Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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JOBS, REPORT, AUGUST, TRUMP
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Welcome to The Logoff: The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly
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GEORGIA, HYUNDAI, PLANT, RAID
ICE agents detained 450 illegal migrants at a construction site in Georgia, including hundreds of fly-in Koreans who likely misused B-1 tourist visas to take jobs from American construction workers.
The migrants’ detention is presumably welcomed among American
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JR, RFK, SENATE, HEARING
Health Secretary RFK Jr. grilled on vaccines and more during Senate hearing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was questioned by senators from both parties on Thursday about vaccine access and more. NPR analyzes the health secretary's nearly three-hour appearance.
Health
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ADAMS, CUOMO, NYC, TRUMP
New York Mayor Eric Adams held a press conference on Friday in which he dispelled widespread rumors that he would drop out of his bid for re-election and vowed to stay in the race, saying, "I'm running, and I'm going to beat Mamdani."
Adams, who was elected
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TRUMP, WAR, DEPARTMENT, 2026
President Trump signed an executive order on Friday that ceremonially recognized the Defense Department as the “Department of War,” a name that was dropped after World War II and that the president claimed had caused the country to enter wars it “never fought
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INTERN, PIRRO, JEANINE, MURDER
Though the early August assault case involving Edward "Big Balls" Coristine got national attention due in part to his DOGE associations and Elon Musk demanding justice in the aftermath, there was another high-profile case that rocked the nation's capital this
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SPITTING, CARTER, JALEN, EAGLES
The NFL world exploded in anger on Thursday night after Philadelphia Eagles star Jalen Carter was ejected from his game against the Dallas Cowboys before even playing a snap.
After the kickoff, Eagles and Cowboys players began to talk trash. Carter was seen
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TRUMP, GUARD, NATIONAL, BALTIMORE
Donald Trump's recent floated proposal to deploy the National Guard to crime-overrun blue cities like Chicago and Baltimore has been met with howls of outrage from the usual suspects. For many liberal talking heads and Democratic officials, this is simply the
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TRUMP, ICE, CHICAGO, BRACES
The Chicago area is bracing for additional immigration enforcement, which could start as soon as Friday, according to Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker.
At a press conference earlier this week, Pritzker said that U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement operations
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BIDEN, AIDE, EX, GRILLING
Joe Biden undergoes skin cancer surgery
Former US President Joe Biden recently underwent skin cancer surgery, his spokeswoman said.
Biden had Mohs surgery, she told the BBC's US partner CBS News, but did not immediately provide further details.
The procedure
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TRUMP, INDIA, RUSSIA, CHINA
The leaders of Russia, China, and North Korea are not good men. They preside over brutal autocracies replete with secret police and prison camps. But they are, nevertheless, serious men, and they know an unserious man when they see one. For nearly a decade,
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UKRAINE, TROOPS, TARGETS, PUTIN
It seems like only yesterday we had some hopes for an end to the Russo-Ukrainian War, but that's looking less and less likely by the day. Following the Alaska Summit and the gathering of European leaders in Washington, Russia's Vladimir Putin seems dismissive
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HOUSE, WHITE, TRUMP, WEIGH
US President Donald Trump during a dinner with tech leaders in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025.
President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to launch a trade investigation to "nullify" what he said
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TRUMP, COURT, FEDERAL, COMMISSION
Facing viral rumors of his imminent death, President Trump emerged in the Oval Office on Tuesday alive and scowling. Core tenets of his economic policies were under strain. Flashy diplomatic overtures to Moscow appeared to be backfiring. And a scandal over
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FOX, NEWS, LAWSUIT, JUDGE
Who did a Fox News executive call a 'reckless maniac'? Find out in the quiz
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This week's news featured breakups (with TV shows, with vaccines,
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NAVY, VENEZUELAN, PROVOCATIVE, MOVE
The Defense Department confirmed on Thursday night that two Venezuelan aircraft flew near a U.S. Navy vessel in international waters. The incident, which the department called a "highly provocative move," comes as the Trump administration ramps up its anti-narco-terrorism
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SEAL, MISSION, NORTH, NAVY
A group of Navy SEALs secretly entered North Korea in early 2019 to plant a device to intercept the communications of dictator Kim Jong Un — but ended up firing on unarmed civilians diving for shellfish, puncturing their lungs to conceal their bodies and aborting
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CITY, GAZA, ISRAEL, BOSTON
In a unanimous vote Tuesday, Durham City Council passed a resolution to make the North Carolina city a “Fourth Amendment Workplace,” increasing protections for city workers against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and arrests.
The Fourth Amendment
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CRIME, TRUMP, CHICAGO, STEPHEN
CBS late-night host Stephen Colbert said “fuck you” to President Donald Trump for spotlighting Chicago’s ongoing crime problem.
Colbert impersonated the president as he said during a segment on his show, “Yesterday, Trump also posted, ‘Chicago is the worst
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ABREGO, GARCIA, KILMAR, TRUMP
An attorney representing the Department of Homeland Security and ICE has notified high-profile illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia that he will be deported to the tiny African nation Eswatini, after the alleged gang member’s lawyers said he fears persecution
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KENT, DUCHESS, 92, ROYAL
LONDON (AP) – The Duchess of Kent, who famously broke royal protocol to hug a Wimbledon runner-up and stepped away from family duties to teach music in a public school, has died, Buckingham Palace announced Friday. She was 92.
Born Katharine Lucy Mary Worsley,
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LINK, TYLENOL, AUTISM, JR
For more than a decade, scientists have asked whether acetaminophen — the active ingredient in the painkiller Tylenol — could affect fetal brain development, causing problems in children like autism and A.D.H.D. Some studies have suggested that there is a link;
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