Emerging Topics in U.S. News
MONDAY, OCTOBER 12th 2026
Updated 12:12 ET
26 articles
TRUMP, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, CEASEFIRE
Russia has attacked a power plant in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv despite President Donald Trump’s statement earlier Sunday that both sides had agreed to an "energy ceasefire," according to Ukrainian officials.
A local official told ABC News the thermal
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ILHAN, OMAR, HOME, IMMIGRATION
Ilhan Omar got an unpleasant surprise when Feds actually carried out a raid on her home in Washington, D.C., early Monday morning.
RedState colleague Nick Arama covered the breaking news with all of the juicy details.
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EL, SAYED, SENATE, CAMPAIGN
During this week’s broadcast of FNC’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) defended comments he made the two nights earlier while campaigning alongside El-Sayed’s opponent, former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), about Michigan Democratic Senate nominee
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CODE, WEEK, PROMO, FOXNEWS
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The
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COLUMBUS, TRUMP, DAY, CHRISTOPHER
Columbus Day is a holiday worth keeping and honoring as a great American holiday, for Columbus was the first seafaring explorer to cross the Atlantic Ocean from Europe and discover the continent that would later host colonies that became the foundation of the
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SAUDI, AIRPORT, HOUTHIS, TRUMP
WASHINGTON — President Trump warned that the US may join Saudi Arabia in its upcoming retaliatory attacks against the Houthis after the Iran-backed terror group carried out the deadliest attack on Riyadh and has threatened even more attacks on civilian enclaves.
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KILLED, PENNSYLVANIA, MOM, GIVING
A pregnant Pennsylvania woman who was reportedly just four days away from giving birth and her two young children were among eight victims killed in a mass shooting at an Erie home Friday.
Angelina Stone, who was eight months pregnant, was killed along with
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POPE, LEO, LUNG, SURGERY
Pope Leo XIV to undergo lung surgery this week
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Pope Leo XIV announced Sunday that he would have surgery this week to remove a "localized nodule" in his lung.
Leo said the nodule was found at a "very early stage" with doctors
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MAMDANI, ICE, SHOOTING, NYPD
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani ordered the NYPD to conduct its first use-of-force review in a decade – as he announced an extra $2.6 million in funding for independent police oversight.
The directive, announced Monday, comes after an officer involved in
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JAGUARS, LONDON, EAGLES, NFL
Jason Kelce made an emergency long snapper one of the most interesting parts of Eagles-Jaguars on Sunday morning.
I wasn’t expecting to spend much time thinking about Jacksonville’s long-snapping situation when I turned on the game. But that’s where we ended
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STORM, TROPICAL, RACHEL, LONG
Long Beach residents have been left devastated after powerful waves from Tropical Storm Rachel battered their multimillion-dollar beachfront homes, destroying properties, forcing families to evacuate and ripping apart a century-old boardwalk as yet another
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NIDAL, HASAN, EXECUTION, MAKE
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) chief has defended a plan to livestream the execution of convicted killer Nidal Hasan, rejecting claims that it could fuel radicalisation or make him a martyr.
"I don't see an elevated risk," Markwayne Mullin said
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LOVE, TRUMP, REPUBLICAN, FETTERMAN
President Donald Trump praised Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., as a “great guy” on Saturday, saying he would welcome the Pennsylvania Democrat into the Republican Party.
Trump was asked by a reporter after stepping off Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews whether
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NETWORKS, JUSTICE, DEPARTMENT, INVESTIGATING
CNN White House reporter Betsy Klein works in the CNN workspace outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 24, 2026. CNN and MS NOW said their reporters were allowed back into the White House on Thursday after a judge ordered that
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NITHYA, RAMAN, LAPD, COPS
Nithya Raman has issued a word-salad denial on whether she will make controversial former District Attorney George Gascón head of the LAPD if she becomes mayor of Los Angeles.
The DSA-backed candidate appeared to panic during a TV appearance and said “I don’t
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AMBUSH, ORDERED, HELD, SUSPECT
A Philadelphia police officer killed in “a brutal, senseless, horrific” ambush in which a colleague was also shot 12 times was a married father of two young children, his department said.
Shane Seiber, 40, was shot three times and died later in the hospital
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KENTUCKY, LSU, WIN, COLLEGE
There were quite a few happy people in Lexington, Kentucky, on Saturday night after the Wildcats upset LSU in an overtime thriller, but it's hard to imagine anyone being happier than Will Stein's father, and there is video evidence to support it.
After LSU
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MINNESOTA, SHOOTING, HOMECOMING, SUSPECT
We reported on the story on October 3: a shooting broke out outside a high school football homecoming game in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, and two teenagers were struck and injured. Unfortunately, stories like this, which caused the stadium to be evacuated and
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TALARICO, MISSING, LINDNER, JAMES
The mystery of the “missing” James Talarico may have just been solved.
A breaking news report now threatens to derail the Texas Democrat’s senate campaign.
Independent journalist Nick Sortor, who earlier Sunday gave Talarico a deadline to explain his whereabouts,
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GAME, NLCS, DODGERS, BREWERS
Even MLB's powerhouse team needs a wake-up call. And this time around in the NLCS, the Milwaukee Brewers eked out a statement win versus the boys in blue.
The Brewers defended home turf in Game 1 of the NLCS, defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers 2–1 in a tight
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ITALIAN, MAMDANI, COMMUNIST, HERITAGE
There's this old saying, about birds of a feather sticking together.
That can happen, it seems, even through history, even over a span of generations. Case in point: New York City's mayor, the "democratic socialist" (commie) Zohran Mamdani, took to his X account
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PENSION, SUCKING, CREAM, 100K
California voters recalled Democrat Gray Davis in 2003. Unfortunately, one of his legacies lives on: overly generous pension packages to state employees.
The California Post reports that more than 63,000 retirees are earning six-figure pensions. That’s more
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GAME, BROWNS, JETS, HIT
Cleveland Browns star wide receiver KC Concepcion found himself on the wrong end of a vicious hit that left fans stunned and him unconscious in the first half of Cleveland’s game against the Jets.
Browns QB Deshaun Watson threw to Concepcion, but Jets safety
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GEORGIA, ALABAMA, GAME, PENALTY
There was an outside chance that the Alabama Crimson Tide were going to pull out a miracle win over Georgia, but a boneheaded foul turned that chance into zero.
With just over two minutes to go, No. 2 Georgia was set for a third-and-2 on its own end of the
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