Emerging Topics in U.S. News
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18th 2026
Updated 17:12 ET
22 articles
CODE, PROMO, BET, FOXNEWS
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TRUMP, RUSSIA, SANCTIONS, PUTIN
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s decision to ease sanctions on Russian diesel deliveries will actually put more pressure on the Kremlin, Energy Secretary Chris Wright claimed Sunday.
Wright contended that bringing down hurdles for Russia to sell diesel will
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NEW, YORK, BLAKEMAN, CITY
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For the past 10 years, Catherine Ericson has spent her autumns tracking the
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OMAR, ILHAN, RAID, TEXT
Tom Emmer, the number three Republican in the House and highest-ranking lawmaker from Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) home state, is calling for the Somalia-born leftist to be jailed and deported if it is found she or her family lied on her citizenship paperwork.
Omar
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BASE, FIRE, MILITARY, CANADIAN
"I cannot recall an incident like this in recent memory," one official said.
Paramedics load an injured person into an ambulance at the Wainwright Health Centre as injured military members are treated after a fire at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright, outside
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POPE, LEO, CANCER, SURGERY
The pope led the Angelus prayer at the Vatican on Sunday.
Pope Leo leads prayer at Vatican on Sunday following discharge from hospital
Pope Leo XIV waves from the window of the apostolic palace overlooking St. Peter's square on October 18, 2026.
Pope Leo
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GAME, UTSA, AIR, DIES
The University of Texas at San Antonio had a game against Navy on Saturday.
But there was a tragic moment during a demonstration before the game that was supposed to honor the military and veterans.
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An Air Force commando who fell from the 170-foot
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SOCCER, KANSAS, FIELD, KILLING
A 34-year-old woman inexplicably drove her pickup truck with two children as passengers through a Kansas youth soccer game, leaving two dead, including a six-year-old boy, and injuring 11 others, according to Wichita police.
“Oh my God, Oh my God, what have
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EL, SAYED, SISTER, TERROR
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed acknowledged Saturday night his sister-in-law was on the federal terrorist watchlist during President Barack Obama’s term in office but said she was removed in 2016.
The revelation surfaced when Fox News
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TRUMP, NETANYAHU, AHEAD, ENDORSES
President Trump endorsed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday ahead of next week’s elections.
Trump hailed Netanyahu, whose party is facing a tough race, as the right partner for the US to have against Iran, as he called for Israelis to flock
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STATION, SUBWAY, NYC, SHOOTING
A man was shot in a Midtown subway station Saturday afternoon, police and sources said.
The gunfire erupted inside the 7th Avenue station at 53rd Street at 12:21 p.m., the NYPD said.
A person was shot in a Midtown subway station Saturday afternoon, police
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TRUMP, SLOTKIN, YOUNG, PROSECUTION
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) said during an appearance at the University of Chicago on Tuesday that she wants planned prosecutions of Trump administration figures to deter young people from taking jobs in the administration.
The Michigan Democrat made the remarks
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ALLIGATOR, 71, FOOT, 12
A 71-year-old man was killed Friday by a nearly 12-foot alligator in the second fatal attack in Florida this year, police said.
Steven Hamilton was fishing along the shore of Lake Apopka in Winter Garden near Orlando, when he was attacked around 5 p.m.,
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NOTRE, DAME, BYU, IRISH
Week 7 of the 2026 college football season will go down as one of the most chaotic ever, with five Top 10 teams suffering losses, and the newest AP Top 25 Poll reflects the craziness that unfolded.
For the first time this season, not one team in the AP Poll
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PARIS, FRANCE, BREAK, POLICE
Chaos broke out on the streets of Paris again on Sunday as the multicultural youth revolts saw further looting and arson, and a specialist police task force was deployed to the French capital to quell the unrest.
Following an evening of rioting across France,
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MARLOW, REPUBLICAN, HOUSE, DRUNK
On “The Alex Marlow Show,” host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow talked about Jaime West.
Marlow said, “The middle-aged white women on a run similar to Somali’s, it’s just some really bad runs.”
The Alex Marlow Show, hosted by Breitbart Editor-in-Chief
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OBAMA, FOUNDATION, FILE, RANK
FIRST ON FOX: The beleaguered Obama Foundation has an income inequality problem: While half of its employees earn six-figure salaries, led by CEO Valerie Jarrett at $771,000, dozens at the other end of the scale are fighting for union representation.
The
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VALKYRIES, WNBA, FINALS, DREAM
SAN FRANCISCO – The Atlanta Dream had a three-point lead with just over three minutes left in Game 1 of the WNBA Finals on Saturday. They didn't score again.
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COLLEGE, FOOTBALL, PLAYOFF, MANNING
BLOOMINGTON - I guess we should have seen the chaos in college football coming on Saturday after Indiana fans had thought the Hoosiers were about to steal a win against Ohio State in the final minute of a chaotic fourth quarter.
But, did we expect to see this
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TEXAS, MANNING, ARCH, GAME
Florida's 2026 season got off to a strong start, with the Gators moving to 4-0 after upsetting then-No. 4 Ole Miss in Week 4. Florida then dropped their next two games.
Despite entering this Saturday's game at Texas on a two-game skid and as an underdog, a
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DEFENSE, DNA, ALEX, MURDAUGH
LEXINGTON, S.C. – Alex Murdaugh’s defense team is gambling on a "high risk" DNA test in its bid to point to another killer, a prosecutor said, citing the defense’s own expert.
Judge Debra McCaslin sided with the defense over prosecutors’ objections Friday,
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STUDENTS, SPECIAL, SCHOOL, BUS
An NYC school bus driver failed to deliver six nonverbal special education students to school for nearly four and a half hours last December — leaving one child lying soaking wet in her own urine in a bus seat, investigators said Friday.
Driver Eric Chery
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ST, PETERSBURG, TERMINAL, OIL
(AP) — Ukrainian attacks set an oil export terminal ablaze in St. Petersburg on Sunday, as Kyiv launched more than 1,000 drones across Russia in one of its largest ever aerial bombardments.
The attack comes amid deepening tensions between Ukraine and Washington,
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IRAN, HORMUZ, ATTACKS, MAJORITY
The heat is still on Iran. We've been busily documenting Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's relentless turning of the economic screws against Iran, and all that is working; Iran's currency has collapsed, and the government is broke. Oh, the mullahs and what
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