New York Times ‘Fact-Checks’ Trump’s State of the Union—Before He Delivers the Address

Progress on inflation, immigration, crime and jobs? All imaginary, the Times insists Donald Trump, Mike Pence, and Nancy Pelosi (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) February 24, 2026 image/svg+xml Before the State of the Union address, politicians and interest groups from the party opposite the president sometimes offer “prebuttals,” denunciations of the president’s remarks even before

Friend of U.S. citizen killed by ICE agent disputed official account of shooting

The close friend of a 23-year-old American citizen and Texas resident who was killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent last year disputed officials’ account of the fatal shooting in a declaration he dictated to the slain man’s lawyers. Ruben Ray Martinez died in March 2025 after being shot in South Padre Island, Texas.

Ro Khanna Claimed Epstein Visited ‘CIA Headquarters.’ It Was Almost Certainly An Hermès Design Studio.

Rep. Ro Khanna (D., Calif.) said in an interview released Monday that he is “so careful” not to spread “conspiracy theories” about Jeffrey Epstein. He then claimed that Epstein visited CIA headquarters, seemingly citing a viral photograph that almost certainly shows Epstein at a design studio for Hermès, the luxury French leather goods company of