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Politico reports: Rep. Al Green, a Texas Democrat, was ejected from Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday. Green stood in the aisle early in Trump’s speech and shouted that Trump had “no mandate.” Speaker Mike Johnson ordered Green removed from the chamber and later told reporters he should be censured by the House for the outburst. Green …

The New York Times reports: President Trump will address the joint session of Congress on Tuesday night at 9 p.m., expected to lay out his aggressive agenda for remaking the federal government and shifting U.S. foreign policy during his first televised prime-time speech of his second term. Mr. Trump is expected to speak about the sweeping staff firings affecting nearly …

Reuters reports: U.S. retail gasoline prices are set to climb in the coming weeks as new tariffs imposed by the administration of President Donald Trump raise the cost of energy imports, according to traders and analysts. The outlook underscores an unintended consequence of Trump’s protectionist trade policies, which are meant to boost the U.S. economy but could instead lead to …

Axios reports: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is cracking down on plans among his members to try to disrupt or draw attention away from President Trump’s speech to Congress on Tuesday evening. Many Democrats are facing a torrent of pressure from their grassroots base to stage more overt acts of resistance, but a good chunk of the party feels …

“This is where President Trump does have to walk very carefully. Inflation killed Joe Biden’s presidency. If you wish to see President Trump be successful, he needs a booming economy. He cannot have a recessionary economy. “If tariffs continue to drive up prices and if wages do not increase sufficient to meet those prices, you’re going to be in exactly …

Agence France-Presse reports: Donald Trump threatened Tuesday to raise tariffs on Canadian goods further to match retaliation by Ottawa, hours after slamming 25 percent duties on all products from the United States’ northern neighbor. “Please explain to Governor Trudeau, of Canada, that when he puts on a Retaliatory Tariff on the U.S., our Reciprocal Tariff will immediately increase by a …

Florida Politics reports: A Tallahassee mother who became prominent during gender identity fights will watch President Donald Trump’s speech Tuesday night with First Lady Melania Trump. Parental rights advocate January Littlejohn will be one of several guests invited by Melania Trump, according to the White House Communications Office (WHCO). The WHCO describes Littlejohn as “a mother and parents’ rights advocate …

The Times Of Israel reports: US President Donald Trump says he will cut federal funding to any educational institution “that allows illegal protests,” in a post on his Truth Social platform. Trump does not specify what an “illegal protest” entails, but appears to be referring to anti-Israel demonstrations that broke out on US university campuses following the October 7, 2023, …

“First and foremost, we got rid of the Jack Smith team. Gone. Those people are gone. There are a lot of people in the FBI and also in the Department of Justice who despise Donald Trump, despise us, don’t want to be there. “We will find them. Because you have to believe in transparency, you have to believe in honesty, …

From the Wall Street Journal editorial board: President Trump likes to cite the stock market when it’s rising as a sign of his policy success, so what does he think about Monday’s plunge? The Dow Jones Industrial Average took a 650-point header after he announced that he’ll hit Mexico and Canada on Tuesday with 25% tariffs. Mr. Trump said at …

“Zelensky was saying things that I thought were untrue, the president just tried to be diplomatic. And then when it really went off the rails, of course, is when… a Polish journalist asked a question, the president answered it. And then I answered it. And then, something about my answer just really set Zelensky off. So, then came at me, …

Newsweek reports: Buvaisar Saitiev, a three-time Russian Olympic freestyle wrestling champion who later became a member of President Vladimir Putin’s ruling United Russia party, was reportedly found dead after falling from a window. Since Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, a series of mysterious deaths have claimed the lives of prominent Russian figures, including tycoons, businessmen and …

NBC News reports: The Trump administration is pausing military aid to Ukraine, according to two U.S. officials, following last week’s public clash between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office. “The president has been clear that he is focused on peace. We need our partners to be committed to that goal as well,” a White House …

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump has ordered that swathes of America’s forests be felled for timber, evading rules to protect endangered species while doing so and raising the prospect of chainsaws razing some of the most ecologically important trees in the US. The president, in an executive order, has demanded an expansion in tree cutting across 280m acres (113m hectares) …

The Associated Press reports: France’s prime minister on Monday tore into U.S. President Donald Trump’s Oval Office thrashing of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, calling it a staggering show of “brutality” that aimed to humiliate Ukraine’s leader and bend him to the will of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The extraordinarily frank criticism from Prime Minister François Bayrou, speaking in a parliamentary debate on …

The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump said Monday that 25% taxes on imports from Mexico and Canada would start Tuesday, sparking renewed fears of a North American trade war that already showed signs of pushing up inflation and hindering growth. “Tomorrow — tariffs 25% on Canada and 25% on Mexico. And that’ll start,” Trump told reporters in the Roosevelt …

The New York Times reports: Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has deleted hundreds more claims from its mistake-plagued “wall of receipts,” erasing $4 billion in additional savings that the group said it had made for U.S. taxpayers. Late Sunday night, the group erased or altered more than 1,000 contracts it had claimed to cancel, representing more than 40 percent …

“I have been told by a senior official here that nothing is gonna happen with this minerals deal until Zelenskyy goes in front of cameras and makes an explicit public apology for the way he behaved in the Oval Office with that meeting.” – Fox News reporter Peter Doocy, reporting today from the White House. Doocy: “I have been told …

Politico reports: President Donald Trump on Monday dismissed a spate of contentious town halls that congressional Republicans have faced in recent weeks as being the work of “paid ‘troublemakers.’” Trump’s Truth Social post came after a new round of Republican-hosted town halls grew heated in recent days, with Rep. Keith Self (Texas) and Sen. Roger Marshall (Kan.) among those who …

The BBC reports: Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said the UK and France will work with Ukraine “on a plan to stop the fighting” with Russia – and will then “discuss that plan with the United States”. He also dismissed calls by SNP first minister John Swinney to cancel the invite for a second state visit to the UK …