Trending News December 2, 2025

Our top trending stories for this Tuesday December 2, 2025. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to West Michigan's morning News. Steve, Kelly, Brett, Keta,
Lawrence Smith. Tuesday. It's December second, twenty twenty five. Our
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
This is the Trending Now report on Wood Radio. Senate
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer yesterday claimed three of his offices
were email bomb threats. Here is the Senator on that threat.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
No one, no public servant, no stafford, no constituent, no
citizen should ever be targeted for simply doing their job.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
He also claimed the threats came from an email address
that alleged the twenty twenty election was rigged. Residents in
Tennessee's seventh congressional district are voting today to fellow vacancy
left behind by former Republican Representative Mark House Speaker Mike
Johnson yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Every single seat matters, and this special election will feel
an important one for us. Will give me one more,
one more as a buffer, and that'll be great. We
look forward to that.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
President Trump paused all immigration from third world countries after
an Afghan national allegedly shot to West Virginia. National Guard
members deployed to Washington, d C. Borders are Tom Holman.
If you're going to try to find those docments, which
they really don't exist, you're going to take them from
the taliband.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
You're gonna make Taliban torn to give us the intelligence
information we need to be people.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
It's ridiculous. On Hannity yesterday. More Atwoodradio dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Also trending this morning. It had been in the news
recently with lots of hearings going on. Now it's official.
Australia has banned all social media for kids under the
age of sixteen. This will officially go into effect December tenth,
and according to the government, the ban is to protect
children's well being, their mental health and their physical safety,

(01:57):
citing social media companies have not done enough to keep
kids safe on their sites. The band includes all major
socials TikTok, snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, threads, x Twitch, even
YouTube not allowed under sixteen.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Wow, there's something called twitch. I'm sorry, it's like a
live stream. I'm missing a lot of this, cousin.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Actually, I think you'd be great on twitch.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
I'm an old man. What do you do on.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
You just talk? It's literally everything is like radio down.
Oh boy, you can game, you can do all sorts.
People just watch it.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Do stuff. Steve, stop, that's not twitching. We had a
story about another country doing this in ways that social
media companies trying to crack down on it as well.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
With Denmark.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Maybe that was which used to be. You'd just say
are you eighteen? You know, if you're not eighteen, go
away and click yes no.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
And now they will be putting excessive fines onto companies
to find out they have been giving kids social.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
As good as the college football season has been for
the Big Ten, it might even be better for the
basketball season. I mean, look at right now, right We've
got this Saturday coming up number one in the land,
unbeaten Ohio State taking on number two in the country
on beating Indiana. Well, the new AP Top twenty five
rankings came out for college hoops. Purdue is a top
at number one at seven to zero. Arizona is number

(03:21):
two at seven to oh but just six first place
votes to forty for Purdue.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Guess who's number three?

Speaker 4 (03:26):
Up four spots this week and looking good Michigan and
they have more first place votes than Arizona at fifteen.
At seven and Oh they jumped up four spots Duke
Is four, Yukon five, Louisville six, oh, Michigan State at
seven and OH hopped up four spots to number seven,
Houston eight, BYU nine, and Iowa State ten. Now the
Big Ten Conference opens play and then they take a

(03:48):
break a little bit around the holidays, So Michigan you
have to wait for Michigan fans till Saturday. They'll open
against Rutgers. But Michigan State tonight against unranked but seven
to oh Iowa at the Breslin Center, six o'clock. Pregame
coverage over on Big one to one point three FM.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Yeah, Michigan State needs us to just talk about basketball
for a little while.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
There's so many Big Ten teams that are seven to oh,
USC seven to zero, Indiana seven to oh. So it's
gonna be a lot of fun.