Trending News September 25, 2025

Our top trending stories for this Thursday September 25, 2025. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, getting your Thursday morning started. It is West
Michigan's Morning News. I'm Schmidty and for Steve Kelly. Brett
Bakita is here and we get to what's trending, what's
hot online, and what's hot now at Woodradio dot cow.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
This is the Trending Now Report on Wood Radio, empowered
by Consumers Energy, dedicated to Michigan and the communities we
serve in Calls for restraint in Dallas following the deadly
attack on an ice facility, still leaving too injured to debt.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
The latest results, including the gunman. Here's an update.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
The investigation is ongoing, but what we know now is
twenty nine year old Joshua john of Oklahoma is indeed
as the gunman who the FBI says, with anti ICE
messages on bullet casings, shot indiscriminately onto the Dallas ICE facility,
hitting three detainees no agents, before killing himself.

Speaker 5 (00:54):
The takeaway from all of this is that the rhetoric
has to stop. There are people out.

Speaker 6 (00:59):
There who are seeing what is being placed online and
they're coming and they're doing acts of violence.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
Ice Dallas Actings Field Director josh Johnson, amid several recent
attacks on agents and other facilities, including their previous bomb
threat at the Dallas Ice Center just last month. Jeff Monosso,
Fox News.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
President Trump expected to sign off on a deal to
keep TikTok operating.

Speaker 6 (01:23):
The deal for TikTok to be taken over by a
group of US investors is expected to be signed by
President Trump on Thursday. A White House announced a potential
agreement earlier this week for byte Dance, TikTok's Chinese owned operator,
to divest from the popular social media app. A twenty
twenty four law approved by Congress requires Byte Dance to

(01:43):
divest or be banned in the US over national security
and privacy concerns. President Trump has signed multiple extensions keeping
TikTok active as negotiations with China continued at the White House.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Jared Halpern Fox News and finally, I think she is
It's just the sweetest.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
A March Madness legend has officially retired.

Speaker 5 (02:04):
Sister Jean, the longtime chaplain for Loyola Chicago's men's basketball team,
has retired from her role on the university's campus at
one hundred and six years old due to health concerns.
Sister Jean became famous during the ramblers stunning run to
the Final four in twenty eighteen, where she could be
seen cheering on the team in a maroon and gold scarf.

(02:25):
She served as the team chaplain for thirty years and
published a memoir in twenty twenty three titled wake Up
with Purpose. What I've learned in my first one hundred years.
Joe Morgan, Fox News one hundred.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
And six, I know it Moretwoodradio dot Com.

Speaker 7 (02:40):
I hope golf fans are ready. I know I am.
Steve Calloby watching this. SMDIA, I know you love this,
the twenty twenty five Ryder Cup and if it surprised you, Yes,
the opening ceremonies don't normally happen on Wednesday. They moved
them up due to weather and thunderstorms in the area today.
Now they're supposed to do some practice sessions this morning
for both teams, but they were going to have later

(03:01):
in the afternoon from four to seven. The opening ceremonies
not gonna happen because the weather, so they moved it
up to yesterday, and they had over five thousand fans.
Now it's just outside of New York. Best Page Black,
so you expect a big crowd. Luke Donald captain for
the European team, Kegan Bradley captain for USA, and they
got it going with kind of barbs back and forth.

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But what's interesting when you look at the history of
the Ryder Cup is home course advantage in home country
advantage is big. The last two that have been on
American soil, the Americans have come out on top, including
twenty twenty one, nineteen to nine they just dominated Team
Europe at Whistling Straits across Lake Michigan in Wisconsin. But

(03:43):
last year at Italy was all Team Europe sixteen and
a half to eleven and a half. So this is
gonna be fun. Starts tomorrow morning during the show seven
am to six pm live coverage on the USA Network
that NBC takes over on Saturday and Sunday.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
We'll have it on the studio TV. Don't you know
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