Emerging Topics in U.S. News
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26th 2026
Updated 17:12 ET
39 articles
TRUMP, XI, STATE, CHINA
Takeaways from the Trump-Xi state visit: Pageantry and pandas
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President Trump rolled out the red carpet for Xi Jinping this week for the first state visit that the Chinese leader has made since 2015.
The visit comes
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TRUMP, XI, STATE, UKRAINE
President Donald Trump this week mourned the death of Jim Copenhaver, a rallygoer who was shot during the 2024 Butler, Pennsylvania, event that saw an assassination attempt on the then candidate for president.
Copenhaver, of Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, sustained
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TENNESSEE, TEXAS, CODE, PROMO
The gates at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville were open at 9 a.m., alcoholic beverages were 50% off, and the vibes amongst Tennessee Volunteers fans were extremely high as their SEC matchup against No. 1 Texas comes with the arrival of President Donald Trump.
While
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NEW, YORK, TRUMP, NYC
The National Book Awards has appeared to overwhelmingly favor books by minority authors or about minority subjects over the last decade — prompting a New York Times columnist to brand the hallowed accolade a “DEI checklist.”
Of the 10 awards for fiction handed
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SUPREME, COURT, TRUMP, MISSOURI
The Supreme Court for the third time rejected efforts to redraw Missouri’s congressional districts in a way favorable to Republicans.
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NEW, NOR'EASTER, EASTER, COAST
Waves up to 19 feet were recorded already along North Carolina’s Outer Banks.
A man takes a picture of the Manhattan skyline while in the rain in the Dumbo neighborhood in Brooklyn as severe storms move through the New York area, July 21, 2026 in New York
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LT, GOV, HARASSMENT, DALE
Democrat New Jersey Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell resigned on Friday.
Democrat Gov. Mikie Sherrill had hand-picked Caldwell for the job, but then ended up calling for him to resign after an investigation into allegations came out earlier this week .
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POPE, LEO, FRANCE, WARNS
Pope Leo warns a 'paradise of machines' could undermine humanity on his France visit
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PARIS — Pope Leo XIV warned Friday that a "paradise of machines" risked undermining humanity as he opened a trip to France by posing fundamental
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AI, WARNS, TECH, BILL
Regulating every form of AI as though it were the same technology does more harm than good. Should some AI be spared from the current backlash?
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently called for a slowdown of AI, citing a host of security risks. He’s the latest
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DOCTOR, PITTSBURGH, DOCS, STABBED
A Pittsburgh pediatrician is dead and his wife is hospitalized after a home invasion stabbing attack in their Edgewood, Pennsylvania home, according to authorities.
Allegheny County police have arrested 32-year-old Elijah Hemingway, of Pittsburgh. He has
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KIRK, UNIVERSITY, ASSASSINATION, UTAH
An independent review has pointed to a number of security shortcomings at the Utah campus where conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot dead last year.
The report said Utah Valley University (UVU) did not carry out a proper written security assessment
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NEW, POLL, NEWSOM, GAVIN
California voters don’t seem to be feeling as good as they once did about terming-out Gov. Gavin Newsom heading into the November midterm elections, according to a recent poll by Politico and the UC Berkeley Citrin Center.
In the poll, conducted September
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TRUMP, RESCISSION, POCKET, RARE
The U.S. Capitol is seen on March 16, 2026, in Washington.
The White House on Friday evening announced plans to claw back $810 million in congressionally appropriated funding, prompting criticism from lawmakers.
A year ago, President Donald Trump's administration
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TRUMP, CRIME, MAHER, CREDITS
There are a few sane, old school liberals around. In recent months it seems like the "democratic socialists" have overshadowed them. Some of the old school liberals have been subsumed, co-opted to the far left, lest they be called bad names; but a few have
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SAYED, EL, ABDUL, REPEALING
A majority of Michigan voters hold an unfavorable view of Democratic Senate nominee Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed (aka Abdul El-Sayed), according to a poll commissioned by a Republican group and released this week.
The survey, obtained by the Washington Reporter,
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FRAT, HAZING, BASEMENT, DOZENS
The Wisconsin fraternity busted for allegedly hazing teens in its basement in a sick ritual had been booted from University of Wisconsin-Madison for a raft of violations — including getting a 17-year-old liquored up to the point of needing detox.
Cops raided
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AMERICANS, POLL, VIEW, SOCIALISM
More Americans than ever view socialism positively, according to a Gallup poll released Wednesday, as 43% view it positively for the first time since 2010.
Gallup asked respondents if they have a positive or negative image of socialism, capitalism, free
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ANTHROPIC, PENTAGON, DECLINES, COURT
We're getting some big court decisions out of D.C. on Friday, including one that allows the Pentagon to continue excluding Anthropic's Claude from its supply chain after the artificial intelligence company refused to allow the military to use its technology
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STAGED, HANGING, WOMAN, DEATH
Investigators believe Tasia Fortune was already dead before the Black woman’s body was hanged from a tree behind an abandoned home in the Mississippi capital this summer, a detective testified Friday.
The hanging of Tasia Fortune’s body, which was found on
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SHOT, HIGH, SCHOOL, POLICE
All other students and staff are safe, Houston police said.
17-year-old shot dead near his high school, no arrests: Police
A 17-year-old boy was shot and killed down the street from his high school in Houston on Friday morning, authorities said.
The victim
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ED, SHEERAN, CONCERTS, CALLED
Ed Sheeran's concerts at Gillette Stadium have been canceled.
Sheeran was set to perform at the Foxborough, Massachusetts, venue on Sept. 25 and 26, but according to a statement shared on social media, potentially dangerous weather conditions have forced
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TRUMP, REJECTS, DAY, PROPOSAL
President Trump has reportedly rejected a seven-day cease-fire proposed by Iran and expects to resume bombing the country after the midterm elections.
As part of the proposed cease-fire, Tehran pledged to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and resume negotiations
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UMASS, DARTMOUTH, MURDER, FOOTBALL
A Nigerian national accused of killing a UMass Dartmouth football player entered the U.S. on a tourist visa and overstayed it before receiving deferred action under both the Biden and Trump administrations, multiple federal law enforcement sources told Fox
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SCHOOL, HANNAH, NIKOLE, JONES
Activist and reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones and her husband crusaded against allowing more students from affluent backgrounds into their daughter’s struggling, mostly-black Brooklyn elementary school — while decrying New York’s hopelessly “segregated” public
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