Emerging Topics in U.S. News
FRIDAY, MARCH 21st 2025
Updated 23:59 ET
21 articles
TRUMP, MUSK, 47, JET
President Donald Trump has amplified his displeasure with mainstream media during the first two months of his second term and now appears to have Fox News in his crosshairs.
On Tuesday, Trump laid into Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich, who
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TRUMP, FIRM, WEISS, PAUL
Nationwide injunctions are central to Trump's feud with judges. Here's what to know
President Donald Trump speaks to the media after attending a board meeting at the Kennedy Center, in Washington, Mar. 17, 2025.
President Donald Trump speaks to the media
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EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT, LOANS, STUDENT
Teachers union boss Randi Weingarten says she is concerned that shutting down the Department of Education could be as harmful to students as the school closures were during COVID.
On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order instructing Education
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HEATHROW, AIRPORT, FIRE, CLOSURE
Phillip Kizun found himself having to improvise on Friday as he tried to get from London to Dublin, typically a routine trip.
After finding out that his flight from Heathrow Airport had been canceled, Mr. Kizun, 58, took a train to Wales and then a ferry from
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TRUMP, COLUMBIA, ADMIN, UNIVERSITY
How about that: Columbia University is at least pretending to cave to Trump administration demands to address its antisemitic cancers — prodded by threats to its vast taxpayer subsidies.
In what was nominally a note from the school’s interim president, Katrina
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MUSK, PENTAGON, ELON, CHINA
Elon Musk heads to the Pentagon, sparking controversy
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Elon Musk is supposed to visit the Pentagon on Friday. But what he'll be doing there has ignited a fresh storm of controversy surrounding his access to sensitive
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TESLA, ATTACKS, TRUMP, VANDALS
We're seeing the leftists getting crazy with more terrorism against Tesla and Elon Musk this week, including with Molotov cocktails and a shooting at a Tesla service center in Las Vegas, with "resist" written on the window. The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force
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JUDGE, DEPORTATION, STATE, SECRETS
Judge in deportations case says government lawyers 'disrespectful'
Speaking in the Oval Office earlier on Friday, the Republican president insisted his administration was getting "bad people out of our country", and renewed his attacks on Judge Boasberg, describing
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WALZ, TIM, TRUMP, WWE
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) is a “loser” who would be in trouble, President Donald Trump said on Friday reacting to a reporter’s question on Walz remarking that he could kick the “ass” of conservatives.
“Oh boy, he’d be in trouble,” Trump responded, adding,
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GAZA, ISRAEL, HAMAS, HOSTAGES
Nearly 600 people were killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza this week.
The Israeli army has been instructed to seize more territory in Gaza -- while evacuating Palestinians -- as it expands its ground operation. Israel said the longer Hamas refuses to release
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FOREMAN, GEORGE, 76, HEAVYWEIGHT
Heavyweight champion George Foreman has died at the age of 76, his family announced Friday.
Foreman died surrounded by loved ones, his family said.
"Our hearts are broken," the family wrote in an Instagram post. "With profound sorrow, we announce the passing
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MEASLES, CASES, TEXAS, CONTINUE
The majority of cases are among the unvaccinated or those with unknown status.
A vial of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine is on display at the Lubbock Health Department, on Feb. 26, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas.
A vial of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine
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IMMIGRANT, ILLEGAL, ICE, JUDGE
A Colorado judge on Friday temporarily barred the Trump administration from deporting an activist in the U.S. illegally whose detention this week outraged state Democrats and immigration rights advocates.
Jeanette Vizguerra, 53, a Mexican national who made
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GANG, DE, TREN, MEMBERS
Alleged members of the Venezuelan criminal organization Tren de Aragua who were deported by the U.S. government, are detained at the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador in a photo obtained Mar. 16, 2025.
Alleged members of the Venezuelan
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CIVIL, RIGHTS, HOMELAND, OFFICES
The Trump administration fired nearly the entire civil rights branch of the Department of Homeland Security on Friday, gutting a government office responsible for conducting oversight of President Trump’s immigration crackdown.
The more than 100 staff members
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ALEX, MARLOW, TRUMP, DONALD
On Thursday’s “Alex Marlow Show,” host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow talked about his conversation with President Donald Trump.
Marlow said, “[H]e is still very shocked, I think, by the way he was treated in between his two administrations with
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TRUMP, STATE, 51ST, CANADA
A liberal Canadian member of Parliament claimed the Trump administration has committed an "act of war" over President Donald Trump repeatedly referring to Canada as the U.S.' "51st state" and for leveling tariffs on the nation.
"Well, I think Marco Rubio probably
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PALACE, SUDAN, KHARTOUM, ARMY
Sudan's army recapture presidential palace in Khartoum
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Sudan's army have taken control of the presidential Palace after days of intense fighting with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
It's the first time the army
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RUSSIAN, DRONES, ODESA, UKRAINIAN
As Kyiv and Moscow prepare for talks that would put in place a temporary halt on strikes on energy infrastructure, each side has continued to accuse the other of fresh attacks on the power grid, underscoring the deep mistrust between them.
Overnight into Friday,
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TRUMP, ASTRONAUTS, OFFERS, PAY
As you may have heard, astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore spent nine months on the International Space Station stranded in space as they awaited a rescue that would never come. Elon Musk offered then-President Biden his own rocket to go and grab the
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BAN, MILITARY, INJUNCTION, LIFT
The Department of Defense released new guidance on Friday on how it will enforce President Donald Trump's ban on transgender people in the military, and asked a federal judge to lift her recent order blocking the ban.
The memorandum from the Office of the
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TRUMP, HOUSE, TRANSGENDER, BILL
ABC News confirmed that at least two living former staffers were affected.
Documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy are displayed after they were released following an order from President Donald Trump, in Washington D.C., March
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INVESTMENT, FRAMEWORK, UAE, COMMITS
The White House announced Friday the commitment of $1.4 trillion in investment in the U.S. by the United Arab Emirates over the next 10 years.
President Donald Trump met on Tuesday with Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed, the UAE's national security adviser, after which
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WISCONSIN, VOTERS, 100, MUSK
An Elon Musk super PAC is offering Wisconsin voters $100 to sign a petition expressing their opposition to "activist judges," it was reported.
Musk and progressive billionaire George Soros are funding respective sides in an April 1 race to determine the ideological
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