Emerging Topics in U.S. News
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4th 2025
Updated 23:59 ET
76 articles
TRUMP, GAZA, NETANYAHU, IRAN
President Donald Trump and Mike Tyson have more in common than you might think. Both are battle-tested "fighters" who've stepped into the ring – whether in politics or boxing – to fight their way to the top.
But, for Tyson, calling Trump a "fighter" is an
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BOWL, SUPER, CHIEFS, LIX
Kendrick Lamar’s smash “Not Like Us” has been a lot of things since its release less than a year ago: a Drake-slaying diss track, a No. 1 single, a West Coast unity anthem, a Kamala Harris rally singalong, a World Series fight song, a bar mitzvah dance floor
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COMMITTEE, JR, SENATE, RFK
Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump's nominee to become director of national intelligence, received the support of two key Senate Republicans on Tuesday.
Indiana Republican Sen. Todd Young and Kansas Republican Sen. Jerry Moran, both members of the Senate
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TRUMP, TARIFFS, CHINA, WAR
Some presidents spend their first few weeks in office trying to make good on their central campaign promise; Donald Trump has instead done everything he can to avoid having to follow through on his. A controversial campaign pledge to enact big, universal tariffs
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MUSK, DOGE, ELON, TREASURY
As we reported earlier, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) made it clear the left was going to be ramping up their protests in the streets against President Donald Trump. Their claims are truly unhinged — because special government employees, Elon Musk and his DOGE team,
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TRUMP, FEDERAL, BUYOUT, OFFER
Trump administration adds fine print to "Fork" resignation offer, deepening confusion
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It's been a week since nearly all 2.3 million civilian employees of the federal government were presented with an
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ATTORNEY, GENERAL, TRUMP, BONDI
What’s more important: Playing politics or protecting kids?
New York Attorney General Letitia James just gave her answer — and it’s the wrong one. She’s perfectly fine endangering kids for the sake of her own political gain.
That’s the grim reality now that
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EL, SALVADOR, RUBIO, CRIMINALS
Rubio called the agreement "an act of extraordinary friendship," on Monday.
Marco Rubio says El Salvador's president agrees to house US criminals in his country's jails
United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele
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MURPHY, GOV, HOMAN, ILLEGAL
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Border Czar Tom Homan reacted to New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s (D) claim that he was housing a migrant and taunting the federal government over it — which his office has said was misinterpreted — by
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BAY, GUANTANAMO, FIRST, TRUMP
The first flight of migrants to Guantanamo Bay took off Tuesday, and Fox News Digital obtained some of the first images of migrants boarding a military plane for a detention center.
Trump announced last week he would instruct the Pentagon to prepare the site
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USAID, STAFF, SHUT, TRUMP
President-elect Donald Trump talks with Elon Musk as he arrives to watch SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship lift off Nov. 19.
Can Elon Musk close a federal agency, send its employees home and halt spending programs that were approved by Congress?
Yes, at least
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CRASH, 67, BLACK, DC
Officials in Washington, D.C., confirmed on Tuesday that all 67 victims have been recovered from the Potomac River during a multi-day unified recovery operation following the midair collision between a commercial plane and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter
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SHOOTING, SCHOOL, SWEDEN, 10
At least 10 people were killed and an unidentified number injured at a shooting at a school for adult education in central Sweden on Tuesday, the authorities said.
The police said they had started a “major operation” and locked down the campus in the city
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WHITE, BRIBERY, FEDERAL, CHARGE
The White House on Monday released a list of projects overseen by the top U.S. aid agency it identified as "waste and abuse" as Elon Musk's cost cutters seek to dismantle the decades-old provider of foreign aid.
Musk, a "special government employee," according
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JUSTIN, BALDONI, BLAKE, LIVELY
Justin Baldoni has accused Blake Lively of holding their film, "It Ends With Us," hostage over the use of a Taylor Swift song.
In a lengthy timeline shared on Baldoni's website — which also features the amended lawsuit against Lively and her husband, Ryan
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SURCHARGE, HOUSE, WAFFLE, EGG
Waffle House, which was founded in 1955 and now has more than 1,900 locations in 25 states, serves more than 272 million eggs a year, according to the company’s website. The chain, which is based in Georgia, said that rather than increase prices across its
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WOODS, TIGER, DEATH, MOTHER
Kultida Woods, whose guidance and support helped propel her son, the professional golfer Tiger Woods, to become one of his sport’s most dominant athletes, died on Tuesday. She was 80.
In announcing her death, Mr. Woods wrote on social media: “She was my biggest
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BORDER, TRUMP, SOUTHERN, SUE
Now we’re getting serious: Guantanamo Bay and U.S. attorneys. The Trump administration’s twin actions last week stepping up its attack on the illegal immigration problem show the depth of Trump’s commitment to ending the crisis at our southern border and his
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VANCE, JD, ATTEND, AI
U.S. Vice President JD Vance is bound for Europe next week on his first foreign trip since the inauguration.
The Hill sets out Vance will travel to the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit in France and the Munich Security Conference in Germany, citing
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GAIMAN, NEIL, LAWSUIT, RAPE
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A woman from New Zealand has filed three civil lawsuits against best-selling British author Neil Gaiman and his wife, accusing Gaiman of repeatedly sexually assaulting her while she was working as the couple’s babysitter and nanny.
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TRUMP, BILL, VOTE, BUDGET
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., reportedly was forced to delay an initial vote on President Donald Trump's legislative agenda.
Johnson and House GOP leaders had expressed plans to start the legislative process this week by advancing a budget resolution
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ELON, MUSK, AOC, UNINTELLIGENT
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was swiftly criticized after calling billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk "one of the most unintelligent billionaires" she has ever encountered, the New York Post reported.
Her remarks, made during an Instagram Live session,
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VETERANS, DOUG, COLLINS, SENATE
The Senate confirmed former Rep. Doug Collins’ (R-GA) nomination as Secretary of Veterans Affairs Tuesday afternoon, giving President Donald Trump his tenth confirmed Cabinet member.
Collins, who served in Congress from 2013 to 2021, was confirmed overwhelmingly
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DEI, NFL, COMMISSIONER, LEAGUE
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell this week defended the league's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion program and said there are no plans to end it despite recent moves by U.S. businesses to end their DEI efforts.
Goodell, during his annual Super Bowl week press
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