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Evita Duffy-Alfonso, the daughter of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, sparked backlash after declaring the TSA “unconstitutional” when a 15-minute wait for a pat-down nearly caused her to miss a flight. In a social media rant, Duffy-Alfonso said, after she declined a body scanner due to being pregnant, agents were rude and coercive. She later aimed her frustration at Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, insisting her father would dismantle the agency if he had authority over it — a complaint critics noted echoed broader conservative hostility toward airport security while highlighting the everyday realities most travelers routinely face.

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The board president of The Kennedy Center lashed out at the niece of the center's namesake in a social media post on Thursday after she criticized President Donald Trump.

Maria Shriver, who's the niece of President John F. Kennedy, criticized the Kennedy Center's board for agreeing to rename it the Trump-Kennedy Center in a post on X. She said the decision was "beyond comprehension" and "beyond wild."

President Donald Trump's National Economic Council chair Kevin Hassett went on MS NOW on Thursday to try to defend the president's meandering, lie-filled speech the previous night — but the excuse he came up with had Nicolle Wallace and former Republican congressman turned Florida Democratic governor candidate David Jolly shaking their heads in disbelief.

"You know, I'd have to go back and look at the specific language," said Hassett. "But ... the president, in order to make sure that everybody understood the facts and the facts were documented, spent a lot of time with us, with our team, preparing slides that that showed the data for what he was talking about in the speech and in some networks while he was speaking, they showed the slides and in some networks they didn't. And I just thought that was kind of unusual. I was expecting, when I was flipping around, to just see the slides everywhere. Gosh, we spent so much time, more time on them. But, you know, I think that the president had documentation for the facts that he was saying they were in the slides."

The woman at the center of the viral Coldplay kiss cam moment says a fleeting Jumbotron clip spiraled into months of relentless public shaming, doxxing, and death threats, prompting her to finally tell her side of the story. In her first interview since the TikTok exploded to 100 million views, Kristin Cabot told the New York Times how she was turned into an internet punchline, fielding hundreds of harassing calls a day, enduring paparazzi outside her home, and absorbing a torrent of misogynistic abuse after being filmed with her married boss. While acknowledging her mistake and the career cost she paid, Cabot said the punishment far exceeded the offense, stressing that no personal failing justifies threats of violence — and that she wants her children to see accountability without dehumanization.

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President Donald Trump is millions of tons short of meeting a key promise he made to American farmers before starting his trade war with China, according to one analyst.

In October, China agreed to end its boycott of American soybeans, which ended a months-long trade war between the two countries. As part of the deal, China agreed to buy 12 million metric tons of soybeans by the end of 2025. However, reporting from CNBC in early December showed that the country would likely miss its target.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office is openly ridiculing a White House update after confirmation that President Donald Trump personally wrote some of the new presidential portrait plaques, including one declaring that he “saved America.” Trump-era additions reportedly reference his own reelection and attack former President Joe Biden, while even plaques for past presidents mention Trump. Newsom’s press office fired back with a viral mock plaque parodying Trump’s tone and obsessions, drawing laughs — and fresh criticism — as commentators questioned why the president is spending time rewriting history in bronze amid rising economic anxiety.

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem took to X on Thursday to vehemently deny that the U.S. Coast Guard is loosening restrictions on hate symbols like swastikas and nooses to "potentially divisive," amid a weekslong story of controversial back-and-forths on the policy.

Her statement comes as multiple Senate Democrats, including Sens. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV), have placed a block on the promotion of Adm. James Lunday, a prominent figure within the Coast Guard. In response to the original reporting, he denounced these hate symbols and promised nothing less than a total prohibition on them — but then the Coast Guard appeared to move forward with the "potentially divisive" guidance anyway, blindsiding lawmakers who had been promised the issue was settled.