WELCOME TO THE TOP STORIES OF 2025. I'M TOM YAMAS, COMING TO YOU FROM TIMES SQUARE IN THE HEART OF NEW YORK CITY. THIS IS THE HOME OF THE ICONIC BALL DROP, AS YOU KNOW, WHERE EVERY DECEMBER 31ST, WE SAY GOODBYE TO THE OLD YEAR AND RING IN THE YEAR AHEAD.FOR THE NEXT HOUR, WE'RE GOING TO LOOK BACK AT THE TOP 10 STORIES OF WHAT HAS BEEN A REMARKABLE YEAR FULL OF MAJOR EVENTS AND UNEXPECTED HEADLINES. WE BEGIN WITH A LOOK BACK AT THE YEAR THAT WAS. IT IS A GRIM NEW YEAR'S MORNING HERE TO BEGIN 2025.THE GUY IN ...

RT Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok)Democrats incited their base to target Conservatives with political violence.It’s open season on Conservatives now.Will any Democrat leaders address the violence epidemic on their side?? ...

Sunday’s shootings feel like a conscious attack on Australia as a physical refuge from political violence, and as a mental retreat from an increasingly polarized world, @davidfickling writes (via @opinion) https://t.co/XHi2Jhumln ...

Uh, I never looked to myself to being any sort of expert on political violence or frankly needing to engage in a national conversation about political violence until I saw Spencer Cox in the wake of the killing of Charlie Kirk handle that manner matter in the way that he did. I saw him lift up not just Utons but create an opportunity for a dialogue that I think we sorely need in this country to try and lift everyone up and get us out of the darkness of political violence that has fallen upon us. >> One of t ...

President Trump is criticizing Congressman Henry Kuyar of Texas after Kuyar officially filed to run as a Democrat after receiving a presidential pardon. Trump issued a pardon to Koar and his wife last week as the two were awaiting trial for charges of bribery and money laundering. Trump claimed Koar was a victim of former President Biden's justice department after Kyrar spoke out against Biden's border policies.But after Cooyar told reporters he would not be changing parties, the president took to social me ...

From @WSJopinion: We’re in an Era of Political Violence by @Peggynoonannychttps://t.co/zh4NzES36R ...

From @WSJopinion: We’re in an Era of Political Violence by @Peggynoonannychttps://t.co/2bO5IrkVul ...

bring in Miles Taylor, former Homeland Security chief of staff, Democratic strategist Jenna Arnold, and MS Now political analyst Alexi McCannman. I mean, I'm still thinking it's extraordinary that that had to be clarified, but Miles, you've got personal experience with being publicly threatened by the president. What emotions does this trigger for you.And what are these targets and their families going through right now. >> Well, the threats are very, very real, Alex. And I'm certainly not comforted by the ...

Senior White House reporter Von Hillyard along with Sarah Matthews, former deputy White House secretary in the first Trump administration, that's communications secretary, and former Democratic Congressman Max Rose from New York. Van, bring us the latest from the president and the White House on all of this. Any signs of backing off? >> Right. The president actually just a few moments ago on a radio outlet suggested that he was not in fact threatening death, but that these lawmakers should be in quote serio ...

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