Emerging Topics in U.S. News
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25th 2025
Updated 07:12 ET
14 articles
GUARD, NATIONAL, TRUMP, COURT
Nearly two years ago, Donald Trump kicked off the presidential-campaign season with a declaration: “I was never on Epstein’s Plane, or at his ‘stupid’ Island,” he posted on Truth Social in January 2024. Reports to the contrary, he insisted, were the fault of
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EPSTEIN, FILES, DOJ, DOCUMENTS
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said Wednesday that more than 1 million more files “potentially related to” late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein have been found by the Manhattan US attorney’s office — and that it “may take a few more weeks” to comply with the
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CALIFORNIA, FLASH, FLOOD, STORM
Flash flood, thunderstorm alerts in effect for California with heavy rain expected to last days
Heavy debris flows in San Bernardino County as Highway 2 floods, Dec. 24, 2025 in Wrightwood, Calif.
Heavy debris flows in San Bernardino County as Highway 2 floods,
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UKRAINE, DEMILITARIZED, ZONE, PEACE
There's a new peace deal on the offering to hopefully end the Russo-Ukrainian War, but it's anyone's guess if Russia's Vladimir Putin will go for it. Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is proposing to split the Donbas baby - one of the primary regions
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CENTER, KENNEDY, TRUMP, CONCERT
Democratic lawmaker files lawsuit challenging the renaming of the Kennedy Center Democratic Congresswoman Joyce Beatty of Ohio filed a lawsuit challenging the renaming of the memorial to President John Kennedy to the Trump-Kennedy Center, calling the action
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CHRISTMAS, YEARS, WAR, FLOCK
Thousands flocked to Bethlehem to celebrate Christmas for the first time since the implementation of the U.S.-brokered Israel-Hamas peace deal.
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, who has served as the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem since 2020, kicked off the
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JACKPOT, POWERBALL, EVE, CHRISTMAS
Deck the halls with billion-dollar tickets!
A lucky Powerball player in Arkansas won the $1.82 billion jackpot winning ticket on Wednesday night, the second-largest jackpot in the game’s history.
The winning numbers were 4, 25, 31, 52, 59 and the Powerball
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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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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
Sebastian Telfair, a 2004 NBA Draft first-round selection, has faced multiple legal issues over the years.
Telfair was released from prison this week after serving time for a probation violation related to his 2023 NBA health care fraud conviction. The former
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EPSTEIN, ROGAN, FILES, JOE
Podcast giant Joe Rogan scoffed at Bill Clinton’s call to expose anyone tied to the Jeffrey Epstein files after multiple photos surfaced showing the former president buddying up with the late convicted pedophile financier.
Rogan was speaking with fellow comedian
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MINUTES, 60, TRUMP, SPIKING
CBS "60 Minutes" correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi raged against the network's Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss when she delayed her story on how the Trump administration deported illegal immigrants from Venezuela to a "notorious" prison in El Salvador. Weiss wanted more
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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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SUE, STATES, HHS, GENDER
As many as 19 states along with the District of Columbia have sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) after its secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. issued a declaration blocking medical professionals from administering sex-rejecting procedures
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CHURCH, CHRISTMAS, NEW, FLAMES
After the flames, a New York church returns to Christmas -- and to itself NPR's Michel Martin checks in with Middle Church in Manhattan as it celebrates its first Christmas service since a devastating fire in 2020.
National After the flames, a New York church
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TRUMP, BACKED, HONDURAS, ASFURA
Nasry “Tito” Asfura, the conservative candidate in Honduras endorsed by President Trump, was declared the winner of the country’s presidential election on Wednesday after a weeks-long vote count.
Asfura, the 67-year-old former mayor of the Central American
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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 U.S. legally.
U.S.
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CANCER, DIAGNOSIS, BEN, FORMER
Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA-14) really doesn't get enough credit for being simultaneously one of the least intellectually gifted and most vile creatures scurrying about the halls of Congress, but he should.
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Often outshined by colleagues
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GUARD, COAST, SEIZE, PURSUIT
Four days after the U.S. Coast Guard attempted to board the supertanker Bella 1, the ship remains free but playing the role of O.J. Simpson's white Ford Bronco leading the California Highway Patrol on a slow-motion chase.
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The drama started Sunday
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ANNA, KEPNER, STEPBROTHER, DAMAGE
Texts sent by Anna Kepner’s distraught family after she was found dead on a Carnival cruise last month provide a rare insight into her stepmother’s initial desperation to protect her son — the primary FBI “suspect” in her death.
Anna, 18, was killed in the
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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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GIFT, SEASON, HOLIDAY
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CAROLINA, SOUTH, ELECTIONS, SPECIAL
South Carolina Republicans won all three special elections in the state’s legislature on Tuesday, with the party saying the results “send a clear message.”
Incumbent Reps. John Lastinger, Dianne Mitchell, and Sen. Lee Bright all handily won their races, with
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TRUMP, GREENLAND, NEW, MOVE
is a senior correspondent at Vox covering foreign policy and world news with a focus on the future of international conflict. He is the author of the 2018 book Invisible Countries: Journeys to the Edge of Nationhood , an exploration of border conflicts, unrecognized
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