Emerging Topics in U.S. News
SUNDAY, AUGUST 16th 2026
Updated 02:12 ET
10 articles
EXCLUSIVE, ROBERT, DR, KENNEDY
Thursday on “The Alex Marlow Show,” Dr. Sebastian Gorka, Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counter Terrorism in the National Security Council, talked about Robert Gilman.
Gorka said, “The whole of government was focused on one thing,
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STATE, VIRGINIA, UNIVERSITY, SHOOTING
Multiple people were shot at Virginia State University on Saturday morning, and the campus remains on lockdown, according to the university and VSU Police.
"A shooting occurred in the area of the Quad Annexes involving multiple victims, who were transported
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TRUMP, LETITIA, ACCESS, JAMES
President Donald Trump speaks at the David Mack Center for Training and Intelligence, Friday, Aug. 14, 2026, in Garden City, N.Y.
President Donald Trump speaks at the David Mack Center for Training and Intelligence, Friday, Aug. 14, 2026, in Garden City, N.Y.
President
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HAWAII, HURRICANE, LALA, YEARS
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Hurricane Lala approached Hawaii with strong winds and heavy rain on Saturday, leaving more than 40,000 utility customers without power across the state as the National Hurricane Center warned of “life-threatening”
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SYNAGOGUE, NYC, LUNATIC, COPS
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The unhinged lunatic who stormed into a Manhattan synagogue is a deranged serial robber who sources say told cops “F–k the Jews” after the hate-filled attack — but his aunt bizarrely claims he wants to be Jewish.
Larry
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DEAD, MICHIGAN, STRING, RECORDS
An employee at a Florence County, South Carolina, Smokers Town tobacco and vape shop shot and killed an alleged armed robber around 10:15 p.m. Wednesday.
The suspect allegedly “entered the business while sporting a mask and gloves and was armed with a gun,”
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TEXAS, AIRPORT, ISLAMIC, GOV
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday directed a review of state grants to entities operating two major Texas airports over religious accommodations after Dallas Fort Worth International Airport said it would no
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STUDENT, TEACHER, SCHOOL, ADMITS
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A Florida middle school teacher was arrested after investigators said he exchanged inappropriate messages with a former teenage student and acknowledged communicating inappropriately with the student since 2023.
Christian
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PILOT, VIDEO, MARINE, CRASH
Footage just obtained by a news outlet shows the moment local authorities encountered a Marine pilot who ejected from his F/A-18 fighter jet before it crashed into a mountainside in Washington state earlier this summer.
On June 13, the F/A-18 Hornet slammed
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INDONESIA, EARTHQUAKE, STRIKES, 38
Magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes off Indonesia's coast, killing at least 20
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MAUMERE, Indonesia — A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia early Saturday, killing at least 20 people, collapsing buildings
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IMMIGRANTS, MAHER, VALUES, AMERICAN
Comedian Bill Maher argued Friday that immigrants must assimilate to American culture and accept certain fundamental values like gay rights, women's equality and free speech, saying those principles are "not White values," but liberal ones.
During his latest
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CREW, USS, LINCOLN, ABRAHAM
Having failed to gain enough traction on the Air Force One rope-a-dope story from earlier in the week, the legacy media – in its never ending quest for a "gotcha story" on President Trump – has made a hard pivot and is now focused on the conditions aboard the
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CHARLES, OAKLEY, DISMISSED, MSG
Charles Oakley’s lawsuit against Madison Square Garden and owner James Dolan was dismissed for a third time Friday, concluding another chapter to the legal battle involving the former Knicks star that dates back to when he was ejected from the Garden following
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BIBLE, EDUCATION, RELATED, SCHOOLS
Texas state representative and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico’s campaign responded after a resurfaced video of his comments on the Bible and education sparked outrage.
A clip resurfaced this week of Talarico, a Christian seminarian, speaking
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SINEMA, BODYGUARD, SEX, KYRSTEN
Former Democrat-turned-Independent Arizona senator Kyrsten Sinema has been open in court about her sexual relationship with a former bodyguard who is now her boyfriend.
Sinema has been embroiled in a legal battle involving Matthew Ammel and his ex-wife, Heather
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MLB, MAKES, HISTORY, ROOKIE
St. Louis Cardinals rookie Joshua Báez’s first career game in the big leagues was something out of a movie.
Báez made Major League Baseball history by hitting a home run in each of his first three plate appearances in the Cardinals' game against the Chicago
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DENVER, SOCIALIST, BUSINESS, LL
Colorado's increasing leftward tilt is something people have been watching and commenting on for years. I moved to Colorado in 1988, and even then, when Colorado was still, for the most part, South Wyoming, people were beginning to complain about the influx
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MILWAUKEE, STOLEN, FOUND, APARTMENT
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Bill DeLind thought the Picasso print that was stolen from his Milwaukee gallery in 2018 was gone forever.
But then police called last week and asked him to look an artwork that a local landlord found while
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AMENDMENT, COVID, INVOKING, FAUCI
Dr. Anthony Fauci on Friday declined a request to voluntarily appear before a second Senate panel, opening another front in Republicans’ investigations into the former public health official’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
An attorney for Fauci rejected
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24, ABUSE, COUNTS, ACTOR
A California actor and producer is facing 24 felony charges after investigators said he used online casting calls to contact minors as part of an alleged pattern of child sexual abuse spanning decades.
Shane Ryan Gledhill, 46, of Lompoc, was arrested Aug.
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ARDAY, PROFESSOR, CAMBRIDGE, RACISM
British leftists have attempted to blame racism and media scrutiny for the untimely death of former Cambridge professor Jason Arday, who sensationally resigned last week amid plagiarism allegations and accusations of fabricating his backstory.
On Friday afternoon,
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VISA, STATE, DEPARTMENT, TACKLING
The State Department is tackling fraud in the H-1B visa program, State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott revealed during an interview on Breitbart News Daily.
Pigott said it is essential across the board to ensure there are counter-fraud measures for visa
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WATER, GENERATION, MEAD, IMPACTS
Back in May, Lake Mead had already dropped to 1,050 feet above sea level, which was 25 feet below its critical level of 1,075 feet. The huge reservoir, held in place by Hoover Dam, was just below 1,040 feet as of August 13. When the lake level falls to 1,035
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LAWSUIT, MATT, HARASSMENT, CBS
Former ABC News field producer Samira Said accused CBS News chief correspondent Matt Gutman of making sexualized remarks toward her while the two worked together at ABC, according to a wrongful-termination lawsuit filed Friday in Los Angeles.
Said worked as
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