Kristi Noem, the nation’s new Secretary of Homeland Security, was running so late for her own swearing-in that Vice President J.D. Vance, who was to administer the oath of office, bailed after waiting 40 minutes. No problem. The White House merely called on its favorite Supreme Court justice, Clarence Thomas, to administer the oath. Which...
A Texas man is taking six police officers to court, alleging that they brutally beat him, dragged him, and stunned him with a Taser multiple times during a traffic stop as he was returning home from a quick stop at the convenience store with his nephew, a civil rights complaint states. Terrance Holland, 47, filed...
When Jasmine Crockett recently called Trump “a thug” and a “white supremacist” during live broadcasts on MSNBC, it unleashed a wave of racist vitriol from MAGA supporters, who launched a smear campaign against the Democratic congresswoman on social media. Crockett, a rep from Texas’ 30th congressional district, blasted Trump for pardoning the Jan. 6 rioters...
The Trump administration’s immigration policies — recently exemplified by a large-scale operation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE — have reignited conversations about racial bias in enforcement. The arrests of 956 undocumented immigrants across various cities, including Atlanta, Chicago and Los Angeles, have sparked outrage, with critics pointing to stark disparities in how...
Cellphone video captured the moments when several passengers on a Frontier Airlines flight restrained a man after he began lashing out on the plane and started repeatedly punching a window. The outburst reportedly happened on a Tuesday night flight to Houston, Texas, from Denver, Colorado. About 20 minutes into the flight, the disruption began after...
In addition to issuing a threat to schools that disregard it, on Wednesday, Feb. 5, President Donald Trump signed an order prohibiting transgender athletes from playing women’s sports. According to Trump’s executive order, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” U.S. agencies are instructed to stop providing government assistance to any noncompliant schools. Speaking from the...