Emerging Topics in U.S. News
WEDNESDAY, JULY 16th 2025
Updated 23:59 ET
40 articles
TRUMP, EPSTEIN, CHAIR, FED
WASHINGTON — Most voters don’t like the way President Trump has dealt with an investigative review of the federal case against notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, according to a new poll out Wednesday.
A Quinnipiac University national survey found 63% of
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BIDEN, JILL, COVER, HOUSE
Democrat disloyalty to President Joe Biden sowed the seeds for the party’s spectacular loss to President Donald Trump in the last election, according to no lesser authority than Hunter Biden.
The Hill reports the claim comes in an interview the ex-president’s
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EPSTEIN, MAXWELL, FIRED, GHISLAINE
Maurene Comey, the daughter of disgraced former FBI Director James Comey, was given the pink slip by Attorney General Pam Bondi, who fired one of the top Manhattan prosecutors for the Department of Justice on Wednesday.
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MAMDANI, NEW, AOC, ZOHRAN
FIRST ON FOX: Mahmood Mamdani, the Columbia University professor and father of New York City socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, has a social media presence littered with anti-Israel comments and praise for radical activists, a Fox News Digital review
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CAITLIN, CLARK, INJURY, FEVER
Comedian Shane Gillis was tapped to host the ESPYs on Wednesday night, and he had a crass zinger for Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark during one of his opening monologues.
Gillis, who is also an actor on the Netflix series "Tires," had a little something
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PBS, SENATE, NPR, TRUMP
The Senate on Tuesday voted to take up legislation to claw back $9 billion for foreign aid and public broadcasting, signaling that the Republican-led Congress is poised to acquiesce to President Trump in a simmering battle with the White House over spending
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ISRAEL, STRIKES, MILITARY, DRUZE
Israel strikes Syria's capital Damascus
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TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel on Wednesday conducted airstrikes in downtown Damascus, the Syrian capital.
The Israeli military said the targets included a Syrian government military compound in Damascus
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IDOL, AMERICAN, HUSBAND, EXEC
(UPI) — Los Angeles police detectives on Tuesday arrested a 22-year-old man suspected of killing an American Idol music supervisor and her husband during a a home invasion last week, authorities said.
The Los Angeles Police Department identified the suspect
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GUARD, NATIONAL, TRUMP, TROOPS
The Pentagon is releasing 2,000 National Guard troops from their federal mission to Los Angeles.
"Thanks to our troops who stepped up to answer the call, the lawlessness in Los Angeles is subsiding," chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement
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OBAMA, BARACK, DIVORCE, MICHELLE
Former President Obama joined his wife and brother-in-law on their podcast.
Former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama attend the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, August 20, 2024.
Former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama
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PRICES, INFLATION, JUNE, PRODUCER
Broadcast TV has now fallen to less than 20 percent of TV use, according to the latest Nielsen viewership survey.
Nielsen only started tracking all TV use on all platforms four years ago and now includes streaming and Internet-based services. But in that time,
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ADAMS, CRIMINAL, CONSPIRACY, MAYOR
A former police commissioner on Wednesday filed a sweeping federal lawsuit against Mayor Eric Adams of New York City and top police officials, accusing the mayor of running City Hall and the Police Department as a criminal enterprise.
The lawsuit marks the
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LIGHTNING, JERSEY, STRUCK, NEW
A 28-year-old man reportedly died from his injuries this week after being struck by lightning while participating in a golf tournament in New Jersey.
Simon John Mariani — a resident of suburban Franklin Lakes in New Jersey — was struck while playing the
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JOHNSON, SPEAKER, MIKE, TRUMP
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is not interested in making a future bid for the presidency, he told The Post’s Miranda Devine on the latest episode of “Pod Force One,” out Wednesday, despite a meteoric rise up the Republican ranks in the House after serving
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ANDREW, CUOMO, NYC, CAMPAIGN
Critics are ripping apart the latest campaign ad for New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo, which shows the former Empire State governor helping a fellow New Yorker by giving his vehicle a jump-start on the side of a city street.
"New Yorkers, start
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SCHIFF, MORTGAGE, TRUMP, OFFICIAL
Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff of California refused to answer repeated questions from Fox News Digital about his alleged mortgage fraud, which President Donald Trump has accused him of committing over 10 years.
The long-time Trump critic, who as a congressman
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TRUMP, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, LEADER
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Republicans will vote on a Russia sanctions bill as soon as President Donald Trump green-lights the legislation.
A bipartisan U.S. sanctions bill co-sponsored by Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Lindsey Graham,
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TRUMP, SCOTUS, EDUCATION, BIG
Another day, another headline-grabbing victory by President Trump in the U.S. Supreme Court. A string of injunctions issued against him by liberal district court judges, as typically affirmed by Democrat-majority appellate panels, has resulted in a string of
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ARIZONA, PRIMARY, LATE, DEMOCRATIC
The Mamdani momentum withered in the deserts of southern Arizona on Tuesday night.
In a Democratic primary election that pitted continuity and experience against generational change, voters decided to stick with what they knew, nominating Adelita Grijalva,
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RUN, DERBY, MLB, HOME
Athletics' slugger Brent Rooker took aim at a fan on social media after the heckler called him out for giving his child a bottle during Monday night’s All-Star Home Run Derby.
Rooker, 30, was captured on ESPN's broadcast feeding his 11-month-old daughter,
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FOX, NEWS, BUY, IMMEDIATELY
As legacy news brands turn to podcasters to court online audiences, another digital media upstart has been invited to sit at the grown-ups table.
Fox News Media this week signed a licensing deal with the makers of “Ruthless,” a popular conservative podcast,
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JR, TOP, FIRES, RFK
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spent a lot of his time as health secretary on the road. Late last month, he spoke at an event in Baton Rouge and lamented how Americans have gotten sicker and sicker over the years. “When my uncle was president, I was a 10-year-old
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COUNTRY, DHS, BARBARIC, ANNOUNCES
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this week highlighted the “uniquely barbaric” illegal migrants deported from the United States to a country other than their own due to their egregious crimes.
DHS deported these migrants to the African nation of Eswatini
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ABREGO, GARCIA, CASE, KILMAR
Salvadorian migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia appeared in federal court in Tennessee on Wednesday for a second detention hearing, after a federal judge agreed to hear an appeal from the Justice Department to keep him detained in criminal custody pending trial.
The
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