South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is attempting to repair damage to her conservative reputation after she changed her mind about signing a bill to protect girls and women’s sports.

Concrete barriers, chain-link fencing, barbed wire, and coils of razor-sharp concertina wire surround the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis. Similar barricades block other nearby government buildings and each of the city’s five police precinct stations. Behind the scenes, a thousand Minnesota National Guard members and a similar number of police officers stand ready. 

Minneapolis and neighboring St. Paul are preparing for whatever the outcome of the Derek Chauvin trial, one of the United States’ highest-profile criminal cases involving a police officer. 

Eleven-year-old Noah finds a squawking magpie that’s fallen from its nest near an Australian beach and can’t fly. He brings it home to help it heal. But the bird isn’t the only character who needs healing.

Chinese state-run media regaled Chloé Zhao as “the pride of China” for becoming the first Asian woman to win the Golden Globe for best director. But the same media turned on her when they discovered she had spoken critically of her homeland.

Zhao grew up in China but finished high school, attended college, and studied film in the United States. In a 2013 interview with Filmmaker magazine, she said China was a place “where there are lies everywhere.” An Australian entertainment website reported Zhao said in a December interview: “The U.S. is now my country, ultimately.”

As conservatives call for greater accountability for tech companies that silence their views, some congressional Democrats are jumping on the censorship bandwagon.

A popular animated preschool show has hopped on the bandwagon of children’s programs intent on normalizing LGBT behavior.

Seventh in a series on war veterans

Flying 70 feet above the tree line, helicopter crew chief and machine gunner Jerry Kyser saw North Vietnamese soldiers on the ground fire rocket-propelled grenades toward him. 

“RPG!” he yelled into his mic. The pilot of the UH-1 Huey quickly veered upward, and the explosive missiles passed directly underneath the skids. Kyser’s heart thudded.