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In less than 90 days, the United States under Trump has become a very different country.  It is not an exaggeration to say that the United States is facing a meltdown that will be difficult to reverse ...

The Midland College softball team will play No. 9-ranked Odessa College in a home-and-home series that could decide the ...

The Senate confirmed retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan 'Razin' Caine to become the next Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, filling ...

Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan "Razin" Caine was nominated in February after Trump fired Gen. CQ Brown Jr. as part of his ...

The Senate confirmed retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan "Razin" Caine as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff almost ...

The list was so extensive that it had to be divided into 17 categories: Biden administration members, members of the first Trump administration, people involved in criminal or impeachment cases ...

While decrying the weaponization of executive power on the campaign trail, of course, Trump was simultaneously promising it. "I am your retribution," he pledged to crowds, who howled their approval.

Odessa College's Avery Terpsma and Haydn Milley were named this week's Western Junior College Athletic Conference Softball Players of the Week. Terpsma was named the WJCAC Softball Position Player of ...

Lt. Gen. Dan ‘Razin’ Caine was a fighter pilot who worked in the Pentagon, the CIA, and previously advised Trump on how ...