Emerging Topics in U.S. News
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21st 2025
Updated 23:59 ET
42 articles
MAMDANI, TRUMP, MEETING, MAYOR
A remarkable scene played out this afternoon in the Oval Office: President Trump sat next to Zohran Mamdani — a democratic socialist he has described as a “lunatic,” a “radical” and an existential threat to New York City — and spent nearly half an hour showering
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TEXAS, COURT, SUPREME, MAP
Texas on Friday filed an emergency petition with the U.S. Supreme Court after a ruling by a panel of federal judges blocked the state from using its redrawn congressional map, calling it "racially gerrymandered."
Shortly after filing the petition, Justice
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TRUMP, PEACE, RUSSIA, PLAN
The plan includes items that could be painful for Ukraine to accept.
U.S. President Donald Trump greets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky outside the West Wing of the White House on October 17, 2025, in Washington, DC. President Trump, fresh off a ceasefire
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GOVERNOR, SWALWELL, CALIFORNIA, ERIC
Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., announced on Thursday he is launching a campaign for California governor in 2026.
The congressman and longtime foe of President Donald Trump made the announcement during an appearance on the late-night show, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
“He’s
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TAYLOR, MARJORIE, GREENE, TRUMP
After break with Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene will resign
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia Republican who rose to prominence as one of President Trump's biggest defenders and recently became one of
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CHICAGO, TRAIN, JUDGE, WOMAN
A Cook County, Illinois judge dismissed pleas from a state prosecutor that the habitual criminal who allegedly set a 26-year-old woman on fire during her Chicago commute had been likely to “randomly” attack someone else again if she released him, court records
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TRUMP, SEDITIOUS, VIDEO, BEHAVIOR
'I'm not going to be intimidated': Rep. Crow responds to Trump's sedition threat
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Six Democratic lawmakers, all of whom served in the military or intelligence community, uploaded a short online video
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CRUISE, DEAD, FOUND, TEEN
The FBI is investigating the death of 18-year-old Anna Kepner.
The family of 18-year-old Anna Kepner, who was reported dead while aboard the Carnival Horizon cruise ship on Saturday, says they will remember her as a happy, bubbly, straight-A student with a
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PRAS, 14, ILLEGAL, YEARS
Fugees rapper Pras Michel sentenced to 14 years in prison for illegal lobbying
His attorney said the sentence is "completely disproportionate to the offence" and that he will appeal.
US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly handed down the sentence in a Washington
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PLAN, PEACE, UKRAINE, TRUMP
For all the recent talk about Donald Trump growing more sympathetic toward Ukraine, and of the president being more willing to pressure Russia for concessions, nothing of the sort turned out to be true. According to multiple news outlets, Trump has blessed
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KILLED, SHOT, LOUIS, ST
First responders across Los Angeles County are mourning the death of an Alhambra police officer who was killed in the line of duty early Thursday after a police pursuit ended in a violent crash.
Officer Alec Sanders, 28, was on duty around 3 a.m. when Alhambra
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VACCINES, AUTISM, JR, CDC
Let me make a small concession on behalf of the medical community: The CDC is technically correct when it asserts, as it did this week in a surprise update to its website, that “studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.”
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EPSTEIN, JASMINE, DR, JEFFREY
The Democrats continue to embarrass themselves over the Jeffrey Epstein matter.
I reported on Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett's (TX-30) shameless efforts to link Republicans to Epstein donations to deflect from the fact that the convicted sex offender donated
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EPSTEIN, DEPOSITIONS, CLINTON, HILLARY
Former President Bill Clinton and his wife, twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, must appear in person for their depositions relating to the federal investigation of convicted billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his former assistant
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SWASTIKAS, GUARD, NOOSES, COAST
Coast Guard changes course, reclassifies swastikas and nooses as hate symbols The Coast Guard is reacting to reports that it had downgraded swastikas, nooses and other hate symbols in its new harassment manual. A new policy debuted overnight.
National Coast
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SCHOOL, ATTACK, NIGERIA, 52
At least 52 schoolchildren and teachers have been kidnapped from a school in northwestern Nigeria, according to government officials, the second such attack in the country this week.
Armed men attacked the Catholic school in the state of Niger early on Friday,
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PHONE, DOJ, RECORDS, JIM
The Justice Department under former President Joe Biden subpoenaed Verizon for the personal phone records of Republican Rep. Jim Jordan (OH-4) over a more than two-year period as part of the "Arctic Frost" probe.
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The subpoena, obtained by Fox
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BLITZ, POPE, TRUMP, ADMINISTRATION
Greg Bovino, a roving Border Patrol operations commander who is leading President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown in the area and federal agents patrol the Little Village neighborhood during immigration raids in Chicago, Nov. 6, 2025.
Greg Bovino, a roving
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GRIZZLY, BEAR, BRITISH, CANADA
A grizzly bear attack has been reported Thursday in the small, remote community of Bella Coola along the Central Coast of Canada's British Columbia province, according to regional and local officials.
The British Columbia Conservation Office Service, which
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ARRESTED, BEATING, TEACHER, SON
A former Alabama teacher was arrested and fired after a video emerged allegedly showing her striking her child more than 20 times with a belt, police said.
Randi Nicole Staples, a 44-year-old who worked at the Cottage Hill Christian Academy, is now charged
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MISS, UNIVERSE, PAGEANT, WEEKS
Two weeks ago, Fátima Bosch of Mexico walked out of an official Miss Universe event in protest after she was scolded by an organizer. On Friday, she walked across the stage as the 74th winner of one of the world’s most prestigious beauty pageants.
Her coronation
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LIFE, PRO, NYC, LAWSUIT
A conservative pro-life influencer who went viral after being punched in the face during a street interview in New York City has filed a lawsuit against her alleged attacker.
Savannah Craven Antao, pro-life activist and host of the YouTube channel "Her Patriot
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COMEY, JURY, DISMISS, GRAND
All of this confused the magistrate judge, Lindsey R. Vaala, who was on duty that day and took the bench near 7 p.m. expecting to receive an indictment of Mr. Comey. Judge Vaala appeared perplexed when she was handed two indictments — both of them signed by
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TEXAS, TERRORIST, CAIR, CONCERNED
The FBI has spent more than a decade limiting official contact with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) over concerns about the group’s ties to Hamas, according to a Justice Department report reviewed by Fox News Digital.
The 2013 Office of
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