any morning — any morning — and within sixty seconds you will be told that somewhere, something is the most extreme version of itself that has ever existed. The drought is the driest on record. The rainfall is the wettest in a century. The storm is historic. The heat is unprecedented. The cold snap is generational. Tomorrow, a different city will be the hottest, the snowiest, the most flooded. The language never changes because the game never changes: make the ordinary feel extraordinary, make the expected feel shocking, and above all, make the audience feel that without this information they would have been dangerously unprepared.
Heading into NVDA's earnings, we said that all else equal, the bare minimum for the stock - which has underperformed peers rather dramatically in recent months - to outperform, was to (solidly) beat expectations of another 2+2 quarter, i.e., beat the guide by $2BN and beat Street expectations for the April quarter guide by $2BN.
Update 7:00pm. NVDA stock is back to flat, erasing all of its post earnings gains, after what some attribute as a lackluster conference call. Specifically, according to Bloomberg, the company "hasn’t offered many details on the outlook provided that Blackwell and Rubin revenue would exceed $500 billion. Opening comments from CFO Colette Kress that competitors in China are “making progress” and have the potential to disrupt the global AI industry in the long run have also taken some wind out of the stock’s sails."
Update (1605ET):
Florida Republican Rep. Carlos Gimenez blasted the Cuban regime shortly after news hit the wires that Cuban border guards aboard a vessel had fired on and killed four people and injured six on a U.S.-linked speedboat off Cuba's north coast. The Cuban Embassy in the U.S. did not specify the exact timing of the incident in its X post.
"The dictatorship in Cuba has just attacked a boat from Florida & murdered those on board," Gimenez wrote on X, adding, "This regime must be relegated to the dust bin of history!"
🚨#SOSCuba ¡La dictadura en #Cuba acaba de atacar un buque de la Florida y ha asesinado a las personas abordo!
— Rep. Carlos A. Gimenez (@RepCarlos) February 25, 2026
The dictatorship in #Cuba has just attacked a boat from Florida & murdered those on board.
This regime must be relegated to the dust bin of history! pic.twitter.com/dBqM9waOMy
This incident is especially significant because it could provide the Trump administration with enough cover to intensify pressure on the communist regime in Havana, which the administration appears to view as already near collapse.
The key question now is how the federal government frames the narrative around the maritime incident, whether it uses it to shape public opinion, and whether this marks the early innings of a new narrative that supports future intervention to topple the communists in Havana.
Trump's Cuba Pressure Campaign Could Spark Cohiba Cigar Price Spikes https://t.co/wcOaHyWnBn
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) February 25, 2026
In other news, are Cuban Cohibas about to go limit up?
