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Bruised by a Supreme Court setback and falling approval ratings, the president has an opportunity to change the narrative ahead.

Here’s the latest.

President Trump, reeling from a major setback on his sweeping tariffs at the Supreme Court and facing the lowest approval ratings of his second term, will deliver his State of the Union address on Tuesday at a pivotal moment in his presidency.

He is expected to highlight what he said was a lengthy list of achievements. But polls show that Americans, by a wide margin, now disapprove of him on what were once his winning issues: the economy and immigration. Republicans are now in danger of losing the House in the upcoming midterm elections, a development that would threaten much of Mr. Trump’s second-term agenda.

Add Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York, to the list of prominent Democrats who are boycotting Trump’s speech. The list so far includes some 40 lawmakers. We’re still waiting to hear where others, like Nancy Pelosi, the former House speaker, land. Notably, the No. 2 Democrat in the House, Katherine Clark of Massachusetts, is not coming. Representative Al Green, the septuagenarian Texas Democrat who last year was ejected from the chamber during Trump’s speech for shouting and waving his cane, is in the chamber with a homemade cardboard sign that says “Al Green.” His outburst last year, which Republicans eventually censured him for, was largely viewed with frustration by Democrats, who thought it was a childish form of protest.

How The Times reports on the State of the Union.

Tonight is somewhat of a political Super Bowl: President Trump will deliver his State of the Union address to the nation, a tradition that dates to 1790.

“It’s an important moment to see where the president is focused and how he is being received,” said Julie Hirschfeld Davis, The New York Times’s congressional editor, who is helping coordinate coverage of the speech.

Biden laid out the stakes of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine four years ago.

Four years ago, Russia poured over the border into Ukraine, igniting the biggest war in the heart of Europe since the end of World War II. The invasion that began on Feb. 24, 2022, shattered the notion that the world order that followed had banished the days when powerful nations simply took over their weaker neighbors.

Days later, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. laid out the stakes during a State of the Union address and received towering applause, even from Republicans who disliked him and despised his agenda. After all, vowing to support nascent democracies was still in favor in Washington, an idea that crossed party lines. 

More than a dozen Epstein victims will attend the speech as lawmakers’ invited guests.

Over a dozen lawmakers are bringing survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse to President Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night, a statement against the administration’s handling of documents related to the convicted sex offender.

Lawmakers for many years have invited guests to the annual speech as a way of sending pointed messages to the president. A number of Democrats have said they will boycott the speech and attend a rally on the National Mall near the Capitol.

U.S. men’s hockey team arrives for the State of the Union, but the women stay away.

Fresh from winning a gold medal, members of the U.S. men’s hockey team arrived at the White House on Tuesday afternoon, two days after President Trump invited them to visit the residence and then attend his State of the Union speech on Capitol Hill.

The president had excitedly extended the invitation on Sunday by speakerphone, when he placed a call to the equally jazzed F.B.I. director, Kash Patel. Mr. Patel was at the Winter Olympics in Italy, celebrating and spraying beer in the locker room with the men’s team.

More than a dozen Epstein victims will attend the speech as lawmakers’ invited guests.

Over a dozen lawmakers are bringing survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse to President Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night, a statement against the administration’s handling of documents related to the convicted sex offender.

Lawmakers for many years have invited guests to the annual speech as a way of sending pointed messages to the president. A number of Democrats have said they will boycott the speech and attend a rally on the National Mall near the Capitol.

U.S. men’s hockey team arrives for the State of the Union, but the women stay away.

Fresh from winning a gold medal, members of the U.S. men’s hockey team arrived at the White House on Tuesday afternoon, two days after President Trump invited them to visit the residence and then attend his State of the Union speech on Capitol Hill.

The president had excitedly extended the invitation on Sunday by speakerphone, when he placed a call to the equally jazzed F.B.I. director, Kash Patel. Mr. Patel was at the Winter Olympics in Italy, celebrating and spraying beer in the locker room with the men’s team.

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