Emerging Topics in U.S. News
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7th 2025
Updated 17:12 ET
12 articles
TRUMP, KENNEDY, CENTER, HONORS
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About 30 minutes into Friday’s World Cup draw at the Kennedy Center, a landmark that Donald Trump would like to rename for himself, the president was called on stage to
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FOOTBALL, COLLEGE, PLAYOFF, NOTRE
Hoosiers QB Fernando Mendoza gave a heartfelt interview to Fox Sports and attributed his win to God after his team’s 13-10 win against Ohio State, clinching the Big Ten Championship on Saturday.
Mendoza, who threw for 222 yards and a touchdown at Lucas Oil
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UKRAINE, RUSSIA, MISSILE, DRONE
Representatives have been meeting in Miami this week.
This handout photograph taken and released by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine on Dec. 6, 2025, shows a fire at a site of an air attack in Kyiv region, Ukraine.
This handout photograph taken and
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HEGSETH, DEFENSE, STRIKE, TRUMP
WASHINGTON — Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said he didn’t order the second strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug boat — but he would have, in new comments about the decision to target survivors of a Sept. 2 US attack.
“I fully support that strike,” Hegseth
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MINNESOTA, SOMALI, FRAUD, ICE
As dozens of agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement surged into Minnesota’s Twin Cities this week as part of a federal crackdown targeting the Somali diaspora, it struck fear in the hearts of community members.
It’s not just immigrants, however,
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WALZ, FRAUD, MEDICAID, WARNS
As the city of Minneapolis faces a $1 billion welfare scandal, Minnesota Republican gubernatorial candidate Dr. Scott Jensen spoke to Fox News Digital about his belief that Gov. Tim Walz is not only directly responsible for the controversy, but suggested
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FLORIDA, YEAR, MURDER, 14
Two baby-faced Florida teens allegedly lured a 14-year-old girl into the woods before they fatally shot her and set her remains on fire over an online dispute.
Danika Troy was last seen by her mother on Nov. 30, and was reported missing as a runaway the next
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NIGHTCLUB, 25, INDIA, FIRE
A fire at a popular nightclub in India's Goa state kills at least 25, officials say
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NEW DELHI — At least 25 people, including tourists, were killed in a fire at a popular nightclub in India's Goa state, the state's chief minister said
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ICE, DEM, RAID, PEPPER
The deputy director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has a damning question for voters, particularly Democrat voters, in the aftermath of Rep. Adelita Grijalva (AZ-07) making outrageous claims of alleged abuse by ICE agents during a raid near a
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BENIN, COUP, SOLDIERS, ANNOUNCE
A group of soldiers has appeared on Benin’s state TV announcing the dissolution of the government in an apparent coup, the latest of many in West Africa
COTONOU, Benin -- A group of soldiers has appeared on Benin ’s state TV announcing the dissolution of the
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VACCINE, TRUMP, JAPAN, MEMO
President Donald Trump praised a federal advisory committee for their “good decision” to end the recommendation that newborn babies receive the hepatitis B vaccine.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump added that the American Childhood Vaccine Schedule “long required
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BIG, COACHING, 12, IOWA
The tour of rejection that has become the Penn State Nittany Lions’ coaching search has reportedly taken an abrupt turn in a somewhat unexpected direction: Iowa State.
Following rebuffs from BYU’s Kalani Sitake and Alabama’s Kaeln DeBoer, ESPN’s Max Olson
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TRUMP, ROSIE, TOLD, THERAPIST
Rosie O’Donnell’s therapist urged her to “detach” from posting about President Trump for two days — but the comedian caved within hours and was back to bashing her longtime nemesis on social media.
The former talk show host’s deranged “fixation” on the president
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BOSTON, ICE, NATIVITY, ARCHDIOCESE
The Boston Archdiocese has condemned a Church’s controversial nativity display featuring an “ICE was here” sign in a Christmas manger scene that had Jesus, Mary and Joseph missing.
The anti-ICE nativity scene was placed outside the St. Susanna Catholic church
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OMAR, SCANDAL, VICTIMS, SOMALIS
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said Somalis in Minnesota were also the victims of the massive fraud scandal in which the majority of the perpetrators are of Somali descent.
Host Margaret Brennan said, “I want to pick up where the Treasury
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HARBOR, PEARL, ATTACK, REMEMBRANCE
The Pearl Harbor remembrance ceremony began in Hawaii on Sunday with a moment of silence at 7:55 a.m., the same time the Japanese bombing began on Dec. 7, 1941.
The annual ceremony marked the 84th anniversary of the attack, which killed more than 2,300 troops
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CUELLAR, TRUMP, HENRY, SWITCHING
Trump criticises Democrat he pardoned over not switching political parties
"Such a lack of LOYALTY," Trump wrote of Cuellar on social media. "Oh' well, next time, no more Mr. Nice guy!"
Hours after he was pardoned, Cuellar filed for re-election as a Democrat,
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CHARLOTTE, STABBING, DEPORTED, ARRESTED
Not four months after the fatal stabbing of young Ukrainian refugee on Charlotte’s light rail, an illegal immigrant with a long rap sheet and who was deported twice, has been arrested for allegedly stabbing a man on the same line.
Police arrested Oscar Solarzano,
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POISONING, FORAGING, DEADLY, OFFICIALS
Warning against mushroom foraging in California after fatal poisoning
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Officials in California are urging people not to forage for wild mushrooms after a rise
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TRUMP, CITIZENSHIP, BIRTHRIGHT, SUPREME
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to review the constitutionality of President Donald Trump's executive order eliminating birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to parents in the country illegally or temporarily.
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The justices
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DRILLING, BIDEN, SHUT, DEMOCRATS
FIRST ON FOX: Democrats sounding the alarm of potential harms to Alaskan communities if their efforts were reversed and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) was further opened to energy development got a very different response than they may have been
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COLLEGE, BED, AMMO, 15
A Florida college student allegedly ordered 1,500 rounds of ammunition to his dorm room, where cops later found a semi-automatic rifle stashed under his bed, according to police and reports.
Constantine Demetriades, 21, was busted Wednesday after security
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EVIDENCE, JAMES, RULES, COMEY
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled that certain evidence linked to an ally of former FBI Director James Comey is off limits to the Justice Department in its efforts to prosecute the ex-director.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said the
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LL, HAMAS, GIVE, HOSTAGE
Freed American-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander returned this week to the Gaza border in IDF uniform and warned the Hamas terrorists who held him underground for 584 days that “you gave me hell — I’ll give you hell back,” saying his story “does not end with survival;
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