Headlines for February 25, 2026

Trump Defends His Immigration Crackdown in State of the Union Address, Several GOP Lawmakers Call on Rep. Gonzales to Resign Over Allegations of Affair With Staffer, Pentagon Pressures Anthropic to Allow Full Access to Its AI Models, Mexico’s Gov’t Warns of Legal Action Against Musk After He Falsely Links Sheinbaum to Drug Cartels, Reuters: Iran Close to Deal to Purchase Anti-Ship Cruise Missiles From China, Whistleblower Claims FBI Agents Delayed to Crime Scenes Due to Kash Patel’s Use of Agency’s Private Jets, Trump Administration Sues University of California Over Allegations of Antisemitism at UCLA, WSJ: Trump Considers Issuing Executive Order to Force U.S. Banks to Collect Citizenship Information, More Than Two Dozen People Killed in RSF Raid in North Darfur, BBC Edits Out References to Trump’s Crackdown in Minneapolis From Broadcast of BAFTA Awards, South Carolina Enlists Help of Public Health Experts Outside the CDC to Contain Measles Outbreak, 15 Democratic-Led States Sue the Trump Administration to Reverse CDC’s Vaccine Policy, At Least 30 People Reported Dead in Brazil From Floods and Landslides