Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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TRUMP, VENEZUELA, OIL, PRESIDENT
(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on December 17, 2025, shows Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum speaking during her daily press conference at Palacio Nacional in Mexico City on November 28, 2025, and US President Donald Trump looking on during
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TRUMP, IRAN, WHITE, HOUSE
President Donald Trump said Thursday the United States will expand operations against drug cartels while touting his takedown of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro during an interview on "Hannity."
"We've knocked out 97 percent of the drugs coming in by
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ICE, AGENT, SHOOTING, PORTLAND
State officials say they'll do their own probes of shootings by federal officers We get an overview of the two newsworthy shootings that happened involving an ICE agent in Minneapolis and a border patrol officer Portland this week.
National State officials
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MARTIGNY, Switzerland (AP) – Switzerland held a national day of mourning on Friday for the 40 people who died in an Alpine bar fire during a New Year´s Eve celebration, as prosecutors requested one of the managers to be placed in pre-trial detention.
Valais
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SHOT, DE, TREN, PORTLAND
The Department of Homeland Security has released the mugshots and names of the Portland illegal aliens who were shot by Border Patrol on Thursday afternoon, setting off a chain-reaction of paid protests, recriminations, and demands by Democrat elected officials
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TRUMP, STATES, FUNDS, ADMIN
Rob Bonta, shown outside the U.S. Capitol in November, says the the U.S. government has provided no evidence to back up claims of widespread fraud and misuse of taxpayer dollars in California.
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TRUMP, ADMINISTRATION, SHOOTING, ICE
Influencer, White House welfare fraud claims are distorted, but the system has risks
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The Trump administration has escalated its campaign against alleged benefits fraud, freezing social services funding for five Democratic-led
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ICE, LAW, ENFORCEMENT, SHERIFF
Instead of a quiet day of gratitude, Law Enforcement Appreciation Day came Friday amid escalating conflict over the actions of federal authorities, especially those involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol agents, and harsh
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TRUMP, GREENLAND, ACQUIRE, RUSSIA
Trump says US needs to 'own' Greenland to prevent Russia and China from taking it
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Reuters Greenland and Denmark have rejected Trump's offer to buy the semi-autonomous territory
President Donald Trump says
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DECEMBER, HIRING, SLOWS, WEAKEST
The Fed has cut interest rates in an effort to revive an ailing labor market.
People work in a restaurant in Manhattan, on Dec. 16, 2025, in New York.
People work in a restaurant in Manhattan, on Dec. 16, 2025, in New York.
People work in a restaurant in
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SEIZE, OIL, TANKER, CARIBBEAN
U.S. forces boarded and seized a “ghost tanker” in the waters of the Caribbean on Friday as part of the Trump administration’s continuing effort to target sanctioned oil ships traveling to and from Venezuela.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary
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NEWSOM, BUDGET, CALIFORNIA, STRONG
California Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a record-high $350 billion state budget Friday that makes “historic” investments in areas like education — but kicks the can on paying down federal debt, foisting costs onto struggling employers.
Newsom’s budget incorporates
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NEWS, ASSASSINATED, VANCE, AMERICAN
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…
-Hawley breaks with Trump on Venezuela as policy rift continues
-Bessent blames Walz
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NEW, RUSSIA, MISSILE, UKRAINE
Russia's Defense Ministry said it used a new Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile Friday in a deadly strike on Ukraine.
Four people were killed and at least 22 were injured, according to Ukrainian authorities.
Russia said the attack was retaliation
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OHIO, DENTIST, MURDERS, POLICE
Newly released body camera video shows a Columbus police officer went to the wrong address during an initial welfare check before an Ohio dentist and his wife were found shot to death inside their home.
Columbus Police Chief Elaine Bryant confirmed Thursday
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MOVIE, REMAINS, HUMAN, HORROR
A Pennsylvania man is facing hundreds of charges after "over 100 full or partial sets of human and skeletal remains" were allegedly found in his home and a storage unit in a scene a district attorney described as a "horror movie come to life."
Jonathan Gerlach,
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SHARK, WOMAN, VIRGIN, ISLANDS
A Minnesota woman died on Thursday after a shark chomped her arm off while she was visiting the U.S. Virgin Islands .
Arlene Lillis, 56, of Minnesota, was pronounced dead following the attack, according to a news release from the U.S. Virgin Islands Police
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IRANIAN, TRUMP, REGIME, LEADER
Fox News senior strategic analyst Jack Keane, a retired general, gave a grave assessment of the state of the Iranian regime amid its crackdown on anti-government protests and hinted at what could come next Friday on "Special Report."
"If I was in the Iranian
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LEADER, POLL, IPSOS, MORAL
NPR/Ipsos poll shows Americans doubt U.S. role as global moral leader A new NPR/Ipsos poll released Friday finds Americans still want the U.S. to be a moral leader in the world — but far fewer think it actually is.
National NPR/Ipsos poll shows Americans doubt
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VENEZUELA, LEADER, DOZENS, ARREST
Cuban External Affairs Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla attended a ceremony in Caracas, Venezuela, on Thursday to honor the 32 Cuban Communist Party agents killed during the arrest of deposed dictator Nicolás Maduro last week.
Rodríguez’s appearance, alongside
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Facing a global backlash for Grok AI generating deepfake sexualized images of women and children, Elon Musk’s X platform has restricted access to Grok’s image editing capabilities to paying subscribers only.
BBC News reports that the UK government, which has
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STUDENTS, JEWISH, LAWSUIT, PLEDGED
Jewish students in New York City expressed concerns over Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s abolition of an executive order that tied the city’s definition of antisemitism to the standard set by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), which labeled antisemitism
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