The men's Olympic hockey team is headed to the State of the Union address on Tuesday, but the women have other plans.On Sunday, Team USA men's hockey completed the sweep of the hockey category with a 2-1 overtime win against Canada, winning gold just as the USA women did days prior.'We are sincerely grateful for the invitation extended to our gold medal-winning US Women's Hockey Team.'After the men's win, President Donald Trump gave the team a call in the locker room in what was a highly circulated moment of patriotic celebration."Unbelievable. You were all unbelievable. That team is pretty good you played," Trump said about the Canadians. He then invited the team to his presidential address on Tuesday."We could send a military plane or something. But if you would like to [attend], it's the coolest night. ... We'll do the White House the next day."The president then joked, "We're going to have to bring the women's team," or else he "probably would be impeached."The invitation was sincere, however, and the men unanimously agreed they would love to go to the event. The same could not be said about the women's team though."We are sincerely grateful for the invitation extended to our gold medal-winning U.S. Women's Hockey Team and deeply appreciate the recognition of their extraordinary achievement," a spokesperson for the American women began. RELATED: Team USA's amazing gold-medal gesture you may have missed "Due to the timing and previously scheduled academic and professional commitments following the Games, the athletes are unable to participate. They were honored to be included and are grateful for the acknowledgment," the statement added, per CNN. Those academic commitments are likely in reference to the fact that seven of the American women on the Team USA roster are still in college.Four players are currently playing in Wisconsin: Laila Edwards, Caroline Harvey, Ava McNaughton, and Kirsten Simms.Abbey Murphy goes to Minnesota, Joy Dunne plays at Ohio State, while Tessa Janecke plays for Penn State, the NCAA noted. It is also noteworthy that 23 of the women previously played NCAA hockey as well.For the men, the NHL schedule picks back up Wednesday night at 7 p.m. ET. Hero Jack Hughes, who scored the gold medal-winning goal, was asked about the women declining the invitation; he quickly came to their defense.RELATED: Unpaid bill has Foxboro refusing to grant license for World Cup games at Gillette Stadium "People are so negative out there, and they are just trying to find a reason to put people down and make something out of almost nothing," Hughes said from Miami, where the team has been seen celebrating their win."People are so negative about things. I think everyone in that locker room knows how much we support them, how proud we are of them. And we know the same way we feel about them, they feel about us," the athlete continued, per the Daily Mail.Hughes was asked about visiting the president too, to which he said the team was indeed "excited.""Everything is so political. We're athletes," he explained. "'We're so proud to represent the U.S., and when you get the chance to go to White House and meet the president, we're proud to be Americans and that's so patriotic."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Core, an invitation-only private club in Manhattan where membership fees reportedly range from $15,000 to $100,000 a year, has counted among its approximately 1,500 members Blackstone Group CEO Stephen Schwarzman, former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, and New York Jets owner Woody Johnson.Dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was also a longtime patron of the club as well as a founding member.Jennie and Dangene Enterprise — the lesbian couple who run the club — are both under intense scrutiny over their friendship with the child sex offender in light of new insights from the Epstein files.Jennie Enterprise, however, might be in especially hot water over the apparently irreconcilable sworn statements that she allegedly provided about her club's finances in two separate cases regarding COVID fraud and rent delinquency.Competing claimsThe club entered a 20-year lease with 711 Fifth Ave Principal Owner LLC in 2021 and took over four floors of the building in 2023.In the years since, the Enterprises have been engaged in a bitter legal battle with property developer Michael Shvo. For instance, the Core Club reportedly sued Shvo in 2024 for $600 million, alleging that he failed to deliver promised upgrades to the 711 Fifth Ave. property and other locations. Shvo, in turn, accused the Core Club of defaulting on its lease at the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco.Last year, the landlord served the Core Club with a termination notice, alleging that it had "defaulted on its obligation to pay the Base Rent and/or Additional Rent under the Lease in the amount of $3,633,787.13 by Aug. 1" as purportedly required under the lease.RELATED: Ex-Victoria's Secret owner now claiming Epstein 'conned' him once suggested he was demonically possessed Photo by Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan via Getty ImagesThe Core Club, in response, sought what is called a Yellowstone injunction barring the landlord from terminating the lease and evicting the club.A judge with New York County’s Commercial Division court obliged the Enterprises in September, finding that their club had "established 'it is prepared and maintains the ability to cure the alleged default by any means short of vacating the premises.'"Attorneys for the landlord have pointed out an apparent discrepancy between the story that Jennie Enterprise and the Core Club told the court and what they told the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York in their COVID-era relief fraud case in August.The landlord's attorneys alleged in a court filing on Wednesday that the Core Club secured its injunction "by making materially misleading representations to this Court about its financial health," and has "repeatedly been delinquent" on its use and occupancy payments.The attorneys noted that in September 2025, the club "represented to the Court that it had a more than sufficient financial ability to cure its default of over $3.5 million in past due rent and that it could continue paying Rent at the Least rate."'You have influenced my life in a really amazing way.'While supposedly able to pay millions in allegedly past-due rent, the attorneys noted that the club managed in August to avoid paying back most of the over $4 million that Core Club entities — controlled by Jennie Enterprise — fraudulently received in COVID-era relief funds and paid only a fraction of the $8.1 million consent judgment against the club.The attorneys highlighted that court documents show that Jennie Enterprise's sworn financial disclosures about the Core Club's "financial condition" to the USAO-SDNY led the government "to accept in compromise" a settlement of only $366,000 spread over several years.The Wednesday court filing alleged:These apparent representations by the SDNY Core Defendants to the United States Attorney regarding their supposed inability to pay a civil penalty greater than $360,000 over five years flies directly in the face of Tenant’s representations to this Court regarding its supposed ability to cure its default of over $3.5 million in past due rent and continue paying Rent at the Lease rate.The landlord suggested that under the circumstances, the injunction should be vacated and further relief should be conditioned on the Epstein club's payment of the outstanding rent.When asked for comment, the Core Club's attorney Marc Kasowitz said in a statement to Blaze News, "Shvo's latest attempt to relitigate issues the Court has already addressed will fail, just as his others have. Shvo's motion falsely claims that Core violated the Yellowstone order, but Core is current on rent and has fully complied with the Court’s directives."Kasowitz suggested that the apparent function of the filing was to distract from "pressures surrounding Shvo's broader real estate ventures" and noted, "Core will oppose this motion vigorously and is confident the Court will recognize it as another meritless attempt to manufacture a default where none exists."Shvo's office did not respond to Blaze News' request for comment.Epstein's gal palsThe latest trove of Epstein files released by the Department of Justice provides insights into Epstein's involvement with the club and the Enterprises, whose relationship with the pedophile apparently thrived after his guilty plea in 2008 for solicitation of a minor for prostitution.Epstein not only routinely visited the club's spa and had women in his network attend but clearly made an impression on Jennie Enterprise, who appears to have written to the pedophile just months after his guilty plea, "You are and have always been sooooo special too me ....not sure u will ever know how much you have influenced my life in a really amazing way."The club recently downplayed Epstein's involvement, telling the Wall Street Journal in a statement that the pedophile was one of 150 members who belonged from 2003 and 2007 but continued thereafter as a client of the club's spa.Dangene Enterprise often applied Epstein's skin treatments, reported the Journal."The Enterprises were never part of this individual’s social world," the club alleged. "He was a sounding board for the Enterprises on a variety of subjects, as he was known to be a highly in-demand, influential financial advisor and philanthropist in New York City."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom's communications team fired off a nasty response to a reporter who requested documentation of the governor's supposed dyslexia diagnosis. RealClearPolitics political correspondent Susan Crabtree reached out to Newsom's taxpayer-funded communications team after Fox News' Sean Hannity criticized the governor for mentioning his low SAT score as a way to connect with voters in a majority-black city.'I’m going to continue to ask tough questions despite this vitriolic attempt to intimidate me.'Newsom "Thinks a 960 SAT Makes Him 'Like' Black Americans. Let That Sink In," Hannity wrote in a post on X. Newsom replied to Hannity by noting his "lifelong struggle with dyslexia."Crabtree asked Newsom's office for documentation verifying the governor's dyslexia diagnosis, highlighting apparent contradictions in Newsom's account of when he learned of his diagnosis. She noted that Newsom has previously claimed that he discovered the paperwork from his childhood about his dyslexia diagnosis after his father passed away in 2018. "Newsom also has said he was diagnosed with dyslexia in 1972 — that would be when he was five or six," Crabtree wrote. "Is there anything the governor can point to as proof of this?"Izzy Gardon, the director of communications for Newsom's office, replied to Crabtree, writing, "Hey, Susan — thanks for reaching out. Respectfully, f**k off." Newsom has stated that he struggled with dyslexia as a child and still finds it difficult to read. "There's certain things I can't do, and I'm in the wrong business to not be able to do them. Meaning, I can't read very well, and when you have to give speeches all the time ... it's hard because you can't read a script," Newsom said in a 2017 video interview. He called it "horribly difficult" to read a script from a teleprompter. RELATED: 'I’m like you': Newsom insults audience in a failed attempt to relate to voters in majority-black city Gavin Newsom. Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagesIn the 2017 video, Newsom stated that he found out he had been previously diagnosed with dyslexia "in fifth or sixth, seventh grade."Newsom appeared to contradict himself during an April interview, in which he said he had recently read a 350-page book in less than two hours. To finish the 11-hour audiobook in two hours, one would need to play it at 5.5 times the normal speed."I went through it in a quick hour and a half, almost two hours. And trust me, I don't read very fast, but it reads at an unbelievable pace," Newsom stated.RELATED: California Democrats crushed by backlash against tax proposal to replace revenue lost by electric car mandate Gavin Newsom. Photo by Peter Zay/Anadolu via Getty ImagesNewsom “obviously doesn’t like all the California corruption we exposed in our book, 'Fool’s Gold,' but I’m going to continue to ask tough questions despite this vitriolic attempt to intimidate me,” Crabtree told Blaze News.When asked whether Gardon has ever expressed similar hostility toward her previously, Crabtree said, “A few weeks ago he called me ‘delusional’ when I was asking about Newsom’s inflated claims about his ‘college baseball career’ that only amounted to — at the very most — several months on the JV team without playing in any official games.”Blaze News contacted Gardon to ask if he would like to provide further context about Crabtree's request or any documentation confirming Newsom's diagnosis. "Conspiracy MAGA blogger pivots from Bigfoot to medical record fishing. We'll pass!" Gardon replied. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

California Governor Gavin Newsom is being touted as the Democratic Party’s next presidential hopeful, but political commentator Kevin Dalton points out that his abysmal track record might be an issue.“Obviously, leaving severely mentally ill, drug-addicted people on the streets to their own devices isn’t working. So, two or three years ago, Gavin Newsom came up with this great idea,” Dalton tells BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere on “Stu Does America.”The idea is called CARE Court, which is meant to address homelessness and mental illness by offering those suffering things like free housing, medication, and job training.“So, flash forward two years, we finally get some numbers from CARE Court. Hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, of course, are gone. And Gavin Newsom promised that this would get around 50,000 people into the system, off the streets a year,” Dalton explains.“I can’t even remember the exact numbers, but I think a few thousand ended up signing up, and then most of those were just kicked by the courts. ... It finally spiraled down to, 22 people ended up being forced into CARE by the CARE Court,” he continues.“This is such a perfect example of millions of dollars, hundreds of millions of dollars, just going away and no results. And then Newsom just moves on to the next thing,” he adds.Stu points out that the number spent was around a quarter of a billion dollars.“Twenty-two people, almost a quarter of a billion dollars, absolutely amazing, even by California’s standards,” Stu says.Meanwhile, the California wildfires have wiped out thousands of homes — and left thousands of families waiting for their permits to be approved to try to build new ones.“In the meantime, their bills are adding up, and they’ve got these people, the corporate buyers are coming in, trying to scoop up their land now because it’s just easier. It’s just an absolute mess,” Dalton says.“For somebody who wants to run for president, you’d think, maybe start to address the homelessness, maybe try to get people back in their homes from this apocalyptic fire,” he adds.Want more from Stu?To enjoy more of Stu's lethal wit, wisdom, and mockery, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Democrats never miss an opportunity to don costumes, throw tantrums, and protest while President Donald Trump is addressing Congress.For instance, some of the Democrats who refused to clap for Trump during his Jan. 30, 2018, State of the Union address also signaled their protest by wearing Kente cloths — the garb of a slave-trading African tribe. At the February 2019 SOTU, some Democrat women wore white to protest the president's support for the unborn and other positions congressional feminists apparently find intolerable. At the president's joint address to Congress last year, some Democrats wore pink in protest and/or booed the president.While Trump derangement syndrome might still be colorfully displayed Tuesday evening, at least 30 Democrat lawmakers are planning to take their circus outside — which might make for a more peaceable State of the Union.'I don’t think that what we saw in Congress last year was particularly helpful.'The leftist organizing group MoveOn and the propaganda outfit MeidasTouch are hosting a "counterprogramming" rally at 8 p.m. on the National Mall.Democrat Sens. Ed Markey (Mass.), Jeff Merkley (Ore.), Tina Smith (Minn.), Chris Van Hollen (Md.), Ruben Gallego (Ariz.), and Adam Schiff (Calif.) are planning to attend, along with a horde of House Democrats including Reps. Yassamin Ansari (Ariz.), Becca Balint (Vt.), Greg Casar (Texas), Pramila Jayapal (Wash.), and anchor-baby Rep. Delia Ramirez (Ill.).Merkley suggested that attendance at the SOTU would serve Trump's supposed effort to "tighten his authoritarian grip."Van Hollen, among the Democrats who stuck to a similar script, claimed, "Trump is marching America towards fascism, and I refuse to normalize his shredding of our Constitution & democracy."RELATED: Those who 'take a knee' to Trump will be 'held accountable' when Democrats seize control, Susan Rice threatens Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images"He uses his speeches to pillory his political enemies and spread lies — not to mention they're long and boring," complained Smith.Schiff recycled similar talking points and added, "This isn't business as usual."The organizers for the "counterprogramming" event hinted that Democrats will concern-monger about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents' execution of their duties, the termination of public health workers, rising costs, and other matters."Trump wants the attention and the ratings, but we cannot treat this year’s State of the Union like business as usual," said MoveOn program chief Sara Haghdoosti. "That’s why MoveOn is hosting the People’s State of the Union, where we will hear directly from the people facing the consequences of Trump’s disastrous administration."House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) may be relieved that his colleagues are planning to rage remotely on Tuesday.After all, their booing and incivility were so bad at Trump's address to the joint session of Congress last year that one lawmaker, Rep. Al Green of Texas, was later censured. Most Democrats also remained seated while Trump honored a cancer-stricken Texas boy, Devarjhaye "DJ" Daniel, and announced his deputization as a U.S. Secret Service agent.Jeffries made clear last week to his fellow Democrats that they had two options — and more ugly protests in Congress aren't one of them.RELATED: Watch the State of the Union tonight on BlazeTV's YouTube channel "The two options that are in front of us in our House [are] to either attend with silent defiance or to not attend and send a message to Donald Trump in that fashion, which will include participation in a variety of different alternate programming that is going to take place in and around the Capitol complex," Jeffries said on Wednesday, reported The Hill.Jeffries is not alone in wanting his colleagues to exercise some restraint."I don’t think that what we saw in Congress last year was particularly helpful. I think it made us the story," Rep. Sarah McBride (Del.), the cross-dressing Democrat formerly known as Tim McBride, told NOTUS. "I think this president's unpopular policies should be the story, not sort of gestures from our side."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!