Here are the Top 10 News Stories of 2025.
The Department of Government Efficiency did not make the list. DOGE got off to a great start, but they met resistance and the resistance won. The savings were a fraction of what was promised. Entrenched bureaucrats stymied DOGE at every turn. Additionally, violent leftists set Tesla dealerships on fire. Maybe in another quiet form, DOGE could make headway in 2026, but their 2025 accomplishments were not significant enough to make the list.
Pope Leo is the first ever American Pope. Other than being a devoted Chicago White Sox fan, the start to his tenure has been fairly benign. He has largely steered clear of politics. His tenure so far has been too short to make any kind of impression.
The Jeffrey Epstein saga did not make the list. Despite promises of accountability, nobody of note has been held accountable. To make a news list, actual news must occur. With the statute of limitations expiring in a few days, it seems many of the worst offenders will get away with it. The coverup appears to have succeeded. If America had a functioning news media, the truth would come out. We do not, so it did not.
With the exception of one notable policy, President Donald’s second term did not make the list. Simply put, it takes time for policies to take effect. While he took significant actions related to crime, taxes and the overall economy, the results are promising but far from complete. His big beautiful bill does not take effect on January 1st of 2026. Also, the Supreme Court in 2026 will either hamstring his efforts on several issues or unshackle him. On foreign policy, actions and results can be immediately felt. This is not how domestic policy works.
With that, here are the top 10 news stories of 2025.
10.) The collapse of the Kansas City Chiefs — Entering this season, the Chiefs had won the AFC West nine straight times. During that stretch, they had reached five Super Bowls, winning three of them. Yet after winning it all in the 2022 and 2023 seasons, the end of the 2024 season was a nightmare. In January 2025, they were blown out in the Super Bowl, denying their quest for an unprecedented three-peat. Then in the 2025 season, the team cratered due to a combination of age, injuries, and the fatigue that comes with being the hunted. With one game left, the Chiefs are 6-10. Patrick Mahomes suffered a knee injury that with rehab could have him ready by the start of the 2026 season. Travis Kelce is likely to retire and marry his pop star girlfriend. Walrus Andy Reid may hang it up as well. After playing in Missouri for over 60 years, the Chiefs announced that in 2031 they will be crossing the border to a new stadium in Kansas City, Kansas.
9.) Artificial Intelligence powers the stock market — America’s fourth revolution is just getting started. First there was agriculture, then the industrial revolution, followed by the 1990s Internet information age. Now AI is everywhere and yet stallion its infancy. The Magnificent 7 tech stocks of Goggle, Amazon, Apple, Tesla, Microsoft, Facebook and Nvidia have added several trillion dollars of wealth to the economy. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang has managed to create a 5 trillion dollar company without doing business in China. Entering that market will only expand his company, with the risks that brings about. Only 18 months after his Blackwell chips powered the AI world, he will replace them in 2026 with the Rubin chips. Like it or not, AI is here to stay. All companies will use it in some form to varying degrees. The companies that do AI best will thrive in the new era. Meanwhile, shareholders have celebrated as the stock market hit new all-time highs in December of 2025.
8.) California wildfires — California fires are nothing new, but the devastation from the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires were on a different scale. Wealthy neighborhoods including Pacific Palisades were ravaged. Tragically, these were not natural disasters caused by climate change. They were man-made disasters that were a direct result of government incompetence. Specifically, horrendous forestry policies created the problem. Controlled burns are a way of reducing the risk, size and scope of such fires. Yet California leaders were convinced that they knew more about property care than the local homeowners themselves. Rules and regulations restricting controlled burns led to much bigger conflagrations. Making matters worse, not one Pacific Palisades home has been rebuilt after an entire year. Promised funds have not arrived. Those convinced that government can be a force for good face a tough sell due to situations like this.
7.) Minneapolis Somali fraud — This is one of the most massive government corruption scandals in American history. Billions of Minnesota tax dollars were funneled into various social programs in Minneapolis. Those funds were misappropriated in ways worse than normal. Yes, there was the typical grift of recipients spending money on luxury personal items. Yet this scandal goes deeper. A significant amount of the funds were laundered overseas to various Islamist terrorist groups bent on America’s destruction. Normally, political heads would roll and people would go to prison over such shenanigans. Yet this scandal strikes at the heart of identity politics. Minneapolis Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is a black, female Muslim woman from Somalia. Any time a reporter tries to question her, she intimidates them with accusations of racism, sexism and islamophobia. So far this strategy has worked. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is also a Muslim. Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey are both white leftists who desperately need Somali votes to stay in power. The Leiutenant Governor is a guilty white woman who put on a Hijab and pandered in Somali. While this scandal is completely about financial corruption, those trying to make it about bigotry have the upper hand. The truth will not come out until this changes.
6.) Bourbon Street Islamist attack — New Year’s Eve is supposed to be a time of joy and hope for a better year. Yet 2025 began with an act of evil. Just after midnight, Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Louisiana became a war zone. A radical Islamist terrorist deliberately rammed his car into pedestrians, killing several. As expected, the media was more concerned with a mythical Islamophobic backlash than the actual victims of a crazed Muslim zealot. This refusal to even say the words “radical Islam” effectively denies that the evil exists. Bourbon Street is the ultimate party city, and weeks after the attack Mardi Gras was in full swing. Yet the attack has brought about an uncomfortable truth. Unless massive numbers of illegal immigrants are deported, these attacks will continue. Democrats need the votes of communities connected to terrorism to remain in power. They will continue to choose preserving their own political power over public safety.
5.) Israel bombs Iran — After decades of hearing the mullahs chant “Death to Israel,” Israel had finally had enough. It was one thing for Israel to root out Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. This time Israel struck targets in Iran itself. Over 12 days, Israel took out every major imminent Iranian threat. President Donald Trump gave Israel the bunker busters it needed to set back Iran’s nuclear capabilities for years. Unfortunately, President Trump’s obsession with peace deals caused him to restrain Israel just as it was on the verge of total victory. Israel could have eliminated the mullahs and forced regime change in Iran. Trump prevented Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from doing this. The mullahs are weakened, but still alive to reconstitute themselves to fight another day. The Israeli Defense Forces did their jobs, but were prevented from eliminating the mullahs entirely.
4.) Australia Hanukkah attack and other Jew-hatred — The year began with one Islamist attack and ended with another one. Overt Jew-hatred exploded in America in 2025. For the most part, this was confined in America to the political left. Yet a new virulent strain of alt-right Jew-hatred has gained power. Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson seem to just support whatever ideology pays them money, while those on the left including Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are true-believing Jew-hating, Islamist-coddlers. Yet Carlson has the ear of Vice President J.D. Vance, which explains his weak responses to antisemitic questions. Much of these new young antisemites are the Ron Paul supporters who graduated from screaming about the Federal Reserve to ranting about Jewish global bankers. Yet the leftists and alt-right are amateurs compared to the Islamists. The Bondi Beach attack near Sydney, Australia was deliberate in terms of time and place. It was the first night of Hanukkah in Australia, and all events happen in Australia first before making their way across the world, with Hawaii being last. By disrupting the world’s first 2025 Hanukkah celebration, the murder of innocent Jews was designed to scare Jews worldwide. The father and son murderers had some success As expected, the perpetually cowardly France canceled their New Year’s Eve celebrations. Yet Jews are a tough people. Hanukkah continued. 2026 will tell if America is still a pro-Jewish nation. The people largely support Jews, but the younger generation is far from Philosemitic. Making matters worse, the leftist Australian Prime Minister decided to respond to the tragedy by further restricting private gun ownership. Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard would have deported every last Islamist zealot. The current leftist is part of the multicultural hug-a-terrorist crowd. The Islamists are evil, but their useful idiots on the left and alt-right are bad for Jews as well.
3.) Blowing up Venezuelan drug boats — While the Trump administration has been far too tolerant and gentle with Iran, they have gotten things totally right with Venezuela. President Nicholas madero runs an illegal government that for far too long has been shipping fentanyl and other deadly drugs into America. Americans are dying from fentanyl, and Trump cracked down hard. With secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth leading the charge, America is blowing up Venezuelan drug boats. As expected, the American left is grieving over dead terrorists. They are against these strikes only because a Republican President supports them. Former President Barack Obama aggressively targeted terrorists overseas with predator drones, and he was right to do so. Trump’s strikes are legal, ethical, moral, Constitutional, and perfectly within the bounds of international law. Finally, those who murder American citizens are facing real world consequences.
2.) The murder of Charlie Kirk — The left’s violent rage that began after the disputed 2000 election exploded with Donald Trump’s 2016 victory. Democrats have labeled pretty much every Republican a racist, sexist, bigoted homophobe who kicks puppies and kittens and eats babies. Then the left graduated to calling Republicans Nazis and fascists. With Trump, the left took things to a new level. He was deemed a threat to democracy. Americans were told there would never be another democratic election again if he won. Trump supporters were harassed at restaurants, doxxed, swatted, and terrorized at their homes in front of their children. Only one year after Trump himself had his ear blown off, Trump supporter and Turning Point founder Charlie Kirk was murdered in cold blood. At an outdoor rally in Utah, a trans activist shot him in the neck fatally. Naturally, the left was more concerned about a retaliation against transgender people than about the victims of trans violence. The left cries bigotry every time conservatives even question whether pumping young kids full of drugs and hormones is a good idea. Kirk’s murder led to a more young people trying to open up Turning Point chapters than ever before. Young people are attending conservative events and turning to Christianity in large numbers. Kirk’s movement could lead to the biggest inspiration for a Christian renewal since Tim Tebow. 2026 will tell if Turning Point and young conservatism becomes bigger than ever or collapses completely. Charlie was pro-Israel and pro-Jewish. Yet some alt-right antisemites are trying to hijack his movement.Erika Kirk, a model of grace and dignity, will be under tremendous pressure going forward to preserve what her husband built rather than let it get devoured by grifters. Either way, the liberal media is downplaying the horrendous fact that assassinating political opponents is not only justified, but chic, and cool.
1.) Ayatollah Mamdani — Less than 25 years after the 2001 September 11th attacks, New York City elected a Muslim as Mayor. Worse, Zohran Mamdani is a hardcore leftist and an Islamist. In 2009, presidential candidate Barack Obama vowed to fundamentally transform America. Mamdani is the proof of that plan’s success. Massive numbers of people from all over the globe flooded America’s border, changing the culture of the nation. These newer immigrants had no interest in assimilation. Zohran Mamdani came from Uganda. An openly avowed socialist, Mamdani blended the intersectional leftism and Islamism. His open hostility toward traditional American values and Israel fit in perfectly with New York elites. Like most powerful socialists, Mamdani hails from a wealthy family and has never held meaningful employment. Yet he spoke well, held a constant smile to disguise his rage, and appealed to the young people who dance on TikTok and eat Tide Pods. He vowed to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and give free everything to everybody. His mask slipped at his fiery victory speech where he all but declared Jihad on those who disagree with him. He has refused to denounce Hamas or the terrorist calls to globalize the intifada. One of his first hires had to resign one day after being appointed due to flagrant antisemitism. Mayor-Elect Mamdani embraces the corrosive DEI movement. The woman he appointed as NYFD Fire Chief has never once been a firefighter. She was hired because she is a lesbian. Perhaps Sam Brinton was unavailable. It’s easy to be a liberal when it is someone else’s house that is burning to the ground. Police officers are already fleeing New York. Expect firefighters to follow. Jews in particular should be very afraid that a man with a rabid hatred for them controls the levers of power in America’s largest city with its largest American Jewish population.
With the potential to permanently destroy America’s largest city and an entire religion of people in that city, Mamdani’s election is definitely the biggest story of 2025. To those who love America and the Judeo-Christian values America was founded on, God help us all in 2026 if Mamdani succeeds. With a lapdog media and young campus idiots cheering him on, he just might. America survived Barack Obama because he was timid. We are surviving Ilhan Omar because Minneapolis is small by comparison. A leftist Islamist running New York City is scary and significant.