Emerging Topics in U.S. News
MONDAY, APRIL 14th 2025
Updated 23:59 ET
71 articles
TRUMP, EL, SALVADOR, PRESIDENT
President Volodymyr Zelensky has issued a plea to President Donald Trump to personally visit Ukraine and see the impact of the war himself, claiming that others simply can’t understand what’s happening without witnessing it first-hand.
Ukraine’s President
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BLUE, ORIGIN, SPACE, KATY
Though women remain severely underrepresented in the aerospace field worldwide, they do regularly escape the Earth’s atmosphere. More than 100 have gone to space since Sally Ride became the first American woman to do so in 1983. If an all-women spaceflight
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SHAPIRO, ARSON, GOV, JOSH
The arson suspect believed to have set Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s house on fire on the first night of Passover “clearly had a plan” and was “very methodical,” officials said.
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro speaks during a press conference outside of
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CRASH, HELICOPTER, DEADLY, NEW
Karenna Groff died when her plane crashed into a field Saturday, officials said.
Former NCAA woman of the year, 5 other family members killed in upstate New York plane crash
MIT women's soccer graduate student Karenna Groff throws a ball prior to a baseball
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TRUMP, HARVARD, DEMANDS, REJECTS
Harvard University announced on Monday that it would not comply with the Trump administration's demands to end diversity, equity, and inclusion programs or expel pro-Palestinian demonstrators.
Last week, the White House informed Harvard that the school would
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META, TRIAL, ANTITRUST, ZUCKERBERG
Meta and the FTC face off in court over monopoly claims
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) told a federal judge on Monday that Meta has abused its power and acted as a monopoly by acquiring rivals instead
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STATE, DEPARTMENT, TRUMP, USAID
The State Department circulated an internal memo that said it found no evidence linking Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk of Turkey to antisemitism or pro-terrorist public statements, The Washington Post reported Sunday night.
The report cited the March
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ARRESTED, CITIZENSHIP, ICE, COLUMBIA
Mohsen K. Mahdawi arrived at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Burlington, Vermont, on Monday. A Palestinian student at Columbia University, he hoped that, after 10 years in the U.S., he would pass the test to become a naturalized citizen.
Instead,
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TESLA, ARSON, ATTACKS, NEW
Republican Party headquarters is damaged in a fire in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S., in this handout image released on March 30, 2025.
Federal authorities arrested a New Mexico man in connection with arson attacks on a Tesla showroom and the state's Republican
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EARTHQUAKE, SAN, DIEGO, MAGNITUDE
5.2 earthquake strikes California near San Diego
A 5.2 earthquake rattled San Diego, California and the surrounding area on Monday afternoon, according to the US Geological Survey.
The quake struck at 10:08 am local time with an epicenter in Julian, California.
Emergency
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BOAT, COAST, FLORIDA, DEAD
The U.S. Coast Guard's search began when a good Samaritan reported the incident.
1 dead, 4 rescued, others missing after boat overturns off Florida coast
The United States Coast Guard is searching for missing passengers after a boat overturned near St. Lucie
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ELON, MUSK, GOVERNMENT, CALLED
A new legislative push led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-N.M., is seeking to bar special government employees like tech billionaire and senior Trump adviser Elon Musk from communicating with government agencies that interface
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CHURCH, ESCAPING, SOUTH, REPORTEDLY
An illegal alien from China who was sentenced last year for setting fire to a historic Alabama church in 2021 is now accused of escaping the federal prison where she was serving her sentence.
On September 30, 2021, 31-year-old Xiaoquin Yan of China set four
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LOTUS, APOLOGIZES, WHITE, ACTRESS
NBC's "Saturday Night Live" issued a rare apology following backlash over a skit about President Donald Trump and his family.
The skit, which aired Saturday, spoofed HBO's "The White Lotus," which features exploits of guests and staff at a fictional luxury
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TIMES, RETRIAL, PALIN, NEW
Sarah Palin is back to Manhattan court for a retrial in her lawsuit accusing the New York Times of libeling her in a 2017 editorial about mass shootings.
The former Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor is getting a second chance at arguing
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DHS, LA, SCHOOLS, ANSWERS
House Democrats are demanding a briefing from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem after agents with the department’s investigative team tried to enter two Los Angeles-area elementary schools last week but were turned away, the Los Angeles Times reported
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CONGRESS, PBS, HOUSE, WHITE
The White House is planning to ask Congress to claw back more than $1 billion slated for public broadcasting in the United States, according to two people briefed on the plan, a move that could ultimately eliminate almost all federal support for NPR and PBS.
The
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89, MARIO, NOBEL, PERUVIAN
Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters, died Sunday. He was 89.
He was a prolific author and essayist with such celebrated novels as "The Time of the Hero" (La Ciudad y los Perros) and "Feast of
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CHINA, TRADE, WAR, WANNA
In the military, we believe that your enemy's reality must become your own, or it will be at a time of grave disadvantage. Let's put all silly pretense aside and come to the realization that Communist China is our number one geopolitical foe—they see us as
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MAJOR, CUOMO, WINS, ADAMS
In a joint endorsement on Monday, the union leaders praised Mr. Cuomo as a steady supporter of working New Yorkers and the kind of leader who could stand up to President Trump as he threatens to withhold federal funding from cities like New York and undermine
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COLLEGE, STUDENTS, UBER, DENMARK
Two American college students on a spring break trip have been held in a Danish prison for two weeks after an argument with an Uber driver over a wrong address, according to family members.
Owen Ray, 20, a student at the University of Miami in Ohio, and his
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HOUSING, CUOMO, CHATGPT, PLAN
The episode, in its apparent carelessness, fueled criticism of Mr. Cuomo, who, despite having quickly accumulated more than $1.5 million in fund-raising dollars, has limited his media availability and allowed his campaign to rest heavily on name recognition.
“I
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ERNST, PROPOSES, IRS, JONI
GOP Sen. Joni Ernst is gearing up for Tax Day with new legislation requiring the IRS to police itself and ensure that all of its workers are fully caught up on their debts to Uncle Sam.
Ernst (R-Iowa) has introduced the Audit the IRS Act, which requires the
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MIKE, MICHIGAN, ROGERS, SENATE
Former Representative Mike Rogers, Republican of Michigan, announced on Monday that he would run for his state’s open U.S. Senate seat, his second bid for the chamber after losing to Senator Elissa Slotkin, a Democrat, by fewer than 20,000 votes last fall.
The
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