Aleja Hertzler-McCain

More than two years ago, I obtained video footage of an arrest at a Texas high school. It showed an officer confronting a student who had thrown a can at a girl in his special education classroom. The officer dragged the 17-year-old boy to the ground and punched him. 🧵

Cecilia Vega was fired from "60 Minutes" today. In a statement she alleged meddling by CBS News management, and said she fears for the future of the broadcast. (CBS News declined to comment on her statement.)

@JakeLahut Talarico, a Presbyterian seminarian, is likely referring to this interpretation of Jewish teaching, which has been somewhat popular on the Christian left: oklahoman.com/story/news/202…

1/ At 17 weeks pregnant, Emily Waldorf was suddenly faced with a life-threatening situation: Her baby’s foot was dipping out of her cervix. Doctors told her the longer her cervix stayed open, the higher her risk of infection. They knew how to treat her. There was one issue…🧵

NEW from me: In new findings, researchers from a group of religious schools (BYU, Notre Dame, Baylor and Yeshiva) say popular AI models have a bias towards Catholicism when asked questions about conversion. religionnews.com/2026/05/26/ai-…

Via @AlejaCorazonHM and myself: Pope Leo calls just war theory 'outdated' in new encyclical religionnews.com/2026/05/25/in-…

Ratcliffe made a point of introducing the paramilitary leader to the Cubans as the one who killed their people in Venezuela, several sources said.

NEW: When Pope Leo drops his new encyclical focused on AI next week, a co-founder of Anthropic will be there to help promote it. Why? Because of a decade-long effort by the Vatican and the tech world to forge a relationship — w/Anthropic at the center. religionnews.com/2026/05/22/why…

SCOOP: CIA Director John Ratcliffe brought paramilitary leader involved in Maduro capture to Cuba meeting, sources told @DeFede @JimLaPorta and me cbsnews.com/news/cia-direc…

Wild thing in here: faith leaders have seriously raised the idea to Anthropic — in serious meetings, with real staff — that maybe the AI model Claude should be offered something like the concept of confession, since the AI is trained on an internet "very lacking in forgiveness"

Rights, said the publisher, are just "ink on paper unless they're exercised."

"How do we all relate as a church to each other? A church that is a missionary church, not self focused, not self referential, but a church that sees all voices as important." Read the @NCRonline interview with Abp. Hicks of New York by @camillobarone97 ncronline.org/news/ncr-inter…

A woman awaiting arraignment in Brooklyn Friday night gave birth in the courtroom, her hands cuffed behind her back throughout. A lawyer who witnessed the whole thing told Hell Gate it was a scene of "complete violence."

Via me, @AlejaCorazonHM and @AMBankstw: Trump allies lead thousands in prayer to “rededicate” America to God on National Mall religionnews.com/2026/05/17/tru…

Detainees reporting only getting beans and bread to eat. Such cold temperatures at a facility in the Mohave Desert that people tried turning their socks into extra sleeves for warmth, "crisis-level" medical staffing of 1 physician for nearly 1,000 detainees. Several people wept during their interviews with investigators. These are some of the details in a new state investigation into detention conditions by AG's office out today: calmatters.org/justice/2026/0…

"Reporters and editors who get their ideas from their social-media feeds — which is most of them, most of the time — can mistake a paid simulation of public interest for the real thing and then make it real by covering it. " vulture.com/article/social…

Police in Florida are investigating vandalism at a historic, predominantly African American cemetery where 17 gravesites were damaged, with headstones knocked down and ‘Trump’ and ‘DeSantis’ spray-painted in red letters on tombs, referring to the President Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis reut.rs/4tAzzli

The last words of Edward Busby, who just became the 600th person to be executed by lethal injection in Texas .

1/ Last fall, as we were interviewing immigrants detained during a dramatic immigration raid at an apartment complex in Chicago, we kept hearing about a Nigerian man whose leg was mauled by a police dog. 🧵:

Sacred Heart is one of the most prominent parishes in DC, and I’ve covered Biosca’s role as a pastor facing increasing parishioner detentions and his support for Maya Mam sawdust carpet art. Read more below: