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A Look Back at the Biggest News Stories of 2025

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ICE raids. Tariffs. National Guard deployment. Ukraine. Venezuela. The longest federal shutdown in history. There was no shortage of major news headlines in 2025. We’ll try to make sense of  the biggest stories of the past year with a panel of journalists, and look at what 2026 might hold.

Guests:

David Sanger, White House and National Security correspondent,<br /> New York Times - His most recent book is "New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion and America’s Struggle to Save the West"<br />

Melanie Mason, senior political correspondent, Politico<br />

Toluse Olorunnipa, staff writer, Atlantic - co-author "His Name is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice" which won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize <br /> <br />

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