Emerging Topics in U.S. News
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24th 2026
Updated 11:12 ET
52 articles
TRUMP, XI, SUMMIT, CHINA
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Washington Wednesday evening for a summit with President Donald Trump, four months after the two leaders reached a sweeping agreement that included Chinese commitments on rare earths, agricultural purchases, trade and
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TRUMP, WHITE, HOUSE, JUDGE
Judge restores journalists' White House access. And, Tucker Carlson on his MAGA split
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NEW, TRUMP, JAMES, YORK
New York Times shareholders led by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a lawsuit against The New York Times Company on Wednesday over the paper allegedly failing to tell the truth in its coverage of Israel. According to Uthmeier, the Times’ bias had
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TRUMP, PRESIDENT, IRAN, XI
President Donald Trump says his new White House ballroom will include a rooftop drone port to defend the complex
Trump says his ballroom will house a drone port. The Secret Service already has one.
Work continues on the construction of the ballroom at the
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WEINSTEIN, HARVEY, SENTENCED, YEARS
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Convicted sex pest Harvey Weinstein begged for “mercy” as he was sentenced in a Manhattan courtroom Wednesday to 15 years in prison — as prosecutors revealed his plot to pay a podcaster $1.75 million in advance
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FALCONS, CODE, PACKERS, PROMO
Thursday night in September means we have Thursday Night Football for all pigskin lovers. Tonight’s matchup between the Falcons and Packers should be a good one, and new users can earn $200 in bonus bets from bet365 when placing a $10 wager on the game.
There
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HURRICANE, POLO, STORM, NOLO
Hurricane Polo has rapidly intensified off the coast of Mexico to become one of the most powerful storms of the season in the Pacific Ocean.
A Hurricane Hunter aircraft, operated by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), flew into the
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PALESTINIAN, DOLEZAL, RACHEL, WHITE
A Philadelphia public-school teacher who spent years presenting herself as a destitute Black Palestinian activist has been caught in a years-long identity fraud.
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Hannah Gann, who teaches at the Workshop School, built a following in local “racial
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WOMEN, GIRLS, SPORTS, ATHLETES
For most of Wednesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on protecting women's sports, not a single Democratic senator was in attendance.
The only two Democrats to show up at all were ranking member Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.
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EL, SAYED, CAMPAIGN, MICHIGAN
A Michigan student confronted Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed over his position on Iran during a town hall Wednesday, invoking his family's stated persecution by the Iranian regime before repeatedly pressing the candidate to say whether he
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FBI, DATA, HACKERS, BREACH
The FBI said it is investigating a hack of its jobs portal, which took down the website entirely on Tuesday. As of Wednesday morning, the site was still not operational.
"The FBI is aware of claims regarding unauthorized activity affecting FBIjobs.gov and
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JUROR, HOLDOUT, HOSTIN, SUNNY
ABC'S "The View" co-host Sunny Hostin revealed on the liberal talk show Tuesday that she was a holdout juror on a case in a New York in the 1990s in which a man killed and dismembered his roommate, shocking her co-hosts as she argued, "I saw clearly that
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JAXSON, DART, GIANTS, COLIN
Jaxson Dart is headed to knee surgery and that will end his chances of playing again during the 2026 NFL season.
Multiple reports say, and OutKick has confirmed, that Dart suffered not only MCL damage but also meniscus damage when he took a vicious hit early
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NEPHEW, PARTON, DOLLY, ACCUSES
Dolly Parton's management company has accused her nephew of "threats, intimidation, and coercion", revealing a bitter battle over the late star's legacy and business interests.
The accusations against Bryan Seaver, who was Parton's head of security and was
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LA, PRATT, SPENCER, POLL
Spencer Pratt didn't make the November runoff, but his warning did.
The latest UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll has DSA-backed City Councilmember Nithya Raman at 39 percent and Mayor Karen Bass at 28 percent. The DSA, which has called for
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HOCHUL, BLAKEMAN, BRUCE, KATHY
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Republican Bruce Blakeman has caught up within single digits of Democratic incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul’s lead in the New York gubernatorial race with six weeks left until the Nov. 3 election, a new poll of likely
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PAXTON, TEXAS, RACE, WIFE
“The Elephant in the Room” was the topic of the September 18 Texas Federation of Republican Women meeting, where over 100 Federation board members were in attendance. Who was that "elephant," pray tell? None other than District 8 State Senator Angela Paxton,
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AI, BIG, SHUT, SMALLER
I'm far from understanding chatbots, chips, and AI technology, but I've worked in D.C. long enough to be suspicious when industry giants come begging for government regulations.
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In the September 2026 essay "We Must Pace the Frontier," Anthropic
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HANNAH, SCHOOLS, NIKOLE, JONES
Author and activist Nikole Hannah-Jones published an emotional essay in The New York Times Magazine last week titled "In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?" In the piece, Hannah-Jones writes about the consequences of having deliberately selected
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TOURISM, RUBIO, BIRTH, VISAS
The State Department will deny visas to foreigners who run or help run birth tourism operations.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the restrictions Wednesday under a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act that lets the secretary declare a foreigner
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SURGEON, MURDERING, PLASTIC, FOUND
A Florida plastic surgeon was found guilty of murdering a lawyer whose body was never found.
Tomasz Kosowski was charged with first-degree murder in the death of 41-year-old Steven Cozzi, who disappeared in March 2023.
Prosecutors said Kosowski had a "malicious
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SEATTLE, NEW, MAYOR, THEFT
This is what happens when a major city elects a mayor with no experience, no qualifications, nothing to offer except a long list of socialist/communist policy proposals. This time it is, again, Seattle, where the "democratic socialist" Mayor Katie Wilson has
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COLLEGE, FOOTBALL, TRUMP, ATTEND
President Donald Trump will be on hand to join the sellout crowd Saturday attending the college football game between the University of Tennessee and top-ranked University of Texas in Knoxville, Tennessee.
No. 13 Tennessee (3-0) plays No. 1 Texas (3-0) starting
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TRUMP, WOKE, HOSTIN, HANDEDLY
On “The Alex Marlow Show,” host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow talked about
Marlow said, ” Sydney Sweeney right now is the single biggest defender of Americana we’ve got in this country.”
The Alex Marlow Show, hosted by Breitbart Editor-in-Chief
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