The Headlines
Why Texas Students Are Being Tackled and Tasered, and Trump’s Latest Target for Retribution
28 May 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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From The New York Times, it's The Headlines. I'm Tracy Mumford. Today's Thursday, May 28th. Here's what we're covering.
Let's go back to when the officers were called, when the deputies came.
I was trying to text my mom, just to tell her what was going on. And so that's when the sheriff was like, OK, you're under arrest for theft.
A new investigation from The Times looks at what has happened as more police officers have been hired at schools. to keep students safe.
They had released my mugshot and other teachers started getting a hold of it. Everyone started screenshotting it.
My colleagues, in partnership with the San Antonio Express News, looked at Texas specifically. Back in 2022, the state was rocked by one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history when a gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, killing 21 people.
The next year, lawmakers passed legislation requiring one licensed police officer at every public school, the most ambitious effort of its kind. Now, Texas has more school district police departments than all other states put together.
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Chapter 2: What incidents have led to police using force on students in Texas schools?
You can find the full investigation into police in schools in the Times app or at NYTimes.com. In the Middle East over the past 24 hours, both Iran and the U.S. say they've carried out a fresh flurry of attacks. Yesterday, American troops shot down four drones over the Strait of Hormuz in what a U.S. official described as self-defense strikes.
And this morning, Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps said it retaliated by targeting an American military base. The scattered exchanges are threatening the fragile ceasefire between the two countries.
The Navy is gone. Their Air Force is gone. Everything's gone, and they're negotiating on fumes.
At the same time, President Trump is continuing to insist that a peace deal to end the war is just around the corner. Though yesterday at the White House, he said he would not be rushed.
They thought they were going to outweigh me. You know, we'll outweigh him. He's got the midterms. I don't care about the midterms. Look what happened.
Trump rejected any suggestion that the looming midterm elections and soaring gas prices were putting political pressure on him to end the conflict. This morning, amid reports of the new wave of U.S. and Iranian strikes, oil prices surged.
At the Justice Department, President Trump's retribution campaign now seems to have reached E. Gene Carroll, the former magazine writer who accused him of sexual assault. According to two people with direct knowledge of the situation, the DOJ has opened a criminal investigation into Carroll. that centers on whether she committed perjury in her civil lawsuits against Trump.
In one suit, a federal jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carol in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s and said he defamed her by calling the case a hoax and a lie on social media. In another related defamation case, a jury ordered Trump to pay Carol more than $80 million in damages.
Trump has since asked the Supreme Court to step in, and for the moment, he hasn't been forced to pay anything. While Trump has tried to demean and discredit Carroll for years, the DOJ's move now comes as the president has tried to use the full power of the federal government to target his adversaries.
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