🗞️Google's 2025 "Year in Search"

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December 4th, 2025

What happened today 🇺🇸,

• Google's 2025 “Year in Search” report showed the top trending queries that spiked fastest compared to 2024, with "Gemini" (Google's AI chatbot) topping the global list, followed by cricket matches like India vs. England, Charlie Kirk, Club World Cup, and DeepSeek AI…in the U.S. specifically, trends included Charlie Kirk, KPop Demon Hunters, Labubu toys, iPhone 17, One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Zohran Mamdani, DeepSeek, government shutdown, FIFA Club World Cup, and tariffs, reflecting surges in AI, politics, sports, and pop culture…see the full results here

• The Supreme Court has ruled to allow Texas to use its new Republican-favored congressional map for the 2026 midterms, suspending a lower court's block over claims of racial gerrymandering

• The Government Accountability Office (GAO) announced that it has opened an investigation into Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director, Bill Pulte, following a request from Senate Democrats, who allege he abused federal authority and resources by referring perceived Trump critics to the DOJ for alleged mortgage fraud

• The FBI arrested Brian Cole Jr. from Virginia as the suspect who planted viable pipe bombs near the Republican National Committee (RNC) and Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in Washington, D.C., on January 5th, 2021

• Republican Matt Van Epps was sworn in today as Tennessee's newest House of Representatives member after winning the special election for the 7th Congressional District two days ago

• The Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection issued cease-and-desist orders to Crypto.com, Kalshi, and Robinhood for offering unlicensed sports event contracts deemed illegal online gambling, violating state laws on age restrictions, consumer protections, and advertising

• The New York Times has filed a federal lawsuit against the Pentagon and Defense/War Secretary Hegseth, arguing that new press-access rules imposed this fall violate its First and Fifth Amendment rights…read more here

• U.S. employers announced 71,321 job cuts in November, pushing the year-to-date total to 1.17 million, which is the highest since 2020's pandemic and up 54% from the same period in 2024

• The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell to 6.19% for the week down from 6.23% the prior week and the 15-year fixed rate fell slightly also to 5.44% from 5.51%

• DOW down .07% / S&P up .11%

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