Emerging Topics in U.S. News
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20th 2025
Updated 23:59 ET
28 articles
VANCE, TRUMP, CHENEY, FUNERAL
WASHINGTON, DC — Vice President JD Vance called out Republicans in Congress who “want to go back to the Republican Party of 20 years ago,” arguing that the old GOP “couldn’t successfully govern the country” at Breitbart News’s Thursday morning policy event.
Speaking
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EPSTEIN, TRUMP, FILES, CROCKETT
The bill sets the Department of Justice a 30-day timeline to release the files.
Sky Roberts, brother of Virginia Giuffre, who was abused by Jeffrey Epstein, and his wife Amanda Roberts hold up a photo of Giuffre during a news conference on the Epstein Files
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MAMDANI, TRUMP, ZOHRAN, MEETING
When President Donald Trump sits down with Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, he needs to remind him that American values — and laws — still hold in Gotham.
Protesting in front of a synagogues — or any house of prayer — and heckling and blocking entry is un-American
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TRUMP, ORDERS, ILLEGAL, REFUSE
President Trump on Thursday said he believed Democratic lawmakers who publicly urged active service members to “refuse illegal orders” amounted to seditious behavior, which he said should be punishable by death.
“It’s called SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR AT THE HIGHEST
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TRUMP, WHITE, HOUSE, FREED
President Donald Trump on Thursday met with freed Israeli hostages, who were kidnapped and held by Hamas, and their loved ones at the White House.
Trump met with 17 people who were held captive by Hamas and were released a month ago and their loved ones.
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STEALING, MCCORMICK, FUNDS, CHERFILUS
U.S. Rep. Cherfilus-McCormick indicted on charges of stealing $5M in disaster funds
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MIAMI — U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida has been indicted on charges accusing her of stealing $5 million in federal disaster
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CRUISE, SHIP, ANNA, KEPNER
As the FBI investigates the mysterious death of an 18-year-old Florida cheerleader aboard a Carnival cruise ship, her stepmother’s courtroom fight with an ex is exposing new details — and may force her to testify against her son.
Friday marks two weeks since
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IMMIGRATION, CHICAGO, ICE, CRACKDOWN
Federal prosecutors moved to dismiss charges on Thursday against two motorists who were accused of using their cars to “assault, impede and interfere with the work of federal agents” during an immigration enforcement operation in the Chicago area.
The motion
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FOX, NEWS, MELUGIN, POLL
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Bill Melugin, an Orange County native who made his name at Fox News covering the U.S. southern border, is relocating to Washington, D.C. where he will cover Congress for
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PLANE, UPS, CRASH, ENGINE
New images show engine flying off before UPS cargo plane crash
The plane never got more than 30ft (9.1m) above ground, the report said, narrowly clearing the runway before parts of it hit the roof of a nearby UPS warehouse.
The plane was departing Louisville,
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TRUMP, GUARD, NATIONAL, JUDGE
I know this is going to come as a shock, but a federal judge in D.C. has ruled that President Trump's deployment of the National Guard in the District is illegal and ordered a halt to the Guard's deployment there.
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Judge Jia Cobb, on Thursday,
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UKRAINE, PLAN, PEACE, RUSSIA
The United States and Russia have drawn up a plan to end the bitter fighting in Ukraine, which would require major concessions from Kyiv.
Exactly what all the concessions that would be made of Ukraine were not clear, but some include demands Moscow has repeatedly
Continued at Fox News...
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TRUMP, SAUDI, PRINCE, CROWN
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) asked him to work on a peace deal between the factions in Sudan’s long and brutal civil war, and Trump has already begun working on a deal.
“Working with the
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SYNAGOGUE, NYC, MOB, INTIFADA
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists besieged Manhattan’s prestigious Park East Synagogue on Wednesday night, chanting, “Globalize the intifada,” “Death to the IDF,” and “take another settler out,” in what critics warned is “just the beginning” of a radicalized
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COMEY, EPSTEIN, CASE, DOJ
The email came from a fundraising firm that works for progressive candidates.
Rep. James Comer speaks at a press conference at the US Capitol on October 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. | House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries talks to reporters during a news conference
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AUTISM, VACCINES, LINK, WEBSITE
The updated text also claimed that the health authorities have “ignored” studies supporting a link and said that the Department of Health and Human Services was conducting a “comprehensive assessment” of the causes of autism.
Studies over the past three decades
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SPORTS, WOMEN, RESPONDS, DEMS
EXCLUSIVE: After 130 congressional Democrats affirmed their support for the inclusion of biological male trans athletes in women's sports, the legal team helping to protect women's sports in an upcoming Supreme Court case responded.
A coalition that includes
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MISS, UNIVERSE, NEWSLETTER, COMPETITION
Nadeen Ayoub, the first-ever “Miss Palestine” contestant, is among the final 30 contestants vying for the Miss Universe title — surviving the latest round of the competition hours after The Post exposed her secret marriage to a convicted terrorist’s son.
Ayoub
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ATTACK, AIDE, POLITICAL, FORMER
A former aide to Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., was charged with faking a political attack that prosecutors say included lacerations and writing on her body.
Natalie Greene, 26, of Ocean City, made an initial court appearance Wednesday on one count of conspiracy
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MICHELLE, OBAMA, ROLE, WOMAN
No, this isn't a satirical Babylon Bee headline: "'Black Women Can't Swim Because of Societal Expectations': Michelle Obama's Viral Claim Sparks Controversy."
The former first lady, in a live podcast, recently said, "Let me explain something to white people.
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FIRE, CLIMATE, BRAZIL, CONFERENCE
U.N. climate talks interrupted by fire as countries move forward without U.S. For the first time in history, the U.S. isn't at the annual world climate conference called COP30. But some countries say they're OK with that. Countries including China and Brazil
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JOBS, SEPTEMBER, 000, REPORT
The U.S. economy added 119,000 jobs in September, the Department of Labor said Thursday.
Economists had forecast payrolls to expand by 50,000. The jobs report for September was released Thursday after being delayed several weeks by the government shutdown.
The
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COURT, RELEASE, DETAINEES, CHICAGO
A federal appeals court temporarily blocked a judge’s order on Thursday that had called for the release of hundreds of people arrested by immigration agents in the Chicago area.
The administrative stay issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit,
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MORENO, SEN, BERNIE, TRUMP
Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) said during a Breitbart News policy event the experts have been “catastrophically wrong” on President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
At the event Breitbart News Editor in chief Alex Marlow interviewed the Buckeye State conservative and noted
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