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President Trump flew home from the NATO summit in Ankara on two different planes on July 8. He left Turkey on an old Boeing VC-25A, the same baby-blue jet that has ferried presidents since 1990. The new Qatari-gifted jet flew ahead to Britain, where Trump switched back for the final leg to Washington. Trump attributed the choice to sentiment. "For old time's sake, we'll be taking the former Air Force One, from Turkey," he posted on Truth Social. The New York Times reported th

Somebody's mother taught her children to keep their hands where officers could see them, to speak slowly, to do exactly what the badge said and nothing more. That lesson used to buy safety. Renee Good followed it. Alex Pretti followed it. Ruben Ray Martinez followed it, brake lights lit, car barely moving, hands where anyone could see them. All three ended up dead anyway, and the country owes their families more than a press release calling it self-defense. "Comply or die" is

Odds Increase Again for Historic Super El Niño by Fall El Niño behaves like a temperamental child, and the tantrums cross oceans, hitting every continent downstream. The name comes from Spanish-speaking fishermen who noticed warm currents arriving each year near Christmas and called the pattern for the Christ child, a reference for a system with the power to upend weather across the world. When El Niño escalates, the disruption escalates alongside, and this year's version sta

Mission Regional Medical Center faces a state investigation over allegations that it marketed birth tourism packages to foreign nationals. Governor Greg Abbott sent a letter Tuesday afternoon ordering the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to investigate the Mission hospital over reports that it advertised "birth packages" abroad. The directive targets whether the hospital profited from offering birth packages to South Texas and refers the matter directly to HHSC. Abb

McConnell Still Chairs the Rules Committee From His Hospital Bed Mitch McConnell has been well enough to discuss Iran, Ukraine, national security, and a Supreme Court ruling on campaign spending from his hospital bed. He has not been well enough to do it in person, on video, or in front of anyone outside his own staff and a handful of allies who have relayed the conversations secondhand. The Kentucky Republican, 84, entered the hospital on the morning of June 14. His office h

LULAC Disputes ICE Account of Fatal Houston Shooting Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up his construction crew before 7 a.m. on Tuesday, when an ICE agent shot him on Canal Street in Houston's Magnolia Park. He died at Ben Taub Hospital with CPR already underway in the ambulance. Federal officials say he tried to run over an officer. His family says he spent thirty-five years in this country building homes for other people. Ronaldo Salgado, one of Salgado Araujo's sons, con

The Guy on the Chiefs, Coming Straight Home to Her Taylor Swift has been singing about meeting the right guy since she was a teenager writing songs in her bedroom. Every album had a version of him tucked into the lyrics, a guy who showed up late, loved football, or made her feel like the ending finally made sense. She didn't know his name yet. On July 8, 2023, Kelce attended Swift's Eras Tour show at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City. Chiefs teammate Patrick Mahomes had invite

Threatening the President Carries a Lighter Sentence Than Threatening an ICE Agent Congress classified threatening the life of the President as a federal felony in 1917, and the statute has outlived eleven administrations without a single rewrite of the core language. Title 18, Section 871 criminalizes any knowing and willful threat to kill, kidnap, or inflict bodily harm on the sitting president, the president-elect, or a former president within a defined protection window.

When Conscience Wears a Uniform The steel handcuffs clicked shut on the steps of the United States Capitol, but the larger question raised by the arrest may linger far longer: When does loyalty to conscience collide with loyalty to institution? That question moved to the center of the national conversation Wednesday after active-duty U.S. Air Force Major Jason Watson was arrested during a protest at the Capitol calling for the impeachment, conviction, and removal of President

Governor Greg Abbott has stayed quiet on a debate invitation while his Democratic challenger keeps talking. Texas Rep. Gina Hinojosa, the Austin Democrat trying to unseat him this November, has accepted a one-hour debate slot for Oct. 15 in Fort Worth, hosted by NBC Universal Television Stations Texas and Hearst Newspapers Texas and set to air in both English and Spanish. It's the first real test of whether Abbott will face her directly, and it comes eight months into a campa

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear President Donald Trump's appeal seeking to overturn a $5 million civil judgment awarded to writer and former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, bringing another chapter of the long-running legal battle to a close. By refusing to take up the case, the nation's highest court leaves intact a 2023 jury verdict that found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll and later defaming her through public statements denying her allegations and

For more than a decade, immigration agents largely avoided entering places of worship to make arrests, under a "sensitive locations" policy formalized by ICE Director John Morton in October 2011. The Department of Homeland Security rescinded that policy on January 21, 2025, removing the restriction entirely. Sister Letty Ugboaja's detention this past Sunday, while walking to morning Mass in McAllen, shows what enforcement looks like without it. Sister Letty Ugboaja returned h

A man who has not set foot in Hidalgo County voluntarily in thirteen years is finally coming back, and not by choice. Omar Guerrero, 49, was arrested in Mexico on Tuesday and is now in U.S. custody, according to a news release from the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office. District Attorney Toribio "Terry" Palacios said Wednesday that Guerrero will be back in the county within two days, the result of a joint effort between the DA's office, the sheriff's office, the U.S. Marshals,

Webb County Judge Tano Tijerina filed for Congress in December 2025 with no campaign experience above the county level. Four months later, he had outraised an eleven-term incumbent, landed a spot on the NRCC's inaugural priority list, and picked up a public nod from one of South Texas's most active Republican organizing groups. That is not the trajectory of a first-time candidate finding his footing. His feet are firmly planted on solid ground. Per FEC filings, Tijerina raise

Obama Presidential Center Chicago's South Side hosted the grand opening ceremony of the Obama Presidential Center on Thursday, an event landing on the eve of Juneteenth weekend. The livestream began at noon Eastern time, broadcasting the proceedings to anyone with an internet connection and a passing interest in presidential pageantry. The event brought together politicians, A-list celebrities, athletes, and other internationally known figures, with three former presidents jo

Republicans have spent decades insisting that Democratic governance destroys cities. But no one can prove their point. As of March 2026, 67 of the 100 largest cities in the United States have Democratic mayors. That number has held steady since at least 2016, fluctuating by only a handful of seats in either direction regardless of national political conditions. New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, San Antonio, and San Diego all have Democratic mayors simulta

The Supreme Court Every federal judge in the United States operates under a binding code of conduct. Every single one, except nine. The nine people with the most power in the American legal system have spent the better part of two centuries answering to no one but themselves, and the country is only recently, reluctantly, starting to reckon with what that actually means. The Supreme Court had been the only court in the country without a binding ethics code. That changed in No

A Written Testimony Robert "Doc" Beckett wanted people to know who he was. He said so himself, in a written testimony published on a Christian ministry website called christian-faith.com. His testimony, submitted by his wife, identified only as "GG," covers Beckett's life from childhood in Rio Grande City to drug smuggling along the Texas-Mexico border, shootouts with federal agents, years in Mexican and American prisons, stabbings, a prison riot, Russian roulette, and an eve

Saturday night at the Washington Hilton Saturday night at the Washington Hilton was supposed to be Washington's most famous dinner party. It became something else entirely. Cole Tomas Allen, 31, charged a security checkpoint at 8:36 p.m. armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives, firing at a Secret Service agent before being tackled and arrested at the scene. A Secret Service officer was struck by at least one round but was protected by a bulletproof vest and is ex

Texas Runoff Elections Explained Confusion follows the primary election cycle in Texas. Many voters assume the process has ended. State law requires a majority vote for a party nomination. When no candidate receives more than 50 percent, the race advances to a runoff between the top two finishers. This second round determines which candidate appears on the November ballot. Texas applies this rule across party primaries for statewide, legislative, and local offices. The system