Trending News August 18, 2025

Our top trending stories for this Monday August 18, 2025. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is West Michigan's morning news. I can see Laurence
Smith and Brett Pikita. I'm Steve Kelly. It's Monday, August eighteenth,
twenty twenty five. Back to school for some and our
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
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Speaker 3 (00:16):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
This is the Trending Now report on Wood Radio.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
European Luria leaders will join Ukraine's President Zelenski at a
meeting with President Trump at the White House two day
amid efforts to end the war with Russia. US Ambassador
to NATO Matt Whittaker on The Big Weekend Show with Box.

Speaker 4 (00:40):
President Trump is going to have to evaluate based on
everything he hears from the Europeans and from Ukraine as
to whether there is a next step to take, and
if so, what is that next step and is it
a trilateral meeting.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff said Russia agreed that the
US and ally should provide a NATO style security guarantee
to Ukraine.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
We'll keep you posted.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Hurricane Aaron scheduled to bring strong winds and torrential reign
to Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands as the
storm spins off to the north. National Hurricane Center Deputy
Director Jamie Rome, here we go again. If the storm
were to move just a little bit to the west
of the forecast track, we could clip the outer banks

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with those tropical storm force wins, and a.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
Tropical storm watch may be required for the outer Banks
tomorrow as early as tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
And the Trump administration alleging Hillary Clinton, while on the
campaign trail in twenty sixteen, used her connections to the
Obama administration to help create the narrative the then presidential
candidate Donald Trump colluded with Russia to win the twenty
sixteen election.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Here is Representative Jim Jordan.

Speaker 5 (01:56):
They decide to do something different, and they put something
different together that became the basis for this whole Russia hoax.
The idea that putin wanted Trump to win, which we
know was ridiculous, but they changed to what the what
the career people had put together.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
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Speaker 3 (02:13):
Well, it's a pretty wild game on Friday at Wrigley
Field at the seventh inning stretch as the Cubs were
taken on the Pirates, and none other than star wars
Hayden Christiansen was about to sing take me out to
the ballgame. Fans heard this.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
He was scary.

Speaker 5 (02:36):
Booth was very scary.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah, that's a fighter jet from the Chicago Air and
Water Show that was looping around.

Speaker 6 (02:43):
But Wriggly had no idea this was happening. Multiple players dugout,
actually jumped into each other's arms. It was infielder, Justin
Turner that literally dove to the ground and covered himself
with a helmet. No one had any idea this was happening.
Even shy Tayden in the middle of singing it. But
no problem, just a little air and water show.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
No windows broken or anything. How do they not communicate?

Speaker 6 (03:07):
That's what I said. I'm like, that must have been terrified.

Speaker 7 (03:09):
There's a city of like what millions of people.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
You might want to let him know something.

Speaker 7 (03:13):
Oh, they know, it's the air a water show. Michigan
received a series of fines. By the way, going back
to Friday after our show, of course, we were telling
you that news is going to come down from the
NCAA with a press conference that could eclipse thirty million,
But avoided punitive penalties such as a postseason ban or
the vacating of victories, including during the twenty twenty three

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National Championship season, as the NCAA Division One Committee and
Infractions ruled on this. They also had additional game suspension
for coach Sharone Moore, which will happen the first game
of twenty twenty six. So it's gonna stick with a
self imposed He's going to be fine to be on
the sidelines for the New Mexico opener and at Oklahoma
for Week two this year. Then he'll miss the CMU

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game at home for Week three and at Nora ask
for the Big Ten opener for Week four. But they
added in twenty twenty six their opener against Western which
is going to be played in Frankfurt, Germany next year.
So he also has a two year show cause. As
far as Jim Harbaugh, who doesn't want anything to do
with this or engage at all, because he got asked
that Saturday after the Chargers preseason game and he said,

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like I said last year, I'm not engaging. He had
ten years show cause added to his already four years,
so fourteen years combined that he can't work in college football.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
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of the stories we are following.