Emerging Topics in U.S. News
FRIDAY, AUGUST 15th 2025
Updated 08:12 ET
47 articles
TRUMP, PUTIN, SUMMIT, UKRAINE
Fighting in Ukraine escalates ahead of summit. And, Trump to host Kennedy Center gala
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TRUMP, PUTIN, CENTER, MELANIA
Hunter Biden crassly brushed aside first lady Melania Trump’s threat to sue him for $1 billion if he doesn’t retract “false” and “defamatory” comments linking her to late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
3 Former first son Hunter Biden scoffed at Melania Trump’s
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TRUMP, CRIME, DC, POLICE
When President Trump announced Monday that the federal government would take control of Washington’s police department, he described the move as necessary to “rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor.”
But in the more than six
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NEWSOM, TEXAS, TRUMP, CALIFORNIA
California is center stage on Thursday in the national battle over congressional redistricting ahead of next year's midterm elections.
Two-term Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom will team up with congressional Democrats and legislative leaders in the heavily
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POLICE, DC, TRUMP, SANCTUARY
Attorney General Pam Bondi warned that California will lose federal funding unless Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) ends the state’s sanctuary city policies.
Bondi revealed in a post on X that the Department of Justice (DOJ) had “delivered demand letters” to sanctuary
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MAMDANI, NYC, RENT, ZOHRAN
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani warned of a "withering faith" in democracy to deliver for working-class Americans in a new interview with Time Magazine.
"Democracy is not just under attack from authoritarianism from the outside," Mamdani told
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NEWSOM, OUTSIDE, FEDERAL, AGENTS
Federal agents spotted near Gov. Newsom event in Los Angeles Federal agents were spotted arriving in the Little Tokyo area of LA at the same time California Gov. Newsom was in the neighborhood to talk about the redrawing of California's congressional maps.
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SECURITY, TRUMP, SOCIAL, 90TH
To commemorate the 90th Anniversary of the Social Security Act, President Donald Trump held a Thursday afternoon press conference with Social Security Administration Commissioner Frank Bisignano to update the American people on the state of the Social Security
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FOX, NEWS, TRUMP, AG
FIRST ON FOX: The National Border Patrol Council (NBPC), America’s largest union of border patrol officers, is endorsing former top Trump Department of Justice official Aaron Reitz to be the next attorney general of Texas.
This comes as current Texas Attorney
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TROOPS, RESIDENTS, GUARD, NATIONAL
Federal law enforcement agents were spotted patrolling the streets of Washington, D.C., Wednesday night as President Donald Trump’s crime crackdown ramped up.
Personnel from the FBI, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), Customs and Border Protection
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OBAMA, DEMOCRATS, REDISTRICTING, TEXAS
Former President Barack Obama praised a group of Texas Democratic lawmakers for fleeing their state to stop a vote on a redistricting bill, calling their actions "inspiring," according to reporting.
Texas state Rep. Gene Wu, who is chairman of the Texas
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SWIFT, TAYLOR, KELCE, PODCAST
Former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce defended himself on social media this week after his new look in the recent "New Heights" episode featuring pop star Taylor Swift turned some heads on social media.
Fans tuning into Wednesday night’s premiere,
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SANDWICH, AGENT, DC, DOJ
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks next to U.S. President Donald Trump during a press conference about deploying federal law enforcement agents in Washington to bolster the local police presence, in the Press Briefing Room at the White House, in Washington
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BRYAN, IDAHO, KOHBERGER, CALLED
Bryan Kohberger called his mother twice in the hours after he butchered four University of Idaho students in their off-campus home — including on his way to revisit the scene of the murders, according to a report.
Kohberger, 30, phoned his mom, Maryann Kohberger,
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TORONTO, FESTIVAL, FILM, DOCUMENTARY
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) removed a documentary about the 2023 Hamas attack against Israel, citing legal issues with the footage.
The film, "The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue," by Canadian filmmaker Barry Avrich, details the account
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HOMELESS, TRUMP, CITY, CLEARING
The federal authorities were attempting to clear homeless encampments in northwestern Washington on Thursday night as part of President Trump’s sprawling takeover of the city’s law enforcement apparatus, after city officials and advocates had spent much of
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SUPREME, COURT, MEDIA, LAW
is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he focuses on the Supreme Court, the Constitution, and the decline of liberal democracy in the United States. He received a JD from Duke University and is the author of two books on the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court
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SCHUMER, CRIME, DC, FEELS
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that he feels "perfectly safe" in Washington, D.C., and that Republicans who say that D.C. is unsafe are "full of it."
During an interview with lawyer Aaron Parnas on his podcast, "The Parnas Perspective,"
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GUNMAN, OFFICERS, FOOTAGE, DRAMATIC
Nevada police released bodycam footage Wednesday of a July 28 shootout with a lone suspect in Reno.
Police say the footage shows the suspect, 26-year-old Dakota Hawver, opening fire on Reno Police Department officers as soon as they arrived. Hawver, who
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GUILTY, DEATH, FAKING, RAPE
Fugitive Nicholas Rossi guilty of rape after extradition to US
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BBC Rossi appeared in court in Utah with an oxygen tube in his nostril
An American fugitive who faked his death and fled to Scotland
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ROBLOX, SUES, AVERAGE, YEAR
FIRST ON FOX: Louisiana’s attorney general brought a lawsuit Thursday against Roblox, alleging the widely-used online gaming platform is rife with child predators and harmful content.
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said Roblox, an interactive online
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CAUGHT, ENFORCING, THINKING, HIT
On Wednesday’s “Alex Marlow Show,” host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow discussed comments from Democratic Rep. Delia Ramirez saying that ICE engages in “terrorism.”
Marlow stated, “And so, they consider just enforcing immigration and customs…they
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GIRLS, SPORTS, CALIFORNIA, ATHLETES
The Kern County Board of Education in California on Tuesday became the latest blue state board of education to pass a local resolution to keep biological males out of girls sports while its state law does the opposite.
The state has been a hotbed of controversy
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TRUMP, WARREN, ELIZABETH, TEST
President Donald Trump called for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to take a drug test after her behavior in a video with New York City’s radical leftist mayoral candidate, Zohran Mamdani.
Trump’s comments came while he was fielding questions after signing a proclamation
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