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World & Nation
Trump Eyes New Security Tariffs After Supreme Court Ruling
President
Donald Trump's administration is considering new national security
tariffs on a half-dozen industries after a Supreme Court decision last
week that invalidated many of his second-term levies, the Wall Street
Journal reported Monday.
The new
tariffs, to be issued under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of
1962, would be separate from a 15% global levy Trump announced on
Saturday, the report said, citing people familiar with the plans.
Reuters could not immediately confirm the report. The White House did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Convicted criminals on the loose in Mexico after thugs ram prison gate during riot over cartel killing
Twenty-three
inmates escaped and one guard was killed after armed men stormed a
prison in the Mexican resort town of Puerto Vallarta, which has been
under siege by cartel members since drug lord Nemesio Oseguera, known
as “El Mencho,” was killed in a military operation.
The attackers
opened fire on the facility and busted in the Centro Integral de
Justicia Regional on Sunday by crashing a vehicle through the gate,
Mexican officials confirmed.
The break-in
sparked a riot inside the prison, complicating a security response to
the escape, and a guard was killed in the violence, according to
Vallarta Daily. Reinforcements were sought from outside the region but
road conditions hindered their response.
Trump to Tout Record, Bold Agenda in SOTU
President
Donald Trump will "tout the administration's accomplishments over the
past year" in his State of the Union on Tuesday night while also laying
out "a very ambitious agenda" to help American workers, White House
press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.
Speaking to
reporters outside the White House on Tuesday morning, Leavitt said
Americans can expect a speech focused heavily on the economy, national
security, and the administration's record at home and abroad.
"You're going
to hear a speech that is a celebration of 250 years of our nation and
our nation's independence. You're going to hear the president share the
stories of everyday Americans who have benefited from his policies.
You're going to hear the president share tear-jerking stories of
American heroes, past and present, who really exemplify what it means
to be a patriotic American," Leavitt said.
Savannah Guthrie Announces $1M Reward in Mother's Disappearance
Savannah
Guthrie announced her family is offering a reward of up to $1 million
for information leading to the recovery of her missing mother, Nancy
Guthrie, who went missing from her Arizona home more than three weeks
ago..
"Someone out
there knows something that can bring her home," the "Today" show host
said in an emotional Instagram video posted Tuesday morning.
Guthrie said it
has been 24 days since her mother "was taken in the dark of night from
her bed," describing the time since as relentless agony for her family.
Zelenskyy: Putin Has Started WWIII
Russian
President Vladimir Putin has "already started" World War III, and the
only way to stop him is to continue using strong economic pressure and
military force against him, according to a defiant Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
"The question
is how much territory he will be able to seize and how to stop him,"
Zelenskyy said in an interview with the BBC this week. "Russia wants to
impose on the world a different way of life and change the lives people
have chosen for themselves."
"I believe that
stopping Putin today and preventing him from occupying Ukraine is a
victory for the whole world, because Putin will not stop at Ukraine,"
he said.
DOJ Probes Netflix for Monopoly Concerns
The Justice
Department has opened a sweeping Section 2 probe into Netflix Inc. as
part of its review of the company's proposed $72 billion takeover of
Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.
The move
dramatically expanded the scope of scrutiny and signaled that the
streaming giant could face antitrust exposure even if the blockbuster
merger ultimately collapses.
According to a
civil investigative demand reviewed by Bloomberg News and sent Friday
to an independent movie studio, the DOJ is examining whether the deal
"may substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly in
violation of Section 7 of the Clayton Act or Section 2 of the Sherman
Act."
Ex-NHL star fires back at Team USA men's hockey critics: 'It's a real shame'
Former NHL star
Jeremy Roenick condemned those who have chosen not to celebrate Team
USA men’s hockey’s gold medal victory at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
Roenick
appeared on "Jesse Watters Primetime" on Monday and talked about what
it meant to USA Hockey to win the gold medal, especially over Canada,
but lamented criticism aimed at the team.
The United
States celebrates after winning the men's ice hockey gold medal game
during the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games at Milano
Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena on Feb. 22, 2026. (James Lang/Imagn Images)
Newsom blasted by CA GOP chair over viral clip labeled 'racist' by critics: 'He should be embarrassed'
Newsom and his team have pushed back against the criticism over the viral clip
California Gov.
Gavin Newsom’s viral comment about his poor SAT score and difficulty
reading is drawing criticism from the chairwoman of the California
Republican Party, who says it speaks to a broader issue of the way
Democrats speak to Black voters in a condescending way.
"My first
instinct was I couldn't believe that the governor of California was
saying something like this in 2026," Corrin Rankin, the first Black
chair of the California GOP in history, told Fox News Digital.
The controversy
began on Sunday when the conservative influencer account End Wokeness
posted a clip of Newsom, viewed more than 40 million times on X,
showing him telling Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens "I’m like you" and
explaining that he has trouble reading and did poorly on his SAT.
The clip was
viewed by many conservatives as Newsom pandering to Black viewers,
talking down to them, and some called the clip "racist."
Trump’s State of the Union should celebrate his record and face the tasks ahead
By Post Editorial Board
In
his State of the Union speech Tuesday, President Trump should boast of
his triumphs this last year — and offer a frank and positive take on
the work still ahead.
The nation should see him as the happy warrior he deserves to be: cheerful, proud, upbeat.
Trump began his
second term full of optimism, promising a “golden age,” reversing the
misery and turmoil of the Biden years — and immediately started making
good on his vows.
He
secured the border almost instantly, cutting the illegal migrant inflow
by more than 90%, and soon close to 100% (and so debunking Democrats’
yearslong claims that the job was impossible without new laws).
Inflation fell from a high of 9.1% under President Joe Biden to just 2.7% last year.
Over Democrats’ vociferous objections, Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill
prevented economy-killing tax hikes and provided new tax cuts — on
tips, overtime, Social Security, etc. — to benefit working folks.
Ukraine’s morale remains up as it fends of Russia, winter barrage: ‘Still a force to be reckoned with’
By Colin Freeman
When Russian
tanks rolled into Ukraine four years ago, there was never much doubt
that Roman Ratushnyi would take up arms. The 24-year-old was a seasoned
independence activist, having been a teenage leader of the street
protests that toppled Kyiv’s pro-Kremlin government in 2014.
When he died
just three months into his military service, a street in Kyiv was named
after him, and today his grave is a place of pilgrimage for young
Ukrainians. The pilgrims also learn, though, that war is irredeemably
cruel — as proved by the extra headstone that now lies next to his own.
It marks the grave of his brother, Vasyl, who died in combat a year ago
this Friday, leaving his parents mourning the loss of both sons.
“Even now, a
year later, I’m not sure I can quite accept that it’s happened,” says
the brothers’ father, Taras, 52, himself now a captain in an artillery
brigade. “We in Ukraine are living through the most horrific experience
in Europe since World War II.”
It is men like
Taras whom Vladimir Putin would have hoped to have broken by now,
wearing their morale down to the point where they no longer wish to
fight. Yet as the invasion marks its fourth anniversary today, Taras
sees light at the end of a very long tunnel. Not because he thinks
victory is immediately within grasp or because he has any faith in
Donald Trump’s peace talks. Instead, it is because the past year has
been Ukraine’s toughest so far — and yet it has pulled through.
