Emerging Topics in U.S. News
THURSDAY, MAY 15th 2025
Updated 15:12 ET
64 articles
TRUMP, QATAR, SYRIA, SANCTIONS
When President Trump declared from the stage of an opulent ballroom in Saudi Arabia that the United States was done nation-building and intervening, that the world’s superpower would no longer be “giving you lectures on how to live,” his audience erupted in
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DIDDY, CASSIE, VENTURA, COMBS
Sean “Diddy” Combs allegedly raped Cassie after their break up in 2018, including on the same day she met with him to bring closure for the pair.
The R&B singer said former couple had the closure conversation in a restaurant in Malibu and that Combs “was just
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CITIZENSHIP, BIRTHRIGHT, COURT, SUPREME
The justices on Thursday will decide the legality of nationwide injunctions.
What to know about birthright citizenship as Supreme Court weighs blocks on Trump's order to end it
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Thursday over President Donald Trump's
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PUTIN, TALKS, TURKEY, UKRAINE
Russian President Vladimir Putin didn’t show up Thursday for proposed direct peace talks in Turkey with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who was waiting for Putin in the capital Ankara after challenging him to face-to-face discussions on ending their countries’
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JR, RFK, HHS, HEALTH
Under pressure, HHS reinstates hundreds of occupational health workers
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After facing considerable pushback from labor organizations and congressional lawmakers, the Trump administration has reversed course on some of its planned
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NOEM, KRISTI, ICE, DEMS
California Dem. Rep. Eric Swalwell is “special,” although not in a good way. He regularly plays a very unconvincing tough guy, and he’s convinced of his own intellectual brilliance although no one else is. He’s never lived down being exposed as having ties
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HOUSE, BILL, BIG, BEAUTIFUL
Markup hearings for President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” dragged late through the night Tuesday into Wednesday as House lawmakers debated how deep to cut government spending in the massive piece of legislation.
The details the three House committees – Ways
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NEWSOM, CALIFORNIA, CARE, HEALTH
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) proposed Wednesday to spend $1 billion per year on the state’s failing high-speed rail project through cap-and-trade programs, even as his budget drowned in massive deficits.
As Breitbart News reported, the governor’s revised
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CITY, NEW, NYPD, YORK
Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has agreed to pay the city nearly $330,000 to repay taxpayers for misusing his police department security detail during his short-lived campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 2020 election.
The
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BIDEN, BOOK, DECLINE, TAPPER
Currently, we are seeing the press going through a collective therapy couch session in attempting to spin themselves out of being culpable for the lack of coverage on Joe Biden’s mental condition over the last few years. The spark for this reaction is the impending
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IRAN, TRUMP, NUCLEAR, DEAL
The Trump administration first presented Iranian representatives with proposed details of a nuclear deal more than a month after talks began, Axios reported.
Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy, gave a written proposal to the Iranians
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TAX, TRUMP, CUTS, REPUBLICANS
In two recent social media posts, President Donald Trump challenged Harvard University’s tax-exempt status. By doing so, he ran afoul of a vital constitutional principle. Regardless of the merits of Harvard’s tax exemption, any effort by the president to change
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JUDGE, WISCONSIN, HELPING, DUGAN
US judge charged for allegedly helping man evade immigration officials
Hannah Dugan is at the centre of an escalating clash between the Trump administration and local authorities on handling immigration
Judge Dugan's defence lawyers responded with a one-sentence
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SOUTH, AFRIKANERS, WHITE, REFUGEES
covers politics Vox. She first joined Vox in 2019, and her work has also appeared in Politico, Washington Monthly, and the New Republic.
South African internet personality and Afrikaner commentator Willem Petzer addresses a group of white South Africans supporting
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GAZA, DOZENS, HOSPITAL, ISRAEL
Dozens are killed in overnight airstrikes on southern Gaza city, hospital says
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KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Multiple airstrikes hit Gaza's southern city of Khan Younis overnight into Thursday, killing more than 50 people in a
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FAA, PENTAGON, AIRPORT, HOTLINE
A hotline connecting Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport air traffic controllers and their counterparts at the Pentagon has been "inoperable" for more than three years, a Federal Aviation Administration official told lawmakers Wednesday.
Franklin McIntosh,
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BROTHERS, MENENDEZ, PAROLE, ELIGIBLE
When a Los Angeles County judge resentenced Erik and Lyle Menendez on Tuesday, he offered the brothers a path to freedom for the first time since they were given life in prison for killing their parents with shotguns in 1989.
The latest development makes Lyle,
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TRUMP, ACT, JUDGE, ALIEN
Nearly two dozen Tren de Aragua gangbangers in an ICE detention center in Texas have barricaded themselves and threatened to take hostages in a major uprising — days after migrants spelled out SOS in the prison yard.
Members of the Venezuelan gang threatened
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GEORGETOWN, DETENTION, JUDGE, IMMIGRATION
Georgetown researcher released from immigration detention on federal judge's order
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Georgetown University researcher Badar Khan Suri has been released from an immigration
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AIR, TRAFFIC, NEWARK, CONTROLLERS
Denver airport’s air traffic control was reportedly struck by a staggering six-minute outage earlier this week after several radio transmitters suddenly went dark.
The frequency outage meant that as many as 20 pilots were unable to reach air traffic controllers
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CARTA, MAGNA, HARVARD, COPY
Harvard learned it has an authentic Magna Carta. In 1946, it paid less than $28 for it
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It wasn't exactly like the big reveal on the Antiques Roadshow. But one day in December 2023, David Carpenter, a professor
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DEAL, CARTEL, FAMILY, TRUMP
A group of family members of Sinaloa Cartel leaders crossed into the United States last week, likely as part of a deal with the Trump administration, Mexico’s secretary of security said on Tuesday evening.
For days, rumors had spread that 17 relatives, including
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NEW, LAW, FOX, NEWS
Fox News political analyst Gianno Caldwell has gone nearly three years without answers in his younger brother’s 2022 murder in Chicago.
Caldwell’s 18-year-old brother, Christian Beamon, was one of two people killed and two others injured in a shooting on Chicago’s
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SCHOOL, TEXAS, SON, HIGH
A woman in San Antonio has been charged with helping her son prepare a plan to launch an attack at his middle school.
Television station KSAT reported that police arrested 33-year-old Ashley Pardo on a charge of aiding in the commission of terrorism. She is
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