Emerging Topics in U.S. News
SATURDAY, MARCH 15th 2025
Updated 23:59 ET
12 articles
TRUMP, DONALD, NEW, FIRM
President Donald Trump signed the government funding bill into law on Saturday, avoiding a shutdown, in a win for the president and Republicans in Congress.
The White House issued a press release Saturday afternoon announcing Trump signed the bill to fund
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BILL, SPENDING, DEMOCRATS, KYRSTEN
President Trump on Saturday signed the government funding bill passed by the Senate on Friday. The bill was passed just hours before a midnight deadline to avoid a lapse in funding, which would have shut down the government.
The signing of the bill ended a
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TRUMP, ALIEN, ENEMIES, ACT
President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 Saturday to target the designated foreign terrorist organization Tren de Aragua (TdA) just hours after a federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled the law could not be used to deport five Venezuelans.
The
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TRUMP, YEMEN, STRIKES, HOUTHI
Trump orders strikes on Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen and issues new warning
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump said he ordered a series of airstrikes on Yemen's capital, Sanaa, on Saturday, promising to use
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LEADER, IRAQ, TRUMP, ISIS
The U.S. Central Command on Friday said it had conducted an airstrike in cooperation with Iraq that killed the top ISIS leader in that country, Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rifai, known as “Abu Khadijah,” and one other ISIS operative.
Reuters was not able to independently
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SCHUMER, SHUTDOWN, STRENGTH, CR
Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is tap dancing and doing damage control after declaring on Wednesday that the Senate Democrats would not vote for the continuing budget resolution (CR) passed by Republicans in the House of Representatives, then exposing his
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MARS, MUSK, 2026, END
The head of the Russian sovereign wealth fund, Kirill Dmitriev, propositioned Elon Musk Saturday morning on X that Russia and the United States should work collaboratively on a mission to Mars.
Dmitriev, who is currently serving as Russia's chief economic
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STARBUCKS, TEA, 50, PAY
Coffee giant Starbucks has been ordered to pay a California drive-through customer $50 million after an unsecured hot drink spilled on him, causing burns.
Michael Garcia underwent skin grafts and other procedures on his genitals after he was handed a takeout
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TORNADOES, SOUTHERN, STORM, MOVES
At least 20 dead as tornadoes tear through southern US
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US tornadoes: Extreme weather leaves trail of destruction
At least 20 people have died in the US - including 12 in Missouri alone
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FEDERAL, STATE, WORKERS, VACCINATIONS
New York’s Amish community has become an unlikely minority on the frontlines of a battle pitting Constitutional rights against potentially draconian public health laws.
On March 3, the New York’s Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Amish people who
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DEAD, SEVERE, MIDWEST, STORMS
Almost 300,000 are without power across five states.
At least 13 dead as severe storms sweep through the Midwest
Debris lies in front of a house after a tornado touched down in Florissant, Missouri, March 14, 2025.
Debris lies in front of a house after a
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WEBSITE, ARLINGTON, CEMETERY, VETERANS
Arlington Cemetery strips content on black and female veterans from website
Approximately 400,000 veterans are buried in the Army-run cemetery, which was established after the US Civil War at the home of the South's general, Robert E. Lee.
The content removal
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WILEY, MARCELLUS, COLUMBIA, WOMEN
Former NFL star Marcellus Wiley is facing allegations that he raped two women while attending Columbia University some thirty years ago.
Two accusers have come forward claiming that Wiley raped them in his dorm room in 1994 in two separate incidents.
The
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TRUMP, AFRICA, SOUTH, ADMINISTRATION
The first indication of Mr. Rasool’s fate came as Secretary of State Marco Rubio flew back from the Group of 7 allies meeting in Canada on Friday.
Mr. Rubio wrote on social media that South Africa’s ambassador was a “race-baiting politician who hates America”
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DEMOCRATS, 2028, PRESIDENTIAL, BUTTIGIEG
Some of the Democratic Party's most ambitious politicians are looking ahead to the 2028 presidential election, and many Democrats anticipate a crowded primary field, The New York Times reported.
This week, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who
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EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT, FLUNKED, ELIZABETH
We’ve all seen the outrageous stats for the Department of Education.
Until Donald Trump’s White House hit man Elon Musk sicced his Department of Government Efficiency on it, the Education Department had an annual budget of between $238 and $268 billion and
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TRUMP, COUNTRIES, BAN, NYTIMES
As President Donald Trump continues his torrid pace to right the wrongs visited on America by the Democrat Party — if not the entire world — a State Department-produced travel ban draft circulating in the administration calls for Trump to ban travelers from
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MAHER, DESERVE, GREEN, EDUCATION
During the online “Overtime” segment of Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that environmental money spent by the Biden administration in its final days was “just funneling money to people who are not solving the problem.” And the
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CHAIRS, KAMALA, LUCKY, HILARIOUS
Let's face it.
Kamala Harris was a lousy presidential candidate. Candidates often have flaws. Some are weak on policy. Some are weak on performance. Some are weak on presentation. But she was bad on all of those things.
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MAHER, DEMS, BACK, JEWISH
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said he's "damn proud" of being Jewish but refrained from suggesting his faith played a role in being snubbed as the vice-presidential candidate on the Democratic ticket in 2024.
On Friday's installment of "Real Time with Bill
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VOICE, TRUMP, AGENCIES, AMERICA
President Trump signed an executive order on Friday seeking to dismantle seven additional federal agencies, including the one that oversees Voice of America and other government-funded media outlets around the world.
Mr. Trump directed the heads of the agencies,
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CONVENES, STARMER, UKRAINE, COALITION
U.K.'s Starmer convenes 'coalition of the willing' meeting to discuss Ukraine
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LONDON — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is convening a second meeting of global leaders Saturday to discuss the developments regarding the
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MAHER, TRUMP, ARGUMENT, BRING
"Real Time" host Bill Maher challenged one of President Trump's central arguments as he wages a tariff war among several countries.
"I have one basic question: Why do we want to bring back manufacturing?" Maher asked his panel on Friday. "It's so 70s, you
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GAZA, TRUCE, INCLUDING, KILL
Israeli forces killed at least nine Palestinians in Gaza in strikes on Saturday, according to the Gaza health ministry, the latest in a string of Israeli attacks on the enclave that have kept up despite a roughly two-month-old truce with Hamas.
Since the cease-fire
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