Emerging Topics in U.S. News
SATURDAY, AUGUST 2nd 2025
Updated 23:59 ET
12 articles
SENATE, TRUMP, NOMINEE, SCHUMER
Republicans are finally waking up and putting a plan together to stop Democrats from continuing to obstruct President Donald Trump's nominees, with the most crucial being a backlog of judicial appointments. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), who also serves as the Chairman
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NEW, MAMDANI, YORK, MAYOR
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) stated that New York City mayoral candidate Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani (D) has “taken a lot of positions that I don’t agree with, but we have a lot of alignment on issues like affordability.”
Host
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SWEENEY, SYDNEY, AD, JEANS
The ad campaign that launched a thousand critiques: Sydney Sweeney's jeans
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As much as the news media serves to inform the public, we're also here to give you something to talk about. Learning about the world around us provides
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BAR, MONTANA, SHOOTING, KILLING
Law enforcement officials searching for an Army veteran accused of killing at least four people in Montana Friday morning have located the white Ford F-150 allegedly used by the man to flee, though he has not yet been located.
The Anaconda-Deer Lodge County
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SUMMERSLAM, ROLLINS, SETH, ROMAN
The first night of SummerSlam delivered with a handful of classic matches and one heist that completely left the audience at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, stunned.
One tag-team title changed hands and the World Heavyweight Championship
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LOS, IMMIGRATION, ANGELES, COURT
The Trump administration’s agenda suffered another setback late Friday when an appeals court upheld a decision that temporarily halts federal agents from making immigration-related arrests in the Los Angeles area without probable cause.
A three-judge panel
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CUNNINGHAM, SOPHIE, FEVER, TOY
A second WNBA game has been plagued by a flying sex toy.
On Friday night, a matchup between the Golden State Valkyries and the Chicago Sky was interrupted in the third quarter when the object flew across the court. The officials stopped the game to remove
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TRUMP, TARIFFS, NEW, WEIGH
Stocks tumbled on Friday in response to the sweeping new levies.
What do Trump's new tariffs mean for the economy? Experts weigh in
Donald Trump signs an executive order restarting the Presidential Fitness Test in public schools, July 31, 2025, in the Roosevelt
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CALIFORNIA, ISIS, ARRESTED, SENDING
Federal agents have arrested a man in California on allegations he sent a dozen payments to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), FBI Los Angeles announced on Friday.
Mark Lorenzo Villanueva, 28, is charged with attempting to provide material support
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COUNSEL, SMITH, JACK, SPECIAL
US officials open investigation into former special counsel Jack Smith
Jack Smith resigned as special counsel in January, weeks before Donald Trump took office.
US federal officials say they have opened an investigation into former special counsel Jack Smith,
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MOM, CRASH, MIGRANT, ILLEGAL
More than 150 mourners gathered Saturday to remember the mother and her 11-year-old daughter tragically killed in a head-on crash with an allegedly drunk illegal immigrant driver.
Sobbing and weeping relatives and friends — many of them, donning shirts with
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SECRET, CHEATLE, SECURITY, SERVICE
Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle — under fire over the Pennsylvania assassination attempt against President Trump — won’t have her top-level security clearance renewed, The Post has learned.
The Secret Service decided not to extend Chealte’s
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HOT, CRASH, DOGS, PENNSYLVANIA
Four people were hurt in a crash on Interstate 83 in Pennsylvania on Friday that also resulted in thousands of hot dogs being spilled onto the pavement.
The crash, involving one tractor-trailer and another vehicle, happened in Shrewsbury Township just after
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BORN, EMBRYO, FROZEN, WORLD
The “world’s oldest baby” was born in Ohio last week from an embryo that had been frozen for more than 30 years, according to reports.
Thaddeus Daniel Pierce was born via adopted-IVF on July 26 to parents Lindsey, 34, and Tim Pierce, 35, from London, Oh.,
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AGREES, TRUMP, MAKING, GOP
Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman admitted that his party had gotten it wrong about President Donald Trump’s tariffs, saying that, so far, the U.S. trade war is "going well."
Asked by Fox News Digital whether he thought the Trump administration
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COUNTRY, SEELY, JEANNIE, 85
NEW YORK (AP) — Jeannie Seely, the soulful country music singer behind such standards like “Don’t Touch Me,” has died. She was 85.
Her publicist, Don Murry Grubbs, said she died Friday after succumbing to complications from an intestinal infection.
Known
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TRUMP, SMITHSONIAN, REFERENCES, IMPEACHMENTS
MSNBC political commentator Al Sharpton said Friday on “Deadline” that President Donald Trump has compromised the “integrity of the Smithsonian” because it’s National Museum of American History removed an exhibit this month referencing President Donald Trump’s
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COP, NYPD, DAD, RUN
He will always be their hero.
The sons of the NYPD officer killed in the Park Avenue mass shooting idolized their dad, showing him off to classmates and even dressing up and “walking firmly” like their idol.
Police Officer Didarul Islam’s oldest son Ahyan
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COUNTRY, TRUMP, ROLE, CAMBODIA
Cambodia will nominate President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize after he helped the country reach a cease-fire agreement to end its border conflict with Thailand.
Sun Chanthol, Cambodia’s deputy prime minister, thanked Trump for bringing peace to the
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TRUMP, ROGERS, SENATE, EXCLUSIVE
Trump-endorsed Michigan Republican U.S. Senate candidate former Rep. Mike Rogers told Breitbart News Saturday in an exclusive interview that the candidates running in the Democrat primary are pushing each other further and further left, which he predicts will
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TRUMP, ADMINISTRATION, MILLION, UCLA
The Trump administration is freezing $339 million in research grants to the University of California, Los Angeles, accusing the school of civil rights violations related to antisemitism, affirmative action, and women’s sports, according to a person familiar
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TRUMP, DISGRACED, BED, PRES
President Trump demurred on whether he’ll pardon disgraced former Long Island Rep. George Santos, who kicked off a seven-year prison sentence for fraud last week.
Despite Santos’ claims he had been privately lobbying for a pardon, Trump indicated the push
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MAXWELL, GHISLAINE, PRISON, JOGS
Sexual abuse victims of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and family members of the late Virginia Giuffre, a sexual abuse victim of Epstein, criticized Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s former assistant, being moved to a prison camp.
Annie Farmer and Maria Farmer,
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BAIL, CONVICTED, MURDERERS, INSANITY
Two convicted killers arrested for allegedly peddling drugs in Lower Manhattan were released without bail and cited in an investigation by the New York Post as “shocking examples” of what the newspaper called the state’s “disastrous soft-on-crime policies.”
Prosecuting
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