Trump awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Team USA hockey goalie Connor Hellebuyck after he led the team to Olympic gold.
The Land of the Free is hot, but it’s not the only in vogue thing that graced Trump’s two-hour Tuesday night speech.
President Trump said in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday that he prefers a diplomatic solution to the crisis with Iran , but at the same time laid out a case for a potential war against the Islamic Republic. Why it matters: Trump's remarks about Iran were relatively short and were not the center part of his speech , but it was the first time he detailed the reasons that led him to consider launching a military campaign . - Trump's speech may mark the launch of an effort to prepare U.S. public opinion for going to war against Iran and to justify such a move if he concludes that the negotiations with Iran have reached a dead end. - At Trump's orders, the American military has assembled over the past several weeks the biggest…
President Trump 's remarks during Tuesday's State of the Union address focused on the stark contrast between the GOP and Democratic opposition , underscoring culture-war flashpoints and carefully acknowledging guests to reflect his political messaging. The big picture: The speech took place with quite a few members of Congress missing — though that didn't stop several Democrats from shouting their objections or heckling the president during his 108-minute-long speech. Here are the top 5 most notable moments from the 2026 SOTU: "You should be ashamed of yourself" One of the most heated interactions of the night occurred after Trump asked the audience to stand up if they agreed with his statement that the "first duty of the American…
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The author and former Miss California USA sat down with The American Conservative to discuss her removal from the Religious Liberty Commission. The post The TAC Interview: Carrie Prejean Boller on MAGA’s Israel Divide appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics The TAC Interview: Carrie Prejean Boller on MAGA’s Israel Divide The author and former Miss California USA sat down with The American Conservative to discuss her removal from the Religious Liberty Commission. Carrie Prejean Boller, who was recently removed from a federal religious freedom advisory commission, says her ouster followed months of conflict over her public criticism of Israel and objections to defining anti-Zionism as antisemitism. In an interview with The American Conservative, she discussed the dispute, her role in a contentious commission hearing, and divisions on the right over Israel. You were involved in a…Open
Almost the moment Venezuela’s ex-President Nicolás Maduro began cooling his heels in an American jail cell, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would be taking over Venezuela’s oil resources for pleasure and profit. “We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in and […] The post Companies Are Skeptical of Venezuela’s Oil Fields appeared first on The American Conservative .
Latin America Companies Are Skeptical of Venezuela’s Oil Fields Multinationals with existing investments in the region are happy, but new investment may be hard to come by. Almost the moment Venezuela’s ex-President Nicolás Maduro began cooling his heels in an American jail cell, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would be taking over Venezuela’s oil resources for pleasure and profit. “We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in and spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start making…Open
On the morning the regime fell, Rashid Saad left his house before dawn and stepped onto the road outside Al-Rusafa, a village in Syria’s Alawite heartland along the Mediterranean coast. Cars clogged the road in every direction, overloaded with people and their belongings. It was bitterly cold, but that is not what he remembers most. […] The post After Assad, Syria’s Alawites Test the New Order appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs After Assad, Syria’s Alawites Test the New Order Can the new state serve all Syrians? Syria Bashar al-Assad Credit: Jordan Allott On the morning the regime fell, Rashid Saad left his house before dawn and stepped onto the road outside Al-Rusafa, a village in Syria’s Alawite heartland along the Mediterranean coast. Cars clogged the road in every direction, overloaded with people and their belongings. It was bitterly cold, but that is not what he remembers most. “There was a kind of fear,” he said. “Of something unknown.” Life in the village had never been easy. Rashid was poor, and work was…Open
A triumph in indoor soccer has turned Alireza Ahmadi, 17, and other players from the Hazara minority, long marginalized in Afghanistan, into national heroes.