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Iran is nearing an agreement to purchase anti-ship cruise missiles from China, coinciding with the deployment of U.S. naval forces off its coast, Reuters reported. There is no delivery date set for the Chinese CM-302 missiles to Iran, but the deal is reportedly near. The supersonic missiles have a range of 290 kilometers, or 180 miles.  Six people confirmed to Reuters that negotiations between China and Iran started at least two years ago, but accelerated during the 12-day conflict between Israel and Iran in 2025. Top Iranian officials, including Massoud Oraei, Iran’s deputy defense minister, traveled to China last summer as part of the negotiation. It has not been determined how many missiles were being sold or for how much.  “Iran has military and security agreements with its allies and now is an appropriate time to make use of these agreements,” an Iranian foreign ministry official told Reuters. The weapons transfer would violate a United Nations weapons embargo imposed in 2006 and temporarily lifted in 2015 as part of a nuclear deal with the U.S. and allies. The U.N. reimposed the embargo last September. “It’s a complete gamechanger if Iran has supersonic capability to attack ships in the area,” said Danny Citrinowicz, a former Israeli intelligence officer and now senior Iran researcher at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies think tank, according to Reuters. “These missiles are very difficult to intercept.” The USS Abraham Lincoln and its strike group, along with the USS Gerald R. Ford and its escorts, are also heading to the region near Iran and can carry more than 5,000 personnel and 150 aircraft. China, Iran and Russia, seen as hostile to U.S. interests, hold annual joint naval exercises. Last year the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned several Chinese entities for supplying chemical precursors to Iran’s military.  Reuters contributed to this report. The post ‘Gamechanger’? China and Iran Reach a Deal That Could be Disturbing News for U.S. appeared first on The Daily Signal.

President Donald Trump is expected to highlight his economic accomplishments in the 2026 State of the Union address. The official theme of the speech is reportedly “America at 250: Strong, Prosperous and Respected.” Trump will showcase the economy by highlighting working-family guests and a data-driven case on affordability, Fox News Digital first reported. For instance, Trump will honor Pennsylvania wife and mother Megan Hemhauser, a waitress who benefitted from his “No Tax on Tips” and “No Tax on Overtime” policies. Trump also invited Catherine Rayner of Norfolk, Virginia, who was the first patient to use the TrumpRx portal to access discounted fertility drugs. Trump will highlight the tax cuts from his “One Big Beautiful Bill,” the establishment of Trump Accounts for babies born during his second term, efforts to lower drug prices, and moves to improve housing affordability, Fox reported. State of the Union viewers can expect the speech to feature a lot of economic focus, including some announcements on the economy, according to Breitbart’s Matt Boyle, who attended the president’s lunch with news anchors Thursday. Trump will reportedly call for a new form of corporate and personal tax cuts in his speech. According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump will announce agreements with major tech companies to make them carry a greater share of the energy cost burden associated with data centers. The companies have committed to “pay their own way” to keep consumers’ electricity costs down amid the increase in data center construction. Trump should highlight the Big Beautiful Bill’s increase of the Child Tax Credit to $2,200 for families; deregulatory actions, which have saved the economy over a trillion dollars; and Department of Government Efficiency cuts, which saved hundreds of billions of dollars, according to economist Steve Moore. “Trump is a pro-business president, and Biden was anti-business, and so that really hurt employment,” Moore told The Daily Signal. “It hurt American competitiveness.” “Trump put in policies, like the reduction in the tax on capital investment by businesses, that have been a huge boon to businesses and to workers as well,” Moore continued. “I think that’s the most important change is that Biden treated businesses like enemies, and Trump treated them like assets.” However, 57% of Americans said they disapprove of the way Trump is managing the economy, in a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll. However, families have more income, not less, thanks to Trump, Moore said. “He’s got to stay the course that these policies are working,” Moore said. “We’re bringing inflation down.” “We want stable prices, and we want to get away from the 9% inflation that we had under Biden,” Moore said, “so people want to feel like every time they go to the grocery store they’re not paying more.” Under Trump, inflation is falling, Moore said. “Historic relief for Americans,” Moore said. “That’s the real State of our Union.” Inflation under Biden hit 9.1%. The fastest price growth since Jimmy Carter.Under President Trump, inflation is down near 2% and falling. Historic relief for American families. That's the real State of our Union. pic.twitter.com/CfFyVZQd1l— Stephen Moore (@StephenMoore) February 24, 2026 The post ‘Historic Relief for Americans’: Trump to Showcase Economy in State of the Union Address appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Tonight is a big night for America—and The Daily Signal will be there every step of the way.  President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at 9 p.m. EST, and our team is ready to bring you the most comprehensive conservative coverage of his State of the Union address.  Here’s what we have planned.  Starting at 7 p.m., Daily Signal national correspondent Tony Kinnett kicks off a special live edition of “The Tony Kinnett Cast” with news and analysis before the speech even begins. At 8 p.m., Kinnett shifts into bonus coverage, breaking down what to watch for tonight and what’s at stake for Trump.   The Daily Signal will carry the entirety of Trump’s speech live, starting at 9 p.m. Then, after the president wraps up, Kinnett and the Daily Signal team go live again for a full post-speech breakdown.  Meanwhile, our own George Caldwell and Olivia Pero will be reporting from Capitol Hill inside Emancipation Hall, getting instant reactions from members of Congress.  You can watch the entire broadcast live on The Daily Signal’s YouTube channel and right here on our website.  This is what The Daily Signal does best. While other media outlets will offer you spin and selective outrage, we’re committed to bringing you Trump’s speech, the facts, and the honest analysis you can trust.  In the hours after the speech, our team of reporters will have detailed reports. Tyler O’Neil will examine the winners and losers. Elizabeth Mitchell is breaking down the top moments. Jarrett Stepman delivers the big-picture analysis. And our news team on Capitol Hill will have congressional reactions.  Be sure to subscribe to The Daily Signal on YouTube if you haven’t already. And share this with everyone you know who wants the real story tonight.  We’ll see you at 7 p.m.  The post WATCH LIVE: Tony Kinnett Covers Trump’s State of the Union—Only on Daily Signal  appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The SPD of Germany wants to end anonymous social media access in Germany. Tim Klüssendorf, Secretary General of the Social Democratic Party, confirmed this week that his party is pushing mandatory age verification for all social media platforms, tied directly to the EU Digital Identity Wallet, the bloc’s official government ID scheme. He’s already in talks with coalition partner CDU, Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s party, which called for an end to online anonymity just last week. Both parties now want the same thing. Naturally, Klüssendorf framed the proposal as child protection. “We are currently not meeting the state’s obligation to protect. I believe children and young people are particularly at risk there. That has been proven,” he said after an SPD leadership meeting in Berlin. The platforms, he added, are currently “operating a business model that is simply not compatible with our democratic principles.” The SPD’s formal position, adopted in an internal policy paper, breaks access into three tiers by age. Under-14s would face a complete ban from social media platforms. Under-16s could access only state-approved “youth versions,” stripped of algorithmic recommendation, infinite scroll, autoplay, and engagement reward systems. For everyone 16 and older, including adults, algorithmic content recommendations would be switched off by default. Want the algorithm? You’d have to actively opt in. The proposal sounds measured. It isn’t. Mandatory EUDI Wallet verification means linking your social media account to a government-issued digital identity before you can post, scroll, or log in. Every platform interaction becomes traceable to a verified real-world identity. Klüssendorf acknowledged the data tension, insisting the SPD wants “a very data-minimising solution that is also in the hands of state regulation” rather than handing platforms more user data to monetize. The EUDI Wallet architecture, at least in theory, allows age confirmation without transmitting full identity details. Whether that promise survives contact with implementation is a different question. The VPN question is where the proposal gets genuinely aggressive. Klüssendorf said the goal must also be that workarounds “such as via a VPN tunnel” would not work. He didn’t explain the mechanism because there isn’t a clean one. Blocking VPN circumvention at scale requires either forcing VPN providers to implement their own identity verification, deep packet inspection at the network level, or both. The tools required to make VPN circumvention impossible are the same tools authoritarian governments use to police internet access. Germany would be reaching for that toolkit in the name of protecting children from TikTok. The SPD frames this as keeping state regulation in control and preventing platforms from harvesting more data than they already do. But the system being proposed doesn’t reduce surveillance. It just transfers it. Instead of Meta profiling your behavior to guess your age, the German state verifies your identity before you’re allowed online at all. Anonymous internet access in Germany is ending if these two parties get their way. The architecture they’re building, government ID to log in, VPN access restricted, platforms legally required to enforce it all, isn’t designed with a kill switch. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Germany’s SPD Pushes Mandatory Government ID Verification for Social Media appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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Oregon Rep. Maxine Dexter (D), a woke physician who downplayed the risks associated with COVID vaccines and has since championed so-called "gender-affirming care," recently raised eyebrows by characterizing an innocent Make America Healthy Again initiative as racist.After repeatedly calling for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be "dismantled" during a town hall on Saturday, Dexter launched into an unhinged attack on the Department of Health and Human Services and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr."RFK Jr. is one of the biggest threats to our community and to the health of this country," said Dexter."When you don't follow the science, and you just follow your vibes or your whatever it is that he's doing, it is absolutely the truth that you lose trust," continued the congresswoman. "I have every reason to believe that we'll be able to get that man at least delegitimized, hopefully fired."'Drinking whole white milk has played a big role in racist and far-right thinking.'Dexter characterized the government as a "fascist regime," advised doctors not to "do what they are telling us to do," and suggested that patients should "ask for the science-based regimens, not whatever RFK Jr. is getting kickbacks on or whatever whole milk, white supremacy dog-whistling that's happening."The Republican National Committee's RNC Research account noted in response to Dexter's assertion, "Democrats' unhinged hatred for President Trump has broken their brains."The Make America Healthy Again Commission released the Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy in September, identifying hundreds of initiatives that could help reverse "the failed policies that fueled America's childhood chronic disease epidemic."RELATED: 'Hold Big Pharma accountable': Vaxx giants are sure to be nervous about Rand Paul's new bill Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesThe strategy noted that the HHS and other agencies would "remove restrictions on whole milk sales in schools, allowing districts to offer full-fat dairy options alongside reduced-fat alternatives."The National School Lunch Program of the Department of Agriculture long required participating schools to provide milk that was consistent with the latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which meant the milk offerings either had to be fat-free or low-fat.Trump, helping the MAHA strategy along, ratified the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act last month, thereby modifying the NSLP requirements such that whole and reduced-fat milk would be added to the offerings at schools across the country. The USDA and Kennedy have since shared a number of videos and pictures promoting whole milk, touting it as a "protein, strength, and a class choice that never goes out of style." While whole milk and the government's campaign promoting it appear to be innocuous, Dexter presumed the worst — but she's apparently not alone.For instance, Arthur Caplan, a professor of bioethics at New York University Grossman School of Medicine, recently suggested that the consumption of the universally appreciated liquid food "is political. Drinking whole white milk has played a big role in racist and far-right thinking."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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