Emerging Topics in U.S. News
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7th 2026
Updated 05:12 ET
30 articles
TRUMP, GOP, HOUSE, REPUBLICANS
Trump Mobile's golden phone remains nowhere to be found
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A golden phone that President Donald Trump's family business promised to release last year remains mysteriously under wraps as the technology industry serves up a glut
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VENEZUELA, TRUMP, OIL, BARRELS
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said U.S. actions in Venezuela amount to war, warning the Trump administration is sidestepping Congress as the Senate prepares to vote on war powers.
Paul, a longtime non-interventionist who has repeatedly pushed to rein in presidential
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FRAUD, WALZ, MINNESOTA, TIM
Andrew Morales raisies his arm during a lesson while attending daycare with other children at the Akitoi Learning Center in 2012.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state Democratic
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MADURO, VENEZUELA, CAPTURE, TRUMP
Venezuelan former political prisoners of the regime of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro and families of slain protesters recounted their harrowing experiences to the Colombian outlet NTN24 this week following Maduro’s arrest in a U.S. operation.
NTN24 interviewed
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GREENLAND, TRUMP, ACQUIRE, NATO
The military is among a "range of options" being considering, Leavitt said.
US military is 'always an option' for Trump to acquire Greenland, White House official says
Houses are pictured in Nuuk, Greenland, on June 15, 2025.
Houses are pictured in Nuuk,
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LAMALFA, DOUG, GOP, REP
The 119th Congress returned to Washington, D.C. on Monday, and on Tuesday, the House Republican members attended a retreat with President Donald Trump addressing the assembled. Trump dedicated his speech to Rep. Doug LaMalfa (CA-01), who passed away on Monday.
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MAMDANI, NYC, ZOHRAN, SUPREMACY
Mayor Zohran Mamdani stood by his new top tenant advocate Tuesday after her past inflammatory social media posts sparked a firestorm — and a warning shot from the Trump administration.
Longtime housing activist Cea Weaver, the new director of the Office to
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COURT, SUPREME, ABORTION, TEXAS
is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he focuses on the Supreme Court, the Constitution, and the decline of liberal democracy in the United States. He received a JD from Duke University and is the author of two books on the Supreme Court.
The Wyoming Supreme
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OHIO, DENTIST, WIFE, 911
Several 911 calls reveal the frantic moments before police found a Columbus, Ohio, dentist and his wife dead at their home, including one caller bluntly telling dispatchers "there’s a body," as investigators search for the person who killed the couple shortly
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REAGAN, MICHAEL, SON, RONALD
Michael Reagan, the son of former President Ronald Reagan and actress Jane Wyman, has died at 80, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute announced in a statement released from Simi Valley, California, on Tuesday.
Reagan was a conservative
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IRAN, PROTESTERS, TRUMP, MAIN
Security forces clash with protesters in Iran's main market as death toll rises
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Protesters angry over Iran's ailing economy conducted a sit-in Tuesday at Tehran's Grand Bazaar, witnesses said, with
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EPSTEIN, FILES, DOJ, REVIEW
More than two weeks have passed since the Dec. 19 deadline to release the trove of files related to the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, and the Justice Department says it still has millions of documents to review.
The department said in a letter
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JUDGE, CASE, CONVICTED, LAWYERS
A Brooklyn power-broker threw another wrench into a multimillion-dollar court case now on its fifth judge — by personally phoning the latest jurist, the judge revealed Tuesday.
Former borough Democratic Party Chair Frank Seddio — who has been ripped in a federal
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UKRAINE, SECURITY, CEASEFIRE, UK
Negotiations over security guarantees for Ukraine may be nearing a breakthrough.
U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker said allied nations are close to locking in a framework that would pave the way for a peace deal with Russia during an appearance on
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HILTON, DHS, FRANCHISE, BAN
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Hilton Hotels said Tuesday that it will sever ties with a franchise hotel in the Minneapolis area after a new video showed a desk clerk there refusing to book rooms for a person claiming to be a Department of Homeland
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MARLOW, TRUMP, ARREST, GERMANY
On Monday’s “Alex Marlow Show,” host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow talked about his plans for the show.
Marlow stated, “This is going to be a serious show…we’re going to do it in a happy way…I’m going to try to entertain you as best I can with
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CRIME, ADAMS, 2025, TISCH
The kids are far from alright.
Youth violence across New York City hit historic highs during 2025, with staggering numbers of shooters and shooting victims falling under the age of 18, NYPD data released Tuesday shows.
Last year, 14% of shooting victims and
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NPR, JAN, COVERAGE, TRUMP
Investigations J6 project It's been five years since the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol. NPR's Investigations team's coverage includes an archive of much of the documentation no longer available from the government.
National Investigations J6 project
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OFFICERS, DUTY, LINE, DROP
The number of U.S. law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty fell sharply in 2025, reaching levels not seen since World War II, new data shows.
The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund report released on Tuesday shows total line-of-duty
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VANCE, HOME, CALLED, VANDALISM
The 26-year-old man who is the suspect in the vandalism of Vice President JD Vance’s Cincinnati home on Monday demanded law enforcement call him “Julia” and has a prior criminal record and mental health issues, Fox News reported, citing federal sources.
The
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MACHETE, KILLED, HOME, DEAD
The machete-wielding maniac who was killed by cops in a frantic confrontation outside a New Jersey home Monday night slaughtered his mother and grandparents, authorities revealed Tuesday.
Police responded to the Piscataway home on River Road around 5:30 p.m.
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ATHLETE, HARASSMENT, SEXUAL, CENTER
EXCLUSIVE: Two West Virginia high school students and their families have come forward with alleged details of their experience with a local transgender athlete who is a plaintiff in a lawsuit that will be reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court this month.
The
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BROWN, UNIVERSITY, MIT, SHOOTER
The cold-blooded Brown University and MIT shooter Claudio Neves Valente callously admitted he long plotted the killings and expressed having no regrets over the bloodshed in a series of chilling video confessions outlined by the feds Tuesday.
The Justice Department
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CASES, MEASLES, SOUTH, HOSPITALIZED
The South Carolina Department of Public Health (DPH) is sounding the alarm after 26 new measles cases were reported since Friday, bringing the total number of cases in the state’s latest outbreak to 211.
DPH first reported a measles outbreak Oct. 2 in the
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