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...
President Donald Trump has a long history of using social media to provoke reactions, but this time the response arrived almost instantly — and not in the way he likely intended. A single repost set off confusion, disbelief, and then something darker, as users tried to make sense of what he appeared to be signaling....
Conspiracy theories exploded across social media after President Donald Trump’s plane abruptly turned around mid-flight due to an electrical issue aboard Air Force One, a rare incident involving one of the most closely monitored and meticulously maintained aircraft in the world. The White House said the mid-air reversal was the result of a mechanical problem....
School administrators at an Indiana high school suspended a Black high school student who said that he suffered years of racist incidents that came to a head when he was sent a threatening letter that listed his home address and called him a “chicken eating Kool-Aid drinking boy.” Julian Blevins is a sophomore at Chesterton...