President-elect Donald Trump was taken aback by the firestorm against South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) after she crowed about gunning down a 14-month wirehaired pointer named Cricket in her book

Kristi L. Noem (R) on Friday pledged that if confirmed ... has dropped in recent months to the lowest level of President Joe Biden’s tenure after rising to all-time highs in 2023.

Noem's full name is Kristi Lynn Arnold Noem and she was born in 1971 in Watertown, in east central South Dakota. The city is in Codington County about 187 miles northeast of the state's capital Pierre. The new Secretary of Homeland Security is married to Bryon Noem.

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Kristi Noem was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as President Donald Trump's Homeland Security secretary on Saturday, putting into position a key member of the Republican's Cabinet as he launches a wide-ranging immigration crackdown.

Noem is set to lead the Department of Homeland Security, which will oversee many of Trump's border and immigraiton changes.

Bernie Moreno ripped the Biden administration’s immigration policy in his first hearing in the Senate as President-elect Trump’s DHS secretary nominee Kristi Noem sat in front of the Senate ...

President-elect Donald Trump's choice for Homeland Security secretary portrayed illegal immigration as an "invasion" and the U.S.-Mexico border as a "war zone" during a U.S. Senate confirmation on Friday where she pledged to back Trump's hard line on immigration.

Controversial South Dakota Republican appears before Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee as president-elect casts Mel Gibson, Sylvester Stallone and Jon Voight

Kristi Noem, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee ... down an "untrainable" dog in a 2024 memoir. Following President Joe Biden's 2020 victory, Noem said she would refuse a COVID-19 lockdown ...

That’s thanks to House Speaker MIKE JOHNSON. He alone has the discretion to pick the membership of the panel, and over the past few days, he gave it a MAGA makeover.

President Donald Trump has begun his second administration with a series of controversial moves and decisions.