Trending News August 19, 2025

Our top trending stories for this Tuesday August 19, 2025. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Yesterday, European leaders joined Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and President
Donald Trump at the White House to discuss efforts to
end the war between Ukraine and Russia. Secretary of State
Marco Rubio telling Fox Is Jesse Waters primetime that all
options will remain on the table amid peace negotiations, including
a land swap.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
It's going to require both sides to receive but also
to give. In essence, one side's not going to get
one hundred percent here. Each side is going to have
to make some concessions, and obviously land or where you
draw those lines where the war stops, is going to
be part of that conversation.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
We will start that conversation at six point thirty six
with that question, just what does it look like? Ryan
Schmels joins us after bottom of the hour news. Texas
Democrats return to the state Monday after leaving for two weeks,
ending an effort to stall the passage of redrawn congressional maps.
Here is Governor Greg Abbott.

Speaker 4 (01:11):
The House Committee already passed those maps out, and those
congressional maps are going to pass out on the House
floor on Wednesday. They've already passed out of the Senate.
They will become law probably by the end of this week.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
And also yesterday, at that Alaska summit with Russian President
Vladimir Putin on Friday, President Trump revealed on social media
that the two leaders spoke about mail in ballance.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
We're going to start with an executive order that's being
written right now by the best lawyers of the country
to end mail in ballots because they're corrupt.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
President blaming voting by mail for his twenty twenty election loss,
said they would be made unavailable ahead of twenty twenty
six midterms. We'll keep posting on that story too.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Also trending this morning, it has become official. Skivity is
now going to find itself into the Cambridge Dictionary. The
social media slaying term has joined more than six thousand
words that will be additions to the new edition of
the Cambridge Dictionary. According to Colin Macintosh, a lexical program

(02:15):
manager at Cambridge. Internet culture is changing the English language
and the effect is fascinating to observe and capture. In
the dictionary. Other words that will be joining Skibbity include
trade wife referring to a married mom who cooks, cleans
and posts about it on social media. And my favorite,
de Lulu or delusional living toluluh oh all the time?

(02:39):
Is I'm out here to Lulu that I'm successful.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Why can't we just say words, he said, sounding like
an old man.

Speaker 5 (02:47):
Don't get me started here, d Lulu.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
If you think I'm getting off your lawn.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
That's adorbs.

Speaker 5 (02:52):
I think we all live to Lulu every day, don't
we just want to quantify that.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Yeah, let's not go down that rabbit, because then we'll
all get mad.

Speaker 5 (03:01):
Did you see what the Cleveland Brown speaking of delusional,
I think that whole organization is and I wouldn't want
to be their head coach who actually respect He's done
a good job, Kevin Stefanski, because from the draft on
you knew this was going to be just a mess.
But yesterday he decided before even getting to Tuesday, which
is what he'd mentioned earlier from the weekend, that his

(03:22):
number one quarterback for the Cleveland Browns in the season
opener against rivals Cincinnati on September seventh, forty year old
Joe Flacco.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
There it is kids.

Speaker 5 (03:33):
Kenny Bickett got hurt, so he hasn't been able to
play much in the preseason. He was kind of a
cast off for the Pittsburgh Steelers, but remember they drafted
in the third round Dylan Gabriel, the quarterback from Oregon,
and then in the fifth round shadu or Sanders. Neither
one of those guys were really even an option. But
you gotta feel good about yourself when you get beat
up by forty year old Joe Flacco, who, by the way,

(03:54):
when he was in in twenty twenty three and had
five starts, he won four of them for the brown Well, yeah,
so there is that.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, good for him. Those are just some of the
stories we are following for you today.