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President Donald Trump is heading to Capitol Hill this week to deliver the State of the Union address. Trump will speak Tuesday before a transformed nation. One year back in office, Trump is defying conventional expectations. The Republican president has executed a head-spinning agenda that includes upending priorities at home, shattering alliances abroad and challenging the nation’s foundational system of checks and balances. Lawmakers in the House chamber will listen to Trump’s agenda for the year ahead. It's an important moment for Congress, which has essentially become sidelined as Trump often bypasses the legislative branch to act on his own, amassing enormous power.

A federal judge has permanently barred the release of a report by special counsel Jack Smith on his investigation into President Donald Trump’s hoarding of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who was nominated to the bench by Trump, granted a request from the Republican president to keep under wraps the report detailing Smith’s findings in the probe that resulted in criminal charges in 2023. Cannon dismissed the case in 2024 after concluding that Smith was unlawfully appointed. One of the groups pushing for the release of the report said Cannon’s decision to block it “is impossible to square with the First Amendment and the common law,” and that there is ”no legitimate basis for its continued suppression."

President Donald Trump on Monday threatened countries around the world to abide by any tariff deals they agreed to, despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down many of his far-reaching taxes on imports. And he said he wants a global tariff of 15%, up from 10% he had announced immediately after the ruling. The Republican president won’t let go of his favorite tool for rewriting the rules of global commerce and applying international pressure. Trump's post warns that “any Country that wants to ‘play games’" with the court's decision "will be met with a much higher Tariff, and worse, than that which they just recently agreed to.”