Emerging Topics in U.S. News
FRIDAY, JULY 18th 2025
Updated 23:59 ET
61 articles
TRUMP, EPSTEIN, JURY, GRAND
As the questions surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s life and death—questions that Donald Trump once helped whip up—tornadoed into their bajillionth news cycle, the president’s team began to privately debate ways to calm the furor: appoint a special counsel to investigate.
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COLBERT, CBS, LATE, SHOW
CBS brass say they pulled the plug on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” because of its punishing losses — pegged between $40 million and $50 million a year — and claim politics had nothing to do with it, The Post has learned.
The 61-year-old host got canned
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COLDPLAY, CEO, ASTRONOMER, HR
Astronomer’s Board of Directors has launched a formal investigation into its executives after the company’s CEO Andy Byron and HR chief Kristin Cabot went viral on social media for trying to hide from Coldplay’s “kiss cam” during the rock band’s concert on
Continued at Breitbart...
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MAMDANI, ZOHRAN, SOCIALIST, NYC
Welcome to the Fox News Politics newsletter, with the latest updates on the Trump administration, Capitol Hill and more Fox News politics content. Here's what's happening…
- Trump directs AG Bondi to work on unsealing grand jury transcripts in Epstein case:
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FACILITY, SHERIFF, EXPLOSION, TRAINING
3 sheriff’s deputies killed in apparent blast at law enforcement training facility in Los Angeles
An incident was reported at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Special Enforcement Bureau compound in East Los Angeles, July 18, 2025.
An incident
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VENEZUELA, EL, SALVADOR, AMERICANS
The White House announced on Friday that ten Americans have been freed from Venezuelan prisons, and the photograph of the newly freed men says it all.
In a picture posted on X by the Official account of the U.S. External Office for Venezuela, the ten hold
Continued at Red State...
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BIDEN, AIDE, FIFTH, PLEADS
Friday on ABC’s “The View,” Alyssa Farah Griffin told her co-hosts that former first lady Jill Biden aide Anthony Bernal pleading the Fifth Amendment to Congress made it seem like he was hiding something.
Co-host Joy Behar said, “House Republicans are still
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OBAMA, GABBARD, ADMIN, RUSSIA
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Friday issued the latest in a series of reports from the Trump administration attempting to undermine the eight-year-old assessment that Russia favored the election of Donald J. Trump in 2016.
Tulsi Gabbard,
Continued at New York Times...
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FUNDING, NPR, PBS, HOUSE
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Welcome to The Logoff: The House passed a bill clawing back billions in federal
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PUBLIC, MEDIA, FUNDING, BURNS
Funding cuts will hit rural areas hard. One station manager explains how NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Tom Michael, general manager of Boise State Public Radio, about what the cuts to federal public media funding mean for his station.
Media Funding cuts
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BOLSONARO, TRIAL, JAIR, FORMER
Brazilian police have reportedly searched the home and political headquarters of former President Jair Bolsonaro. On Friday, police confirmed they carried out "two search and seizure warrants," but did not specify whether Bolsonaro was the target, but local
Continued at Fox News...
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ICE, KIDNAPPING, ILLEGAL, MOM
Federal authorities in California arrested an illegal alien from Mexico after she allegedly faked a kidnapping by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents or “bounty hunters” working for ICE. Prosecutors allege the woman carried out the scam to raise money
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MICROSOFT, DEFENSE, ENGINEERS, CHINESE
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon was "looking into" a cloud computing program run by Microsoft utilizing foreign workers from China, which was criticized this week for potentially lacking adequate safeguards, which could provide the CCP easy
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WALLER, FED, RATE, TRUMP
Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller on Wednesday called for an immediate interest-rate cut, arguing that inflation is cooling and the labor market is weaker than it appears—bolstering the Trump administration’s case that the economy needs looser monetary
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FOX, NEWS, TRUMP, KIDNAPPING
Fox News host Jesse Watters acknowledged Thursday that his program made a mistake in reporting on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s phone conversation with President Trump during last month’s immigration raids in Los Angeles.
Newsom filed a $787-million defamation lawsuit
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FLIGHT, DOOR, PASSENGER, OPEN
A Delta Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Iowa after a passenger tried to open an emergency exit door mid-air — and got into a fight with a flight attendant.
Delta Connection flight 3612, operated by SkyWest Airlines, was about a third
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TRUMP, SHOW, REACT, ALLEGED
What is Trump's vein condition and how serious is it?
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EPA
On Thursday, the White House announced that US President Donald Trump has a medical condition in his veins called chronic venous insufficiency.
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DE, GUARD, ANTI, SECURITY
The NFL might want to send its scouts over to Europe, because a security guard working the Tour de France bicycle race Wednesday showed that he would make an excellent middle linebacker when he absolutely flattened a protester who tried to disrupt the famed
Continued at Red State...
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GAME, CAITLIN, STAR, CLARK
Ticket prices for the WNBA All-Star Game steeply dropped after it was announced Caitlin Clark would miss the game with a groin injury.
Clark was slated to be an All-Star team captain in just her second season and would lead Team Clark on her home floor at
Continued at Fox News...
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EPA, OFFICE, RESEARCH, WORKFORCE
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has launched a bold reorganization of the agency. Backed by a recent Supreme Court ruling that cleared legal barriers, the Trump administration is accelerating efforts to downsize the federal workforce and restore the EPA’s core
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MRI, WEARING, METAL, MACHINE
A 61-year-old man who was sucked into an MRI machine on Long Island while wearing a metal neck chain has died from his injuries, authorities revealed Friday.
The freak accident happened Wednesday at Nassau County Open MRI in Westbury when the man was pulled
Continued at New York Post...
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VANCOUVER, MOTIVE, PILOT, IDEOLOGICAL
A Canadian man has been charged with hijacking a small plane after he caused a security scare at Vancouver’s airport this week
VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- A Canadian man has been charged with hijacking a small plane after he caused a security scare at Vancouver’s
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LAW, CATHOLIC, RELIGIOUS, BISHOPS
Roman Catholic figures and the U.S. Justice Department are fighting to block enforcement of a law passed by the state legislature and signed by Democratic Gov. Bob Ferguson (D) that would add clergy members to the list of people required to report child abuse
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SOCIALIST, KILLING, MAMDANI, JOB
Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., slammed New York City democratic socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani Thursday, saying he does not belong in the Democratic Party.
Since he won the Democratic primary, Mamdani has faced blistering criticism from both Republicans
Continued at Fox News...