Emerging Topics in U.S. News
MONDAY, DECEMBER 1st 2025
Updated 23:59 ET
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TRUMP, HOUSE, WHITE, RESULTS
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The Trump administration is facing sharp scrutiny this week over its approach to Venezuela after turning its focus to the beleaguered nation, weighing U.S. military strikes
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TRUMP, COURT, HABBA, ALINA
The White House is preparing to hold a meeting about its strategy regarding Venezuela — as it also is gearing up for Christmas and the administration's ninth Cabinet meeting this week.
The White House confirmed CNN's reporting that Trump will hold a meeting
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BOAT, STRIKE, DRUG, HEGSETH
WH says Adm. Bradley gave order on second strike on drug boat, not Hegseth
WH says Adm. Bradley gave order on second strike on drug boat, not Hegseth
When asked about the report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the military to kill all passengers
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MANGIONE, LUIGI, COURT, EVIDENCE
Jeffrey Epstein was name-dropped at Luigi Mangione’s hearing Monday when a jail guard testified that the accused killer was given so much security because officials didn’t want another suicide on their hands.
“I was told that SCI Huntington didn’t want an
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WALZ, TIM, FRAUD, GOV
Federal prosecutors have filed charges in Minnesota against multiple individuals, many of Somali descent, for defrauding the government out of hundreds of millions of dollars from the state's incredibly generous social programs. As RedState’s Jennifer Oliver
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TREE, CHRISTMAS, LIGHTING, PORTLAND
Christmas got political in Portland, Oregon, on Friday night during the city’s 41st-annual holiday celebration.
Leaders and speakers at the event in Pioneer Courthouse Square avoided using the word “Christmas” and even referred to the massive Christmas tree
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NEW, YORK, ILLEGAL, 2025
Far-left New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani hasn’t even taken office yet, but the state has already been hard at work coddling illegal aliens and defying the Trump administration’s efforts to get criminal non-citizens off the streets. In fact, in this
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UKRAINE, PUTIN, WITKOFF, FLORIDA
Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff held a second round of talks — without Secretary of State Marco Rubio — with a top Ukrainian negotiator who previously led Witkoff to believe Kyiv was willing to accept a peace proposal highly favorable to Russia.
Witkoff,
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COACH, OFFER, MISSING, REWARD
The wife of a missing Virginia football coach has deleted all her social media in the wake of the public allegations of child pornography lodged against the coach.
Leslie Caudill Turner, Turner’s wife of 25 years, had initially defended her husband on social
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DEAL, ZERO, AGREE, PHARMACEUTICALS
US and UK set to agree zero tariffs deal on pharmaceuticals
Pharmaceuticals are one of the UK's biggest exports to the US, which is also the biggest market by far for big UK drugmakers including GSK and AstraZeneca.
The deal comes after several pharmaceutical
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PRICES, LOWEST, YEARS, FOUR
Thanksgiving weekend saw the lowest gasoline prices in more than four years AAA says the average price of gasoline nationwide has dropped to just over $3 per gallon.
National Thanksgiving weekend saw the lowest gasoline prices in more than four years $3 gasoline
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OFFICES, BOMB, SCHUMER, THREATS
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), the senior senator from New York and current Senate minority leader who certainly knows a thing or two about dangerous rhetoric and political threats, released a statement Monday afternoon alleging that "multiple bomb threats"
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KIFFIN, LSU, LANE, MISS
Lane Kiffin is the next head coach of the LSU Tigers, but he won’t be finishing his 2025 season with the Ole Miss Rebels despite helping lead them to a likely College Football Playoff spot.
But as part of his new deal with the Tigers, it appears Kiffin will
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EL, DRUG, SON, CHAPO
CHICAGO — A son of notorious Mexican drug kingpin “El Chapo” pleaded guilty Monday to US drug trafficking charges, months after his brother entered a plea deal.
Known locally in Mexico as the “Chapitos,” or “little Chapos,” Joaquin Guzman Lopez and his brother,
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WORKERS, STARBUCKS, PAY, NYC
They’re venti mad.
Socialist superstars Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday joined striking Starbucks workers in Brooklyn — hours after outgoing Hizzoner Eric Adams unveiled a $39 million settlement for baristas’ lost wages.
Speaking
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GUARD, SHOOTING, NATIONAL, WEEKS
National Guard shooting suspect spent weeks isolated in bedroom, case worker's email says
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The man accused of shooting two National Guard members in Washington DC last week spent weeks at a time alone
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POPE, MIDDLE, EAST, LEO
Pope Leo visits a wounded Lebanon in his first trip to the Middle East
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BEIRUT — Pope Leo XIV is in Lebanon on his first visit to the Middle East since he was chosen as leader of the world's Catholics in May. He arrives
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BAN, NOEM, TRAVEL, FULL
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem proposed a “full travel ban” Monday on unnamed countries “flooding” the US with dangerous migrants, after a meeting with President Trump.
“I just met with the President,” Noem wrote on X. “I am recommending a full travel
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SHOOTING, SCHOOL, COPS, ARRESTED
A boneheaded wannabe influencer in Florida was arrested for allegedly threatening to shoot up a school in a twisted bid to “provoke reactions online,” authorities said.
Ethan Ladner, 20, of Santa Rosa Beach, was charged with making electronic threats of a
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DOT, TRUCKING, CRACKDOWN, LOSE
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy declared on Monday that the "days of a 'Wild Wild West' trucking industry are over" amid the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal alien drivers.
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In a post on X, Duffy responded to an Associated Press
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AIDS, TRUMP, HEALTH, GLOBAL
World AIDS Day is a time to remember all those who have passed away from the HIV virus, and a time to recognize and reaffirm our nation’s historic and heroic lifesaving efforts to end the preventable and treatable disease.
Nearly a quarter-century ago, with
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WIFE, GUNNED, HOME, DOCTOR
A doctor and his wife were both shot to death outside their California home on Sunday, according to authorities.
The victims, Eric and Vicki Cordes, were found injured in the driveway of their Simi Valley residence, according to FOX 11 Los Angeles. They
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MILLIE, BOBBY, BROWN, BON
Actress Millie Bobby Brown, most famous for playing Eleven on Stranger Things, has traded out Hollywood for life on a Georgia farm.
Brown revealed to British Vogue for the magazine’s December issue that filming the hit Netflix series in Atlanta helped her
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TRUMP, PACKAGES, MELANIA, CARE
First lady Melania Trump teamed up with second lady Usha Vance to greet military families at Joint Base Andrews and create holiday care packages for service members to mark the start of the Christmas season.
“We speak regularly of the bravery of our servicemembers,
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