President Donald Trump went on an absolute tirade against Spain on Tuesday, bashing the country as “unfriendly” and maintaining that the U.S. can “fly in and use” their air bases despite its refusal to lend them to Uncle Sam.

The stunning moment came as Trump hosted German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the White House for a bilateral meeting.

When asked by a reporter about the cooperation of NATO in the days following Operation Epic Fury in Iran, Trump praised Germany and NATO chief Mark Rutte, who Trump said was fantastic.

But when it came to Spain, Trump was not as kind.

“Spain has been terrible,” he said. “In fact, I told Scott [Bessent] to cut off all dealings with Spain.”

In response to Spain’s refusal to allow the U.S. to use its air bases to conduct strikes in Iran, Trump was defiant, saying, “And now Spain actually said that we can’t use their bases and that’s all right. We could use their base if we want. We could just fly in and use it. Nobody’s going to tell us not to use it.”

And Spain was not the only European nation with which Trump has taken issue, adding that. “I’m not happy with the U.K., either.”

Trump did not mention U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer by name, but said, “This is not Winston Churchill that we’re dealing with.”

Read Trump’s remarks below:

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Germany has been great. He has been terrific. Others have been very good, terrific. I think that the head of NATO, Mark, is fantastic. Mark Rutte. I think he’s fantastic. But some of the European- like Spain has been terrible. In fact, I told Scott to cut off all dealings with Spain. Spain, first of all, it started when every European nation, at my request, paid 5%, which they should be doing and everybody was enthusiastic about it, Germany, everybody, and Spain didn’t do it. And now Spain actually said that we can’t use their bases and that’s all right. We could use their base if we want. We could just fly in and use it. Nobody’s going to tell us not to use it. But we don’t have to, but they were unfriendly and so I told them we don’t want- Spain has absolutely nothing that we need, other than great people. They have great people. But they don’t have great leadership. And as you know, they were the only country that NATO would not agree to go up to 5%. I don’t think they would agree to go up to anything. They wanted to keep it at 2% and they don’t pay the 2%. So we’re going to cut off all trade with Spain. We don’t want to have anything to do with Spain. By the way, I’m not happy with the U.K. either. That island that you read about, the lease, for whatever reason, he made a lease of the island and somebody came and took it away from him. And it’s taken three, four days for us to work out where we can land there. It would have been much more convenient landing there as opposed to flying many extra hours. So we are very surprised. This is not Winston Churchill that we’re dealing with.

Watch above via Fox News.

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Anthropic is taking steps to make it easier to switch to Claude. While the AI chatbot app is popular among developers and vibecoders, it's also been infamous for keeping its more advanced features behind a paywall (and for rate-limiting free users). But now, Claude is finally catching up to ChatGPT and bringing its memory feature to free users.

The move follows Claude overtaking ChatGPT in the App Store to become the #1 most downloaded free app in the U.S., so the timing makes sense. As for what could have caused the sudden interest in the app, OpenAI recently announced that it will be working with the U.S. Department of Defense (unofficially titled the Department of War), a day after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei expressed concern about unrestricted AI use by governments.

Alongside the new free memory feature, Claude is also introducing a free import tool to help you bring your AI context along with you when moving from other chatbots. Technically, it's more of a guided prompt to feed into other bots, but the idea is that it can help new users avoid blank-slate syndrome. Within 24 hours of using the tool, Claude will theoretically know all the personal details you've previously shared with the chatbots you're importing from, including special instructions, your career, and your ongoing projects, making it easier to converse with Claude.

How to enable memory in Claude for free

While Claude's memory feature is available for free for all users, it's not enabled by default. Let's fix that. Open the Claude website or the app, click the Profile icon, and go to Settings. Here, in the Capabilities section, you'll see a new Memory section up top. Enable the Generate memory from chat history feature. Now, Claude will automatically start remembering key details about your life as you share them. According to Anthropic, Claude "will automatically summarize your conversations and create a synthesis of key insights across your chat history (not including chats in projects). This synthesis is updated every 24 hours and provides context for every new standalone conversation."

Say you're a dentist and you ask Claude for dental implants research; it will know that you're learning about implants the next time you ask a related question.

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Of course, this does mean that Claude will start remembering your personal data, too, or at least your personal context. Claude does offer a couple of ways to get around this. If you try to disable memory (from the same menu where you enabled it), you'll see two other options. For a less severe workaround, you can use the Pause memory option to stop the chatbot from creating new memories while keeping its current memories intact. Or, you can choose the Reset memory option to permanently delete all memories, including project-specific memories. That way, you can manually dump what Claude knows about you every once in a while.

Credit: Khamosh Pathak

While you're in the Memory settings, you can also use the new Import feature. Click the Start Import button to bring up the new menu. Up top, you'll see a prompt that you'll have to copy. After that, paste it into ChatGPT or Gemini to snag your memories from these bots. You'll get your results in a Markdown file. Back in Claude, paste the Markdown file into the textbox below the prompt you copied and click Add to memory. Claude will synthesize it, and it will add its data to its memory file.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte praised President Donald Trump for leading “crucial” joint U.S.-Israeli strikes that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei during an appearance on Fox News on Monday morning.

Rutte told Fox & Friends that other European leaders backed Trump’s mission as well. He said:

Let me also say that the commander-in-chief, the leader of the free world, President Donald J. Trump, I really commend what is happening here. Taking out Khamenei, taking out the nuclear capability in Iran, but also taking out the ballistic missile program in Iran. This is crucial.

What I see in Europe — I spoke with all the key European leaders over the weekend — is widespread support for what the president is doing.

Co-host Lawrence Jones followed up on that comment, noting that it didn’t seem like all European countries were giving their full support to the U.S. He pointed to the United Kingdom, where Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Sunday his country would now allow the U.S. to use certain British military bases, after initially blocking the Trump administration from doing so.

“Why the trepidation?” Jones asked.

Rutte said the U.K. had needed the “legal case to be solid” to support the operation, but that the country had “come around” to supporting it.

His comments came shortly before Trump told CNN’s Jake Tapper that Operation Epic Fury was going well and ahead of schedule.

“We’re knocking the crap out of them,” Tapper said the president told him. Trump then said, “We haven’t even started hitting them hard. The big wave hasn’t even happened. The big one is coming soon.”

Rutte and Trump appear to have a pretty good relationship, for what it’s worth. Trump said in January he negotiated a “complex” deal with Rutte for the U.S. to control Greenland, but details have been sparse since then.

Watch above via Fox News.

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Smartphone cameras have reached a point where the weak link in most videos is no longer image quality—it’s shaky hands. The DJI Osmo Mobile 7P is built to fix that, and it’s currently down to $99 from $129.99, its lowest price so far, according to price-trackers. It’s a foldable three-axis gimbal that supports larger phones like the iPhone 16 Pro Max and Galaxy S25 Ultra without feeling strained. Once your phone is mounted and balanced, the motors keep footage level and smooth in a way that built-in stabilization still can’t fully match.

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Getting started does not require much setup. You unfold it, snap your phone into the clamp, and it balances itself in seconds. The controls are straightforward and placed where your fingers naturally rest. The joystick lets you nudge the frame left or right, and the record button is easy to hit without shifting your grip. A rear trigger switches between portrait and landscape instantly, so you can move from TikTok to YouTube framing without taking the phone off. There’s also a built-in extension rod for higher or wider angles, and a small tripod in the base for hands-free filming. The magnetic multifunction module is where it becomes more than just a stabilizer. It enables gesture control and subject tracking even inside third-party apps, so you are not locked into DJI’s app ecosystem.

In actual use, the tracking is what changes the experience most. The gimbal locks onto your face and follows you as you move across a room, which makes solo filming feel far less awkward. You do not have to keep checking whether you are still centered in the frame; that alone can save time during retakes. It’s one reason why PCMag gave the Osmo Mobile 7P an “outstanding” rating, and Lifehacker's Associate Tech Editor Michelle Ehrhardt said it feels like having “your own dedicated camera person” once you learn the basics. Battery life will depend on how many of those features you keep running. DJI estimates up to 10 hours if you are just using the gimbal. Turn on the tracking module, and you are closer to 4.5 hours. Add the fill light, and it drops to around three. For short sessions or content captured in bursts, that is workable. For long events or full-day shoots, you may need a power bank.

If you mostly film static videos at a desk, a simple tripod is probably enough. But if your content involves movement, walking shots, or filming yourself without help, the Osmo Mobile 7P can make your footage look more controlled without making your setup complicated.

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English journalist and @Channel4News correspondent Secunder Kermani to an Israeli spokesman at scene of a deadly Iranian missile strike in Tel Aviv:

“Your prime minister is a wanted war criminal. You don’t have the moral high ground here, at all” pic.twitter.com/rMu6QxYJ8l

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) March 1, 2026

Reporter Secunder Kermani with the UK’s Channel 4 News confronted Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesman Oren Marmorstein Sunday, following a deadly Iranian missile strike on a residential neighborhood in Tel Aviv.

Marmorstein addressed the press from the rubble where a 40-year-old caregiver was killed and dozens more injured, according to The Times of Israel.

“We are aiming at military targets, but the Iranian regime is targeting our civilians, our children, our women, our elderly,” Marmorstein said. “But this is not only happening here in Israel. The Iranian regime is attacking the entire region. Eight countries — I repeat — eight countries in the region were attacked by ballistic missiles of Iran.”

Marmorstein continued, “And we say it very clear: we don’t have any fight, any quarrel with the Iranian people. The only objective, the only quarrel, is the Iranian regime’s murderous attacks. This is what it’s all about.”

Kermani asked the first question when Marmorstein was finished.

“[Ayatollah Ali] Khameini, the Iranian regime have clearly done terrible things, particularly to their own people. But, your prime minister is a wanted war criminal. You don’t have the moral high ground here at all,” Kermani said.

“This is a war crime!” Marmorstein said, pointing at the destroyed building behind him. “This is a war crime. Targeting civilians, targeting elderly women. Killing, murdering her caregiver from the Philippines. And the Iranian regime is targeting not only us in Israel, they are targeting the entire region.”

“What about the hundred or so school girls in Iran that were killed in a strike there?” Kermani asked.

“And this must stop! This must be stopped, and this is what we’re trying to do,” Marmorstein said.

As Kermani attempted to ask another question, Marmorstein turned his attention to other reporters.

Iran’s semiofficial Tasnim News Agency reported Saturday that more than 150 people were killed in joint U.S.-Israeli missile strike that hit a girls’ elementary school.

Watch the clip above via Sky News.

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Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) told CBS News host Margaret Brennan Sunday that he did not believe Iran was “anywhere close” to having a nuclear weapon ever since Operation Midnight Hammer targeted the country’s key nuclear facilities last June.

“So, there is no doubt that a year ago, Iran had an active an ongoing nuclear program,” Cruz told Brennan on Sunday’s edition of Face the Nation. “We took out the vast majority of that at the end of the 12-Day War.”

Brennan interjected, “That intelligence assessment was not made public if that it what was briefed to you.”

Cruz continued, “We took out — We launched targeted bombs at the end of the 12-Day War where we dropped the equivalent of about a third of a nuclear weapon on those underground facilities. Facilities like Fordow, built into the base of a mountain. The bunker buster bombs we used, Israel doesn’t have those bombs, no other country has those bombs. We took them out last year.”

Even so, Cruz added, “The Iranians were still hellbent on rebuilding” their nuclear capabilities.

Brennan asked Cruz exactly who was monitoring Iran’s nuclear materials in the absence of Israeli or U.S. boots on the ground.

“Look, the quantity of nuclear material, I didn’t say anything one way or another on that,” Cruz said. “What I said is, they were building nuclear weapons a year ago and our bombing took that out. They also had an ongoing desire to rebuild them.

“I don’t have present-day intelligence on what progress they had made toward rebuilding nuclear weapons since we bombed their facilites,” Cruz continued. ” I have no indication that that they were anywhere close to getting nuclear weapons, because our bombing was devastating…That’s one of the reasons I urged President Trump, ‘Now is the time'” to strike.

President Donald Trump justified the strikes in an eight-minute video posted online early Saturday morning, saying Tehran “can never have a nuclear weapon.”

“We are going to destroy their missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground. It will be totally, again, obliterated,” Trump said.

Fox News’s Jacqui Heinrich interviewed Trump Sunday morning, when the president claimed that if the U.S. and Israel hadn’t initiated the missile strikes, Iran “would have had a nuclear weapon within two weeks.”

Watch the clip above via CBS News’s Face The Nation.

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Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) — who felt Donald Trump’s wrath for recording a video message advising service members against following illegal orders — now says he’s “damn furious” that Trump is risking young Americans’ lives in war with Iran.

Trump released his own video announcement early Saturday morning, saying,”The administration has taken every possible step to minimize the risk to U.S. Personnel in the region even so — and I do not make this statement lightly — The Iranian regime seeks to kill the lives of courageous American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties.”

Trump added, “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.”

“Well listen, I’m just damn furious,” Crow told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Saturday. “You know, the man’s a five-time draft dodger. He’s an elite. And, you know, I went to war. I fought with working-class kids. They’re the ones that do the fighting and dying.”

Crow continued:

And how amazing of Donald Trump to say, you know, “That often happens in war.” And that’s a cost he’s willing to take. Great for him! It’s not his kids. It’s not his family. It’s not his billionaire donors who are having to go off and do it. It’s kids in towns across the country that have to pick up the guns, jump into the planes and helicopters, and get it done. And it’s kids that are sitting there at military bases in Bahrain like your video’s showing now, who are sitting in bunkers right now because Donald Trump is willing to take a chance with their lives. This is everything that’s wrong with our national security infrastructure and our policies. Elites make decisions. They talk tough. They pound their chests, and then everybody else is left holding the bag. Enough is enough.

Collins asked if Crow wanted to see a congressional vote on the military action.

“Heck yeah, I do,” Crow answered. “I think we should go back to D.C. right now. I’m willing to jump on a plane in an hour and go home and take up a vote on this, because that is what the American people deserve. They deserve accountability. They deserve to know who is willing to take chances with their national security, their kids’ lives, their taxpayer dollars. Let’s take the vote. I want names.”

Watch above via CNN.

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