Karen Moscow

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President Donald Trump has a midterm year message to sell.

At a State of the Union address, the president boasted about economic strength and a tougher America.

And we got reaction from Jennifer Lawless, professor of politics at the University of Virginia.

And that's Jennifer Lawless at the University of Virginia.

The Republican president will now get the chance to test drive his narrative later this week when he travels to Texas to talk about the economy.

and energy policies.

The president mainly focused on domestic issues during his 108-minute address, but he did take time to offer another warning to Iran about the country's nuclear ambitions.

It came ahead of U.S.

talks with Iranian officials in Geneva Thursday.

Iran, meanwhile, is pushing back.

Iran's foreign ministry spokesman dismissed Trump's remarks at the State of the Union as big lies.

Iran's parliament speaker said the U.S.

could either engage in diplomacy or face the wrath of Iran if it attacks.

ukraine president vladimir zelensky is saying a ukrainian delegation is set to meet thursday with american envoys and the run-up to another round of trilateral talks with russia that meeting will also take place in geneva light snow is moving across the northeast as cities dig out from a massive storm and deal with dangerous ice the national weather service says one to three inches of snow is expected in total today cities were scrambling to clear towering snow heaps that were not showing signs of melting anytime soon

Anthropic is scaling back its central safety policy, saying it will no longer delay AI development that could be dangerous if it thinks it's falling behind its competitors.

Mandeep Singh is global head of tech research at Bloomberg Intelligence.

And Mandeep Singh with Bloomberg Intelligence says the move is still a major shift.

Anthropic has been locked in a dispute with the Pentagon over guardrails on its Claude AI tool.