Emerging Topics in U.S. News
FRIDAY, JUNE 12th 2026
Updated 10:12 ET
58 articles
TRUMP, IRAN, STRIKES, DEAL
Iranian state media announced Thursday that all of Elon Musk’s business operations in the Middle East including SpaceX will be considered military targets as part of Iran’s ongoing retaliation against the United States.
CNBC reports that Iranian state media
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KNICKS, FINALS, NBA, SPURS
Knicks rally from 29 points down and beat Spurs for 3-1 NBA Finals lead
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NEW YORK — The New York Knicks made a record comeback from 29 points down and moved to the brink of their first championship since 1973 by beating the
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CUP, WORLD, 2026, TEAM
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We join the people of Los Angeles and California in welcoming the World Cup to LA!
Team USA will kick off play at the spectacular SoFi Stadium. (Oh, and it has to be called “Team USA.” Not “USMNT,” or whatever
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KARMELO, ANTHONY, MURDER, AUSTIN
Karmelo Anthony, who was sentenced to 35 years in prison for the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf, filed a notice of appeal on Wednesday.
In a one-page document filed with the court in Collin County, Texas, Anthony said he could not afford an attorney for
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HOUSE, WHITE, TRUMP, UFC
The House of Representatives enters another recess period Thursday (is it me, or do normal people get nowhere near the kind of off-time that they do?). Lawmakers, however, left without passing an extension to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
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HOMELESS, FRAUD, LA, WHITE
EXCLUSIVE: A top Trump agency is cutting off funding to the Los Angeles agency responsible for coordinating billions in homelessness spending after accusing it of "obvious fraud," "wanton mismanagement" and repeated failures to safeguard taxpayer dollars,
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NEW, YORK, TRUMP, INSURANCE
President Donald Trump, a native of Queens, New York, and a longtime Knicks fan, announced plans to attend an NBA finals game at Madison Square Garden. As expected, Trump's New York political enemies pounced. But take a look at the resume of Trump's New York
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PENTAGON, LOCKDOWN, HAZARDOUS, MATERIALS
An aerial view of the Pentagon, which houses the US Department of Defense headquarters, in Arlington, Virginia, on May 31, 2026.
Some workers at the Pentagon were told to shelter in place on Thursday after systems in the massive building detected an air quality
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VANCE, JD, VIEW, VICE
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Vice President JD Vance will appear on “The View” next week, marking his first appearance on the reliably liberal ABC News program, Fox News Digital has learned.
Vance, who is set to join the show on June 16,
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PLATNER, EX, GRAHAM, NAZI
Former President Joe Biden's chief of staff, Ron Klain, is facing fierce pushback online after jumping into the growing controversy surrounding Maine Senate Democratic nominee Graham Platner’s Nazi-linked tattoo, attempting to defend and explain away the
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DEMOCRATS, SENATE, MAJORITY, PLATNER
Last fall, Graham Platner — an oysterman running for the Democratic nomination for US Senate in Maine — landed in hot water, when some of his old Reddit posts, showing him blaming victims of sexual assault and calling himself a communist, surfaced. Then, there
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NATIONAL, MALL, GIANT, 47
A “deranged” vandal apparently figured out a way to kill or discolor the grass on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to spell out the numbers “8647.”
As former FBI Director James Comey knows, that’s a loaded number combination. “86” comes from the restaurant
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LAGUNA, SWEPT, BEACH, YEAR
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A desperate nighttime search unfolded after a 5-year-old girl was swept away by a rogue wave near Laguna Beach Tuesday.
Video of the search — which started as a rescue mission, turned into to a recovery mission
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STARMER, QUITS, DEFENSE, UK
British Minister of Defence John Healey, one of Prime Minister’s most loyal allies, has resigned from government because Sir Keir Starmer and the treasury have been “unable… unwilling” to pay to fund the Armed Forces.
A year of intense Westminster wrangling
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CONGRESSIONAL, GAME, SEN, BASEBALL
We already know that Democrats are terrible at policy and getting anything done for the American people. That's a feature, not a bug.
Turns out they're also not great at baseball.
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Wednesday was the annual Congressional Baseball Game between
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PRATT, SPENCER, LA, SNAIL
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The already tense Los Angeles mayoral race is getting even messier as vote counting drags on, and reality TV personality Spencer Pratt is fanning the flames with pointed online jabs and lingering questions about
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COURT, SUPREME, ALLEGEDLY, CLERKS
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CONCORD, N.H. — The New Hampshire Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a murder conviction for a man accused of killing his 5-year-old daughter and moving her corpse around for months before disposing of it.
Though
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HUSBAND, ASSASSIN, LAWMAKER, BOELTER
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MINNEAPOLIS — The man charged in the political assassinations of the top Democrat in the Minnesota House and her husband, as well as the nonfatal shootings of a state senator and his wife, pleaded guilty in
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TRUMP, MIGRANT, DHS, BIDEN
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin accused the Biden administration of turning a "blind eye" to widespread reports of sexual abuse targeting migrants during a Thursday press conference.
"We're going to enforce our nation's laws, and we're going
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WHITE, UFC, HOUSE, COUNTRY
Security for UFC fights at White House will be at Super Bowl level, Secret Service says
WASHINGTON DC, UNITED STATES - JUNE 10: Security forces take security measures as preparations continue on the South Lawn of the White House ahead of the Ultimate Fighting
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MONTHS, OFFICER, ICE, SENTENCED
A man who admitted to assaulting a federal officer during protests outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland, Oregon, last year was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison on Thursday.
Robert Jacob Hoopes previously pleaded
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SEINFELD, JERRY, INFLUENCER, FREE
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld gave a blunt response to an influencer who asked the comedian to say "free Palestine," telling the streamer that it didn't exist.
"What up Seinfeld, what up? Can we get a 'free Palestine?'" the streamer Finesse Fave asked in a video
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PRICES, TRUMP, RISING, POLICIES
Most Americans actually approve of key policies of President Donald Trump, a Harvard-Harris survey found.
The survey examined a variety of issues — from the deportation of illegal aliens to banning biological men from competing in women’s sports. It identified
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BELFAST, UNREST, VIOLENT, CALLED
Police had to use a water cannon to quell the demonstrators.
Extra officers called in as violent unrest in Belfast continues for another night
Fires burn around police vehicles as protesters (behind) stand off with police in Glengormley, north of Belfast,
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