Emerging Topics in U.S. News
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26th 2026
Updated 00:12 ET
39 articles
DOLLY, PARTON, COUNTRY, MUSIC
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I'm not a person who gets starstruck.
Maybe it's the line
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SAYED, EL, ABDUL, USHA
On Aug. 24, controversial Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed boldly accepted an invitation to the Fox News show "Jesse Watters Primetime." It oozed confidence, but whether it was smart or strategic to play the Artful Dodger is a very different question.
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TRUMP, CANADA, ONTARIO, TRADE
Country music superstar Jelly Roll took on Jimmy Kimmel Live! hosting duties on Monday and like Anthony Anderson and Rosie O’Donnell before him, the Grammy-winner reserved several minutes of his opening monologue to taking a slew scathing shots at President
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GRAHAM, DARLINE, CAROLINA, RUNOFF
Graham has said outsider status is a plus, while pointing to Trump’s backing.
Sen. Darline Graham, Aug. 4, 2026, in Washington and Rep. Ralph Norman, May 15, 2025, in Washington.
Sen. Darline Graham, Aug. 4, 2026, in Washington and Rep. Ralph Norman, May
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TRUMP, IRAN, STRAIT, HORMUZ
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WASHINGTON — President Trump announced Tuesday that the “International Waters of the Strait of Hormuz” were completely de-mined and “every square inch” of the waterway is now being monitored by the US Space
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NFL, PLAYERS, STUDY, CTE
At least 25% of former NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021 had CTE, study finds
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For years, as researchers have established a link between repeated impacts to the head and the degenerative brain disease known
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MAIL, COURT, TRUMP, VOTING
is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he focuses on the Supreme Court, the Constitution, and the decline of liberal democracy in the United States. He received a JD from Duke University and is the author of two books on the Supreme Court.
Less than two months
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SCHOOL, RELEASED, SHOOTING, CALIFORNIA
A Charlotte, North Carolina, man indicted for allegedly threatening mass shootings at five public schools was released from jail just days before classes started, according to the New York Post.
The man, 33-year-old Drew Andres Owens, was “indicted… in March
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MONTANA, KILLED, SHOOTING, INCLUDING
An unimaginable tragedy unfolded in a quiet Montana neighborhood Sunday evening, where what police initially described as a "family disturbance" ended with gunfire, a home consumed by flames, and multiple adults and children dead.
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ASYLUM, VISAS, 000, 200
The Trump administration plans to revoke the visas of foreign nationals who entered the US as short-term visitors and later applied for asylum.
"Obtaining a visa in order to seek asylum is fraud - which is grounds for visa revocation," US State Department
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PIKER, HASAN, DEM, REP
Radical Twitch streamer Hasan Piker got a lot of backlash for comments he made about American Jews while talking about a Democrat nominee for the 11th Congressional District in Michigan, Jeremy Moss.
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"If Jews in America keep putting this idea
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MEASLES, PENNSYLVANIA, DIE, 35
Two people who were not vaccinated against measles have died of the virus in Pennsylvania, health officials said.
The state has seen 393 cases of the highly contagious virus this year, as infections across the US have hit the highest point in 35 years.
Eighty-five
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MOSCOW, RATCLIFFE, CIA, RUSSIA
CIA Director John Ratcliffe is in Moscow, Russia, for meetings, according to multiple officials familiar with the meetings.
A Boeing C-17A Globemaster III was seen at the Moscow airport.
The CIA, Department of Defense and the Air Force declined to comment.
CIA
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AI, CHINA, HALL, WYNTON
America has to defeat China in the AI race without becoming a surveillance state, Breitbart News Social Media Director Wynton Hall said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily.
Hall, author of New York Times bestseller Code Red: The Left, the Right, China,
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SURROGATE, WEST, COURT, BABY
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DALLAS — The surrogate mother who refused to terminate her pregnancy despite the wishes of the baby’s biological parents, broke down on the stand describing in painful detail how the abortion would have gone.
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11, MUSEUM, SAYED, EL
A Smithsonian-affiliated museum features programming minimizing the 2,977 Americans killed by Muslim terrorists and instead says Arabs were also victims in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
The Arab American National Museum (AANM) in Dearborn,
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JEFFRIES, KUSHNER, MEETING, TRUMP
The New York Times reported that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08) recently met with Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law.
But the biggest result of the meeting so far was how mad the Left was at Jeffries for it. There was such a backlash
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BIG, COLLEGE, SEC, TEN
College sports have become so chaotic that apparently we now need an explicit rule saying you can't go to the NFL, sign a professional contract, get cut and then come back to college.
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The Southeastern Conference (SEC) made that rule official
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JUDGE, MAXWELL, GHISLAINE, NEW
A federal judge rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s latest effort to overturn her conviction, blasting her petition as "lengthy and rambling" and finding her claims "all meritless" and "all or almost all" frivolous.
U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer denied
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CHARLES, BARKLEY, WNBA, PLAYERS
NBA Hall of Famer and sports commentator Charles Barkley declared Monday that the WNBA is "for women only. Period."
During an interview on CNN host Michael Smerconish's podcast, Barkley commented on former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom being removed from
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SUE, ICE, COOPERATION, HOCHUL
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ALBANY – Don’t sue me, I’ll sue you.
More than a dozen New York sheriffs filed suit over an anti-ICE sanctuary state law that took effect Tuesday — as Gov. Kathy Hochul demanded local governments stop cooperating
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TEENS, NJ, COUPLE, WAGON
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A crew of reckless New Jersey teens allegedly stole a luxury SUV valued at $220,000 and led cops on an hours-long chase before crashing the vehicle head-on into another car — killing a beloved grandmother and
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CALIFORNIA, BONTA, AG, STOP
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California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta made it clear Tuesday he holds the power to extract major concessions
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TRUMP, CENTER, RENOVATIONS, KENNEDY
The DOJ suggested the Kennedy Center could face demolition.
Trump administration suggests Kennedy Center could be demolished if court blocks planned renovations
A tarp remains in place on the facade of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on
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