Emerging Topics in U.S. News
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26th 2026
Updated 15:12 ET
108 articles
TRUMP, UNION, STATE, SOTU
Takeaways from Trump's State of the Union. And, House rejects aviation safety bill
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TRUMP, STATE, UNION, SOTU
EXCLUSIVE: Tech company leaders will head to the White House in March to meet with President Donald Trump to pledge they will generate their own power for new data centers, saving taxpayers from picking up additional energy costs, Fox News Digital learned.
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HOCKEY, TEAM, USA, TRUMP
WASHINGTON — President Trump boasted he pulled off an economic “turnaround for the ages” in the longest State of the Union address in history — while using the US Olympics men’s hockey team as evidence that the country was “winning” like never before.
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SPEEDBOAT, KILLED, CUBA, FLORIDA
An American-registered "speedboat" has allegedly fired upon a boat containing Cuban border guards in Cuban territorial waters; the border guards returned fire, killing four occupants and wounding six.
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IRAN, TRUMP, TALKS, NUCLEAR
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This combination of pictures created on April 09, 2025 shows US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff after a meeting with Russian officials at Diriyah Palace, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on
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ILLEGAL, DALILAH, TRUMP, LAW
CLAIM: During President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union (SOTU) address in his second term, the president said he is overseeing the “most secure border in American history.”
VERDICT: Mostly true. Trump has overseen the lowest levels of illegal immigration
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CARVALHO, SUPERINTENDENT, ALBERTO, LAUSD
Carvalho has been the district superintendent since 2022.
In this Oct. 30, 2025, file photo, superintendent Alberto Carvalho speaks at the LAUSD headquarters in downtown Los Angeles.
In this Oct. 30, 2025, file photo, superintendent Alberto Carvalho speaks
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EPSTEIN, TRUMP, STATE, UNION
President Trump delivers the State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress at the Capitol on Tuesday night.
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President Trump, speaking for well over an hour,
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FBI, TRUMP, PATEL, KASH
At least 6 FBI agents who worked on Trump classified documents case fired: Sources
FILE PHOTO: FBI Director Kash Patel announces the apprehension of Ryan Wedding, a former Canadian Olympic snowboarder who was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitive list, during
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NYPD, MAMDANI, MAYOR, SNOWBALL
Authorities arrested 27-year-old Gusmane Coulibaly on Thursday morning and charged him with assault following an attack by numerous agitators in a Manhattan Park earlier this week. The violent altercation left two NYPD officers injured and reportedly requiring
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EPSTEIN, CLINTON, HOUSE, HILLARY
After months of back-and-forth negotiations, Former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is testifying today in front of House Oversight Committee members about her knowledge of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s dirty dealings.
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TRUMP, VOTERS, REACT, CHILDREN
At the State of the Union on Tuesday, President Donald Trump demanded the end of schools implementing gender secrecy policies to “transition” confused young people without parental knowledge or consent.
The 45th and 47th president called for the end of gender
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EPSTEIN, HARVARD, SUMMERS, LARRY
The Jeffrey Epstein scandal continues to take its toll on leftists. On Wednesday, Larry Summers announced he would resign his teaching position at Harvard.
Summers, who served as former President Bill Clinton’s treasury secretary for two years, and who also
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HUGHES, JACK, DEVILS, OLYMPIC
Jack Hughes and the New Jersey Devils returned to NHL action on Wednesday night against the Buffalo Sabres, the first game since the start of the Olympic break. Safe to say that a lot has happened since Hughes last pulled the New Jersey sweater over his head
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TRUMP, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, TALKS
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – A Ukrainian delegation is set to meet Thursday with American envoys in the run-up to another round of trilateral talks with Russia, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
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SURGEON, GENERAL, MEANS, CASEY
WASHINGTON — Dr. Casey Means, President Trump’s pick to fill the role of surgeon general, which has been empty for over a year, faced a Senate committee grilling on Wednesday over conflicts of interest concerns, her endeavors with psilocybin, her stance on
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WORLD, MEXICO, CARTEL, CUP
Hundreds of bags of human remains were recently found in makeshift graves in the Mexican city at the heart of the startling wave of violence over the killing of a cartel boss — just months before key World Cup games are scheduled to be held there.
Since last
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GUTHRIE, NANCY, FBI, CASE
The FBI is relocating its Nancy Guthrie command post from Tucson to Phoenix, where it has its largest office in Arizona, more than three and a half weeks after the 84-year-old’s abduction.
While some agents will remain in Tucson, where the mother of “Today”
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TRUMP, LOSS, TARIFFS, SUPREME
Late last week, the Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s tariffs imposed under the federal International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) as unlawful. The Court did not, however, say how or when — or whether — the Trump administration will
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TEXAS, JASMINE, CROCKETT, ENDORSES
Texas-based ABC affiliates that aren’t owned by Disney appear to be playing ball with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr over his enforcement of equal-time rules in the contentious Democratic Texas Senate primary.
Carr’s FCC announced
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AIR, FORCE, CHINESE, MILITARY
A former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot who once trained American servicemembers on advanced combat aircraft, including the F-35, has been arrested and accused of illegally training Chinese military pilots, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
The Department
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JACKSON, JESSE, CIVIL, RIGHTS
Memorial services for the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. begin in Chicago and stretch across the country to honor his long civil rights legacy
Jesse Jackson, Jr. stands near a picture of his father, the late Rev. Jesse Jackson, during a news conference outside the
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TRUMP, JR, DEM, PARKS
Rep. Al Green (D-TX) was escorted out of the room on Tuesday after holding up a sign as President Donald Trump began his State of the Union address.
Video footage shows the moment the Democrat was walked out of the room and again held up the sign that read,
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YEARS, MOM, 24, ALIVE
A North Carolina mom reported missing more than two decades ago and recently found alive was dealing with a tumultuous marriage and struggling with alcohol abuse, according to her daughter.
Michele Lyn Hundley Smith disappeared with a trace in Dec. 2001
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