Emerging Topics in U.S. News
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11th 2026
Updated 16:12 ET
52 articles
GUTHRIE, NANCY, FBI, CASE
The Arizona DoorDash driver who was detained by law enforcement Tuesday night in the search for Nancy Guthrie’s kidnapper has been released after several hours in custody.
The newly freed man, identifying himself as a delivery driver named Carlos, expressed
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TRUMP, EPSTEIN, HOUSE, IRAN
He posted two new renderings, saying security would be unprecedented.
Trump says his 'Great Ballroom' will be used for 'future Presidential Inaugurations'
President Donald Trump posted new renderings of the ballroom that is currently under construction, Feb.
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BAD, BUNNY, SHOW, HALFTIME
Bravo’s The Real Housewives of New York City (RHONY) star Jill Zarin was fired from E!’s The Golden Life reunion show after blasting woke Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime performance.
Blink49 Studios axed Zarin from the upcoming reunion
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ICE, DIRECTOR, IMMIGRATION, DEM
Top 5 takeaways from the House immigration oversight hearing
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Immigration agency leaders appeared before Congress for the first time since two U.S. citizens were shot and killed by federal immigration
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NEW, MAMDANI, HOCHUL, YORK
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is an ardent climate alarmist who oversees the nation’s largest school district, the New York City Public Schools (NYCPS) system.
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Frankly, NYCPS is failing on all fronts. It is doing an abysmal job of educating
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EL, PASO, AIRSPACE, CARTEL
Two U.S. government officials and a member of Congress pushed back on Wednesday on Trump administration claims about the reasons for the sudden closure of airspace over El Paso, Texas.
After the Federal Aviation Administration quickly rescinded an order to
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BONDI, EPSTEIN, HOUSE, HEARING
Attorney General Pam Bondi's hearing before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday devolved into a chaos of shouts and interruptions as she clashed with several Democratic committee members.
Several Epstein victims were present in the room during Bondi's
Continued at Fox News...
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AMERICAN, SILVER, MEN, SKIING
A historic day for U.S. cross-country skiing, but Shiffin’s Olympic struggles continue American women continue to dominate alpine ski racing events in the Winter Olympics, and American men win their first medal in cross-country skiing in 50 years.
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JAMES, 48, BEEK, DAWSON
"All these beautiful things that I love, and I used to define myself as - a father, a provider, a husband - all that got taken away, or at least paused," he said. "I had to sit there and say, 'Well, what am I?' And it was, 'I'm still worthy of love.'"
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SHUTDOWN, SCHUMER, DHS, SENATE
U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) speaks next to U.S. Senate Republican Whip John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) at Senate Republicans' press conference following their weekly policy lunch, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., Feb. 10, 2026.
"There
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DEAD, FOUND, FLORIDA, INSIDE
A US Coast Guard officer, his wife and their children were found dead inside their Florida home as officials fear the family suffered carbon monoxide poisoning — just hours after he talked with his mom on the phone.
The bodies of Yohan Sanchez, 33, his wife
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TRUMP, OBAMA, FINDING, ENDANGERMENT
In yet another return to sanity, the Trump administration is now planning to roll back a key Obama administration climate "finding" that was used to regulate the daylights out of energy production in the United States. That Obama-era regulation identified six
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DEAD, SCHOOL, BRITISH, COLUMBIA
Shootings at school and home in British Columbia, Canada, leave 10 dead
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia — A shooting at a school in British Columbia left seven people dead, while two more were found dead at a nearby home, Canadian
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HOMELESS, COLD, NEW, MAMDANI
A heartbreaking 96% of pleas to help homeless New Yorkers never actually led to any assistance since the deadly cold snap hit the Big Apple — with city workers unable to even find the destitute denizens most of the time, The Post has learned.
The stunning
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AGENCY, EPSTEIN, CHAPPELL, ROAN
Superstar songstress Chappell Roan revealed that she dropped her high-profile talent agency after its founder’s ties to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein came to light.
“As of today, I am no longer represented by Wasserman, the talent agency led by Casey
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MARLOW, TRUMP, EPSTEIN, USA
Monday on “The Alex Marlow Show,” Breitbart News economics and finance editor John Carney talked about Eddie Bauer.
Carney said, “They should be thriving. … I think what caused them to go bankrupt is that they went full woke in recent years, and I think that
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TRUMP, HOUSE, JOHNSON, VOTE
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, second right, speaks alongside President Trump before the signing of a funding bill on Feb. 3, 2026. Johnson has persistently claimed that there’s something nefarious about the way California runs its elections.
This is read
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SANDERS, DEMOCRATIC, PRIMARY, CONGRESS
WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) conceded defeat to Analilia Mejia in a special Democratic primary upset that has prompted celebrations from the far left.
Malinowski was favored to win the Feb. 5 race for the nomination to replace Gov. Mikie
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NONPROFITS, FOREIGN, INFLUENCE, GROUPS
FIRST ON FOX: Hours before banging the gavel to commence a hearing Tuesday to investigate the dynamic of "malign foreign influence," House Committee on Ways and Means chair Jason Smith escalated his investigation into the China-based, American-born Marxist
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REPARATIONS, CITY, ILLINOIS, PROGRAM
Evanston, Illinois. will issue $25,000 to 44 residents in reparations payments, the City’s Reparations Committee has announced.
Established in 2019 and approved by the City Council in 2021, the program issues $25,000 direct cash payments to Black residents
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GRANDSON, JFK, PELOSI, INEXPERIENCED
One lesson that can be drawn from the second Trump administration is that being a member of the Kennedy family does not qualify you for public service. Yet many Camelot-besotted Democrats remain stubbornly immune to this conclusion.
One of them appears to
Continued at The Atlantic...
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FULTON, COUNTY, FBI, TRUMP
The Justice Department has installed a Missouri-based U.S. prosecutor to head the Trump administration’s election probe in Fulton County, Georgia, according to recent court records, marking the latest instance in which an out-of-state prosecutor has been
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GOP, CANDIDATE, MINNESOTA, DAUGHTER
Minnesota Republican gubernatorial candidate Jeff Johnson has dropped out of the race following the fatal stabbing of his 22-year-old daughter, Hallie Marie Tobler.
Tobler was discovered in her locked apartment on Saturday by St. Cloud Police officers who
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JURY, GRAND, INDICT, SEDITIOUS
A Senate Republican known for breaking with the Trump administration praised a grand jury’s decision not to indict several congressional Democrats who urged service members to refuse what they described as "illegal orders."
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., applauded
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