Emerging Topics in U.S. News
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20th 2025
Updated 03:12 ET
37 articles
EPSTEIN, FILES, DOJ, RELEASE
DOJ begins releasing documents from its Epstein files The Department of Justice has begun releasing what a top DOJ official said would be "several hundred thousand" documents from the investigations into Jeffrey Epstein.
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BROWN, MIT, UNIVERSITY, SHOOTING
President Trump ordered the suspension late Thursday of the visa lottery program used by the suspect in the killing of two Brown University students and a MIT professor to gain entry to the US.
“This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our
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PLANE, BIFFLE, GREG, CRASH
The pilot of the deadly plane crash in North Carolina that killed former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and his family has not been identified more than 24 hours later, officials with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said Friday.
NTSB board member
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SYRIA, ISIS, STRIKES, LAUNCHES
It's a well worn phrase at times, "The chickens are coming home to roost," but that appears to be what is currently happening for ISIS terrorists in Syria from U.S, bombs on Thursday, in the aftermath of the attack that killed two U.S. Army members and a civilian
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CENTER, KENNEDY, TRUMP, ADDED
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REINER, ROB, MICHELE, NICK
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In January 2018, conservative Fox News host Laura Ingraham was having dinner at Toscana, an Italian restaurant in Brentwood, when she spotted the renowned Hollywood director
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PUTIN, UKRAINE, GOALS, EU
EU leaders agree on $105bn Ukraine loan, but without relying on frozen Russian assets
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European Union leaders agreed on Friday to provide a massive interest-free loan to Ukraine to meet its military and
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STEFANIK, GOVERNOR, NY, ELISE
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who previously served as the chair of the House Republican Conference, announced on Friday that she was suspending her campaign to be the next governor of New York, and that she would also not be seeking reelection to Congress.
In
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KIRK, TURNING, JD, POINT
Erika Kirk endorses JD Vance for president at tense conservative event
Vance, meanwhile, is scheduled to speak at the event on Sunday.
"We are going to get my husband's friend, JD Vance, elected for 48 in the most resounding way possible," Kirk said, referring
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TRUMP, FOX, ADMINISTRATION, TARGETS
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JUDGE, MIGRANT, JURY, AGENTS
A jury found Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan guilty of obstructing federal immigration agents during an attempt to serve a warrant at a courthouse earlier this year.
She faces up to five years in prison on the felony obstruction count.
Dugan was arrested
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CALIF, MAYOR, MARTINEZ, SOCIALIST
Richmond, California’s socialist Mayor Eduardo Martinez sported a red hat emblazoned with “Death Death to the IDF” and spewed antisemitic rhetoric at a pro-Palestinian conference earlier this year — that also gave a microphone to a well-known terrorist.
Martinez,
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KHALIFA, MONTHS, POSSESSION, WIZ
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — American rapper Wiz Khalifa was sentenced by a court in Romania on Thursday to nine months in jail for drug possession, more than a year after he took part in a music festival in the Eastern European country.
Khalifa was stopped by
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AFRICA, SOUTH, BLASTS, CENTRE
WASHINGTON–The State Department said South Africa will face “severe consequences” if it does not hold accountable its own authorities who detained United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officers, whose identities were later exposed on Wednesday.
Principal
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CITY, COUNCIL, VETERANS, SESSION
They crammed before the Mam.
City Council members passed a whopping 51 bills during a marathon end-of year meeting before Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani takes office.
Outgoing Mayor Eric Adams, who was in Mexico as the flurry of law-making unfolded Thursday night,
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MAMDANI, JUSTICE, ECONOMIC, NEW
What the heck is a “deputy mayor for economic justice” tasked with doing?
Equalizing New Yorkers’ incomes? Redistributing their wealth?
Ensuring that “some animals are more equal than others,” perhaps?
OK, fine: After Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani named Julie
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COLLEGE, FOOTBALL, PLAYOFF, ROUND
What to watch for in this weekend's College Football Playoff first round
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It's been an unpredictable and
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BEAR, ANGELES, LIVING, ALTADENA
“Beary Christmas!”
The holidays are going to be a little less merry and a lot more hairy for the Altadena man with a 550 pound bear living under his house.
“You don’t really feel like having people over when there’s a big creature under your house,” explains
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TRUMP, PATRIOT, GAMES, 250TH
High school athletes from around the country will converge next year to compete in a new athletic competition as part of the United States’ 250th birthday celebration, President Trump announced Thursday.
The newly minted “Patriot Games” will be a “first-of-its-kind”
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TRUMP, CLIMATE, CONSERVATIVE, DECLARE
FIRST ON FOX: A handful of conservative energy and climate groups released a report outlining the top 10 challenges that rocked climate change activism in 2025, as President Donald Trump returned to the White House with a mandate to unleash American energy
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DEAL, TIKTOK, APP, BUSINESS
The Chinese-owned TikTok has signed a deal to sell its U.S. business to three American investors so it can operate in the country free of Chinese influence.
The companies Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX would be the three American investors to purchase the U.S.
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GIFT, SEASON, HOLIDAY
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ROLL, PARDON, JELLY, COUNTRY
Country megastar Jelly Roll has long sought forgiveness for his criminal past and the state of Tennessee happily obliged Thursday with a full pardon.
Republican Gov. Bill Lee Governor acknowledged the contrite Antioch, Tennessee native’s long road back from
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FBI, PROBE, BIDEN, LEFT
Upon her departure from the Democratic Party, the Justice Department and FBI considered opening a criminal investigation into the then-Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., over alleged campaign finance violations, according to reports.
The New York Post reported
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