Emerging Topics in U.S. News
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17th 2025
Updated 10:12 ET
62 articles
REINER, NICK, ROB, MURDER
At a Tuesday afternoon press conference, Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman and Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell gave an update on the murders of legendary Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife, photographer Michele Singer Reiner.
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TRUMP, WILES, SUSIE, VANITY
Trump's BBC lawsuit: A botched report, BritBox, and porn
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Not content with an apology and the resignation of two top BBC executives, President Trump filed a $10 billion defamation lawsuit Monday against the BBC in his
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SHOOTING, BROWN, UNIVERSITY, BONDI
Brown University has canceled its upcoming basketball games following a deadly shooting that left two students dead, and nine others injured, as authorities continue to search for a suspect who remains at large.
The university’s athletics department released
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TRUMP, OIL, TANKERS, BLOCKADE
Last week, the U.S. seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.
President Donald Trump speaks during a Mexican Border Defense Medal presentation in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, December 15, 2025.
President Donald Trump
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SUBSIDIES, SPEAKER, HOUSE, VOTE
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Tuesday said that the House will not vote on extending expiring enhanced Obamacare subsidies.
Johnson spoke after a closed-door Republican caucus meeting, saying that Republican leadership could not strike a deal with moderate
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BOAT, DRUG, STRIKE, MILITARY
WASHINGTON — U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday there are no plans to release the full unedited video of September 2 strikes on a suspected drug trafficking boat in the Caribbean that fueled concerns about the Trump administration’s plans for
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JOBS, NOVEMBER, ADDED, LABOR
The mainstream media was predictably quick to denounce the labor market as weak according to November’s jobs report, but the talking heads are simply wrong. That alleged weakness is almost entirely confined to government bureaucrats and foreign workers, while
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BROS, WARNER, PARAMOUNT, BID
Warner Bros. Discovery’s board lashed out at Paramount, saying its deal financing seemed shaky.
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Warner Bros. Discovery has sharply rejected Paramount’s hostile offer, alleging
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MIT, PROFESSOR, SHOT, HOME
MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies
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A Massachusetts university professor who was shot at his home has died, campus officials say. Nuno F Gomes Loureiro, 47, a nuclear science and
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OMAR, ICE, SON, RECORD
The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) rejected a viral claim from Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., that her son was pressed for proof of U.S. citizenship by agency personnel after stopping at a Minnesota Target over the weekend.
Omar had told CBS’
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FRAUD, MINNESOTA, WALZ, INVESTIGATE
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is conducting a review of Minnesota’s Unemployment Insurance (UI) program in the wake of the recently-discovered fraud ring targeting the state’s welfare system, with Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer saying she is “appalled”
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FOX, NEWS, LAWSUIT, DIGITAL
FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., is being sued by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) for tens of billions of dollars in damages for a lawsuit he filed against the country during his time as Missouri’s attorney general.
Schmitt is being sued by the
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GUN, ATTACK, PUSHES, UNIVERSITY
Golf legend Phil Mickelson has weighed in on the recent shooting at Bondi Beach, Australia, on the first day of Ha, which killed two students and left more injured.
Mickelson, in a post on X, responded to a video of Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese
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DEATH, MATTHEW, DOCTOR, PERRY
Matthew Perry of the television show 'The Kennedys - After Camelot' speaks onstage during the REELZChannel portion of the 2017 Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour, Jan. 13, 2017, in Pasadena, Calif.
Matthew Perry of the television show 'The Kennedys
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TRUMP, BALLROOM, HOUSE, WHITE
A federal judge on Tuesday said he was "inclined to deny" a bid to force the Trump administration to halt construction of the White House ballroom but warned officials not to undertake any irreversible work before a January hearing that could still stop the
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TRUMP, EXPANDS, COUNTRIES, BAN
President Donald Trump on Tuesday expanded a travel ban by adding five more countries and imposing limits on others.
The move came as the Trump administration continues to tighten U.S. entry requirements and immigration standards.
"The restrictions and
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ATTACK, HANUKKAH, DEADLY, AUSTRALIA
The deadly terror attack at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, left at least 15 dead, including a 10-year-old girl, a Holocaust survivor and an elderly couple.
Australian authorities identified the assailants as a father-son duo
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HOUSE, GOP, HEALTH, CARE
House Republican leaders have assembled a health care bill with familiar provisions as a counter to the Democrats’ push to extend premium subsidies for Affordable Care Act (ACA) insurance enrollment. The GOP approach signals caution to avoid the political risks
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OWENS, CANDACE, KIRK, ERIKA
Erika Kirk announced Monday that she had a productive conversation with Candace Owens, signaling a possible thaw in their rift following weeks of public tension in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
Kirk shared the brief update in a statement on X and
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CAUSE, MAR, PROBABLE, FBI
WASHINGTON — The FBI did not believe agents had probable cause to execute a search warrant at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in August 2022, according to internal records released Tuesday by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).
The FBI’s Washington
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DEATH, FLORIDA, ANNA, KEPNER
As federal investigators approach six weeks with no public updates in the homicide investigation of 18-year-old cheerleader Anna Kepner, a new round of subpoenas in Florida family court may offer a glimpse into the case.
The subpoenas, filed by attorneys
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SCANDAL, MICHIGAN, SHERRONE, MOORE
Amid the fallout from the cheating scandal and the subsequent arrest of former Michigan head coach Sherrone Moore, the Wolverine players he left behind are feeling “betrayed.”
Moore was arraigned Friday afternoon and charged with home invasion in the third
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ICE, MIDTERM, ELECTIONS, LESLIE
Former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Leslie Jones on Monday called for Democrats to arrest Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers if they take back Congress after the midterm elections.
“I don’t know. It just feels like the upside down world,” Jones
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ELECTRIC, FORD, LIGHTNING, 13B
Ford said Monday it expected to take about $19.5 billion in charges as it retreats from the electric vehicle business, a massive hit as the automaker pivots to traditional gas vehicles along with hybrid and plug-in hybrid models in place of EVs.
The Wall Street
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