Emerging Topics in U.S. News
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1st 2025
Updated 23:59 ET
27 articles
TRUMP, TARIFFS, MEXICO, CANADA
Alienating allies and partners that the U.S. desperately needs means that “America First” will be “America Alone.”
To understand the harm Donald Trump has done with his tariffs on Canada and Mexico, here are four things you need to know:
First, every tax
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PHILADELPHIA, CRASH, PLANE, MEDICAL
Authorities sifted through burned cars and charred debris Saturday to gather clues that might explain why an air ambulance exploded into a fiery ball as it crashed to the ground in Philadelphia, leaving no survivors on board.
The small plane carrying six people,
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TRUMP, SOMALIA, ISIS, AIRSTRIKES
The strikes were more symbolic than substantive, several U.S. military and defense officials said, meant more to burnish Mr. Trump’s image as a commander in chief protecting the country from terrorists in the early days of his administration than to neutralize
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DNC, CHAIR, 2024, NEW
The votes are in, and we have a winner for the job that only a masochist would want after the Democrats got stomped in the November elections: chair of the Democratic National Committee.
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The man who now becomes the captain of the foundering
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VENEZUELA, TRUMP, BACK, GRENELL
President Donald Trump praised Richard Grenell, Trump’s Presidential Envoy for Special Missions, after six Americans being held hostage in Venezuela were released.
“Just been informed that we are bringing six hostages home from Venezuela,” Trump wrote in a
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RELEASED, HOSTAGES, ISRAELI, DEAL
Yarden Bibas is back in Israel more than 480 days after Hamas terrorists ripped him from his home in Kibbutz Nir Oz and dragged him to the Gaza Strip. Bibas’ return, however, is bittersweet as his wife, Shiri, and their two young children, Ariel and Kfir, remain
Continued at Fox News...
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TRUMP, CONSUMER, FIRES, BUREAU
Trump fires chief of the federal consumer watchdog agency
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The Trump administration has fired Rohit Chopra, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
The move was widely expected as President Trump is likely
Continued at NPR...
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RUBIO, AMERICA, PANAMA, LATIN
The trip is Rubio's first as America's top diplomat.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to embark on his first diplomatic mission abroad since being confirmed to his post, visiting five countries in Central and South America over the first week of February.
During
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BLACK, IDENTIFIED, HELICOPTER, HAWK
D.C. crash investigators focus on altitude and vision quality of helicopter crew
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Three days after the midair collision of an Army helicopter and an American Airlines passenger plane near Ronald Reagan Washington National
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BOWL, SUPER, EAGLES, NEW
Former Princeton football player Ryan Quigley was seriously injured and lost his best friend and fellow teammate, Tiger Bech, in the violent terrorist attack in New Orleans on January 1. But Quigley will have the opportunity to write that tragic story when
Continued at Fox News...
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DEEPSEEK, AI, CHINA, NEWSLETTER
The U.S. Commerce Department is looking into whether DeepSeek - the Chinese company whose AI model's performance rocked the tech world - has been using U.S. chips that are not allowed to be shipped to China, a person familiar with the matter said.
China's
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OFFICES, MEDIA, PENTAGON, LOVE
The Trump team has been making so many moves it's almost hard to keep up with them all.
But they're doing things that are upsetting the apple cart in a way that's truly transformative.
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One of those actions has been in changes with the media.
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REFERENCES, HEALTH, WEBSITES, GENDER
US federal websites scrub vaccine information and LGBTQ references
51 minutes ago Kayla Epstein
Getty Images The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta.
The Trump administration has scrubbed references to "gender ideology" and
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CONTAINED, PALISADES, EATON, FIRES
While the threat from those fires is effectively over, their impact will last for months and years. In the short term, at least 14 people are still missing because of the fires — two from the Palisades fire and 12 from the Eaton fire.
Beyond that is a lengthy
Continued at New York Times...
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TRUMP, UPDATES, CANADA, LIVE
Kash Patel, President Trump’s nominee for F.B.I. director, had testified before Congress on Thursday that the bureau employees would not be targeted for political reasons.
The Trump administration plans to scrutinize thousands of F.B.I. agents involved in
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ICE, ARRESTED, ILLEGAL, MEDIA
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents conducted a raid at a car wash in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and arrested and detained seven illegal aliens who had been working there.
After receiving reports of allegations that workers at Complete Autowash
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GERMAN, HORST, 81, FORMER
Former German President Horst Köhler dies at 81
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BERLIN — Horst Köhler, a onetime head of the International Monetary Fund who became a popular German president before stunning the country by resigning abruptly in
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TRUMP, BIDEN, REFUGEES, ALLOWED
President Donald Trump is slated to revoke legal status for some Biden-era migrants, according to reports.
CBS News first reported the news, citing “internal government documents reviewed” by the outlet. It would affect those accepted into the United States
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ACCESS, GANG, SANCTUARIES, SCHOOLS
During an interview with Univision 41 New York on Friday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) responded to a question on gang members in schools and law enforcement being blocked from removing them from sanctuary jurisdictions who won’t let law enforcement into
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FAUCI, NEW, COVID, CONGRESS
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is continuing his efforts to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, and he wants answers from Dr. Anthony Fauci.
In his new position as chairman of the Senate's Homeland Security committee, Paul issued subpoenas to 14 agencies
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REBEL, TAKEOVER, LIFE, GOMA
After a week of fighting, rebels backed by Rwanda have wrested almost full control over Goma, a city of two million in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Hospitals are overflowing with the wounded, and the city morgue with the dead. Goma’s residents
Continued at New York Times...
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CENTER, OBAMA, DISCRIMINATION, SUBCONTRACTOR
A Chicago-based subcontractor is suing one of the firms involved in managing the construction of the Obama Presidential Center for $40 million, claiming racial discriminatory practices forced the firm to do extra work that left it at risk of bankruptcy, according
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SELENA, CRYING, GOMEZ, TRUMP
The mothers of Jocelyn Nungaray, Rachel Morin, and Kayla Hamilton, who were murdered by illegal aliens, criticized actress Selena Gomez for a recent video crying over illegal aliens being deported, stating that the actress does not “know who” she is shedding
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JAMES, CARVILLE, KAMALA, HEAT
Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville compared Democrats running former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election to starting a "7th string quarterback" in the Super Bowl, in an interview with PBS' Margaret Hoover on Friday.
"We
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