Emerging Topics in U.S. News
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25th 2025
Updated 23:59 ET
25 articles
TRUMP, WHITE, HOUSE, WHCA
The outrage over $2 billion being handed to a Stacey Abrams-related start-up by the defeated Joe Biden administration is justified. But it is not surprising. Climate spending by the Biden White House was always political.
In 2022, President Joe Biden tapped
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TRUMP, UKRAINE, RAMASWAMY, OHIO
The antagonistic messaging President Trump has delivered to Ukraine since taking office has presented leaders in Kyiv with a brutal reckoning: that the United States can no longer be counted on as a supporter, and may even be an adversary, in the effort to
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TRUMP, UKRAINE, EXECUTIVE, FIRM
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an order suspending security clearances for lawyers representing former Special Counsel Jack Smith and seeking to limit the U.S. government's business with their law firm, Covington & Burling.
Smith led two since-dismissed
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MUSK, FEDERAL, EMAIL, DOGE
"My company has been left behind," one small business founder said.
Elon Musk listens to President Donald Trump speak in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Feb. 11, 2025.
Elon Musk listens to President Donald Trump speak in the Oval Office
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TRUMP, BUDGET, VOTE, HOUSE
President Donald J. Trump's big, beautiful bill just mounted its first hurdle. Tuesday evening, the Congressional Budget Resolution (H. Con. Res. 14) establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth
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UKRAINE, DEAL, TRUMP, RUSSIA
Top Ukrainian official says Kyiv will refuse any 'bad' peace deal
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Three years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the United States and its European allies are sharply split over the war. The divide came
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DOGE, RESIGN, 21, MUSK
A federal judge in Greenbelt, Maryland, is blocking the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is working to expose government waste, from accessing specific records at the Department of Education (DOE).
U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman “issued
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TRUMP, ADMINISTRATION, JUDGE, FEDERAL
President Donald Trump increasingly is playing the role of information gatekeeper, striving to control access to venues—technological and physical—where important expressive activities occur. By dictating access on his terms, Trump seeks to ensure that narratives
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DEATH, SUPREME, COURT, INMATE
is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he focuses on the Supreme Court, the Constitution, and the decline of liberal democracy in the United States. He received a JD from Duke University and is the author of two books on the Supreme Court.
Anti-death penalty
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SOUTHWEST, CHICAGO, JET, PLANE
The Southwest crew did a "go-around" to avoid the business jet.
Southwest plane lands safely in Chicago after close call with jet that went on runway without authorization
A Southwest Airlines plane landed safely at Chicago Midway International Airport after
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POPE, FRANCIS, CRITICAL, VATICAN
Thousands of people gathered in St. Peter’s Square early Tuesday morning to pray for ailing Pope Francis, expressing hope he can stay strong and recover from his current illness.
As Breitbart News reported, the 88-year-old Francis has pneumonia in both lungs
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FBI, DAN, BONGINO, TRUMP
What to expect at the FBI under the leadership of Kash Patel and Dan Bongino The new top two leaders at the FBI are Trump loyalists with no prior experience at the bureau. NPR's Leila Fadel asks retired FBI special agent Thomas J. Baker for his impressions
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TEXAS, ILLEGAL, ARRESTED, COLONY
Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agents and other state and local law enforcement officials arrested 118 illegal aliens during Monday’s immigration raid inside the Colony Ridge Subdivision near Houston, Texas. According to ICE, the multi-agency immigration
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MSNBC, REID, JOY, MADDOW
Lefty MSNBC superstar Rachel Maddow staged an on-air tantrum after the cancellation of her colleague Joy Reid’s “The ReidOut” (plus push-asides for other anchors of color) over the alleged racism of the move.
“Both of our non-white hosts in primetime are losing
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TRUMP, ADMINISTRATION, JUDGE, USAID
A coalition of religious groups successfully halted new rules under the Trump administration that allowed federal officials to enter houses of worship in order to enforce immigration laws.
In response to a lawsuit from a group of Quaker, Baptist and Sikh congregations,
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FOX, NEWS, TRUMP, TRAVELER
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TRUMP, GOLD, CARD, GREEN
President Donald Trump says he wants to replace the EB-5 visa program that sells green cards to wealthy investors with a higher-cost “gold card” program.
“Wealthy people will be coming into our country by buying this card,” he told reporters on Tuesday. “They’ll
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SPORTS, ATHLETES, TRANS, WOMEN
Schools in Philadelphia will continue allowing transgender athletes to play in girls sports even after the state of Pennsylvania announced it would comply with President Donald Trump's "No Men in Women's Sports" executive order.
The School District of Philadelphia
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ABUSE, DOGE, GOVERNMENT, WASTE
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report Tuesday detailing areas of the federal government especially vulnerable to fraud, waste and abuse, hours ahead of a House Oversight Committee hearing to discuss its findings.
The government's chief
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VOICE, TRUMP, IPHONE, APPLE
Apple’s iPhone voice-to-text feature is sparking controversy after a viral TikTok video showed a user speaking the word "racist," which at first showed up as "Trump" before switching back to "racist."
Fox News Digital was able to replicate the issue multiple
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CHILE, OUTAGE, DECLARES, POWER
Chile on Tuesday declared a state of emergency and curfew across much of the country, including the capital Santiago, following a massive, rare blackout that left millions without power.
The worst blackout in the country in well over a decade caused transport
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FLORIDA, BYRON, DONALDS, PLANS
Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., announced his plans to run for Florida governor next year during an interview on Fox News' "Hannity" Tuesday night.
The next Florida gubernatorial election is slated to take place Nov. 3, 2026.
RON DESANTIS: FLORIDA WAS DOGE BEFORE
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DOGE, JON, STEWART, HAND
Jon Stewart slashed his hand on Monday during a bit after smashing a prop mug in frustration with government inefficiencies.
The veteran “Daily Show” host, who began leading the program again on Mondays early last year, set up a makeshift Department of Government
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SOROS, FCC, GEORGE, DOOR
EXCLUSIVE: House Republicans are getting an update on the Trump administration’s probe of billionaire George Soros’ influence on local radio, a source familiar with planning told Fox News Digital.
The Republican Study Committee (RSC), the 175-strong caucus
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