Emerging Topics in U.S. News
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15th 2026
Updated 16:12 ET
16 articles
GUTHRIE, NANCY, CASE, FBI
Multiple major events happened overnight in Pima, Arizona, as police continued their investigation of Nancy Guthrie's disappearance. The escalation began with a SWAT raid near the missing's home and escalated further with a Range Rover being pulled over and
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EPSTEIN, FILES, BONDI, RELEASED
Epstein files fallout takes down elite figures in Europe, while U.S. reckoning is muted
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The contrast is striking: In Europe, some people whose names come up in the Epstein files are facing consequences — but in the U.S.,
Continued at NPR...
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CURLING, CANADA, OLYMPIC, CHEATING
The Canadian women’s curling team was the latest to be put in the crosshairs at the Winter Olympics as they were determined to have committed the same violation as their male colleagues.
The Canadian teammates were called for "double-touching," or touching
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OBAMA, TRUMP, VIDEO, RESPONDS
Former President Obama responds to President Trump’s racist video post Barack Obama spoke out a week after President Trump's social media account posted a video depicting him and Michelle Obama as apes, condemning behavior on TV and social media as a "clown
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ID, VOTER, SCHUMER, COLLINS
Senate Republicans gained a key ally in their quest to enshrine voter ID into law, but the lawmaker’s support comes with a condition.
A trio of lawmakers, led by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, have undertaken a campaign to convince their colleagues to support the
Continued at New York Post...
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WINS, AMERICAN, OLYMPIC, GOLD
American speedskater Jordan Stolz wins second Olympic gold with 500-meter race victory
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CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy — Jordan Stolz is 2 for 2. There's a chance 4 for 4 might not be far behind.
The American speedskating star added
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SPACE, STATION, INTERNATIONAL, ASTRONAUTS
Four astronauts have docked at the International Space Station (ISS) after blasting off from Earth on Friday.
The crew will spend eight months aboard the ISS after replacing a team that evacuated last month due to a medical emergency.
On board the SpaceX
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SHUTDOWN, DHS, HOMELAND, SECURITY
5 things to know about the shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security
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The Department of Homeland Security has shut down after lawmakers failed to meet a midnight Friday deadline to fund the agency and its workforce
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HILLARY, CLINTON, MIGRATION, HUMANE
President Joe Biden’s easy-migration policy “went too far … [and was] disruptive and destabilizing,” Hillary Clinton admitted to a European meeting of national security officials and influencers.
“Migration has been a huge flash point,” Clinton told a meeting
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RUBIO, MUNICH, EUROPE, TRUMP
Marco Rubio offered a more supportive message to Europe at the Munich Security Conference yesterday than J. D. Vance did a year ago. Wolfgang Ischinger, the chair of the conference, thanked him for the message of reassurance, adding, “I’m not sure you heard
Continued at The Atlantic...
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NAVALNY, ALEXEI, EUROPEAN, NATIONS
5 European nations say Alexei Navalny was poisoned and blame the Kremlin
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LONDON — Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned by the Kremlin with a lethal toxin derived from the skin of poison dart frogs,
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REGIME, IRANIAN, THOUSANDS, JOINS
Anti-Iran regime protesters gathered in major cities across the globe on Saturday calling for a leadership change in the Global Day of Action Rally.
Over 250,000 protesters rallied in Munich, Germany on Saturday on the backdrop of the Munich Security Conference.
"With
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EILEEN, GU, OLYMPIAN, BORN
Controversial Olympic athlete Eileen Gu called out the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) over the tight Olympic schedule she has, which she said will prevent her from getting in the proper training sessions she needs for a freeski event.
Gu,
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TRUMP, GAZA, PEACE, BOARD
Members of President Donald Trump's Board of Peace have pledged more than $5 billion in aid for Gaza, the president announced Sunday.
Trump made the announcement on Truth Social, saying the funding would be formally pledged during a February 19 meeting in
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TARGETS, SYRIA, STRIKES, MILITARY
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced Saturday that it had carried out ten strikes against over 30 ISIS targets in Syria, in recent days as part of a joint military effort to "sustain relentless military pressure on remnants from the terrorist network."
CENTCOM
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NEWSOM, TRUMP, GAVIN, CALIFORNIA
Progressives have long branded President Trump as a stooge for Russia.
Yet the more important story may be who President Xi Jinping of China wants in office.
Unlike Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, Xi has the financial muscle, ties to business elites, and
Continued at New York Post...
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USA, DATA, CITY, ICE
Friday on “The Alex Marlow Show,” host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow talked about inflation.
Marlow said, “Core CPI, which is our core inflation numbers…what works on a basket of goods and services. It measures everything but food and energy prices
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STUDENTS, CAL, WARNS, STATE
ANTI-WOKE WAVE: Tufts professor says students are ditching woke culture and finding performative politics 'cringy'
TRAINING GUIDE LEAKED: Scathing report reveals Antifa-linked org passing out material to K-12 students: 'Political revolution'
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JUDGES, TRUMP, BORDERS, RESTORES
Nearly 80 percent of migrants seeking asylum in the US were sent packing in the last quarter, as immigration judges take a tougher line under the Trump administration, which has made it a priority to restore the border.
In that same span there’s been an accompanying
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SIDEWALK, DIED, FAMILY, HOSPITAL
An Arizona family is calling for change and demanding answers after a 27-year-old man died hours after he was wrongfully discharged from a hospital and dumped on a sidewalk during a hot summer day, according to a wrongful death lawsuit.
Seth and Gayle Lachica,
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DEAD, DRUG, CARIBBEAN, OP
I've been in favor of the Trump administration's practice of intercepting drug-smuggling boats, detonating them and their cargo, and introducing their crews to new quarters in Davey Jones' Locker. Blowing these people up makes everyone in the United States
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NEW, SOCIALIST, YORKERS, INSIDE
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has made “fast and free buses” a defining promise of his administration, framing the proposal as both an affordability measure and a long-overdue fix for a bus system that advocates say has been neglected for decades.
But
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TRUMP, SOCIAL, BILL, MAHER
It was time that really could have been better spent.
President Trump shared his regrets about precious minutes he spent dining at the White House with comedian Bill Maher, host of HBO’s “Real Time,” during an event organized by singer Kid Rock back in April.
He
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PRISON, FAMILY, FRANCISCO, WOMAN
An elderly San Francisco woman who fatally ran down an Apple executive and his family with her Mercedes is likely to dodge jail time — leaving relatives of the victims appalled.
Mary Fong Lau, 80, was charged after she plowed into Diego Cardoso de Oliveira,
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