Trump to give Saturday morning address amid Iran strikes, Axios reports

WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - President ‌Donald ‌Trump is expected ​to give an address on ‌Saturday ⁠morning as the U.S. ⁠carries out ​strikes ​in ​Iran, Axios ‌reported, citing a U.S. official.

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The White House did ‌not ​immediately ​respond ​to ‌a request for ​comment.

(Reporting ​by Jasper Ward ​in ‌Washington; editing ​by Scott ​Malone)

Trump to give Saturday morning address amid Iran strikes, Axios reports

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Trump announces attack on Iran, says US will 'destroy' its missiles

WASHINGTON − PresidentDonald Trumpannounced "major combat operations" in Iranaimed at wiping outTehran's ballistic missile program and debilitating Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's regime.

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TheU.S. began carrying out strikes on Iranin coordination with Israel in the early morning of Saturday, Feb. 28, after nuclear negotiations failed to produce a deal that satisfied all of the Trump administration's concerns, including an end to its missile program.

"A short time ago, the United States military began major combat operations in Iran. Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime, a vicious group of very hard terrible people," Trump said in a video statement, which he delivered from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

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Israel's defence ministry announced it had launched a "preemptive strike" on Iran as sirens sounded in Jerusalem and people across the country received phone alerts about an "extremely serious" threat.

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The U.S. and Israellaunched military strikes against Iranon Feb. 28. President Trump confirmed the operation in a televised address to the nation.Pictured above, a plume of smoke rises following a reported explosion in Tehran on February 28, 2026. Two loud blasts were heard in Tehran on February 28 morning by AFP journalists, and two plumes of thick smoke were seen over the centre and east of the Iranian capital.Israel's defence ministry announced it had launched a "preemptive strike" on Iran as sirens sounded in Jerusalem and people across the country received phone alerts about an "extremely serious" threat.

The Trump administration has for weeks held negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program while also building up its military presence in the region. Tehran refused to abandon its nuclear ambitions, the U.S. president said, prompting the overnight airstrikes, which sent smoke plumes over Iran.

"They just wanted to practice evil," Trump saidin the videoposted on social media. "And we can't take it anymore."

In laying out his justification for the strikes, Trump said in his Feb. 28 address that Iran was seeking to rebuild its nuclear program.

Maps and graphics:US forces launch 'major combat operations' against Iran

The U.S.bombed Tehran's nuclear facilitieslast June. Trump said then that all three sites the U.S. hit had been obliterated, howevera U.S. intelligence assessmentfound that only one of the locations had been destroyed.

Trump said after the latest round of strikes that Iran was developing long-range missiles that threaten America's allies, U.S. troops stationed overseas and "could soon reach the American homeland." The latter assertion, which Trump also made in his State of the Union address, has been disputed by experts.

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US President Donald Trump gestures as he arrives at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida on February 27, 2026.

He reviewed decades of antagonism from Iranian regime and its proxy forces and said they had been conducting a "mass terror" campaign against American forces in the region and international shippers.

"And we're not going to put up with it any longer," Trump said.

'American heroes may be lost'

Trump said the U.S. would "destroy" Iran's missiles, "annihilate" its navy and ensure proxy groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas are no longer able to destabilize the region. "And we will ensure that Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon," Trump said.

"This regime will soon learn that no one should challenge the strength and might of the United States armed forces," Trump said.

Smoke rises following an explosion, after Israel and the U.S. launched strikes on Iran, in Tehran, Iran, February 28, 2026.

It was not immediately clear when the video that was posted to Trump's social media account was taped. Trump wore a white "USA" hat in the video statement, while standing at a lectern bearing the presidential seal and two flags.

"The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties. That often happens in war. But we're doing this not for now, we're doing this for the future, and it is a noble mission," Trump said.

Trump urges Iranians to overthrow government

Trump urged the Iranian armed forces and police to lay down their weapons "and have complete immunity, or in the alternative, face certain death." He addressed protesters in Iran, who've face brutal oppression by the government, that the "hour of your freedom" is close at hand but they should shelter inside their homes while bombs are dropping.

"When we are finished, take over your government, it will be yours to take. This will be, probably, your only chance for generations," Trump said.

Trump told the Iranian people to seize control of their government while they can.

"No president was willing to do what I am willing to do tonight. Now you have a president who is giving you what you want, so let's see how you respond," Trump said. "This is the moment for action. Do not let it pass."

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Deaths on a boat off Cuba spotlight Florida anti-government groups

MIAMI (AP) — Astolen boat, with 10 people aboard, loaded with weapons, departs the Florida Keys but gunfire erupts before reaching Cuba. The explanation, according to the Cuban government, is the men aboard were terrorists who wanted to infiltrate the country.

Associated Press The dock where a 1981 Pro Line boat was reported stolen from the Florida Keys Friday, Feb. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier) Cuba's Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio walks to give a declaration about a deadly boating shooting in Cuba waters, in Havana, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Cuba Boat Shooting

The fatal shooting broke out Wednesday amid heightened tensions between the U.S. and Cuba. The ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has led the Trump administration to take a more aggressive stance toward the country's longstanding ideological nemesis in Latin America. It shines fresh attention on the deep-rooted freedom movement among Cuban exiles in south Florida, including some fringe elements who have long sought a violent overthrow of the island's communist leadership.

Armed raids, provocative publicity stunts and protests blurring the lines of legality stretch back decades in the Florida straits. Many of them are led by hard-liner exiles, some who fought in Fidel Castro's guerrilla army that took power in 1959 before breaking ranks when the popular leader converted Cuba into a Soviet satellite.

But such confrontational tactics have faded since the Cold War, leaving many in Miami to speculate the armed incursion was a fabrication of Cuba's intelligence agencies.

"Cuban Americans today are, whether on the left or on the right, really focused on trying to influence U.S. policy rather than thinking that somehow paramilitary action by small groups are gonna overthrow the Cuban government," said William LeoGrande, an American University government professor who specializes in Cuba.

The shooting left four dead and many questions. Cuba's government said most of the people on the boat were violent criminals. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who rose to prominence surrounded by the Cuban exile politics of Miami, was quick to cast doubt on the Cuban account, saying that the U.S. would investigate what he described as a "highly unusual" sea shootout.

Late Friday, top officials with Cuba's Ministry of the Interior unveiled theitems they said were aboard the boat, including a dozen high-powered weapons and more than 12,800 pieces of ammunition.

Anti-Cuban government groups ebb and flow

The counter-revolutionary groups — with names like Alpha 66 and Omega 7 — were always small in number but were at their strongest in the 1970s and '80s. Their influence receded as the Reagan administration arrested their leaders for violent attacks on U.S. soil, like an assassination plot targeting Castro during his 1979 visit to the United Nations and the shooting death a year later of a Cuban diplomat in New York.

Antonio Tang joined Alpha 66 shortly after fleeing Cuba and going into exile in Canada in 1981.

He trained in weapons and guerrilla tactics with the volunteer group at a camp in the Everglades called Rumbo Sur — Direction South. Many of its actions were over before they started, he said.

"We were kind of amateurs — and no match for the Cuban military and interior ministry," said Tang. "They always knew in advance what we were doing. Many folks ended up in jail."

Ernesto Díaz, deputy secretary general of Alpha 66, described the 10 men as martyrs.

"It is an act of compassion for a Cuban people who are suffering," Diaz, 86, said. "It was a sacrifice that has demonstrated the nobility and sensitivity towards freedom in Cuba."

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Cuban attempts to co-opt groups

Former Cuban intelligence officer Enrique Garcia said a well-funded Cuban intelligence department — called Q-2 — spent decades co-opting armed resistance groups. In some cases, Cuban agents would fund weapon purchases and drive unsuspecting exiles into plots.

Agents infiltrated Brothers to the Rescue, which lost four members in 1996 when Cuban fighter jets shot down their airplanes in the Florida straits.

"This strategy —seemingly still in place— sought to portray the Cuban exile community as extremist and link the U.S. government and agencies to such activities," said Garcia, who defected to the U.S. in 1989. "The U.S. intelligence community is aware and must have documented in its archives that this was a permanent modus operandi of the Cuban intelligence service."

Garcia said he can't remember any covert act of the sort Cuba has denounced in at least three decades.

He also finds the timing of the attack suspicious. The Trump administration has asserted almost unprecedented pressure on Havana to open its economy and relinquish almost seven decades of single-party rule.

Families give an incomplete picture

Marina Luz Padron, whose ex-husband, Hector Cruz Correa, was among those reported killed, appealed for privacy as the family mourns. She described her ex-husband as an excellent father to their 4-year-old child, who still hasn't been told about his fate.

"If he went to Cuba it was because he wanted freedom for his country," Padron told The Associated Press in a brief interview.

Other family members spoke to Spanish language influencers in Miami describing their loved ones as peaceful and far removed from what Cuban officials denounced as a "terrorist" incursion.

Ibrahim Bosch, president of the Republican Party of Cuba, another exile group, said that Michel Ortega Casanova, one of those killed, was the leader of his party in Tampa for a while until he requested to be replaced so he could spend more time to with his family.

"He was an excellent person, very hardworking, very dedicated to his family," Bosch said. "He always had the hope of freedom for Cuba."

But Florida resident Misael Ortega Casanova said his brother — an American citizen who has lived in the U.S. for more than 20 years and still agonizes over the suffering that Cubans endure — was on an "obsessive and diabolical" quest for Cuba's freedom.

"They became so obsessed that they didn't think about the consequences nor their own lives," Misael told The Associated Press.

Catalini reported from Morrisville, Pennsylvania.

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Soldiers on the streets. What's behind South Africa's plan to deploy army in high-crime areas

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — It's an unusual move for the African continent's leading democracy:South Africa'spresident announced earlier this month that he willdeploy the army to high-crime areasto fight the scourge of organized crime,gang violence and illegal mining.

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PresidentCyril Ramaphosasaid soldiers would take to the streets — in places that have some of the world'shighest rates of violent crime— to combat what he described as the "most immediate threat" to South Africa's democracy and economic development.

He said the deployment would happen in three of the country's nine provinces, without giving a timeline. Some critics, however, say the army deployment could be seen as an admission that Ramaphosa's government is losing the battle.

A top tourist city marred by violence

With a population of some 3.8 million, the stunningly beautiful Cape Town is South Africa's second-largest city and one of its top tourist attractions.

But the neighborhoods on its outskirts,known as the Cape Flats, are notorious for deadly gang violence.

Street gangs with names such as the Americans, the Hard Livings and the Terrible Josters have for years battled for control of the illegal drug trade, while also being involved in extortion rackets, prostitution and contract killings.

Bystanders, including children, are often caught in the crossfire and killed in gang-related shootings. According to the latest crime statistics, South Africa's three police precincts with the most serious crime rates are all in and around Cape Town.

Ramaphosa said one part of the army would deploy in the Western Cape province, where Cape Town is located and which statistics say has around 90% of the country's gang-related killings.

Two other provinces, he said, would also see troop deployments: Gauteng, which is home to Johannesburg, South Africa's biggest city, and the Eastern Cape province.

Illegal mining run by organized crime syndicates

The outskirts of Johannesburg and the wider Gauteng province are dotted with abandoned mine shafts and authorities there have long grappled with illegal gold mining.

They say the mining gang, known as zama zamas, are typically run by heavily armed crime syndicates, brutal in protecting their operations. They use "informal miners" recruited from desperate and impoverished communities to go into the shafts, searching for leftover precious deposits.

These gangs areoften connected to high-profile violence, including a 2022 case that shocked South Africa when around 80 alleged illegal miners wereaccused of gang raping eight womenwho were part of a music video shoot at an abandoned mine.

Last year, astandoff between police and illegal minersin an abandoned mine left at least 87 miners dead after police took a hard-line approach and cut off their food supplies in an attempt to force them out.

The illegal miners are often involved in other crimes in nearby communities, analysts say, and turf battles between rival gangs have forced people to leave their homes and seek safety elsewhere.

Authorities say there are an estimated 30,000 illegal miners in South Africa, operating in some of its 6,000 abandoned mine shafts.

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The government has noted an increase in illegal mining, which it estimates is worth more than $4 billion a year in gold lost to criminal syndicates.

The trade is believed to be predominantly controlled by migrants from neighboring Lesotho, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique, stoking anger among South African communities against both the criminal bosses and foreigners living in the local community.

Previous army deployments linked to apartheid

Ramaphosa is well aware that South Africans old enough to remember the years of forced racial segregation underthe apartheid system, which ended in 1994, likely will recall images of troops deployed to suppress pro-democracy protests.

Mindful of that painful past, he said it was important not to deploy the army "without a good reason."

But he said it has now "become necessary due to a surge in violent organized crime that threatens the safety of our people and the authority of the state."

Ramaphosa sought to calm concerns by saying the army would operate under police command.

There have been other recent deployments of South African troops. In 2023, soldiers fanned out into the streets after a series of truck burnings raised concerns over wider public disorder. And around 25,000 troopswere deployed in 2021to quell violent riots sparked by the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma.

South Africa also used soldiers to enforcestrict lockdown rulesduring the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

Crime experts have expressed concern over Ramaphosa's latest deployment plans, insisting the army is not a long-term solution to fighting crime and soldiers are not experts in domestic law enforcement.

Firoz Cachalia, the country's police minister, has backed Ramaphosa and insisted the army will act in support of police and "their operations in particular locations."

He said the deployment is time-limited and meant to stabilize areas "where people are losing their lives" every day.

Associated Press writer Mogomotsi Magome in Johannesburg contributed to this report.

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Adrianne Curry, the first winner ofAmerica's Next Top Model, has opened up about feeling "more validated" than she ever has before as resurfaced footage of producer-hostTyra Banksrecirculates online amid the fallout from allegations made by former contestants and judges in Netflix's bombshell docuseriesReality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model.

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In anInstagramvideo shared Friday, Curry, who won 2003's cycle 1, spoke out on the alleged "gaslighting thatTop Modelfans and the show put me through" following her victory. ShetoldEntertainment Weeklyin a 2023 interviewthat shewas disappointed by the prize package she receivedand the lack of mentorship from Banks.

"I know she did it for [cycle 3 winner] Eva [Marcille], and Eva is very successful, and I'm proud of her. And I think that's great. That's also why Eva never talks bad about the show," Curry claimed. Marcille — who went on to become a primary cast member onThe Real Housewives of Atlanta— didrecently speak out about being "amazingly horrified" by allegations made against the show, amid backlash to Banksstemming fromReality Check. (A representative for Marcille did not immediately respond to EW's request for comment.)

'ANTM' cycle 3 winner Eva MarcilleCredit: CBS; Annette Brown/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty

Curry maintained, "I wouldn't either. I'd be like, I got mine." She then alleged, "I was gaslit so much by fans and by the show, that I was just ungrateful and all this stuff. I was promised the world, and then it was dubbed over on the show, and I was never delivered it. Today, I felt very much like I was validated for the first time in over two decades."

The former reality TV star and current Avon sales rep said she experienced that validation upon viewing an oldEntertainment Tonightclip from 2003 (below), in which Banks told the program she was excited to launchANTMcycle 1 as her "first executive producership," and that she took the job "very seriously" — almost to the point of micromanaging various elements, from clothing choices to lighting.

"I'm very involved. I'm actually going to be managing the winner, along with IMG Models. I'm going to be their manager," Banks claimed in the footage, though Curry disputed that Banks did that for her.

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Curry replied in the comments section underneathET's video, writing, "After being gaslighted by Tyra, [producer] Ken [Mok] and fans... told im just bitter...told it expected more than what was promised...I cried watching this. Ive never felt more validated in my LIFE," later adding in a separate comment, "Im so glad tge [sic] gaslighting fans did to me for being upset I didnt get what was promised STOPS now...straight from her mouth....I didnt get managed. I didnt get a Revlon contract."

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In her 2023 EW interview, Curry opened up aboutbeing assaulted by a stranger on the streets of Parisduring filming (which was partially captured on camera) in addition to alleging that she never received the full prize package.

"What I won was to go to Revlon corporate, sit in a back room, have a makeup artist put makeup on my face for a team of about seven people watching me. Who the f--- would fight as hard as we fought for that?" Curry told us at the time, adding that she felt "f---ing humiliated" by the experience — though, she said she was paid about $15,000 to do it. Yet, that was a far cry, she alleged, from the "huge Revlon models" Banks and the judges indicated contestants would become during production. (A representative for Banks declined to comment on Curry's allegations at the time.)

In her 2026 Instagram video, Curry again touched on those claims, saying, "I was locked in house, being told I was going to be the next Giselle [Bündchen] or Tyra Banks if I won, that Tyra would manage my career," she said. "I won, and then none of it happened. None of it."

Reality Check— featuring new interviews with Banks and Mok — covers multiple controversies surrounding the show, including shoots that tasked models with wearing dark makeup to portray women of different races,cycle 6 winner Dani Evans reacting to Banks pressuring herto undergo a dental procedure during production in the hopes of fixing a gap in her teeth, and more.

Angelea Preston, Tyra Banks, Adrianne Curry, and Shandi Sullivan on 'America's Next Top Model'

"I've actually apologized for the issue with Dani and what happened. That was between a rock and a hard place for me," Banks, 52, said on the series.

"There were agents that would tell me she will not work with those teeth, it's just not going to happen," Banks continued. "That's what they told me. I could've just been quiet and let them handle it. Hindsight is 20/20 for all of us. It just so happens that a lot of the things that are 20/20 for me happened in front of the world."

Representatives for Banks and Mok have not responded to EW's repeated recent requests for comment onANTMand theReality Checkdocuseries.

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Stephen Colbert Celebrates Trump's SOTU Ratings Drop: 'If I Were CBS, I'd Cancel Him'

Stephen Colbertturned the tables onDonald Trumpon Thursday's (February 26) edition ofThe Late Showby poking fun at the president'sState of the Union ratings.

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According to Nielsen figures, Trump's record-breaking 108-minute speech on Tuesday (February 24) averaged 32.6 million viewers, an 11 percent decrease from the 36.6 million who watched his address last year. Colbert was quick to point this out while celebrating his own show's ratings compared to last year's.

"The Nielsen ratings for his speech are in, and Trump's talk-a-thon saw an 11 percent decrease from last year," the late-night host said during Thursday's opening monologue. "Donald Trump is really dragging down broadcast television. I mean, if I were CBS, I'd cancel him."

Last July, CBS announced itwas cancelingThe Late Show, citing financial reasons. The show's final episode is set to air in May. At the time,Trump celebrated the cancelation,writing on Truth Social, "I absolutely love that Colbert got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings."

Colbert returned fire on Thursday night, saying, "But you know, linear television is doomed, and everyone's ratings are going down, right? I'm sorry, what's that? Our ratings were up 7 percent?!"

"Over the same last year? So last year's and this year's? I'm up 7 percent? Holy cow!" he continued as the studio audience chanted his name.

He added, "You know what I think is going on? People may not like watching Trump, but they do like watching me not like watching Trump."

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Colbert also compared Trump's SOTU ratings to the recentSuper Bowl, whichaveraged 125.6 million viewers. "I think Trump could have saved the whole thing with a blockbuster halftime show featuring Bad Bernie," he quipped while showing a mock-up photo ofBernie Sandersdressed as Bad Bunny.

Earlier in his monologue, Colbert said, "Allow me to take a moment here to just jam a Capri-Sun straw into your spinal fluid and suck out some of your life force, because I'm still dragging ass and spitting out teeth after Trump's record-breaking 108-minute-long State of the Union on Tuesday."

"I could barely get through it. How did he stay awake that long?" the comedian asked before cutting to a clip of Trump's address where the president said, "I took prescription drugs."

"Refreshing honesty," Colbert quipped.

You can watch Colbert's full opening monologue in the video above and let us know your thoughts below.

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