The New York Times praised Eileen Gu, an American-born Olympic skier who chose to compete for China, and criticized the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team, claiming they “lost the room” for visiting President Donald Trump after their gold medal win.

Wednesday on CNN’s “The Situation Room,” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said heckling President Donald Trump during his State of the Union address was “unavoidable.”

Host Wolf Blitzer said, “CNN reported before that speech that the House Democratic leader, Hakeem Jeffries, advised your caucus and Democratic members to either skip the State of the Union address or sit there in silence. Should you have just boycotted the address? And do you think you violated the guidelines set out by your own leader?”

Border chief Tom Homan rebuked Pope Leo XIV for failing to understand that President Donald Trump’s border policies are saving the lives of thousands of migrants each year.

“Look, what he doesn’t understand is the flip side to illegal migration,” Homan told Breitbart News when he was asked to comment on Pope Leo’s comments on migration:

Nicaragua’s communist regime prohibited 406 Catholic Via Crucis (Stations of the Cross) processions during the first week of Lent, the newspaper La Prensa reported this week.

Catholics around the world are presently observing Lent, a 40-day period of fasting and reflection in anticipation of Holy Week and Easter. As it is a movable observance, 2026’s Lent period began on February 18, Ash Wednesday, and will run through April 2, Holy Thursday. The Stations of the Cross is a public Catholic procession that commemorates Jesus Christ’s last day on Earth prior to His resurrection.

Venezuela’s socialist regime this week announced the start of a construction project to “transform” the Helicoide (“The Helix”), its largest and most infamous torture complex, into a “cultural center.”

In a video published on Monday by Venezuelan Communications Minister Miguel Ángel Pérez Pirela and shared by other regime-affiliated social media accounts, acting President Delcy Rodríguez is heard explaining that the socialist regime decided to turn the Helicoide into a “social, sports, cultural, and commercial center for police families and the communities surrounding this facility.”

President Donald Trump delivered the longest-ever State of the Union (SOTU) speech on Tuesday night, but his marathon performance had no room for China, other than a humorous aside he made about unreliable Chinese military hardware during his remarks on Venezuela.

Zimbabwe’s Minister of Mines and Mining Development, Polite Kambamura, announced on Wednesday that all exports of raw minerals and lithium concentrates would be banned until further notice due to unspecified “continued malpractices” in the mining industry.

The Jeffrey Epstein scandal continues to take its toll on leftists. On Wednesday, Larry Summers announced he would resign his teaching position at Harvard.

Summers, who served as former President Bill Clinton’s treasury secretary for two years, and who also served as Harvard’s president from 2001 to 2006, has been gutted of his prestige and status due to a longstanding association with Epstein.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) skipped President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address to advocate for transing minors. 

Jayapal, along with several other Democrats, instead spoke at an event hosted by left-wing activist groups at the National Mall billed as the “People’s State of the Union.” During her speech, the lawmaker, who has an adult child who identifies as “gender nonconforming,” claimed “trans kids” are “being bullied,” even though the Trump administration is working tirelessly to fight the sexual mutilation of minors. 

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President Trump led off his State of the Union speech by addressing the state of the economy, highlighting the progress on bringing down inflation after the Biden-Powell surge that undermined America’s post-pandemic recovery.

It was hard to find a single USA men’s hockey team member who wasn’t grinning from ear to ear during Tuesday night’s State of the Union (SOTU) address, but to one ESPN radio host, they looked like “sad little pawns.”

Peter Rosenberg uploaded a live reaction video to the YouTube channel of The Ebro Laura Rosenberg Show, arguing that the gold-medal-winning hockey team was being used as props.