President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech breaks President Bill Clinton's 2000 record of 1 hour, 28 minutes and 49 seconds for longest televised SOTU address.
Trump first targeted Democrats in State of the Union, criticizing their opposition to his "Big Beautiful Bill" tax cuts on tips, overtime, and Social Security.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is appealing a judge's order that blocks him from punishing Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, a former Navy pilot, for participating in a video that called on troops to resist unlawful orders, according to a court filing on Tuesday.
Federal authorities are barred from conducting an "unsupervised, wholesale search" of electronic devices that they seized from a Washington Post reporter's Virginia home while investigating allegations that a Pentagon contractor illegally leaked classified information to the journalist, a magistrate judge ruled Tuesday.
Ahead of his address, here are 15 of President Trump's most memorable "guest list" picks from his past State of the Union speeches. They're gallery moments designed to put a human face on policy and, at times, steal the spotlight.
Senate Democrats on Tuesday voted for a second time this month to block funding for the Department of Homeland Security as they continue to push for major changes to the way the Trump administration conducts immigration enforcement.
