Emerging Topics in U.S. News
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9th 2026
Updated 05:12 ET
15 articles
SAYED, EL, DEBATE, MICHIGAN
U.S. Senate candidates Abdul El-Sayed (D-MI) and Mike Rogers (R-MI) apparently did not stop debating each other Thursday during a commercial break as the pair faced off in a debate.
Host Rick Albin, who moderated the debate, revealed what happened after the
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TRUMP, IRAN, TEXAS, RALLY
ABC News deleted a report criticizing the business dealings of President Donald Trump’s oldest sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, Thursday after facing legal threats but has failed to provide any explanation or editor’s note for the vanished "hit piece."
The
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PIKE, CHRISTA, EXECUTION, LETHAL
A look at the legal fight ahead following Christa Pike's botched execution
A look at the legal fight ahead following Christa Pike's botched execution Audio will be available later today.
Christa Pike's attorneys say she regained consciousness after surviving
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TALARICO, TEXAS, PAXTON, TRUMP
WASHINGTON — Texas Senate hopeful James Talarico’s social media influencer army has been privately fretting over his prolonged absence from the campaign trail, leaked Slack messages obtained by The Post reveal.
Talarico, who has type 1 diabetes, last had an
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NYC, MAMDANI, SHOOTING, 11
9/11 families seek release of documents they say include Saudi Arabia's link to attack
The Tribute in Light seen from the parking garage roof where it is projected, marking the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, in
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HURRICANE, ISAIAS, COAST, GULF
Hurricane Isaias, the first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic season, is intensifying as it heads toward the northern Gulf Coast. The storm is expected to make landfall Friday night, bringing dangerous winds, storm surge and heavy rain to parts of Mississippi,
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EXECUTION, HOOD, SQUAD, FIRING
In a plot twist that literally no one saw coming, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said Thursday that the execution of psychopathic jihadi Nidal Hasan is currently scheduled for December 3 at Fort Hood, Texas. He also revealed that the execution will be by a traditional
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MAMDANI, OCT, ISRAEL, ANTI
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has come under fire for his comments on the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, but two leading voices in New York politics have so far remained quiet.
Mamdani’s post on Wednesday briefly acknowledged Hamas’ blitz on Israel
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MADURO, TORTURE, NICOL, NEW
The wife of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was set to be back in court Thursday, where her lawyers will urge a judge to free her from jail and put her under house arrest because she has heart problems.
Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores have been
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CAITLIN, CLARK, WNBA, MVP
During the Indiana Fever’s end-of-season press conference on Saturday, Kelsey Mitchell said that with the attention Caitlin Clark draws, she and her teammates get a lot of flak for being on the same team as Clark.
The comments got back to Clark, who admitted
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CODE, WHITE, COWBOYS, SOX
We had three series end last night in the MLB; now we have just one series remaining before the Championship Series is set. Underdog is offering new users a chance to wager on Game 4 as the White Sox host the Guardians. Use promo code FOXNEWS to bet $5 and
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UKRAINE, KOREA, SOUTH, BUS
A passenger bus was struck in Kramatorsk, in the Donetsk region, officials said.
At least 35 killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine, officials say
Smoke rises over the city during a Russian jet-powered drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv,
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MICROSOFT, VANCE, PROGRAM, FRAUD
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is going after nine elite universities on suspicion of visa fraud, accusing them of unlawfully benefiting financially from hiring and admitting foreign nationals.
Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, the University of Pittsburgh,
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ICE, AGENT, SHOT, NYC
U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents shot a person in New York City on Thursday afternoon, according to police.
The shooting took place around 4 p.m. in Manhattan’s Marble Hill neighborhood, according to a statement from the New York Police Department.
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JAMES, LETITIA, DEBATE, AG
New York Republican attorney general candidate Saritha Komatireddy released a 52-count “public indictment” against Letitia James on Wednesday, accusing the two-term Democrat of dereliction of duty ahead of their debate Thursday night.
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USS, HOME, LINCOLN, DIEGO
"This was a very tough deployment," one sailor told ABC News.
Saylor Caleb Atkins kisses his wife McKenzie Adkins, as she holds their baby after the US Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln returned home following an extended deployment in
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CORNELL, RAPE, JANE, DOE
An attendee holds a sign in support of Jane Doe during a protest at Cornell University, Oct. 5, 2026, in Ithaca, N.Y.
An attendee holds a sign in support of Jane Doe during a protest at Cornell University, Oct. 5, 2026, in Ithaca, N.Y.
An attendee holds a
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HUTCHINSON, CASSIDY, SOURCE, JAN
WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice has launched an investigation into ex-Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson for allegedly lying to Congress in testimony about the 45th president’s actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, The Post has learned.
A
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YANKEES, BLUNT, POSTSEASON, JETER
The New York Yankees have tied their longest World Series drought since 1923.
It will now be 17 consecutive seasons without the Commissioner's Trophy in the Bronx after getting swept in the American League Division Series by their AL East rival Tampa Bay Rays.
The
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NASHVILLE, FEDERAL, GUN, INSIDE
A quick-thinking security officer at a federal courthouse in Nashville, TN, brought a swift end to a man's attempt to fire shots into it, according to local reports.
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The scene was the Fred D. Thompson Federal Building and Courthouse, where the
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THIEVES, JEWELRY, OWNER, STORE
Masked would-be thieves smashed a pickup truck through the front of a Washington jewelry store in broad daylight and stormed inside — only to be sent scrambling when the store owner pulled a gun and opened fire, according to authorities and a local report.
The
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NOBEL, PRIZE, WINS, CANADIAN
You can usually tell a controversial idea like the “billionaire tax” is bad when proponents start trotting out teams of Nobel Prize winners to defend it.
If the idea really were that good, you wouldn’t need more than one Nobel laureate to make the case. The
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GIVE, MARXISM, BRAZIL, ELECTION
On “The Alex Marlow Show,” host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow talked about media.
Marlow said, “This is a huge cultural setback for the left…this is taking a massive set of left-wing brands that are now run by the Ellison family.”
The Alex Marlow
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NFL, GAMBLING, SUPREME, COURT
The NFL has a gambling problem. Or, more precisely, it has a problem with a rapidly expanding form of sports wagering that it believes is escaping the rules governing traditional sportsbooks.
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Now the league is asking the Supreme Court to intervene.
In
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