| President Obama presents ambitious agenda at State of the Union | President Barack Obama used the second-to-last State of the Union address of his presidency to defiantly demand his Republican adversaries in Congress “turn the page” on the improved economy by supporting an expensive domestic agenda aimed at improving the fortunes of the middle class.
Released from the political constraints of a sagging economy, overseas wars and elections — and faced with the prospect of an intransigent Congress, Obama declared that “the shadow of crisis has passed,” proposing an ambitious agenda addressing domestic policies from tax cuts for the middle class to free community college for all Americans.
+ You can read the full text of Obama's State of the Union address here.
+ You can also read the full text of freshman Republican senator (and fledgling GOP darling) Joni Ernst's response to Obama's address here.
+ Honestly, it's incredibly unlikely that anything in Obama's address will actually happen.
+ If you're a woman, there are six lines in particular from Obama's SOTU address you need to know.
+ Obama made history by declaring that same-sex couples' right to marry is a "civil right."
+ With "your life matters," Obama also changed the national debate on race and violence.
+ If all of this policy analysis feels boring to you (and if it does, well, may God have mercy on your soul), check out this sick ad-libbed burn Obama dropped on Republicans mid-speech.
+ House Speaker John Boehner's review? Two thumbs down. | | | France just foiled its first terrorist plot since the Charlie Hebdo massacre | Five Chechens were arrested in southern France, including one with a cache of explosives, a local mayor told the Associated Press on Tuesday.
+ The men, arrested in the cities of Beziers and Saint-Jean-de-Vedas, near Montpellier, were detained on "suspicion of preparing an attack," French prosecutors told the BBC.
+ The arrests come as four other men were charged with supporting Amedy Coulibaly, the gunman behind the fatal attack on a kosher market in Paris.
+ The arrest of the five Chechens signals yet another increase in anti-terrorism operations by European authorities in the aftermath of the attack on Charlie Hebdo, including the deployment of troops in Belgium and France and police operations designed to root out suspected terror cells.
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