Emerging Topics in U.S. News
MONDAY, JUNE 16th 2025
Updated 23:59 ET
93 articles
TRUMP, IRAN, ISRAEL, G7
Things aren't going well for Iran. While the Islamist nation has managed to kill some civilians by indiscriminately lobbing ballistic missiles at Israel, when it comes to the actual business of winning the war, the scoreboard isn't even close. The latest evidence
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MINNESOTA, SUSPECT, SHOOTING, VANCE
Suspect in killing of Minnesota lawmaker and husband taken into custody and charged The man suspected of killing a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband and wounding another lawmaker and his wife on Saturday was taken into custody and charged, state officials
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SENATE, BILL, BIG, GOP
Republicans who control the Senate Finance Committee unveiled changes to President Donald Trump's sweeping tax-cut and spending bill on Monday that would make business-related tax breaks permanent while modifying Medicaid reforms and a new federal deduction
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ABORTION, PREGNANCY, SUPREME, COURT
In his Supreme Court brief urging the justices to deny review, Matthew Platkin, the state’s attorney general, said his subpoena was meant to gather information on whether the centers had “misled donors and potential clients, among others, into believing that”
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TRUMP, HARVARD, STUDENTS, JUDGE
A temporary block on the proclamation was extended until next Monday.
People enter and exit the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 15, 2025.
People enter and exit the Harry Elkins Widener
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FISCHER, THREATS, SUPREME, COURT
A Georgia man has been was indicted for allegedly threatening two U.S. senators, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Officials say Robert Davis Forney, 25, called Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and left voicemails threatening sexual violence against him and
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CALIFORNIA, ICE, BAN, LAW
State Attorney General Letitia James is conducting a sweeping misconduct probe of New York local law enforcement authorities who may be helping the Trump administration crack down on illegal immigration, The Post has learned.
The AG’s office is targeting any
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KINGS, CITY, PROJECT, DEAD
The 39-year-old man shot and killed at a weekend “No Kings” protest in Salt Lake City was a successful fashion designer and former “Project Runway” contestant who devoted his life to celebrating artists from the Pacific Islands.
Arthur Folasa Ah Loo was killed
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TRUMP, POLL, VOTERS, ICE
The latest inflation data show consumer prices rose an average of less than 0.1 percent in May, a total rebuttal to mainstream media forecasts that President Trump’s economic policies wound cause catastrophic inflation. Instead, the monthly rate of prices increases
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FUNDING, DUFFY, SECRETARY, ROGUE
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy threatened to cut funding from “rogue state actors” that do not cooperate with federal immigration enforcement efforts after President Trump announced a crackdown on Democrat-run big cities and other jurisdictions with so-called
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FLOODS, WEST, VIRGINIA, FLASH
Torrential rain caused flash floods in parts of the US state of West Virgina that led to the deaths of at least five people, including a 3-year-old child. Rescue crews continued to search for several people a day after the downpour, authorities said.
Video
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TRUMP, PARADE, PROTESTS, MILITARY
Military parade and No Kings protests: a split-screen of a divided America
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WASHINGTON, D.C., and ANNAPOLIS, Md. — There are events that become a Rorschach test that brings out America's political and cultural divisions
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TRIAL, DIDDY, SEAN, JUROR
Juror dismissed in Diddy trial over 'inconsistencies'
The trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs, pictured in a court sketch last week, is now in its sixth week
Lawyers for Combs had opposed the decision, saying that Combs would be "substantially prejudiced by the dismissal"
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SWAGGART, JIMMY, REV, CRITICAL
The famed Rev. Jimmy Swaggart, the Louisiana-born televangelist and founder of the Family Worship Center in Baton Rouge, was hospitalized Sunday after suffering a cardiac arrest.
At a special evening prayer service at the center, Swaggart's son, Donnie Swaggart,
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MATTHEW, DOCTOR, PLEAD, GUILTY
A doctor who illegally supplied the “Friends” actor Matthew Perry with the drug ketamine in the weeks leading up to Mr. Perry’s death in 2023 — traveling to his home and a parking lot to inject him — has agreed to plead guilty, according to court documents.
The
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500, FIRE, MAUI, ACRES
MAUI COUNTY, Hawaii – More than 100 homes were evacuated in Kahikinui on Hawaii’s island of Maui after a wind-driven brush fire quickly spread.
The fire reached about 500 acres, according to Maui County officials. No injuries or property damage have been reported.
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CHINA, COOL, MAKE, ELF
In China’s campaign to win over hearts and minds worldwide, its latest weapon is a fanged, bunny-eared, arguably quite ugly plushie.
The grinning fuzzy toy, called Labubu, is made by a Chinese company and has become a global craze. It has in recent months
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ETHICS, COMPLAINT, CUOMO, 6M
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been hit with an ethics complaint for failing to disclose his more than $2.6 million worth of stock options in an advanced nuclear technology company before launching his mayoral campaign.
The conservative watchdog group Foundation
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TRUMP, WALZ, MINNESOTA, DIG
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Sunday took a dig at President Donald Trump's penchant for posting so-called "mean tweets" following the arrest of the suspect in the shootings of Minnesota lawmakers, reported Mediaite.
"This cannot be the norm," Walz said at a
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WEINGARTEN, LEADERSHIP, DISPUTE, BIG
Two powerful national union honchos — including teachers boss Randi Weingarten — are parting ways with the Democratic National Committee over a beef with Chairman Ken Martin about the party’s direction.
Weingarten, the longtime head of the American Federation
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PURDUE, OPIOID, SETTLEMENT, BILLION
Purdue Pharma, Sacklers reach new $7.4 billion opioid settlement
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All 50 states as well as the District of Columbia and U.S. territories have approved a $7.4 billion settlement
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DAY, FATHERS, CRYING, BRUCE
It seems like there is no grand tradition that someone doesn't want to either take away or at least diminish. Yesterday was, of course, Father's Day. We had several wonderful Father's Day pieces here at RedState, as we do every year, as we also do on Mother's
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CARNIVAL, INFANT, UTAH, INCLUDING
An 8-month-old baby was among three people killed when a 16-year-old gunman opened fire during an argument at a carnival in Utah, according to cops.
The baby and a 41-year-old woman were both innocent bystanders caught up when the young teen opened fire after
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PENN, TRUMP, BILL, SEAN
I don't often agree with Bill Maher, but every now and then, the left-winger manages to do a number on one of his own. That happened on Saturday evening when the comedian interviewed actor Sean Penn, and for perhaps the first time in his life, the Hollywood
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