Emerging Topics in U.S. News
FRIDAY, JULY 11th 2025
Updated 23:59 ET
21 articles
TRUMP, TEXAS, FLOOD, PRESIDENT
President Trump toured flooding damage in Texas Friday — expressing grief over the “young angels” who died at a Christian summer camp after first lady Melania Trump was presented with a silver charm bracelet to commemorate the children swept down the Guadalupe
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CALIFORNIA, FARM, ICE, RAID
Protesters and federal agents clash during raid at Southern California farm
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A confrontation erupted Thursday between protesters and federal officials carrying out a raid on a Southern California farm, with authorities
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HOUSE, BIDEN, WHITE, AIDE
Joe Biden’s days on the ballot are behind him, but his record still haunts those saddled with it, especially in Michigan, where Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) is running for Senate – and away from her close Biden ties.
A poll first reported by Politico from the
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TRUMP, CANADA, 35, TARIFFS
You might have forgotten about the trade war, but the trade war has not forgotten about you.
This week, Donald Trump reignited the global financial conflict he started in January, sending letters threatening new tariff rates to nearly two dozen countries.
Continued at The Atlantic...
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UKRAINE, TRUMP, RUSSIA, STOP
President Donald Trump on Thursday night revealed a new NATO deal reached during last month's summit that would allow U.S. arms to flow to Ukraine through allied nations — an agreement reached at last month's summit.
"We’re sending weapons to NATO, and NATO
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ICE, AGENTS, TRUMP, VIOLENT
The anti-ICE crew is still camped out across the street from the ICE facility in Portland.
They've been there for more than a month, periodically battling federal agents at the facility.
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But they're also finding out that residents are not happy
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STATE, DEPARTMENT, TRUMP, CUTS
More than 1,000 people laid off at US State Department
10 minutes ago Share Save Ana Faguy BBC News, Washington DC Share Save
Watch: Sacked state department workers applauded as they leave federal building
More than 1,000 employees of the US State Department
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EPSTEIN, BONGINO, DAN, BONDI
The bitter blame game over the handling of the investigation into the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein erupted in public on Friday between Attorney General Pam Bondi and the senior leadership of the F.B.I., particularly the bureau’s deputy director, Dan
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JUDGE, IMMIGRATION, TRUMP, ADMINISTRATION
Protestors demonstrate against ongoing ICE raids while blocking the Sixth Street Bridge between Boyle Heights and downtown L.A. on July 1, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to halt indiscriminate immigration
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CAMP, MYSTIC, TEXAS, FLOODS
The parents of 8-year-old Kellyanne Elizabeth Lytal confirmed to Fox News Digital Friday that Texas Rangers identified her as one of the Camp Mystic girls killed in the Texas Hill Country floods.
The Lytal family described Kellyanne, who went missing on
Continued at Fox News...
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PRESIDENTS, DAVID, GERGEN, 83
David Gergen, who worked for four presidents, including Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, before becoming an academic and political TV pundit, has died. He was 83.
Gergen died in a retirement home in Massachusetts on July 10, his
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WIMBLEDON, FINAL, YEARS, AMANDA
On Saturday, Amanda Anisimova, a 23-year-old American, will face Iga Swiatek, a five-time Grand Slam champion, in the women’s singles final at Wimbledon.
For Ms. Anisimova, a one-time prodigy who was born in New Jersey but raised on the sun-splashed tennis
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TRUMP, BUTLER, YEAR, MOTIVE
The widow of Trump rally shooting victim Corey Comperatore said the president called her after watching her interview on Fox News and vowed that he would always be there for her.
Helen Comperatore also told Fox News Correspondent Alexis McAdams that Secret
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RUBIO, CHINESE, TRUMP, MALAYSIA
Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Friday, their first meeting in person since Rubio took office.
“Look, we’re two big, powerful countries, and there are always going to be issues that we
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AIR, INDIA, CRASH, REPORT
Flight AI171 was operating from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick, the airline said.
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi visiting the site after Air India flight 171 crashed in a residential area near the airport in Ahmedabad, June 13, 2025.
India's Prime Minister
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DEAL, UNEXPECTED, BRYAN, FINDS
The mother of University of Idaho victim Xana Kernodle has broken her silence about a plea deal for the killer Bryan Kohberger, who pleaded guilty last week to four counts of first-degree murder for killing the 20-year-old, her boyfriend and two other friends
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DRUG, EL, CHAPO, SON
A son of notorious Mexican drug kingpin “El Chapo” pleaded guilty Friday to U.S. drug trafficking charges, becoming the first of the drug lord’s sons to enter a plea deal.
Prosecutors allege Ovidio Guzman Lopez and his brother, Joaquin Guzman Lopez, ran a
Continued at New York Post...
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MAYOR, BASS, CASH, PAYMENTS
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass signed an executive order Friday to bolster protocols and support immigrant neighborhoods, including offering cash assistance, in response to raids by the Trump administration targeting those living in the United States illegally.
The
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TEXAS, PAXTON, DIVORCE, SENATE
President Trump recently met with Senate GOP leaders, including Sen. John Thune and officials from the Senate Leadership Fund, to discuss key 2026 races, including the high-stakes Texas showdown between Sen. John Cornyn and Attorney General Ken Paxton. According
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JACKSON, JUSTICE, STATE, KETANJI
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said that the current “state of our democracy” here in the United States is what most keeps her up at night.
The justice appointed by former President Joe Biden issued her thoughts about American democracy when speaking
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11, COURT, PLEA, DEAL
US court rejects plea deal for '9/11 mastermind' Khalil Sheikh Mohammed
Khalid Sheikh Muhammad is accused of organising and directing the 9/11 attacks on the United States
Mohammed is accused of organising and directing the 11 September 2001 attacks on the
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PLUNGES, TRAILER, DELAWARE, TRACTOR
A tractor-trailer cab plunged off the Delaware Memorial Bridge early Friday, triggering a massive underwater search for the missing driver.
The cab, which did not have a trailer attached, veered across three lanes of the I-295 traffic around 3:40 a.m. then
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MSNBC, PSAKI, LOVE, BAD
It has been a mixed bag for MSNBC’s Jen Psaki, two months into her new gig.
Psaki, the press secretary for former President Joe Biden — who has insisted she never witnessed signs of decline while she worked for him — saw an increased role as part of MSNBC’s
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EPSTEIN, LOG, SOCIAL, POLITICAL
A lot of people online have been very, very upset over the Trump Department of Justice’s twofold conclusion , announced last Sunday, that Jeffrey Epstein’s death in jail in 2019 was a suicide and that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had no “incriminating
Continued at LA Times...