Emerging Topics in U.S. News
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14th 2025
Updated 23:59 ET
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TRUMP, MUSK, WHITE, HOUSE
President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Friday barring schools who still have coronavirus vaccine mandates from receiving federal funds.
The order, according to a report from Breitbart confirmed by the White House, prohibits "federal
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ADAMS, ERIC, CASE, MAYOR
The first act of a drama that has shaken the Department of Justice ended Friday when a top official signed a formal request to drop corruption charges against New York’s mayor after Manhattan’s acting U.S. attorney refused to and resigned.
The official, Emil
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VANCE, UKRAINE, RUSSIA, JD
Vice President J.D. Vance said the United States will use the threat of economic sanctions and military action as a cudgel to push Russian President Vladimir Putin into discussions to end the war in Ukraine.
"There are economic tools of leverage, there are
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EAGLES, BOWL, SUPER, PARADE
Will the Eagles visit the White House after Super Bowl win? They didn't last time
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The Philadelphia Eagles secured the coveted Super Bowl victory this week over the Kansas City Chiefs. But will the winning team make
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TRUMP, JUDGE, MUSK, DOGE
Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) on Friday proposed legislation that would establish President Donald Trump’s birthday and Flag Day as a public holiday, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.
Tenney proposed the Trump’s Birthday and Flag Day Holiday Establishment
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TRUMP, LAYOFFS, FEDERAL, OFFICIALS
Thousands of federal workers were dismissed Thursday as part of the first round of Trump's reduction in the size of government. The dismissals targeted probationary employees, that is, those employees with less than two years of service, because they have little
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TRUMP, FOX, NEWS, MUSK
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SENATE, TRUMP, GOP, MCCONNELL
Republican U.S. Senator John Thune (R-SD), who was elected to become the next Senate Majority Leader, speaks to the media after a U.S. Senate Republicans meeting to vote on leadership positions for the 119th Congress, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., November
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TRUMP, JUDGE, FOREIGN, ORDERS
The Trump administration sent three illegal immigrants back to their home country of Venezuela in response to a judge's decision blocking them from being sent to Guantánamo Bay as part of a continued crack-down on illegal immigration.
U.S. District Judge Kenneth
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CRASH, BLACK, HAWK, PLANE
National Transportation Safety Board officials said on Friday that they were investigating what appeared to be confused communications inside the cockpit of an Army Black Hawk helicopter moments before colliding with an American Airlines jet last month near
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IMMIGRATION, RESTRICTIONS, POLL, SUPPORT
Immigration poll shows growing support for restrictions, but deep divisions remain
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Americans are deeply divided when it comes to the details of President Trump's sweeping crackdown on immigration, according
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TRUMP, KENNEDY, CENTER, TAKEOVER
is a senior correspondent on the Culture team for Vox, where since 2016 she has covered books, publishing, gender, celebrity analysis, and theater.
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump got himself declared chair of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing
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ICE, PRISONS, TRUMP, FLORIDA
Female detainees will not be housed in federal prisons.
Males detained by ICE to be housed in federal prisons, new memo says
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents conduct an arrest as part of President Donald Trump's wide-ranging immigration
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CDC, LOSE, TRUMP, TENTH
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is poised to lose roughly one-tenth of its workforce due to a Trump policy axing probationary employees as part of a larger effort of the Trump administration to cut the size and scope of government.
This
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CHERNOBYL, DRONE, REACTOR, RUSSIA
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says a Russian drone with a high-explosive warhead hit the protective confinement shell of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Kyiv region early Friday morning
KYIV, Ukraine -- A Russian drone with a high-explosive
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ICE, HOMAN, AOC, WEBINAR
FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan on Friday clashed with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., over a webinar she hosted advising migrants about how to handle an encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
"Let’s pray
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BOO, ANTHEM, MONTREAL, CANADIAN
The 4 Nations Face-Off began this week in Montreal, and Team USA is public enemy no. 1 up north.
Team USA played its first game of the tournament on Thursday against Finland, a day after Canada defeated Sweden in overtime, and they were across enemy lines
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TRADE, TRUMP, GLOBAL, SCALE
Is Trump right when he says the US faces unfair trade?
2 hours ago Ben Chu BBC Verify
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Donald Trump has ordered his team to devise plans to impose reciprocal tariffs, or import taxes, on goods coming into the US from other countries.
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JAY, LAWSUIT, SEAN, DROPS
The anonymous woman who accused Jay-Z and Sean Combs of raping her when she was 13 years old dropped her lawsuit on Friday against the hip-hop moguls.
Jay-Z’s lawyers had pointed to what they described as “glaring inconsistencies” in the woman’s account, citing
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FBI, AGENTS, DEEP, REBUTS
As we watch the Left in the Senate slow-walk Kash Patel’s nomination for FBI director, it becomes abundantly clear – this FBI is still made in the likeness of James Comey and Christopher Wray. President Trump’s election didn’t change that fact.
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MUNICH, CAR, ISLAMIST, MOTIVATION
The suspect accused of injuring more than 30 people in a car ramming attack in Munich, Germany, appears to have been motivated by Islamic extremism, prosecutors revealed Friday.
The 24-year-old Afghan, a self-described bodybuilder and fitness model, was arrested
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DETAINED, CITIZEN, RUSSIA, DRUGS
A U.S. citizen who was allegedly carrying cannabis gummies has been detained at an airport in Moscow, Russian media reported.
The 28-year-old American was detained at the Vnukovo Airport Feb. 7 after a K-9 with the Russian Federal Customs Service detected
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MUSK, DOGE, WEBSITE, NESSEL
Here are some of the untruths told about Elon Musk and DOGE:
"Musk has no right to cut USAID."
Elon Musk and his team are not cutting any federal programs.
They are auditors. They were given legal authority under a presidential executive order creating the
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WEBSITE, STONEWALL, TRANSGENDER, ERASES
Transgender references removed from Stonewall monument website
Stonewall National Monument, across the street from the Stonewall Inn in New York City, the site of a 1969 police raid
Activists denounced the move on Friday and held a protest at the site, which
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