A United Airlines flight bound for Minneapolis from Chicago made an emergency landing in Wisconsin after an alleged “unruly passenger” attempted to gain access to the cockpit. “An attempted hijacking was reported aboard a United Airlines Boeing 737-924(ER) aircraft (N69818) traveling from Chicago to Minneapolis, transmitted squawk code 7500. The United Airlines flight 2005 from Chicago O’hare (ORD) to Minneapolis (MSP) diverted to Madison, WI (MSN) after a level 4 security incident occurred on board,” aviation news page ‘FL360aero’ wrote. “The plane transmitted squawk code 7500 during the incident, the internationally recognized emergency signal for a hijacking. Law enforcement on board the aircraft subdued the subject until landing where the aircraft was met by additional law enforcement,” it added. Threat Level 4 Today: An attempted hijacking was reported aboard a United Airlines Boeing 737-924(ER) aircraft (N69818) traveling from Chicago to Minneapolis, transmitted squawk code 7500. The United Airlines flight 2005 from Chicago O'hare (ORD) to Minneapolis (MSP) diverted to… pic.twitter.com/kiYt6voQiU — FL360aero (@fl360aero) May 30, 2026 More from The Guardian: The FBI and police responded to reports of a security concern with the passenger, who was detained by police at the Dane county regional airport in Madison, Wisconsin. The flight continued its journey to Minneapolis, landing early on Saturday morning, according to FlightAware data. There were no reported injuries among the 147 passengers and six crew members onboard the flight. A United spokesperson said flight 2005 “landed safely in Madison … to address a security concern with an unruly passenger”. According to PEOPLE, the passenger was allegedly “ranting in Russian” and caused a struggle on the plane. The aircraft was carrying 147 passengers and six crew members on board. There were no reported injuries. Listen to the ATC audio below: Attemped Skyjacking over Wisconsin last night aboard a United Airlines 737. ATC audio describes that a passenger tried to breach the cockpit several times. Luckily there were 5 Law Enforcement Officers onboard. The Captain of the flight said the skyjacker was seated in between… pic.twitter.com/oE8Ll2hkZy — Thenewarea51 (@thenewarea51) May 30, 2026 PEOPLE noted: According to FlightRadar24, the squawk code 7500 signal “allows the pilots to contact Air Traffic Control discreetly.” “What happens after this code is transmitted varies, but usually, security forces tend to get involved. The process, which is depicted in movies and TV, is an escort by military aircraft and authorities may also be waiting upon arrival,” the website states. Federal authorities are investigating the incident, per WMTV. The DCRA continued normal operations after the passenger’s arrest.

California Democrat Tom Steyer just told a male athlete he was proud of him for beating girls. Steyer posted a video with AB Hernandez, a transgender-identifying athlete competing in California girls track and field. In the clip, Steyer told Hernandez he was proud of him for succeeding and competing. The timing was no accident. Steyer is running for office in California, and the primary landed Tuesday. The video showed exactly what Steyer chose to endorse: California Gov. candidate Tom Steyer just posted this video with trans athlete AB Hernandez, who will compete for a girls' state track & field title this weekend. "I'm so proud of you for what you're doing," Steyer said. pic.twitter.com/iIq5VqX14J — Jackson Thompson (@JackThompsonFOX) May 29, 2026 Hernandez is not a marginal competitor. OutKick and Fox reported that Hernandez advanced to the final round of the California state championship in long jump, triple jump, and high jump after Friday’s preliminaries. So a billionaire Democrat chose to celebrate a male athlete sweeping his way into three girls finals. California’s response to the backlash has been its own kind of insult to the girls involved. OutKick and Fox reported that the state’s CIF pilot program awards any female athlete who finishes behind Hernandez one spot higher, which results in shared podium spots. In other words, the girls who actually competed as girls get to split the podium with the male athlete who displaced them. This is the policy Steyer looked at and decided to applaud. Fox News Digital reported: Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton condemned Steyer for supporting trans athletes in girls’ sports in an interview with Fox News Digital on Friday. “Tom Steyer has taken a wildly extreme position on this issue that is totally out of touch with most California families and young people,” Hilton told Fox News Digital before the rally,” Hilton said. Hilton’s campaign then shared Steyer’s post on X, mocking the Democrat. In the video, posted to Steyer’s social media account, Hernandez spoke about being “outed” and “doxed.” “I’ve been outed like, so many times over and over, you know doxed, where I go to school, so I feel like, more safety aspect, and not just supporting but…” Hernandez began, before Steyer added, “protecting.” “Yeah, protection,” Hernandez responded. Steyer went on to say that he “totally agrees.” “It’s the job of the governor to stand between danger and Californians. And I mean it, and to make sure that people are safe, and to protect them from all the maligned influences in this world. And I take that super super seriously for you. And I’m so proud of you for what you’re doing,” Steyer said. President Trump saw this coming a year ago. Breitbart reported that President Trump warned California in May 2025 against allowing transgender-identifying males in girls sports and considered withholding large-scale federal funding over the issue. Breitbart reported: California Democrat gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer is trying to force voters to accept biological males competing in female sports, telling one transgender athlete he was “proud” of him. Steyer posted a video of himself talking with teenage athlete AB Hernandez, who recently dominated state finals, bringing protests and outrage from parents and female competitors, according to Breitbart News. In the clip, Hernandez, who is wearing a dress and carrying a purse, told Steyer it was “nice” for him to be open about who he supported when it came to the transgender issue. “Most people support you 90 percent of the time, just not the 10 percent you need them for,” Steyer told him, adding his team supported him 100 percent. Hernandez claimed people had “outed” him several times and “doxxed” him, adding he felt there needed to be more protection. “I totally agree,” Steyer replied, adding it was the governor’s job to protect citizens and “protect them from all the malign influences in this world. And I take that super, super, super seriously for you… and I’m so proud of you for what you’re doing. So proud of you for succeeding. So proud of you for competing.” That is the choice on the ballot in California. One side wants federal pressure to protect girls’ sports. The other side is filming proud videos with the athlete beating them. Republican Steve Hilton was not playing along. Hilton’s campaign put the fight directly in front of California voters: 4 DAYS TO GO – Clovis, Fresno County – CIF State Track & Field Championships. If you want to Save Girls' Sports you have to VOTE for it! Vote for Change! pic.twitter.com/fwny0Pxuj2 — Steve Hilton (@SteveHiltonx) May 29, 2026 The race was tight heading into Tuesday. Breitbart cited California Post polling that had Hilton tied with Steyer at 25 percent before the primary. Steyer had the money and the name recognition. He still decided that praising a male athlete dominating girls competition was a winning message for California Democrats. The girls on those shared podiums did not get a video. They got displaced, and they got a billionaire telling the athlete who beat them how proud he was.

President Trump’s State Department just expanded the narco-terror crackdown into Brazil, naming two of the country’s deadliest criminal syndicates as Specially Designated Global Terrorists. On May 28, 2026, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the designations for Comando Vermelho and Primeiro Comando da Capital, better known as the PCC. The administration also signaled intent to designate both groups as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, with that step taking effect June 5, 2026 upon Federal Register publication. Rubio laid out the reasoning directly. Primeiro Comando da Capital and Comando Vermelho are two of the most violent criminal organizations in Brazil. Their reach extends throughout our region and into our country.  Today, I designated these organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated… — Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) May 28, 2026 The official release said the two groups command thousands of members and have carried out brutal attacks against Brazilian police officers, public officials, and civilians. Fox News Digital reported the syndicates likely have more than 50,000 members combined, citing the Associated Press. A Department of State release republished by Mirage News gave the formal language: Today, the U.S. Department of State is designating Comando Vermelho (CV) and Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) and intends to designate both groups as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs), effective June 5, 2026. CV and PCC are two of the most violent criminal organizations in Brazil. Together, they command thousands of members and have orchestrated brutal attacks against Brazilian police officers, public officials, and civilians. Their influence and illicit networks extend far beyond Brazil’s borders, across our region and into our country. The Trump Administration will continue to use all available tools to protect our nation and our national security interests by keeping illicit drugs off our streets and disrupting the revenue streams funding violent narco-terrorists. Today’s action taken by the State Department further demonstrates the Trump Administration’s unwavering commitment to dismantling cartels and criminal organizations in our region and ensuring the safety of the American people. Today’s actions are taken pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act and Executive Order 13224. FTO designations go into effect upon publication in the Federal Register. The terror label gives U.S. authorities sharper tools to choke off money, freeze assets, and go after the support networks that keep these organizations running. Rubio noted the reach of both groups stretches throughout the region and into the United States, which is the point of pulling them into a legal framework already used against violent cartels. The push had a clear ally inside Brazil. Fox News Digital reported the designation followed a Washington meeting between President Trump and conservative Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, who urged the administration to label the gangs as terrorist entities. After the announcement, Bolsonaro thanked President Trump and Rubio publicly. O povo brasileiro de bem agradece a atenção e o compromisso do @SecRubio e do @realDonaldTrump . Essa luta é de todos nós. Vamos dar um basta nesses grupos! O Brasil merece ter paz! O Brasil tem futuro! pic.twitter.com/2nCxP0082o — Flávio Bolsonaro (@FlavioBolsonaro) May 28, 2026 His message said Brazil’s law-abiding people are grateful, that the fight belongs to everyone, and that Brazil deserves peace and has a future. Not everyone in Brasília is cheering. Fox News Digital reported that Lula da Silva’s government opposes the designation, arguing the gangs are criminal enterprises rather than ideologically motivated terrorist groups. Brazilian authorities have separately launched a financial crackdown targeting fraud and money-laundering networks tied to PCC operations. That makes the fight over the terror label more than a diplomatic argument. For now, the SDGT designation is immediate. The Foreign Terrorist Organization step locks in June 5, and from there the administration has another lever to squeeze two of the most violent organizations in the hemisphere. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.

President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security is ending race-based admissions attached to the Coast Guard’s officer commissioning pipeline. The move targets race-based requirements built into the College Student Pre-Commissioning Initiative, the scholarship-and-commissioning path that turns college students into Coast Guard officers. It is another concrete piece of the administration’s effort to strip racial preferences out of federal hiring and federal pipelines. The principle is simple. Officers should advance on merit, not skin color. That logic tracks with where the Supreme Court already landed on race-based admissions in higher education, a point the legal world has hammered repeatedly. The legal argument around race-based admissions has only grown louder since the Supreme Court’s Harvard ruling, as Carrie Severino noted in a separate education fight: The Supreme Court was clear in SFFA v. Harvard: race-based discrimination in higher education is unconstitutional. The Oregon Department of Education’s racial quotas for grant eligibility are a clear violation of federal civil rights law. https://t.co/RCG1kqIFYz — Carrie Severino (@JCNSeverino) May 29, 2026 Fox News first reported the change as part of the broader DEI crackdown across the federal government. The College Student Pre-Commissioning Initiative is described by the Coast Guard as a scholarship program that funds students through college and commissions them as officers after graduation. The official Coast Guard page lays out the basic structure of the path. What is changing is the race-based admissions piece bolted onto that pipeline, not the existence of an officer-commissioning track itself. That distinction matters for readers. The Fox News exclusive quickly began circulating under the broader anti-DEI framing: Coast Guard ending race-based admissions for officer commissioning program under Trump DEI crackdown https://t.co/inrfXwsJK9 — Spreading Fox News (@SpreadFoxnews) May 30, 2026 The Coast Guard still needs officers. It just will not be sorting candidates by race to get them. For an administration that ran on merit and equal protection, this is the kind of quiet structural fix that adds up. Every federal pipeline that drops a racial test makes the next one easier to clean out. Here is the Fox News exclusive making the rounds on X. Military readiness was always the strongest argument against racial preferences in the ranks. The service that guards the coast should be picking the best officers it can find, full stop. The exclusive Fox News report laid out the DHS announcement and the legal framing behind it: EXCLUSIVE: The U.S. Coast Guard will be ending admissions for college students looking to be commissioned as officers that take race into consideration as part of the Trump administration’s continued anti-diversity, equity and inclusion initiative, Fox News Digital has learned. “The Trump administration is more focused than ever on eliminating unconstitutional DEI policies like this one,” DHS General Counsel James Percival said in a statement shared with Fox News Digital on Friday. “Racial quotas, like those included in this program for students who want to enlist and commission as officers in the U.S. Coast Guard, are a direct violation of the United States Constitution’s equal protection requirements. By getting rid of these unconstitutional diversity quotas, we are returning the Coast Guard’s focus to military readiness, upholding the law and making America a safer place.” The College Student Pre-Commissioning Initiative (CSPI) program previously included a preference for students from schools that had met quotas for including students from specific racial groups. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced an end to those requirements on Thursday. “Eliminating racial quotas in federal programs remains a priority of the Justice Department,” Assistant Attorney General Brett A. Shumate of the Justice Department’s Civil Division said. “Access to opportunities like the Coast Guard’s pre-commissioning initiative should be based exclusively on merit, not the racial composition of your college. This resolution helps ensure that equality of opportunity.” The official Coast Guard program page describes how CSPI works: CSPI is a scholarship program for motivated college juniors and seniors who demonstrate academic and leadership excellence and a desire to serve in the Coast Guard. To apply, you must be a sophomore or junior at a federally designated Minority Serving Institution (MSI). As a CSPI scholar, you’ll become an active-duty Coast Guard member with the rank of Officer Trainee and receive the military benefits of the E-3 pay grade, including salary and healthcare. You’ll be assigned to your university, where you’ll complete your degree as a full-time student with tuition, books, and fees paid annually. To be eligible for CSPI, your school must meet the federal definition for one of the following types of minority serving institutions. Additionally, to support your training, your school must be located within 100 miles of a Coast Guard unit or recruiting office. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Predominantly Black Institutions (PBI) Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISI) Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCU) Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions (ANNHI) Native American Non-Tribal Institutions (NANTI). That is the real story here: the Coast Guard can still recruit and build future officers, but the path now has to run through merit instead of racial sorting. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.

The man who ran Iowa’s largest school district is going to federal prison. On May 29, 2026, U.S. District Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger sentenced former Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Andre Roberts to 24 months behind bars. Roberts pleaded guilty to false statement for employment and illegal alien in possession of a firearm. After he serves his time, he is expected to be handed to ICE and deported to Guyana. This was the superintendent of a district serving roughly 30,000 students. BREAKING: Former Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts, sentenced to 2 years in federal prison for falsely claiming to be a U.S. citizen and illegally firearm possession. After he serves his sentence he will be turned over to ICE and likely deported to Guyana. pic.twitter.com/welDz9R8kQ — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 29, 2026 The collapse of his career started with a targeted ICE enforcement operation in September 2025. ICE said Roberts was a Guyana national living under a final order of removal with no work authorization. According to ABC News, the sentence included about eight months of credit for time already served, and Roberts’ attorney did not plan to appeal. Prosecutors had asked for 37 months. The defense asked for probation to speed up his removal. The Justice Department put the false-citizenship and firearm admissions this way: The former Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent pleaded guilty today to both charges against him. Ian Andre Roberts, 55, entered guilty pleas to False Statement for Employment and Illegal Alien in Possession of a Firearm. According to public court documents, Roberts falsely stated that he was a United States citizen on employment paperwork related to his position at the Des Moines Public Schools in June 2023. Roberts was not and has never been a United States citizen. On September 26, 2025, Roberts knowingly possessed a loaded Glock pistol in his vehicle while knowing that he was unlawfully present in the United States. On the same day, Roberts also possessed three additional firearms at his residence, including a loaded pistol, a loaded rifle, and a shotgun. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement described the arrest and removal-order background this way: Today, ICE Des Moines arrested Ian Andre Roberts, a criminal illegal alien from Guyana in possession of a loaded handgun, $3,000 in cash and a fixed blade hunting knife. At the time of his arrest, Roberts was working as the Superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools despite being an illegal alien with a final order of removal and no work authorization. During a targeted enforcement operation on Sept. 26, 2025, officers approached Roberts in his vehicle after identifying himself, but he sped away. Officers later discovered his vehicle abandoned near a wooded area. State Patrol assisted in locating the subject and he was taken into ICE custody. Roberts has existing weapon possession charges from February 5, 2020. Roberts entered the United States in 1999 on a student visa and was given a final order of removal by an immigration judge in May of 2024. So for more than a year, a man already ordered out of the country was sitting atop a public school system, drawing a public salary, inside a public bureaucracy that did not catch it. That is the part parents should keep asking about. The vetting failed at every level that was supposed to protect kids and taxpayers. The Guyana angle is more than biography. It is where the case appears headed once the prison term is finished. Guyana-born school superintendent Ian Roberts gets 2 years in federal prison.He will be deported back to Guyana after serving his time. Full story: https://t.co/zNGMn2Zppb#Guyana #Caribbean #IanRoberts #Immigration #CaribbeanNews #NewsAmericasNow pic.twitter.com/clEyqBxPTd — Caribbean Diaspora News | News Americas (@NewsAmericasNow) May 30, 2026 Roberts will do his time, then board a plane to Guyana. The lesson for every school board in the country is simpler than the paperwork he faked: verify before you hand someone authority over a district serving 30,000 students. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.