Emerging Topics in U.S. News
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2nd 2025
Updated 23:59 ET
21 articles
TRUMP, PARDON, PRESIDENT, VENEZUELA
With President Donald Trump mulling military action, lawmakers in the House of Representatives introduced a war powers resolution to block strikes on Venezuela.
Sponsored by Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., the ranking member of the powerful House Rules Committee,
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STRIKE, HEGSETH, BOAT, SURVIVORS
Senate Republicans are divided on their view of the deadly Sept. 2 strikes in the Caribbean as congressional inquiries into the matter mount, with some arguing that subduing suspected drug boats is the right move while others question the legality of the
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WHITE, HOUSE, PUTIN, UKRAINE
White House justifies strikes on boat survivors, but it's unclear where buck stops
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The Trump administration is standing by its controversial campaign of targeting and killing the crews of small boats that are allegedly
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ELECTION, SPECIAL, VAN, EPPS
Republican Matt Van Epps narrowly defeated Democrat Aftyn Behn in Tuesday’s hotly contested special election for Tennessee’s 7th District House seat.
Behn had raised Democrats’ hopes for an upset in the conservative stronghold after late polling showed the
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MINNESOTA, SOMALI, WALZ, FRAUD
Nearly 500 employees in Minnesota’s state government say Democrat Governor Tim Walz ignored their constant warnings about massive fraud by Somalis of the state’s aid programs.
The staffers in the state’s Department of Health Services also say that Walz retaliated
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ACCOUNTS, TRUMP, 25, BILLION
Computer and tech mogul Michael Dell and his wife, Susan, have jump-started the president’s “Trump accounts” by donating a whopping $6.25 billion, enough for $250 for 25 million children.
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The Trump accounts, part of the Invest America initiative,
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NUZZI, OLIVIA, RFK, BOOK
Former New York Magazine journalist Olivia Nuzzi's new book "American Canto" is being panned by reviewers as a disappointment and even "aggressively awful."
Nuzzi has received extensive attention ahead of the release of the book over her alleged romantic
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NEW, ICE, YORK, TRUMP
The Department of Homeland Security is calling on New York Attorney General Letita James to take action against New York City over its handling of illegal immigrants.
"New York City’s failure to honor ICE detainers has resulted in the release of 6,947 criminal
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NOEM, TRAVEL, BAN, COUNTRIES
US Homeland Security secretary calls for more travel bans
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has said she will recommend a travel ban on several countries which she claims are "flooding" the US
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ATTORNEY, LIFE, JERSEY, NEW
WASHINGTON — Conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas got a lawyer for the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office to admit Tuesday it mounted a “fishing expedition” against a pro-life organization without receiving specific complaints about the group.
Thomas
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GUARD, SHOOTING, NATIONAL, DC
The suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, appeared in court remotely from a hospital.
Suspect in DC shooting of 2 National Guard members formally charged with murder
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Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the 29-year-old Afghan
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OLE, KIFFIN, MISS, LANE
The latest Lane Kiffin saga finally ended when he left for Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this past Sunday.
But Kiffin later revealed that some Ole Miss fans created a rocky route to the Oxford, Mississippi, airport. He claimed that a group of unhappy fans attempted
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POPE, LEO, SITE, XIV
Upwards of 150,000 people came together at Beirut’s waterfront Tuesday morning for mass with Pope Leo XIV.
AFP reports the pontiff arrived from Turkey on Sunday on the next step of his inaugural foreign visit as pope and brought a message of hope, particularly
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DRUG, HEGSETH, MARLOW, BIG
Monday on “The Alex Marlow Show,” host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow discussed comments by Wajahat Ali on immigration.
Marlow said, “He’s literally setting it up as an us versus them race war and that is his framing of what’s going on.”
“The Alex
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TURTLE, FRANKLIN, HEGSETH, PUBLISHER
'Franklin' publisher slams Hegseth for his post of the turtle firing on drug boats
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The publisher of the Franklin children's book series has rebuked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after he posted a meme of the
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NEWSOM, GAVIN, TRUMP, HOLLYWOOD
California Gov. Gavin Newsom shared a bogus medical report in his latest attempt to troll President Donald Trump that labeled him the “healthiest human currently alive” and lavished praise on his arteries and resting heart rate.
“His bone density is exceptional
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DEAD, TEXAS, COLLEGE, ANSWERS
The mother of Texas A&M sophomore Brianna Aguilera, 19, said she’s not satisfied with information regarding the death of her daughter and is still "awaiting answers" about what happened to her.
Police have publicly maintained that the circumstances surrounding
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TRUMP, DECORATIONS, MELANIA, POLITICS
The White House has unveiled its 2025 Christmas decorations, which are traditionally coordinated by the first lady. This year's theme is "Home Is Where the Heart Is".
It took 1,500 volunteers working for one week to install the decorations. According to the
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MOLOTOV, COCKTAILS, BUILDING, FEDERAL
A dimwitted career criminal hurled Molotov cocktails at agents guarding a federal immigration facility in Los Angeles while shouting anti-ICE comments from the sidewalk outside the building — but neglected to ignite the bottles first.
Jose Francisco Jovel,
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AFGHAN, THREATENING, BOMB, ATTACK
Mohammad Dawood Alokozay, a 30-year-old Afghan national who entered the United States during the Biden administration, has been charged in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas for "threatening to build a bomb, conduct a suicide
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DAVE, HOUSE, STAR, COULIER
Dave Coulier, best known as Joey Gladstone from "Full House," says he’s now undergoing treatment for tongue cancer.
The 66-year-old revealed he was diagnosed in October with HPV-related oropharyngeal tongue cancer — just months after celebrating being
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STUDENT, NYU, VIDEO, RANDOM
A female New York University student refused to be silent after being attacked on her way to class and posted the surveillance video online of her terrifying assault, bringing attention to it, resulting in the arrest of the alleged suspect.
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BIRTHDAY, PARTY, TODDLER, CALIFORNIA
Host of birthday party in California mistook gunfire for balloons popping
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Watch: Police confirm four dead in California shooting
Patrice Williams thought she was hearing the pops of balloons she
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SNOW, ICE, WINTER, EASTER
ALBANY, N.Y. — Millions of Americans are waking up to their first big snow of the season, as a powerful nor’easter is bringing some combination of rain, ice and snow to parts of the East Coast, including the densely populated northeast portion of Interstate
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