Emerging Topics in U.S. News
SATURDAY, AUGUST 15th 2026
Updated 18:12 ET
22 articles
MANGIONE, LUIGI, GUILTY, THOMPSON
Mangione pleads guilty in federal court, leaving fate of state trial uncertain
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Luigi Mangione, the 28-year-old accused of killing a health care executive on a Manhattan street, pleaded guilty to stalking charges
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USS, LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, TRUMP
The reports are everywhere — miserable conditions supposedly aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, including food shortages, broken plumbing, widespread exhaustion, and plummeting morale. It’s so bad, these reports say, that some sailors have attempted to jump overboard
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TRUMP, PRESIDENT, BANK, LIBERTY
Andrés Manuel López Beltrán, son of former Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, says the United States has revoked his visa
Son of former Mexican president says US revoked his visa, appeals directly to Trump
MEXICO CITY -- Mexican politician Andrés
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EXCLUSIVE, DR, GORKA, ROBERT
Thursday on “The Alex Marlow Show,” Dr. Sebastian Gorka, Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counter Terrorism in the National Security Council, talked about Robert Gilman.
Gorka said, “That’s what leadership’s all about. That’s what,
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TRUMP, CRIME, YEAR, RUN
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WASHINGTON – Violent crime rates in the US have plummeted with their biggest one-year drop on record, according to a new FBI report that President Trump touted Friday as evidence that he’s “making America safe
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MEMORIAL, II, WWII, WORLD
The suspect accused of vandalizing the World War II Memorial in Washington D.C., has been taken into custody, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro announced Friday.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Attorney's Office in the
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PROFESSOR, CAMBRIDGE, ARDAY, DEAD
Yesterday in London, Jason Arday, the controversy-plagued British academic and author, was found dead. Made famous as the youngest Black professor in Cambridge’s more than 800-year history, Arday had been dogged by weeks of scrutiny amid accusations of plagiarism,
Continued at The Atlantic...
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TRUMP, HOUSE, WHITE, BALLROOM
US President Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to allow him to continue building a $400m (£295m) ballroom at the White House without congressional permission.
The emergency application comes one week after an appeals court ordered construction to stop
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MICHIGAN, DEAD, PEOPLE, SHOOTING
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Five people were killed in a Michigan shooting spree on Friday, sparking a massive manhunt that ended when the suspected gunman was found dead.
The bloodshed was first discovered at a home in Missaukee County,
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MAMDANI, NEW, YORK, ZOHRAN
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Zo’s honeymoon with the teachers union is over.
The boss of the influential teachers union called out Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration’s literacy initiative after more than half of city’s public school
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TRUMP, JUDGE, ANTISEMITISM, HARVARD
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SCHOOL, TEACHER, GRADE, STUDENT
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Kansas students have been forced to put cell phones into lockers before they set foot in class as part of a blanket ban on the devices in schools across the state.
Thousands of students in grades K-12 are banned
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TEXAS, AIRPORT, DFW, ISLAMIC
Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) ordered a review of state funding for airports across Texas over Islamic washing facilities at two of the state’s largest airports.
“These ablution facilities appear designed to single out one subset of the population for special treatment
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WEST, MCKENNA, SURROGATE, BIOLOGICAL
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Surrogate McKenna West claims she’s hemorrhaging cash after refusing to get an abortion despite the wishes of the baby’s biological parents – who allegedly didn’t deliver their end of the deal, according to
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NIGER, MISSIONARY, RELEASED, MONTHS
U.S. missionary who was kidnapped in Niger is released
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A U.S. missionary who was kidnapped in Niger in October 2025 has been released, the Christian NGO he works for announced on Friday.
Kevin Rideout "is in good health in the
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LALA, HAWAII, HURRICANE, STORM
Hawaii is bracing for what could be its first direct hit from a hurricane since 1992, as category one storm Lala churns off its coast.
Packing 75mph (120km/h) winds, Lala gained hurricane strength on Saturday. In a worst-case scenario, it could dump up to
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TRUMP, IRAN, STRAIT, HORMUZ
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President Trump said Friday that he plans to declare the Strait of Hormuz “a territory of the United States” after the Iran war.
“After we finish defeating Iran, which is being very badly defeated — pretty
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UNIVERSITY, VIRGINIA, STATE, CAMPUS
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A mass shooting rocked Virginia State University Saturday morning that left several people wounded and the campus on lockdown.
Bullets flew near the Quad Annexes of the Chesterfield County campus, at around
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INDONESIA, EARTHQUAKE, STRIKES, COAST
Magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes off Indonesia's coast, killing at least 20
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MAUMERE, Indonesia — A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia early Saturday, killing at least 20 people, collapsing buildings
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MURDER, SUSPECT, ARRESTED, ALIASES
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A Florida woman wanted for the murder of a dad found zip-tied and buried in a shallow grave has been arrested after seven weeks on the run, police announced.
Isabelle Rose Johnson, who has evaded capture since
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MEN, WNBA, SPORTS, WOMEN
The WNBA may be turning into a joke. But it turns out, the joke is on us.
Amid the hilarious publicity stunts by Enes Kanter and Royce White, which turn out to have a serious purpose behind them, one would expect the WNBA to be alienating viewers.
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Instead,
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TRUMP, GRAHAM, RALPH, DARLINE
President Donald Trump called former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford on Tuesday and asked him to endorse Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC) in the state’s August 25 Senate runoff, according to a report.
Trump wanted to keep Republicans from consolidating
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MURDER, ALEX, EXPLOSIVE, DNA
Alex Murdaugh’s defense attorneys on Friday raised an unverified claim that a recent Allendale County homicide could be connected to the Murdaugh murders, surprising prosecutors and the judge overseeing his retrial.
Murdaugh returned to court after the South
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FARAGE, WINS, ELECTION, ESTABLISHMENT
Nigel Farage (C), leader of the Reform UK party, celebrates the victory of Sarah Pochin, the party's candidate, in the Runcorn & Helsby by-election at the DCBL Stadium in Widnes, north-west England, in the early hours of May 2, 2025.
Nigel Farage, leader of
Continued at CNBC...