Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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ICE, DALLAS, SHOOTING, FACILITY
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem hosts a roundtable discussion about securing the Northern Border, in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., June 20, 2025. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook
A shooter opened fire Wednesday morning at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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TRUMP, PRESIDENT, UKRAINE, ESCALATOR
Festivus came early for the UN this year. Very early.
President Donald Trump spoke before the assembled UN delegates yesterday to start the "airing of grievances" stage of Festivus. President Trump detailed the problems he had with the UN, and how their actions,
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TRUMP, BIDEN, WHITE, HOUSE
President Donald Trump will dine with members of his cabinet and senior White House officials on Wednesday night in the Rose Garden Club, Breitbart News has confirmed.
The dinner is slated for 7:00 p.m. Eastern in Trump’s newly renovated Rose Garden, which
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MAMDANI, ZOHRAN, NEW, YORK
Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani continued his crusade to hike taxes on corporations and the uber wealthy — putting him on a collision course with his new Albany ally Gov. Kathy Hochul.
“The proposal we put forward would raise $9 billion and we would also
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HARRIS, KAMALA, BOOK, BIDEN
There's no law that says a politician has to write a book after a big election. Kamala Harris, the former vice president, was not required to write a book about her losing 2024 presidential campaign. But she wrote one anyway, and now a lot of people, those
Continued at Town Hall...
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SHUTDOWN, GOVERNMENT, TRUMP, DEMOCRATS
Government shutdown odds increase. And, Trump shifts stance on Russia-Ukraine war
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COMEY, JAMES, DIRECTOR, FORMER
Newly appointed US attorney will attempt to charge James Comey despite prosecutors finding no probable cause: Sources
Former FBI Director James Comey testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Washington D.C., June 8, 2017.
Former FBI Director James
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RYDER, CUP, TEAM, HOCHUL
Most Americans will be justifiably upset if the Europeans defeat the United States at this weekend’s Ryder Cup. However, should President Trump want to celebrate on-stage with Team Europe, Justin Rose is “100%” okay with it.
On Wednesday, Team Europe captain
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SCHOOL, HIGH, GIRLS, USA
Oklahoma state school superintendent Ryan Walters pledged Tuesday to have a Turning Point USA chapter in every high school to honor the group’s co-founder, Charlie Kirk.
"I’m excited to announce today that every Oklahoma high school will have a Turning Point
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MANGIONE, LUIGI, LAWYERS, GUN
Luigi Mangione's lawyers claim Trump violated right to fair trial
48 minutes ago Share Save Jordun Dunbar and Melanie Stewart-Smith The Mangione Trial podcast Share Save
Getty Images Luigi Mangione is facing multiple trials over the fatal shooting of health
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APPLE, SAVANT, CHASTAIN, DECISION
“We are not aligned on the decision to pause the release of The Savant,” she wrote on Instagram.
The actress then listed a number of violent acts that have occurred in the United States since they started making the show five years ago, including the attempted
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POLL, ISSUES, REUTERS, TOP
I love this headline from Reuters:
Trump's approval dips as Americans worry about economy, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
Oh my gosh, how bad is it? Is Trump in trouble, did his numbers plummet?
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Turns out his overall approval rating in the poll
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HOUSE, MAJORITY, ARIZONA, GOP
Adelita Grijalva, the daughter of a longtime Arizona congressman who died of cancer in March, Raúl Grijalva, won the race to succeed him on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press.
Once she is sworn in, Ms. Grijalva will further narrow the already slim
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AFFLECK, VIOLET, NEPO, DEMANDS
UN officials couldn’t have done more to prove President Donald Trump right about the world body’s deep worthlessness when they put nepo baby Violet Affleck on the global stage to blather about the need to filter air.
That’s right: At the UN’s Healthy Indoor
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HURRICANE, WAIT, YEAR, UNFOLDING
An extended period of subdued hurricane activity in the Atlantic is now over.
A week ago, experts who forecast this year’s hurricane season would be an above-average one were starting to wonder if they’d been wrong. But the formation of Hurricane Gabrielle
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METS, KIRK, CUBS, CHARLIE
New York Mets broadcaster Gary Cohen criticized Chicago Cubs player Matt Shaw for missing one of the team's games this past weekend to attend Charlie Kirk's funeral.
Cohen's comments came during SNY's broadcast of the Mets' game against the Cubs on Tuesday
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27, TEXAS, CAMP, MYSTIC
Camp Mystic, a long-running private Christian girls’ summer camp where 27 girls and counselors died in Texas flooding on the Fourth of July, will reopen next year, according to the camp's operators.
The reopening will take place in conjunction with the camp’s
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CRASH, PLANE, AIRLINES, FIRST
Victim's widow files the first lawsuit after January's D.C.-area midair crash
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WASHINGTON — Casey Crafton was one of 60 passengers who were killed when an American Airlines regional jet collided with a U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter
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COP, DUTY, NYC, SOURCES
An off-duty NYPD officer shot a man who allegedly tried to rob her and her husband in Penn Station on Wednesday evening, according to sources.
The cop was on her way home with her husband, a police officer who was also off-duty at the time, in the busy Midtown
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OUTSIDE, NYC, DUNKIN, HAPPEN
The 13-year-old boy shot in the head by a moped-riding youngster in a brazen Monday morning attack outside a Queens Dunkin’ Donuts has died, police said Wednesday.
Sanjay Samuel, a Martin Van Buren High School student, was struck around 8:20 a.m. when the
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PROSECUTOR, CA, NEWS, POLITICS
Federal officials are making an example of a Santa Monica man arrested this week for allegedly doxxing and harassing an ICE attorney, with the architect of Los Angeles’ and Chicago’s raids warning any copycats.
Gregory Curcio faces up to five years in prison
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NEW, SALES, HOME, UNEXPECTEDLY
New-home sales surged in August to their strongest pace in more than three years, as aggressive price cuts and incentives by builders successfully drew buyers back into a housing market that had been stalled by high mortgage rates and elevated prices.
Sales
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EPSTEIN, TRUMP, STATUE, REMOVED
A garish statue of President Trump and late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was mysteriously erected on the National Mall on Tuesday — and removed by Wednesday morning.
The bronze sculpture stood about 12 feet tall and appeared to show both men in a merry dance
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