Emerging Topics in U.S. News
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26th 2025
Updated 23:59 ET
39 articles
COMEY, TRUMP, INDICTMENT, JAMES
For years, Donald Trump has demanded that criminal charges be filed against former FBI Director James Comey. Now the president has gotten what he wanted. Yesterday evening, well after the federal courts usually close their doors, a grand jury in Virginia handed
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ICE, DALLAS, SHOOTING, FACILITY
Following an anti-ICE shooting in Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security announced that there will be an increase in security at its field offices.
Joshua Jahn, who meticulously planned the ambush, killed himself after killing one
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TRUMP, CUP, RYDER, ESCALATOR
How escalator safety mechanisms work — and why they cause machines to stop
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When President Trump arrived at the United Nations this week to address the General Assembly, his entrance didn't go as planned.
A video widely shared
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NETANYAHU, NATIONS, GAZA, UNITED
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the United Nations General Assembly in a defiant address Friday that his nation must “finish the job” in its war against Hamas terrorists and secure the release of all remaining hostages from Gaza.
“The final
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KIRK, CHARLIE, ERIKA, KILLER
Charlie Kirk’s politics were motivated by his Christianity and the fundamental knowledge that “Jesus is truth,” Dr. Frank Turek, Kirk’s spiritual mentor, said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily.
Turek, who was helping Kirk on the campus tour, said
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NAVARRO, EXCLUSIVE, PETER, CLUB
Democrats “call us fascist, and they put me in prison,” Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing to President Trump, Peter Navarro, said during a special Founders Roundtable on Breitbart Fight Club on Thursday.
When asked about the steps that can be taken
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KIMMEL, JIMMY, SINCLAIR, LIVE
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Sinclair Broadcast Group is ending its preemption of ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
The Maryland-based owner of several major ABC network affiliates said Friday the late night
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ICE, SCHOOL, SUPERINTENDENT, IOWA
This is a chilling turn in the entire illegal alien saga. In Iowa, the superintendent of schools in Des Moines was not only in the country illegally, but was also under a deportation order, and when ICE officers attempted his arrest, he fled - and was found
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TRUMP, SUPREME, COURT, ADMINISTRATION
Lisa Cook, governor of the US Federal Reserve, speaks at the Peterson Institute For International Economics in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022.
President Donald Trump's firing of Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook for alleged misconduct would
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HOWARD, RUBIN, ARRESTED, TRAFFICKING
A retired Big Apple financier who once had ties to George Soros was arrested Friday for sex-trafficking former Playboy models and other women to a penthouse turned BDSM “sex dungeon,” federal prosecutors alleged.
Howard Rubin, 70, was picked up at his home
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TRUMP, DEAL, GAZA, OBSTACLES
President Trump on Friday appeared optimistic about the prospects for peace in Gaza, saying it was “looking like we have a deal.” His administration is considering naming Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, to a role in overseeing Gaza after the
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FBI, AGENTS, J6, GEORGE
The firings involve as many as 20 agents, according to sources.
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 1: A sign is displayed outside of the J. Edgar Hoover Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) building on June, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON,
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TRUMP, EARHART, AMELIA, FILES
President Donald Trump on Friday said he will declassify files related to Amelia Earhart, the aviation trailblazer who became the first woman to fly solo nonstop across the U.S. and who famously disappeared nearly 90 years ago.
In a Truth Social post, Trump
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CUBA, SHAKUR, ASSATA, DIES
Assata Shakur, black liberation activist exiled in Cuba dies at 78
Shakur maintained her innocence and reappeared in Cuba in 1984 where she was granted asylum by former president Fidel Castro.
She had been on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists list for years
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MEDICAL, EXAMINER, CTE, SHOOTING
Tamura killed four people in the shooting in July.
Shane Devon Tamura, 27, identified by the NYPD as the Midtown Manhattan office building shooter.
Shane Devon Tamura, 27, identified by the NYPD as the Midtown Manhattan office building shooter.
Shane Devon
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HUSBAND, SCANDAL, RACE, CHEATING
Democratic New Jersey gubernatorial hopeful Mikie Sherrill’s husband was also caught up in the Naval Academy cheating scandal that has rocked her campaign, court documents exclusively obtained by The Post show.
Jason Hedberg was one of about four dozen midshipmen
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JAMES, INDICTMENT, COMEY, MAMDANI
Not long after Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s decisive victory in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City, a group of wealthy real estate titans and financiers pledged to raise tens of millions of dollars to defeat Mr. Mamdani, a democratic socialist.
Their
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RUSSIA, NUCLEAR, IRAN, CHINA
A last-minute attempt to delay “snapback” sanctions against Iran failed at the United Nations Security Council on Friday, after Tehran did not convince enough nations that it had scaled back its nuclear program.
The resolution, led by China and Russia, two
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EPSTEIN, ELON, MUSK, DOCUMENTS
House Oversight Democrats released more documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein that mention X CEO Elon Musk, political strategist Steve Bannon and tech billionaire Peter Thiel.
Democrats on the committee released six heavily redacted pages on Friday afternoon
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SHUTDOWN, GOVERNMENT, HEAT, TRUMP
Senate Democrats earlier this year were unwilling to shut down the government over fears of mass firings and deep cuts to spending, but now with a similar threat on the horizon, they seem unwilling to keep the lights on.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer,
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MEMPHIS, FEDERAL, GOVERNOR, WEEK
Federal agents will start arriving in Memphis as early as next week, Gov. Bill Lee of Tennessee said, after President Trump signed an order creating a federal task force and authorizing use of the National Guard in the city as part of a broader crackdown on
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DEAD, REMAINS, CONFIRMED, DAUGHTERS
The whereabouts of Travis Decker – the man police believe murdered his three young daughters in a Washington campground – has finally been determined by DNA results on human remains found last week not far from the scene of the crime.
Decker, a 33-year-old
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FLAG, HATS, MEXICAN, RED
The video of a Halloween display of what appears to portray two Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents lynched from the gallows in a Houston neighborhood is inflaming political passions on social media.
FreedomNews.TV posted a video of the display
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FOX, NEWS, BENEFITS, POLITICS
Disturbing flyers appeared on a university campus, and a New York Mets commentator criticized the Chicago Cubs’ Matt Shaw for skipping a game. Can you answer this week's News Quiz?
Test your news knowledge with this week's Fox News Digital News Quiz.
Looking
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