Emerging Topics in U.S. News
President Donald Trump attacked Pope Leo XIV on Sunday in a sprawling Truth Social post that began as a fight over Iran and quickly became something bigger: a sustained assault on the pope's legitimacy, his politics, and his right to speak at all.
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IRAN, BLOCKADE, HORMUZ, TRUMP
Retired U.S. Navy admiral on Trump's threat to blockade the Strait of Hormuz NPR's Michel Martin speaks to retired U.S. Navy Adm. James Foggo, dean of the Center for Maritime Strategy, about President Trump's command to blockade the Strait of Hormuz.
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TRUMP, SOCIAL, MEDIA, WSJ
Monday on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called President Donald Trump’s “unhinged” social media posts “disgraceful.”
Co-host Mika Brzezinski said, “We had, for example, since Easter Sunday and through today, really some,
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MISSING, HOOKER, HUSBAND, LYNETTE
Brian Hooker was released without charges in his wife Lynette's disappearance.
Police release husband of woman reported missing after going overboard in Bahamas: Attorney
Brian and Lynette Hooker in a photo posted to their social media.
Brian and Lynette
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ALTMAN, SAM, HOME, MOLOTOV
A Texas man accused of firebombing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home was held without bail Tuesday as his lawyer claimed he was in a mental health crisis.
Daniel Moreno-Gama, 20, appeared in a San Francisco courtroom but did not enter a plea on multiple charges,
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TRUMP, HOUSE, DOORDASH, MCDONALD
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at an event about the economy at the Circa Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., January 25, 2025.
Marinella did not disclose the cost of the campaign, but described it as a "modest ad buy."
"After years of Democrats
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IRAN, TALKS, TRUMP, PAKISTAN
ISLAMABAD — Additional US-Iran peace talks “could be happening over next two days” in Pakistan’s capital, President Trump told The Post on Tuesday.
In an initial phone interview, Trump had claimed that discussions were “happening, but, you know, a little bit
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MAMDANI, GROCERY, NYC, SOCIALIST
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s first-unveiled city-owned grocery store will cost $30 million to build from the ground up at East Harlem’s longstanding La Marqueta, officials confirmed.
The La Marqueta site – announced by Mamdani during a Sunday celebration of his
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DOJ, BIDEN, PRO, WEAPONIZED
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) released a report early Tuesday morning revealing how the Biden administration systematically targeted pro-life activists for FACE Act prosecutions, often at the behest of pro-abortion organizations.
The
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Sunday on “The Alex Marlow Show,” actor and author Kirk Cameron discussed his life.
Cameron said, “Academy Award-winning actor in Hollywood promoting the destruction of the hearts and minds of children has never been on my bucket list. I feel like I’ve got
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TRUMP, STONEWALL, FLAG, MONUMENT
It had been stripped of the flag by the National Park Service, in order to comply with Department of the Interior regulations that say federal flagpoles in park-run sites must only display designated flags unless the flags provide historical context.
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COP, COOLER, ERIK, PARDON
Bruce Blakeman, New York's Republican candidate for governor, has vowed to pardon a former NYPD sergeant convicted of manslaughter in the death of a fleeing suspect, who he knocked off a scooter with a cooler.
He made the announcement at a news briefing
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II, ARTEMIS, VIDEO, SPACE
A crew member of Artemis II got a warm welcome from her four-legged friend when she returned from circling the moon.
NASA astronaut Christina Koch recorded the moment she was reunited with her rescue dog, Sadie, a few days after the crew splashed down off
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ANNA, KEPNER, STEPBROTHER, MURDER
Anna Kepner’s 16-year-old stepbrother raped her when he murdered her on their family cruise vacation, the feds alleged for the first time Monday while charging him as an adult.
The boy, only identified as T.H. in charging documents, is facing life in prison
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KILLER, FEDEX, ATHENA, STRAND
Killer FedEx driver Tanner Horner once wrote a groveling letter to the family of his 7-year-old victim, Athena Strand, in which he apologized for taking away their “little angel” and begged for forgiveness for his heinous crime.
The twisted 34-year-old penned
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KIRK, UNIVERSITY, THREATS, EVENT
Utah Valley University (UVU) is facing backlash over its choice of commencement speaker as critics object to her past comments about Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk following his assassination on the same campus.
The university chose author and educator
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EPSTEIN, TRUMP, LAWSUIT, JUDGE
A federal judge in Florida on Monday dismissed President Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against media baron Rupert Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal, which claimed the newspaper defamed Trump with a story saying the president had sent a "bawdy" 50th birthday
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VIRGINIA, SPANBERGER, ASSAULT, BAN
As yesterday’s deadline for signing or vetoing the “assault weapons” ban bill closed in, Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) pivoted and proposed changes to legislation.
Spanberger’s actions extend the deadline for action on the bill to April 22, 2026, giving
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ISRAEL, IRAN, TALKS, LEBANON
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared Monday that the joint U.S.-Israel campaign against Iran has turned the longstanding pledge of “Never Again” into reality, saying the strikes dealt the regime “the hardest blow in its history” and prevented
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MASTERS, RORY, MCILROY, BACK
Coverage of the 90th Masters was spread across broadcast networks and streaming, but Sunday's final round belonged to CBS and Paramount+, with Jim Nantz on the call.
Over the decades, the network has polished its Masters coverage into what is largely viewed
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CHINA, XI, SPAIN, TRUMP
The West must “relinquish its participation quotas” at international institutions in favor of the countries of the “Global South,” Spain’s socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez demanded Monday from Beijing.
Sánchez is presently conducting a four-day visit
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ORB, HUNGARY, LOSS, MAGYAR
Viktor Orbán’s loss in yesterday’s election is just as much a defeat for Donald Trump and his vice president, J. D. Vance, as it is for the now-toppled Hungarian strongman. Seldom have American leaders intervened so overtly in a foreign election, and seldom
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