State of the Union Live Updates: Trump Heralds Economic and Border Policies While Deriding Democrats  —  The president projected a version of the United States that is growing, safe and “winning.”  In the Democratic response, Gov. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia accused the president of sowing fear and lying about the economy.

Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump  —  The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds.  It also removed some documents from the public database …

Kash Patel's use of jet delayed FBI team's mass shooting response, whistleblower tells top senator  —  Agents with the FBI's elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown University in December because there was no FBI plane available to take them to Rhode Island …

Judge says government may not search devices seized from Post reporter  —  A federal judge in Virginia denied the Justice Department's request to search a Washington Post reporter's devices in a national security leak probe.  —  A federal judge in Virginia rejected the Justice Department's request …

Trump's Tariff Goes Into Effect at 10 Percent, Not the 15 Threatened  —  The change surprised executives and foreign leaders, who had been expecting the 15 percent rate the president announced on Saturday.  —  A new tariff on most global imports went into effect in the United States …

D.O.J. Sues U.C.L.A. After It Refused to Pay $1 Billion Fine  —  The Trump administration accused the university's Los Angeles campus of not doing enough to curb antisemitism, months after it tried to cut research money and demanded more than $1 billion.  —  The Trump administration sued …

Trump Administration Considers Action Requiring Banks to Collect Citizenship Information  —  Potential executive order would enlist banks in the Trump administration's illegal immigration crackdown  —  The Trump administration is weighing a possible executive order or other action …

Exclusive: Hegseth gives Anthropic until Friday to back down on AI safeguards  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei until Friday evening to give the military unfettered access to its AI model or face harsh penalties, Axios has learned.

Martin Short's Daughter Katherine Died By Suicide  —  Martin Short's daughter, Katherine, has taken her own life ... TMZ has learned.  —  The 42-year-old died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound ... law enforcement sources tell TMZ.  —  LAPD and the fire department responded …

What Elon Has Done  —  This decade has seen the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent lives in violent conflicts: in the Tigray War in Ethiopia, in civil war in Myanmar, in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, and most recently in the RSF massacres …