President Donald Trump appeared to shift into self-preservation mode as fallout from a deadly federal operation in Minnesota mounted, recalibrating as political risk grew. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem found herself exposed at the center of the storm — defending a narrative that would soon raise questions about who put her there. U.S. President-elect Donald...
Not even a full day after President Donald Trump left Davos bruised and irritated, he was already lashing out — not at world leaders, not at critics abroad, but at the man who had upstaged him on the global stage. Trump returned to Washington on Wednesday, Jan. 21, following a rocky appearance at the World...
Hours after federal immigration officers shot and killed a second U.S. citizen in Minneapolis, Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared focused on something else entirely: proving her loyalty to President Donald Trump as his administration faced mounting backlash and loss of control on the ground. With Minnesota already in turmoil from the killing of 37-year-old Alex...
For weeks, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her team has treated the growing backlash around her department as noise — dismissible, and ultimately harmless. But what started as scattered outrage has hardened into something more organized, more persistent, and far harder for Noem to shrug away. The criticism hasn’t faded. It hasn’t fractured. BROWNSVILLE,...
President Donald Trump struggled to hold his thoughts together during a wide-ranging interview about his agenda, barely maintaining focus long enough to begin answering a serious question before the response drifted off course. What followed wasn’t just rambling, critics said, but a revealing turn in which the slip itself set off concern — and allowed...