At the 2025 BET Awards, rapper Doechii used her acceptance speech for Best Female Hip-Hop Artist to sharply criticize President Trump’s deployment of military forces to Los Angeles.
Inupiat leaders on Alaska's North Slope expressed profound thanks to President Trump following his administration's move to overturn Biden-era restrictions on oil development.
A North Carolina teen received a $20,000 settlement and formal apology this week after being suspended for using the term “illegal alien” during an English class vocabulary discussion in April 2024.
Darby Kaikkonen, a former senior official in the Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), has filed a federal lawsuit alleging she was terminated for voting to preserve fairness in girls’ sports. Kaikkonen served as Director of Student Information at OSPI and is currently an elected member of the Tumwater School Board.
A U.S. Department of Justice employee has been charged in Texas with capital murder and evidence tampering after allegedly poisoning his pregnant girlfriend in an attempt to induce an abortion. The Parker County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the arrest of 38-year-old Justin Anthony Banta on June 6 following an extensive investigation.
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee declared Tuesday that the United States no longer supports the creation of a Palestinian state in Israel’s biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria, commonly known as the West Bank. In a major policy shift, Huckabee suggested a Palestinian entity could be established “elsewhere in the region” and reaffirmed U.S. resolve against Iran’s nuclear ambitions and Hamas’s hostage-taking.
