InDesign Text Box | When change text from white to black the last 2 words remains white?

I am having an issue with InDesign. I have a text box that had white text and I switched to black because I was removing the color background. When I switched the text to black the last couple of words on each line remains white. I have no idea why - it was perfectly fine when I last had it open.

I can move my cursor next to the last word in black and it types black text. But when I delete the white text it then changes the adjacent letter next to it to white and keeps doing this for each adjacent letter.

And even more odd if I type at the end where the word is white the additional text I type is white but for each new white letter it changes the white text on the opposite end of the string to black. I am at a loss. Anyone know why it is doing this? I did have a HP driver and Windows 11 Cumulative update yesterday and today - not sure that has anything to do with it. I did ininstall and reinstall InDesign and still have the same issue. Any ideas why this is happening and how to fix it? Thanks for your time!