Emerging Topics in U.S. News
SATURDAY, JUNE 7th 2025
Updated 16:12 ET
135 articles
TRUMP, MUSK, ELON, FEUD
FBI Director Kash Patel says agents have recovered phones once used by Dr. Anthony Fauci during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a discovery Patel called a "breakthrough" in the bureau's ongoing investigation into Fauci's role in the crisis, The Hill
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GARCIA, ABREGO, KILMAR, CHARGES
“Abrego Garcia has landed in the United States to face justice,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said at a news conference in Washington. “He was a smuggler of humans and children and women.”
She added, “This is what American justice looks like.”
Two people familiar
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UKRAINE, DRONE, RUSSIA, KYIV
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – A large Russian drone-and-missile attack targeted Ukraine’s eastern city of Kharkiv on Saturday, killing at least three people and injuring 21, local officials said. The barrage – the latest in near daily widescale attacks – included aerial
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COURT, TRUMP, DOGE, SUPREME
Elon Musk flashes his “DOGE” shirt to the media during a March visit to the White House.
The Supreme Court cleared the way Friday for the DOGE team that had been led by Elon Musk to examine Social Security records that include personal information on most
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KILLING, DECKER, DAUGHTERS, TRAVIS
Three teens have been arrested for trashing and setting fire to the beloved historic Sleepy Hollow lighthouse in a “heartbreaking” attack just a year after its multimillion-dollar renovation, according to officials.
Baby-faced firebugs Elvin Ayavaca, 18, of
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TRUMP, HARVARD, STUDENTS, BAN
Harvard files legal challenge over Trump's ban as admitted foreign students wait
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Winning admission to Harvard University fulfilled a longtime goal for Yonas Nuguse, a student in Ethiopia who endured a war in the country's
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ARKANSAS, CHIEF, POLICE, PRISON
Grant Hardin, who escaped an Arkansas prison, went missing on May 25.
US Border Patrol tactical unit deployed to help manhunt for escaped Arkansas inmate
A U.S. Border Patrol tactical unit from Texas, known as BORTAC, has been deployed to Arkansas to assist
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NEWSOM, TRUMP, CALIFORNIA, FEDERAL
The various states get federal funding for a lot of things that states rightly should be handling all on their own, like state highways, education, and many other things. But those funds always come with strings attached; the national 55mph speed limit was
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BIDEN, OFFICE, PARDON, FORMER
House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) subpoenaed former President Joe Biden’s physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, regarding an investigation into the alleged cover-up of the former president’s cognitive decline.
In a letter addressed to O’Connor,
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JOBS, 139, 000, HIRING
The labor market persevered in May, continuing a consistent run of job creation that is nonetheless showing signs of drag from tariffs, high interest rates and federal government downsizing.
Employers added 139,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department reported
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DAY, ANNIVERSARY, 81ST, VETERANS
Veterans are gathering on the beaches of Normandy to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings — a pivotal moment during World War II that eventually led to the collapse of Adolf Hitler’s regime
Calvin Shiner, center, a 102-year-old who was drafted in
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SIMONE, GAINES, TRANS, BILES
Simone Biles took offense to OutKick contributor Riley Gaines calling out a Minnesota high school whose softball team won a state championship Friday with a transgender pitcher.
Marissa Rothenberger, a transgender athlete, tossed a shutout to continue a
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TRUMP, BAN, TRAVEL, WORLD
The United States is gearing up to host the world's two biggest sporting events in the next three years, the 2026 Fifa World Cup and 2028 Olympic Games.
They are events which ordinarily see a host nation attract hundreds of thousands of visitors from across
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MUSK, TRUMP, 1B, BIG
On Friday’s “Alex Marlow Show,” host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow discussed Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s championing of H-1B visas with Technology editor Colin Madine.
Madine said, “So, you know, one of the big tells and, you know, it certainly divided
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ICE, MAYOR, STATEMENT, BASS
Democrats have truly lost their minds.
Not only are they doing crazy things like embracing illegal alien alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who just was indicted for conspiracy to transport illegal aliens, but they're also whipping up anger against
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DIDDY, SEAN, COURTROOM, COMBS
Diddy's ex-girlfriend testifies about pressure to participate in 'hotel nights'
41 minutes ago Share Save Kayla Epstein, Sakshi Venkatraman, and Nada Tawfik BBC News Reporting from Reporting from court Share Save
Jane Rosenberg/Reuters In a courtroom sketch,
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ICE, RAIDS, IMMIGRATION, AGENTS
Tense standoffs erupted between U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and protesters in Downtown Los Angeles on Friday, as people attempted to thwart illegal immigration sweeps.
Viral video showed ICE agents escorting handcuffed people into
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BOYS, GOVERNMENT, PROUD, SUE
Five members of the Proud Boys, a far-right militant group, claim their constitutional rights were violated when they were prosecuted for their participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to a lawsuit filed Friday.
The lawsuit
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REFORM, FARAGE, PARTY, YUSUF
In a prompt about-face, Zia Yusuf has announced that he will be returning to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party, just two days after sensationally resigning from his post as party chairman.
Claiming that his decision to quit Reform was one “born out of exhaustion”,
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THAI, BODY, RETRIEVED, HOSTAGE
Israel says it has retrieved the body of a Thai hostage in Gaza
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TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel said Saturday it had retrieved the body of a Thai hostage abducted into Gaza during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that sparked the
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RARE, CHINA, MINERALS, SUPPLIERS
China granted temporary export licenses to rare-earth suppliers of the top three U.S. automakers, two sources familiar with the matter said, as supply-chain disruptions begin to surface from Beijing's export curbs on those materials.
At least some of the licenses
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SETTLEMENT, COLLEGE, APPROVED, BIG
A federal judge has signed off on arguably the biggest change in the history of college sports, clearing the way for schools to begin paying their athletes millions of dollars as soon as next month
A federal judge signed off on arguably the biggest change
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SUICIDE, BILL, LAWMAKERS, ASSISTED
New York lawmakers are “likely” to pass a bill next week that would legalize physician-assisted suicide in the state, the New York Post reported.
“I do believe there are the votes and it is likely it will come to the floor,” Senate Democratic Majority Leader
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MASS, MALL, SHOOTING, PLANNED
A teenager in Oregon planned to set off an explosive at a shopping mall in Washington State and shoot people as they fled the movie theater there, said law enforcement officials, one of whom said the plot “was as serious as it gets.”
The teenager, who is from
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