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During his State of the Union Address, President Donald Trump touted his economic achievements, boosting that, “African-American unemployment stands at the lowest rate ever recorded.”

President Trump is going to openly demand a “path to citizenship” in his State of the Union address, per full text of it obtained by Breitbart News.

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Lawmakers and anti-Trump activists are hoping to grab the spotlight ahead of President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address.

More than two dozen illegal aliens are expected to attend President Trump’s “State of the Union” (SOTU) address with Democrats to demand an immediate large-scale amnesty.

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) says he has asked the United States Capitol Police and Attorney General Jeff Sessions to arrest “any illegal aliens” who arrive and attempt to attend President Trump’s “State of the Union” address.

The number of Democratic members of Congress who will not attend President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address totals 11.

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump will welcome 15 guests — a welder, parents of teens allegedly murdered by MS-13 gang members, members of the military and law enforcement, rescue workers, business owners, and a volunteer — to the president’s first State of the Union address Tuesday.

President Donald Trump will deliver a State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday, celebrating the accomplishments achieved in the first year of his presidency.

Some tickets for the State of the Union address on Tuesday misspelled Union, with the word “Uniom” printed instead.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rightly inferred that one threat more dangerous than President Obama’s Iranian nuclear deal would be failing to meaningfully enforce all restrictions to Iran’s nuclear weapons program once the deal is in place.

Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) negotiators have dismissed a March deadline for peace talks with the Colombian government as “naive,” as the terrorist organization demands more concessions from a government looking to end terrorist violence through dialogue.

Dr. Kelli Ward weighed in following President Barack Obama’s Tuesday evening State of the Union address and highlighted the Obama presidency’s “lack of basic leadership.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Obama, in his final State of the Union (SOTU) address delivered Tuesday, only mentioned Afghanistan, home to America’s longest war, once, without highlighting that a resilient Taliban has managed to gain control of more territory than

Before President Obama delivered his final State of the Union address Tuesday night, Washington D.C.-based rapper Wale took the stage and performed to a crowd at the WhiteHouse.gov’s #SOTU pre-show.

Hollywood was watching as President Obama delivered his final State of the Union address on Tuesday night. Most celebrities heaped praise on the president and expressed regret that the address would be his last. Others took the opportunity to trash Republicans.

The Obama administration has reportedly apologized to Iran for an incident in which the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) seized two U.S. Navy boats, taking 10 sailors captive.

In an oblique reference to Pope Francis, President Obama blasted those who refer to “World War III” when speaking of the state of the terror in the world today, calling such claims “over the top.” Pope Francis was the first

In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama used the words of Pope Francis during his visit last fall to strengthen his call for further openness, specifically toward Muslims in the United States, and as a challenge, particularly to GOP frontrunner Donald Trump.

A spokesman for the nation of Mexico tweeted that America is “not a country” in response to Hillary Clinton’s Spanish-language take on the State of the Union address. Clinton tweeted her support for President Obama in Spanish during Tuesday night’s

In his final State of the Union address Tuesday evening, President Barack Obama counted the recent reform of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and the law’s new pre-school provision as hallmarks of his tenure as president, and he said he will continue to fight for universal pre-K and free community college.

President Obama went after climate change skeptics on Tuesday during his last State of the Union address.

The Obama Pentagon announced Monday that Guantánamo detainee Muhammad Abd Al Rahman Awn Al-Shamrani, 40, will be transferred back to his home country of Saudi Arabia. With the Monday announcement, Al-Shamrani became the fourth Guantánamo detainee released in 2016. U.S.

Recent news that the Obama White House obtained intelligence containing private conversations of members of Congress and American Jewish organizations from the National Security Agency (NSA) suggests the integrity of our intelligence agencies have been undermined. Congress should suspend the president’s invitation to deliver his State of the Union address from the House chamber until his administration fully complies with all congressional demands to get to the bottom of this new spying scandal.

One of the most hotly contested proposals put forward by President Barack Obama during his State of the Union address is the president’s free-tuition plan for students attending two-year community colleges.

In a desperate attempt at relevance, President Barack Obama thought he could pay for two promised years of free community college tuition by eliminating the tax exemption on middle-class 529 college-savings accounts. Although the Administration argued that the 529 accounts disproportionately benefit higher-income families, disenfranchising 11.6 million accounts was seen as just short of a declaration of war on “the family.” This afternoon Obama dumped his tax plan.

Is the State of the Union response cursed or is it just badly produced? I’ll leave it to others to debate the former proposition, but I think it’s time for someone to state the obvious about the latter. The State of the Union response is often underwhelming.

Freshman Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) is coming under fire for her failure to address what many consider to be one of the biggest constitutional overreaches by a president in U.S. history in her prime time response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night.

Wednesday on the “Tom Joyner Radio Show,” sometime Obama adviser and MSNBC host Al Sharpton gave a simple, honest breakdown of President Obama’s plan to redistribute wealth through the tax code. Sharpton said, “Most important, he said ‘I’m going to

The situation on the ground in Iraq has reached a critical point in that country’s ongoing war against the Islamic terrorist group ISIS, as the Iraqi PM Haider al-Abadi is asking for more help from the U.S.-led coalition. “Bombing from

During his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Obama said that he would like to see the first two years of a student’s college tuition be paid for by the government, which Democrats applauded, but the president’s words weren’t enough to satisfy Democrat Congressman Alan Grayson, who said that college tuition should be entirely paid for by the U.S. government.

Wednesday on “Democracy Now,” consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader slammed President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address as “not specific enough,” “not coherent enough,” and “troubling.” Remarks as follows: “Well, he was too vague on that.

Wednesday, Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) said President Barack Obama’s “fantasyland proposals” and “veto threats,” he laid out last night in his State of the Union address will not stop the new Congress from doing its work.

It is not unusual for U.S. presidents to reference the pope in their State of the Union addresses. President Obama’s decision to quote Pope Francis in Tuesday’s address follows on Lyndon Johnson’s citation of Pope Paul VI in 1968 and Bill Clinton’s reference to Pope John Paul II in 2000.

One of the themes of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday involved bridging the so-called gender pay gap that exists in the American economy. However as previously pointed out, that pay gap still exists within the

Pro-amnesty Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-FL), in delivering the Republican’s Spanish-language response to the State of the Union (SOTU) address, called on Obama to cooperate with the GOP in crafting “permanent solutions to our immigration system.” Freshman Rep. Curbelo did not challenge the president on illegal immigration or executive amnesty.