Emerging Topics in U.S. News
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29th 2026
Updated 19:12 ET
20 articles
TRUMP, WHITE, HOUSE, BAN
News organizations ask court to bar White House enforcement of access ban
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Three news outlets that President Donald Trump abruptly banished from White House grounds this month asked a federal court to block the ban until the case
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CLANCY, LINDSAY, HOLDOUT, JUROR
Lindsay Clancy was back in court Tuesday morning for her first appearance following the mistrial declared earlier this month in the case involving the deaths of her three young children – Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months.
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And her lawyer,
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CORNELL, RAPE, GANG, ALLEGED
Prosecutors in upstate New York are defending their decision not to bring charges in 2024 after an alleged "gang rape" at a Cornell University fraternity.
Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten described the allegations as “morally disturbing”
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TRUMP, AI, CHINA, AMERICA
President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson are set to sit down Tuesday with a group of tech executives for a lunch on the risks posed by AI.
Bloomberg reports that the guest list includes Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Anthropic head and prominent AI
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CODE, PROMO, EAGLES, BET
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NYT, EXEC, SHOT, LAWS
Investigators are eyeing accusations of child abuse and domestic violence in a search for possible motives for the alleged slaying of a New York Times tech executive in a park allegedly at the hands of his in-laws, The California Post has learned.
Zhang and
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SMITH, JACK, TRUMP, SENATE
Former Special Counsel Jack Smith testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.
Republicans grilled him about his investigation of President Donald Trump, and it was not going well for him.
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But the Senate Republicans just revealed
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TRUMP, STEEL, PLANT, LARGEST
US President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One in Washington, DC, US, on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026.
President Donald Trump on Monday will announce a steel-making company's plan to invest
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IDOL, AMERICAN, WIFE, FLYNN
A former Ohio music pastor who once appeared on the TV talent show American Idol has been found guilty of murdering his wife.
Caleb Flynn, 40, fatally shot Ashley Flynn twice in the back of the head while she was asleep in bed at their Ohio home on 16 February
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RANSOM, GUTHRIE, NOTE, NANCY
Nvidia has unveiled a new security platform designed to prevent AI agents from going rogue
FILE - A logo of Nvidia is displayed at at the Computex Taipei exhibition, one of the world's largest computer and technology expos, in Taipei, Taiwan, Wednesday, June
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SPACEX, STARSHIP, ORBITAL, TEST
The Starship engine failure that nearly foiled the orbital debut of SpaceX’s next-generation spacecraft on its 14th uncrewed test flight may complicate NASA’s ability to meet its time frame for astronaut missions to the moon.
Starship, designed in part to
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COLLEGE, SPORTS, SENATE, PASSES
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The Senate on Monday is expected to approve a bipartisan bill that would give the NCAA and its member
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CALIFORNIA, ENGLISH, SAND, STUDENTS
California may have the sunshine, beaches and a laid-back lifestyle, but its cities didn’t exactly glow at the top of this list.
Seven California cities made U.S. News & World Report’s ranking of the 250 best places to live in the country — though none landed
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HURRICANE, POLO, LANDFALL, WINDS
Hurricane Polo unleashed torrential rain, destructive waves and violent winds along Mexico’s Pacific coast Tuesday, with dramatic footage showing flooded streets and battered properties.
The tempest made its first landfall around 11 p.m. Monday local time
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TRUMP, FUEL, STANDARDS, ADMINISTRATION
On Monday, it became official: the Trump administration has rolled back the draconian Biden-era Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards from 50.4 miles per gallon (mpg) to 34.9 mpg. It's not clear why 34.9 and not just 35, which would presumably make
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FBI, BAILEY, DEPUTY, DIRECTOR
WASHINGTON — FBI co-deputy director Andrew Bailey announced Monday he was departing his government role for personal reasons after being at the forefront of the bureau’s crackdown on violent crime as well as election integrity-related probes.
The former Missouri
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HEGSETH, MILITARY, PENTAGON, 20
WASHINGTON — Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is eyeing yet another purge at the Pentagon aimed at gutting bureaucracy by slashing 20% of general and admiral roles, a department official told The Post.
The Pentagon honcho is expected to unveil those plans during
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AIR, UK, BASE, BAIL
United Kingdom police are releasing five terror suspects on bail Monday after they were arrested on suspicion of a terror plot targeting a U.S. air base in Britain this weekend.
Laurence Taylor, head of Counter Terrorism Policing, confirmed that investigations
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TRUMP, FUNDED, ADS, FOX
Donald Trump talks to the media after disembarking from Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on September 27, 2026. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump
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TENNESSEE, DEATH, ROW, PIKE
The first woman sentenced to death in Tennessee in 200 years said she is “at peace” before her rare execution — as the state’s governor declined to get involved in her last-ditch bid for clemency.
“Whether my clemency is granted or not, I am at peace,” convicted
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EL, SAYED, ABDUL, FUNDRAISER
FIRST ON FOX: Jeffrey Soros, the wealthy nephew of billionaire Democrat mega-donor George Soros, detailed his yearslong connection to Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed during a Monday night fundraiser, according to footage obtained by Fox
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ALITO, CLIMATE, SUPREME, COURT
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito recused himself from a closely watched case over climate change liability less than a week before oral arguments were scheduled to begin.
Scott Harris, the clerk of the Supreme Court, informed the parties' lawyers in a
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SWIFT, MADONNA, TAYLOR, MTV
(UPI) — Taylor Swift’s The Fate of Ophelia won Video of the Year at the MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday in a night that was mostly dominated by fellow pop icon Madonna, who nabbed Artist of the Year.
Swift’s video beat out Ariana Grande’s hate
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CONCERNS, OPENAI, SAFETY, MODEL
OpenAI said on Monday that it would not release its newest artificial intelligence model because of security concerns raised by its researchers, in the company’s latest move to slow down the pace of its technology.
During the testing phase for the new model,
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