Emerging Topics in U.S. News
SUNDAY, MAY 4th 2025
Updated 23:59 ET
18 articles
TRUMP, TERM, MEXICO, PRESIDENT
Does a president need to uphold the Constitution? Trump says 'I don't know'
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President Trump — when asked if he thinks he needs to uphold the Constitution on "Meet the Press with Kristen Welker" — said, "I don't know,"
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ISRAEL, MISSILE, AIRPORT, HOUTHIS
Ben Gurion Airport was shut down after a Houthi ballistic missile made it through air defenses and struck the perimeter. Situated near the center of Israel, the airport is a major international thoroughfare. Videos of the aftermath showed smoke billowing while
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MUSK, TEXAS, CITY, ELON
The home of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket company is now an official Texas city with a galactic name: Starbase
Musk gets his Texas wish. SpaceX launch site approved as new city of Starbase
By VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press and JIM VERTUNO Associated Press
McALLEN,
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TRUMP, 100, MOVIES, MADE
President Donald Trump announced on Sunday a 100% tariff on movies produced outside of the United States, saying the US movie industry was dying a “very fast death” due to the incentives that other countries were offering to draw American filmmakers.
“This
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TRUMP, DON, TARIFFS, CHINA
President Trump said in an interview that aired on Sunday that he did not know whether every person on American soil was entitled to due process, despite constitutional guarantees, and complained that adhering to that principle would result in an unmanageable
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TRUMP, POPE, AI, DAY
The White House shared a Star Wars, May 4th Day image with an immigration message calling those who oppose the president’s policies “radical left lunatics” who are fighting to bring dangerous criminals back into the U.S.
The post also featured a bulked-up
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DOJ, OFFICE, RACE, PROSECUTOR
The Trump administration's Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into the Minneapolis-area Hennepin County Attorney's Office for policy to consider race in giving plea deals to defendants.
"This week we @TheJusticeDept @CivilRights opened
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TEST, BIDEN, COGNITIVE, BOOK
As we watched former President Joe Biden continue to decline during his one and thankfully only term, the cries for the often incoherent leader to take a cognitive test increased to a roar. Although the calls came mostly from the conservative side, even some
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TRUMP, ALCATRAZ, NOTORIOUS, PRISON
Trump orders reopening of notorious Alcatraz prison
The prison was closed in 1963, and Alcatraz Island is currently operating as a tourist site. It lies near San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.
The reopening of Alcatraz would serve as a "symbol of law, order,
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GAGA, CONCERT, LADY, ARREST
Brazilian police say that they have thwarted a plot to detonate a bomb at Lady Gaga’s concert the night before in Rio de Janeiro, the biggest show of her career that drew some 2 million fans to Copacabana Beach
Brazilian police arrest two people over plot
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DEAD, HOUSTON, 14, INJURED
A Houston family party turned into a mass shooting, with one person dead and 14 wounded, after an uninvited guest opened fire after getting kicked out, according to cops.
People at the party returned fire, sparking a running gun battle that was still raging
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BUFFETT, INVESTORS, WARREN, BERKSHIRE
Mr. Abel’s other quality is that he is seen as fitting the Berkshire mold. He became a more serious contender to take over the conglomerate in 2011, when David Sokol, his former boss at MidAmerican who had been known as Mr. Buffett’s chief fixer, resigned.
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IRANIAN, ARREST, POLICE, UK
British counterterrorism officers arrested several Iranian men over an alleged plot to attack an unspecified target in London, the Metropolitan Police force said Sunday.
Police said five men aged between 29 and 46 were detained on Saturday in various parts
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NETANYAHU, TRUMP, VOWS, IRAN
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared firm support for President Donald Trump’s stance on Iran, which he declared in a post from March, hours after a deadly Houthi attack targeted Israel’s main airport.
Netanyahu posted on X (formerly Twitter)
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PENCE, FORMER, COURAGE, AWARD
He described the Constitution as what "binds us all together."
Former Vice President Mike Pence arrives with his wife, Karen Pence, at the JFK Library where he will receive the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, Sunday, May 4, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Robert
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SCHOOL, TELLING, VOTERS, SHOW
A Michigan elementary school has backed down after initially telling two Christian students they couldn’t perform worship songs at an upcoming school talent show.
“Upon review, it was determined that school staff were unfamiliar with the legal guidelines concerning
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BARRASSO, SENATE, BIG, 2T
Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-WY) joined Maria Bartiromo on "Sunday Morning Futures" to discuss the efforts of congressional Republicans to pass President Donald Trump's agenda.
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It was a wide-ranging discussion, covering the first (and
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CRYPTOCURRENCY, RANSOM, KIDNAPPERS, ENTREPRENEURS
PARIS (AP) – French police rescued the father of a wealthy cryptocurrency entrepreneur in a nighttime raid after he was taken hostage for ransom, the latest alleged criminal effort in France to extort people involved in the management of digital assets.
The
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TRUMP, NPR, PBS, AMENDMENT
A sign for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is seen on its building headquarters on Feb. 18, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia.
The CEOs of NPR and PBS said they're looking into options to challenge the Trump administration following the president's executive
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KELLY, LOEFFLER, EXCLUSIVE, SMALL
WASHINGTON, DC — Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Kelly Loeffler told Breitbart News that the legislation she announced with lawmakers this week would help bring back American “economic independence” and supercharge the return of American industry
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COLLEGE, SEX, ADMISSIONS, FIRED
A former assistant admissions director at Emmanuel College in Boston was arrested Friday and accused of soliciting an underage applicant for sex, the Justice Department said.
Prosecutors charged the director, Jacob Henriques, 29, with one count of attempted
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AIR, UKRAINE, PATRIOT, AMERICAN
The signing of the landmark minerals deal between Ukraine and the Trump administration is greasing the wheels on the Biden-era initiative of sending more air defense system support to Ukraine to help fight off Russia's war.
A Patriot air-defense system in
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COLD, CASE, REASON, COPS
The former divorce attorney has been charged in the murder of his own former client in downtown Cleveland, Ohio more than a decade ago — and it was all so he could have her case delayed, according to prosecutors.
Gregory Moore, 51, was indicted Friday on a
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PUTIN, HOPES, UKRAINE, TV
Russian leader Vladimir Putin said Sunday he “hopes” Russia won’t have to nuke Ukraine in a boastful interview on state TV.
The Kremlin tyrant downplayed the need for nuclear weapons against Ukraine but wouldn’t rule them out in response to a question about
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