Emerging Topics in U.S. News
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25th 2025
Updated 00:12 ET
11 articles
GUARD, NATIONAL, TRUMP, COURT
A makeshift memorial is seen at the location of last week's shooting of two members of the National Guard December 1, 2025, in Washington, DC.
A makeshift memorial is seen at the location of last week's shooting of two members of the National Guard December
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EPSTEIN, FILES, TRUMP, DOCUMENTS
The Department of Justice said Wednesday it may have more than a million more documents related to the late Jeffrey Epstein that it needs to review and that the process could take weeks to complete.
The DOJ said two of its components, the FBI and the U.S.
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UKRAINE, DEMILITARIZED, ZONE, PEACE
U.S. and Ukraine reach consensus on key issues aimed at ending the war
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KYIV, Ukraine — The United States and Ukraine have reached a consensus on several critical issues aimed at bringing an end to the nearly four-year
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CRIME, TRUMP, TREND, AMERICA
President Donald Trump’s administration is forcing down the huge crime waves overseen by Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, according to a crime report posted by Axios.com.
“U.S. murders on pace for largest one-year drop on record,” says Axios.com’s coverage
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CALIFORNIA, FLOOD, FLASH, SOUTHERN
LOS ANGELES — A powerful storm with the potential for life-threatening flash flooding is moving onshore over California early Wednesday, threatening to be one of the wettest Christmas Eve-to-Christmas Day periods on record for Los Angeles.
“A dangerous scenario
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TRUMP, SANTA, TAKES, CALLS
Norad, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, has kicked off its 70-year tradition of tracking Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, with US President Donald Trump joining. He and First Lady Melania Trump took calls from multiple children. Every year, Norad
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SEAN, DIDDY, COMBS, RELEASE
Sean 'Diddy' Combs files appeal asking for immediate prison release
The request is the latest attempt by his team to reduce his sentence or throw out his conviction.
Attorney Alexandra Shapiro called Combs' 50-month prison sentence "unlawful, unconstitutional,
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TRUMP, PUT, SLEEP, LATE
President Trump blasted late-night host Stephen Colbert early Wednesday as a “dead man walking” — telling his bosses at CBS that the “humanitarian” thing would be to “put him to sleep.”
“Stephen Colbert is a pathetic trainwreck, with no talent or anything
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JOE, ROGAN, EPSTEIN, CLINTON
Podcast king and former UFC analyst Joe Rogan is pleading with YouTuber Jake Paul to give up boxing after Paul suffered a brutal broken jaw in the ring with two-time heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua.
Paul lost his December 19 match against Joshua and ended
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NEW, GREEN, LAW, LIGHT
A federal judge on Tuesday cleared the way for New York’s so-called Green Light Law, ruling against the Trump administration’s effort to block the state from giving people driver’s licenses without requiring proof that they are in the US legally.
US District
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MINUTES, 60, TRUMP, SPIKING
There have been a lot of bad reactions to editor-in-chief Bari Weiss pulling the 60 Minutes story about illegal aliens and CECOT, the prison in El Salvador.
Now, bear in mind, she wasn't saying that she wasn't going to run with the story; she just wanted more
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CHRISTMAS, WAR, YEARS, FLOCK
Is Christmas a holiday with pagan origins? Is it wrong to celebrate the birth of Jesus on December 25? And what about putting up a Christmas tree? Is that a direct violation of Jeremiah 10?
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As a Jewish follower of Jesus (commonly called a “Messianic
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SUE, STATES, HHS, GENDER
A group of 19 Democrat-led states and Washington, D.C., filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over a declaration that aims to restrict gender transition treatment for minors.
The lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services;
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CANCER, DIAGNOSIS, BEN, FORMER
'It's a death sentence': Former Senator Ben Sasse announces cancer diagnosis
He and his wife have three children.
"Friends - This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I'll cut to the chase: Last week I was
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CENTER, KENNEDY, DEMOCRATIC, TRUMP
Democratic board member muted during Kennedy Center vote sues to remove Trump's name
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Watch: President Trump's name added to facade of Kennedy Center
Democratic US Representative Joyce Beatty has filed
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EVE, JACKPOT, POWERBALL, CHRISTMAS
Powerball’s current $1.7 billion jackpot is the longest a mega-prize has gone without being claimed — but experts say there’s a 50-50 chance someone will buy a winning ticket from here on out.
The huge jackpot has gone five drawings worth at least $1 billion
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CHURCH, CHRISTMAS, NEW, FLAMES
A Long Island mayor is facing accusations of being an anti-Christmas Grinch after he dinged a Catholic church for hosting a holiday fundraiser.
The Village of the Branch, in the Town of Smithtown, issued a citation to St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, threatening
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EL, CLINTON, BUKELE, CRITICISM
El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele made an offer to Hillary Clinton after the former Secretary of State criticized his country's notorious CECOT mega-prison, home to thousands of gang-affiliated thugs, including Tren de Aragua members deported from America.
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Clinton,
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RAMASWAMY, OHIO, FUENTES, NICK
Offensive far-right firebrand Nick Fuentes said he plans to campaign against Vivek Ramaswamy in an openly racist campaign to try to stop him becoming the next governor of Ohio.
The self-professed white nationalist, 27, told his twisted followers they need
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GIFT, SEASON, HOLIDAY
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GUARD, COAST, SEIZE, PURSUIT
The U.S. Coast Guard is awaiting for additional resources to arrive before potentially attempting to stop and board another oil tanker linked to Venezuela’s socialist Maduro regime, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
According to an unnamed U.S. official “familiar
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ARRESTED, WIFE, FARMING, MURDER
A farming tycoon has been arrested for the murder of his estranged beauty-queen wife a month after she was gunned down in her $1.6 million home.
Michael Abatti, 63, was arrested in Imperial Valley, California, around 2 p.m. Tuesday for the Nov. 20 murder of
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ILLEGAL, UNDER, LAKEN, NEW
If you have been paying attention to the news around illegal immigration and the Biden administration's careless non-enforcement of the border and immigration laws, then you remember who Laken Riley was, and what happened to her; I won't rehash that here. Not
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BED, FLIGHT, KLM, VIRGINIA
A Virginia family said they were left covered in “itchy welts, lesions and rashes” after taking an international flight operated by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines that was allegedly “infested” with bed bugs, according to a new lawsuit.
Romulo Albuquerque and his
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