Emerging Topics in U.S. News
TUESDAY, JANUARY 7th 2025
Updated 23:59 ET
62 articles
TRUMP, REPORT, JUDGE, GREENLAND
As RedState reported on Monday evening, President-elect Donald Trump's co-defendants in the criminal case brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith regarding the alleged improper retention/mishandling of classified documents have sought emergency relief from the
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META, FACT, CHECKING, FACEBOOK
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives in Seoul on Feb. 27, 2024. Photo: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images
In a shameless act of genuflection toward the incoming Trump administration, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday that his social media platforms
Continued at The Intercept...
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TRUDEAU, CANADA, TRUMP, PRIME
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen emphasized that Greenland is not for sale, as President-elect Trump has ramped up calls for the U.S. to acquire the island.
Frederiksen's comments to a Danish TV station come as the president's son, Donald Trump Jr.,
Continued at Fox News...
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PALISADES, FIRE, WILDFIRE, LOS
Photos: Thousands in Los Angeles evacuate as wind-fueled Palisades Fire quickly worsens
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More than 30,000 people in Los Angeles County have been ordered to evacuate as the Palisades Fire, one of several wildfires that broke
Continued at NPR...
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CARTER, JIMMY, LIE, STATE
Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation's capital in humbling defeat, the 39th president returned to Washington for three days of state funeral rites starting Tuesday.
Carter’s remains, which had been lying in repose at the Carter Presidential Center
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TRUMP, HELL, BREAK, HOSTAGES
Although President-elect Donald Trump will not take office for almost two weeks, he is already making his “America First” mantra a priority — and it may include other parts of the globe.
Trump proposed renaming the Gulf of Mexico and would not rule out using
Continued at LA Times...
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LAKEN, RILEY, ACT, HOUSE
The House of Representatives passed the Laken Riley Act on Tuesday morning despite opposition from 159 Democrats. The legislation requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to take into custody illegal aliens arrested, charged, or convicted for burglary,
Continued at Breitbart...
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VIRGINIA, ELECTIONS, TRUMP, DEMOCRATS
Democrats on Tuesday held two key state legislative seats in Virginia, retaining their majorities in the General Assembly in the first special elections since President-elect Donald J. Trump won back the White House.
The results were expected in overlapping
Continued at New York Times...
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POLICE, MINNEAPOLIS, MURDER, FLOYD
The Biden administration secured an agreement to implement police reforms in Minneapolis ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.
The consent decree agreement Monday with the Minneapolis Police Department follows a similar decree that the department
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MEDICAL, CREDIT, REPORTS, DEBT
covers breaking and general assignment news as the weekend reporter at Vox. She previously worked at Business Insider covering the military and global conflicts.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director Rohit Chopra arrives to testify before a Senate
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PETER, YARROW, MARY, FOLK
Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter who was one-third of the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died at age 86, his representative confirmed to ABC News.
Yarrow died of bladder cancer, according to the representative. The singer had been fighting the illness
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GIULIANI, RULING, COURT, CONTEMPT
The ex-New York City mayor owes the two election workers nearly $150 million.
Judge holds Giuliani in contempt for failing to turn over property to 2 Georgia election workers
A federal judge in New York on Monday held Rudy Giuliani in contempt of court for
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FOUND, LANDING, GEAR, PLANE
Two people found dead in JetBlue plane landing gear
The bodies of two people were found in a landing gear compartment of a JetBlue plane at the Fort Lauderdale airport in Florida, according to the company.
The two deceased people were found during a routine
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MARIE, PEN, JEAN, LE
Jean-Marie Le Pen, French fiery far-right leader, dies at 96
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PARIS (AP) — Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France's far-right National Front who was known for fiery rhetoric against immigration and multiculturalism that
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EARTHQUAKE, 95, EVEREST, TIBET
A powerful magnitude 7.1 earthquake centered about 50 miles from Mount Everest left at least 95 dead in Tibet on Tuesday, reports say.
Another 130 people have been injured on the Chinese side of the border, state broadcaster CCTV reported, citing the vice
Continued at Fox News...
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MONUMENTS, BIDEN, NATIONAL, CHUCKWALLA
President Biden will travel on Tuesday to the Coachella Valley in California to announce the creation of two national monuments that together will protect more than 848,000 acres of land in the state from drilling and mining as well as wind, solar and other
Continued at New York Times...
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STEEL, DEAL, TRUMP, CORP
BRADDOCK, Pennsylvania -- The fate of the Edgar Thomson Works, a massive steel plant that has hugged the same spot along the Monongahela River since 1875, became even more uncertain Friday morning when President Joe Biden announced he would block the sale of
Continued at Town Hall...
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BIDEN, SCHUMER, BAD, OBAMA
Members of the splintered Democrat party have begun to distance themselves from repeated claims President Joe Biden was fit to serve as commander-in-chief.
After Biden dropped out of the presidential race in July following a poor debate performance, Democrats
Continued at Breitbart...
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WINTER, STORM, SNOW, WEATHER
Five dead as huge winter storm grips swathe of US
Watch: Major snowstorm covers beaches and brings skiers to DC
At least five people have died in a winter storm that has seized a swathe of the US in its icy grip, leading to mass school closures, travel chaos
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TERRORISM, NEW, SUSPECT, FBI
Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the man suspected of killing 14 people in a New Year's attack in New Orleans, placed homemade explosive devices on Bourbon Street, ABC News reported.
Lyonel Myrthil, special agent in charge of the FBI's New Orleans field office, said to
Continued at Newsmax...
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DEATH, BIDEN, INMATES, ROW
Two prisoners whose death penalty sentences were commuted by President Joe Biden last month are refusing to sign the paperwork to accept his clemency, NBC News reported.
Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis were two of the 37 federal inmates whose death sentences
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PARENTS, POLL, SCHOOLS, NEW
U.S. parents of all political stripes oppose gender ideology in schools, new polling from Parents Defending Education (PDE) shows.
The survey from PDE, which describes itself as a grassroots organization “working to reclaim our schools from activists imposing
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GAME, LIONS, HECKLED, TOUCHED
Whitney Risner, the wife of Minnesota Vikings offensive lineman Dalton Risner, spoke out about the behavior of Detroit Lions fans at Ford Field ahead of their Sunday night matchup.
Risner was doing a "get ready with me" video showing off her outfit before
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TRUMP, PARDONS, DEFENDANTS, MAJOR
President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that he's planning to issue "major pardons" for the Jan. 6 defendants who breached the U.S. Capitol Building in 2021 as congressional lawmakers gathered to certify President Joe Biden's victory.
"People that didn't
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