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NPR's Jasmine Garce has more on what the president's expected to say about immigration.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he wants to hear President Trump say he's still on Ukraine's side during the State of the Union address.

Today marks four years since Russia invaded its neighbor.

Zelensky says Russia has not broken Ukrainians.

The anniversary comes as U.S.-brokered peace talks between Russia and Ukraine have made little progress.

The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people and created instability far beyond its borders.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pressuring Anthropic to give the military broader access to its A.I.,

Hegseth gave Anthropic a Friday deadline to open its technology for unrestricted military use or risk losing its government contract.

Anthropic is the maker of the chatbot Claude, which is used in classified military networks, but the company has refused to allow its technology to be used for lethal attacks or mass surveillance.

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Waymo is sending its robo-taxis to four more cities in Texas and Florida, expanding the territory covered by its fleet of self-driving cars to 10 major metropolitan markets.

The move into Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Orlando, Florida, widens Waymo's early lead in autonomous driving, while rival services from Tesla and Amazon are still testing their robo-taxis in a few cities.

Texas Republican Congressman Tony Gonzalez is under pressure from fellow Republicans to resign following a report alleging an affair with a former staffer who later took her own life.

Gonzalez has denied the allegation.

Texas Public Radio's David Martin Davies has more.

Chicagoans took a jab at President Trump choosing to name a snowplow Abolish Ice in a contest.

Trump sent ICE officers into the city during a crackdown last year.

They arrested more than 4,000 people and clashed with protesters.