Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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TRUMP, USAID, MUSK, ORDER
Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed Monday that he has been made acting administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
President Donald Trump and his team are having discussions about merging USAID into the State Department in order to
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Nearly a month after a terrorist drove a truck down Bourbon Street, killing 14 people, New Orleans is set to host Super Bowl 59.
At a press briefing Monday, officials said there were no credible threats to the game, or its many surrounding events.
"Right
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2025, WINNERS, GRAMMY, YEAR
Taylor Swift went home empty-handed after the 2025 Grammys despite earning six nominations for "The Tortured Poets Department."
Swift lost in the best music video category to Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us." She later lost best pop vocal album to Sabrina Carpenter's
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PANAMA, CANAL, RUBIO, ADDRESSING
The people and the waterway at the center of the Panama Canal
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The Panama Canal has sat at the center of global trade for more than a
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VOTE, TRUMP, SENATE, CLEARS
The Senate likely will vote to confirm Pan Bondi as President Donald Trump's pick for attorney general Wednesday after she cleared a key political hurdle in the upper chamber.
The Senate on Monday voted 52-46 along party lines to end debate, with Sens. John
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ANTI, PROTESTERS, ICE, MEXICAN
Protesters were seen shutting down traffic on the 101 Freeway in Downtown Los Angeles on Sunday while waving Mexican flags in opposition to ongoing ICE raids in the city and elsewhere in the United States.
The protests reportedly began on Olvera Street and
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EDUCATION, TRUMP, DEPARTMENT, SOURCES
Dozens of employees at the Education Department were put on paid administrative leave in response to President Donald Trump’s order banning diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the federal government, according to a labor union that represents hundreds
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HOSPITALS, TRUMP, PROCEDURES, ORDER
President Donald Trump signed an executive order (EO) to restrict "chemical and surgical" sex-change procedures for minors, prompting both pushback and applause. Now, medical experts and destransitioners are weighing in on its implications.
The EO, titled
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MINUTES, 60, TRUMP, LAWSUIT
The executive producer of "60 Minutes" remains defiant and CBS News' parent company mulls settling a lawsuit waged by President Donald Trump.
Bill Owens, who has led the long-running program since 2019, took a tough stance against Trump during a Monday staff
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TRUMP, SOVEREIGN, WEALTH, FUND
Trump says US sovereign wealth fund could buy TikTok
"We're going to create a lot of wealth for the fund," Trump told reporters, without clarifying where the money would come from.
More than 90 countries have sovereign wealth funds, investing surplus income
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New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial candidates during the Garden State’s first primary debate of the year vowed to help illegal immigrants avoid President Trump’s ICE raids.
Five out of six candidates raised their hands when debate moderator Joey Fox, of the
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ROGER, GOODELL, CHIEFS, RIDICULOUS
Roger Goodell has heard your petty internet conspiracy theories about the Chiefs getting favoritism from NFL officials and has branded those concerns “ridiculous.”
During his annual press conference at the start of Super Bowl week, Goodell asked about the
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HOLLYWOOD, TALENT, AGENCY, BIDEN
Folks, we have officially descended into the realm of the surreal. Joe Biden — he was president once, remember? Anyway, Joe Biden has signed on to be represented by a Hollywood talent agency. And not just any talent agency — with the Creative Artists Agency
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A newly formed outside group aligned with President Donald Trump says it's taking aim at Republican senators who remain undecided on Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as it pushes to confirm Trump's Health and Human Services secretary.
Patient First Coalition (PFC),
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PLANE, CRASH, INVESTIGATORS, PHILADELPHIA
The number of people injured following the plane crash in Philadelphia has increased to 24, with four still hospitalized.
Mayor Cherelle L. Parker stood alongside other officials during an update Monday afternoon about the latest on the medical jet crash investigation.
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TRUMP, UNRWA, COUNCIL, RIGHTS
President Donald Trump will reportedly defund the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the agency for Palestinian “refugees” that has aligned with Hamas terrorists, this week.
Trump will also withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council,
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SPAIN, KISS, SOCCER, RUBIALES
Jennifer Hermoso, the Spanish soccer star who was forcibly kissed by Luis Rubiales, her country’s former top soccer official, testified as his trial opened on Monday that he had “ruined one of the happiest days of my life” — her team’s victory in the 2023 Women’s
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AI, DEEPSEEK, CHINA, EXPERTS
China’s DeepSeek AI has recently taken the tech world by storm, surpassing OpenAI’s ChatGPT as the most downloaded free app last week. Despite its sudden success, cybersecurity experts are warning that the app is a privacy nightmare. Many companies and governments
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ACTING, TRUMP, DIRECTOR, BESSENT
President Donald Trump on Monday announced that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will serve as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau following his firing of former head Rohit Chopra last weekend.
"I look forward to working with the CFPB
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UKRAINIAN, MOSCOW, RUSSIAN, PRO
An east Ukrainian crime boss and separatist wanted by Kyiv was killed with one other person in a blast at a luxury residential complex in Moscow on Monday, Russian media reported.
Armen Sarkisian, a known mafia boss from east Ukraine who had formed a battalion
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DOGE, ATTORNEY, THREATS, WORKERS
You would think that all Americans on all sides of the aisle would cheer the efforts of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) — the organization created by President Donald Trump and headed by Elon Musk to do a deep dive into our government spending.
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DERAILMENT, EAST, VANCE, PALESTINE
It took former President Joe Biden over a year to make his way to East Palestine, Ohio, following the disastrous train derailment there in February 2023. And unless I'm missing it, former Vice President Kamala Harris never did make it to the small town just
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ZELENSKY, AID, HALF, UNSURE
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed that the war-torn country has only received approximately $76 billion in aid from the United States despite over $175 billion having been authorized.
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Zelensky made the claim in a recent interview
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