Emerging Topics in U.S. News
MONDAY, JUNE 30th 2025
Updated 23:59 ET
31 articles
TRUMP, CANADA, TAX, BILL
Musk vows they'll lose primaries "if it is the last thing I do on this Earth.”
Elon Musk listens as President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Feb. 11, 2025.
Elon Musk listens as President Donald Trump speaks in the
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IDAHO, AMBUSH, FIREFIGHTERS, SUSPECT
The sniper who shot dead two firefighters in an ambush in Idaho was identified by officials Monday as 20-year-old Wess Roley — and an eerie photo shows him aiming a sinister glare into the camera.
Roley’s body was found near his weapon at the scene of a fire
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TRUMP, SENATE, BILL, TAX
Majority Leader John Thune walks toward the Senate floor on June 30, 2025, as lawmakers in the chamber debate President Trump’s massive tax and spending bill.
President Trump’s megabill encompassing his domestic agenda on Monday inched closer to becoming law
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MAMDANI, ZOHRAN, COMMUNIST, CITY
Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy said the quiet part out loud about his Democratic Party when he admitted that Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani's communist views are the future of his party.
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CNN's Kasie Hunt asked Murphy about last week's shocking
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BILL, BIG, BEAUTIFUL, AI
Senators on Monday began offering amendments to President Donald Trump's megabill, following a weekend of tense negotiations to try to get the president's second term domestic priorities through the upper chamber.
The process, called a "vote-a-rama," began
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HARVARD, CIVIL, RIGHTS, VIOLATED
President Donald Trump's administration informed Harvard University that its investigation found the university violated federal civil-rights law over its treatment of Jewish and Israeli students, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
"Failure to institute
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IDAHO, BRYAN, KOHBERGER, MURDERS
MOSCOW, Idaho — A criminology Ph.D. student charged with stabbing four University of Idaho students to death had written years ago of having suicidal thoughts, not being able to feel emotions and observing his own life as if it were a video game, saying he
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BOB, VYLAN, IDF, DEATH
The State Department is reportedly looking to revoke the visas for British rap punk rock duo Bobby Vylan after one of them chanted “death to IDF” as well as “Free Palestine” at a U.K. music festival.
As Breitbart News reported over the weekend, one half of
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POWELL, TRUMP, FED, NOTE
Trump sent handwritten note to Powell calling for lower interest rates During Monday’s briefing, press secretary Karoline Leavitt held up the note to reporters, which appeared to have been written by President Donald Trump using his signature black Sharpie
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ICE, APP, AGENTS, CNN
Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons says left-wing activists are targeting ICE agents, with some going after agents’ families, including their children.
In a video posted to X on Monday, Lyons revealed that ICE and the United
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SEAN, TRIAL, COMBS, DIDDY
What the jury in the Sean Combs trial will be deliberating The jury considering the charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation for prostitution against the music mogul Sean Combs began its deliberations.
National What the jury in
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ATTACK, DIES, BOULDER, 82
Woman dies from injuries suffered in Boulder antisemitic attack
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Reuters Memorial for Boulder, Colorado, victims
An 82-year-old woman who was one of the 12 victims in an attack on a gathering in support
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SYRIA, TRUMP, SANCTIONS, LIFTS
President Trump signed an executive order on Monday lifting most of the country’s economic sanctions on Syria, tightening his embrace of a new government in Damascus despite concerns about its leaders’ past ties to Al Qaeda.
The move, which scraped decades
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COURT, SUPREME, HEAR, LIMITS
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide a copyright dispute between Cox Communications and a group of music labels following a judicial decision that threw out a $1 billion jury verdict against the internet service provider over alleged piracy of
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CRUISE, OVERBOARD, SHIP, FELL
A fearless father jumped off a Disney cruise ship when his daughter fell overboard — miraculously getting hold of her and then treading water for around 20 minutes before they were both rescued.
The Disney Dream was heading from Florida to the Bahamas on Sunday
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CARTEL, MEXICAN, TRACK, INFORMANTS
What is the Sinaloa Cartel?
The Sinaloa Cartel is largely responsible for the mass production of fentanyl and other illicit drugs that have had a devastating effect in the United States.
For years, the cartel operated under an “umbrella” model — a cohesive
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RULINGS, STATES, TRANSGENDER, COURT
The Issue: The US Supreme Court ruling that lower-court judges are “likely exceeding” their authority.
The US Supreme Court has rightfully ruled that lower-court judges do not have the constitutional authority to block executive actions from taking effect
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SHOT, STONEWALL, INN, PRIDE
Two female teenagers, a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old, were shot near New York City’s Stonewall Inn Sunday following the city’s pride parade.
FOX News reported that the 16-year-old was shot in the head and is in critical condition. The 17-year-old was shot
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TRUMP, 13, MS, LEADER
For nearly six years, Task Force Vulcan, a federal law enforcement team set up by President Trump during his first term in the White House, was enormously successful in pursuing its central mission: taking down the leadership of the violent transnational street
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GARCIA, ABREGO, RELEASE, JAIL
Kilmar Abrego Garcia will stay in jail for now over concerns from his lawyers that he could be deported if he's released to await his trial on human smuggling charges, a federal judge in Tennessee ruled Monday.
Abrego Garcia's attorneys had asked the judge
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BILL, BIG, TRUMP, SENS
President Trump pressed Republican leaders in the House and Senate today to pass the party’s sweeping economic and domestic policy bill by the end of the week.
But the legislation, which would expand tax cuts, cut Medicaid and add an estimated $3.3 trillion
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MUSK, TRUMP, ELON, COUNTRY
Elon Musk took to social media platform X, which he owns, with renewed vigor, calling for a new political party, reports The Hill.
Musk used his platform to criticize President Donald Trump's, "One Big Beautiful Bill," that currently awaits Senate approval.
"It
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RENT, ADAMS, APPROVES, ISSUE
The board took preliminary votes this spring to back increases of between 1.75 and 4.75 percent on one-year leases, and between 3.75 and 7.75 percent for two-year leases. Any increases would apply to leases beginning in or after October. Mr. Adams had said
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SANCTUARY, SUES, TRUMP, ANGELES
The Trump administration sued Los Angeles, its mayor and other top city officials Monday, claiming its sanctuary policy toward illegal migrants discriminates against federal law enforcement.
The suit names embattled Mayor Karen Bass and the entire LA city
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