Emerging Topics in U.S. News
TUESDAY, JANUARY 28th 2025
Updated 23:59 ET
34 articles
TRUMP, WHITE, HOUSE, FIRST
Karoline Leavitt didn't immediately say if Medicaid recipients will be affected.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, during her first press briefing on Tuesday, faced a barrage of questions on the administration's freeze on federal financial assistance
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FEDERAL, TRUMP, FREEZE, GRANTS
President Trump has ordered the suspension of all federal grants, loans, and other financial programs pending a thorough agency review. The decision was announced in a two-page memo from the Office of Management and Budget titled "Temporary Pause of Agency
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TRUMP, ORDER, TRANSGENDER, MEMBERS
Hours after President Trump signed a darkly worded executive order targeting transgender service members, rights groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday saying that the ban violates the Constitution.
The order framed transgender service members in harsh terms, saying
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BOWL, SUPER, CHIEFS, EAGLES
The Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles will meet in Super Bowl LIX on Feb. 9 at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.
NFL fans will get to witness some of the best the league has to offer in terms of talent on the field. Patrick Mahomes and Jalen
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ICE, NYC, RAID, NOEM
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem joined Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and officers on the streets of New York City. The newly sworn DHS secretary said she was in New York to get the “dirtbags off the streets.”
Noem
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AI, DEEPSEEK, CHINESE, WAKE
A Chinese artificial intelligence startup has sent shock waves throughout Silicon Valley and appears to threaten U.S. AI dominance.
DeepSeek, little more than a year old, launched an AI model that offers comparable performance to the world's best chatbots
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JIM, ACOSTA, CNN, TRUMP
“I’ve decided to move on,” CNN’s Jim Acosta said at the end of his broadcast. “One final message, don’t give in to the lies, don’t give into the fear.”
CNN made Jim Acosta an offer he could refuse, and he did.
The veteran journalist known for his aggressive
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AMERICA, GULF, MAPS, GOOGLE
Google Maps will rename Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America in US
3 hours ago Ana Faguy BBC News
BBC Verify: Can Donald Trump really rename the Gulf of Mexico?
Google will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America in its Google Maps app,
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WATER, MILITARY, TRUMP, CALIFORNIA
President Donald Trump has been vocal, in the wake of the devastating Los Angeles wildfires, about the need to bring more water to Southern California. He is not wrong, but the problem is more acute: L.A. was not generally short of water; it mismanaged the
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RFK, JR, CAROLINE, KENNEDY
Caroline Kennedy calls her cousin, RFK, Jr., a "predator" ahead of his confirmation hearings
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Caroline Kennedy has called her cousin, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a "predator" and "unqualified" to be the new U.S.
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TRUMP, EXECUTIVE, MODI, TRANSGENDER
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday seeking to restrict gender-affirming care for people under the age of 19.
The order would move to restrict medical institutions that receive federal funding from providing such care -- including puberty
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TRUMP, COLOMBIA, PRESIDENT, MORENO
Judging from the first week or so, the Trump doctrine is going to be: We can do it the easy way, or the hard way.
Those are the words the president used in a post on Truth Social last week threatening tariffs on Russia if it didn’t cut a peace deal with Ukraine.
Trump
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GREENLAND, TRUMP, DENMARK, ARCTIC
News for Trump: Denmark's last envoy to Greenland says U.K. may have first dibs
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If President Trump tries to buy or annex Greenland, he could face a competing claim from an old ally: Britain.
That's according to Tom Høyem, 83,
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REPLACE, GAETZ, TRUMP, FLORIDA
A candidate endorsed by President Donald Trump won the Republican primary in a special election Tuesday in Florida's 6th Congressional District to replace former GOP Rep. Michael Waltz.
Waltz stepped down from his House seat last week to serve as national
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LEAVE, USAID, TRUMP, PUT
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Here's what's happening…
-FBI director nominee Kash Patel broke hostage rescue protocol: whistleblower
-Freshman
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TRUMP, LABOR, FIRES, NATIONAL
Trump fires labor board officials, setting up legal fight
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It wasn't a surprise when President Trump fired National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo late Monday. She was a Biden appointee
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CAPITOL, MOLOTOV, ARRESTED, COCKTAILS
The dome of the Capitol is seen through a security fence on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 20, 2024.
A Massachusetts man arrested at the U.S. Capitol with Molotov cocktails and a knife told police he was there to "kill" Treasury Secretary Scott
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MICHIGAN, RUN, BUTTIGIEG, SENATE
Former Secretary of Transportation and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is not ruling out a possible Senate run in Michigan in 2026, following Sen. Gary Peters' decision not to seek re-election.
"Pete is exploring all of his options on
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ICE, TRUMP, CHICAGO, PITTSBURGH
Pittsburg Mayor Ed Gainey said his administration will not cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) who have begun deporting criminal illegal immigrants, the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette reported this week.
"I am not going to be working with
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TRUMP, BIG, CRYPTO, CRUCIAL
I wrote last week of Big Business’ sudden new affinity for re-President Donald Trump. And warned against believing any of it. I highlighted as examples two Big Biz leaders: Big Investment (JPMorgan Chase) CEO Jamie Dimon and Big Tech (Meta) CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
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SEAN, TRANSPORTATION, DUFFY, TRUMP
The Senate is scheduled to vote Tuesday to confirm President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Transportation Department, Sean Duffy.
The Senate voted on Monday to advance Duffy's nomination by a margin of 97-0, and his confirmation is expected Tuesday.
Duffy,
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FIRST, SUPERSONIC, CONCORDE, COMPANY
Up, up, and away—and then floor it! It’s worth noting that Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 test aircraft broke the sound barrier three times over California’s Mojave desert today, reaching Mach 1 at 34,000 feet. This marks the first time an independently developed jet,
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TRUMP, RAPID, GOP, FOX
GOP Rep. Abe Hamadeh is praising President Trump’s swift actions on illegal immigration in the first days of his presidency and told Fox News Digital that the president has "learned a lot from 2017" and that he expects more of the same in the future.
"President
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SECURITY, MILLEY, CLEARANCE, PENTAGON
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will announce he is revoking the security clearance and personal security detail for retired Army General and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, Fox News reported on Tuesday. It cited multiple senior administration
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