Emerging Topics in U.S. News
MONDAY, OCTOBER 13th 2025
Updated 23:59 ET
103 articles
TRUMP, PEACE, DEAL, HOSTAGES
Trump arrived on Monday in Israel as the new ceasefire deal takes hold.
Trump to tout 'historic dawn of a new Middle East' in Knesset speech
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog greet U.S. President Donald Trump upon his arrival
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LIONS, BRANCH, BRIAN, CHIEFS
The peaceful exchange of post-game handshakes gave way to fisticuffs and body slams as the Chiefs and Lions brawled at the end of their hard-fought Sunday Night Football matchup.
The trouble started after the final kneel down as the Chiefs put the finishing
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DAY, COLUMBUS, INDIGENOUS, PEOPLES
Three years after Joseph R. Biden Jr. became the first president to formally commemorate Indigenous Peoples’ Day, more than a dozen states and many cities recognize some version of the day either alongside or instead of the federal holiday Columbus Day.
Columbus
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MAMDANI, OCT, DEATH, PALESTINIAN
Like husband, like wife?
Or, should that be, "like Marxist, antisemitic NYC Democrat mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, like his wife, Rama Duwaji?"
Yeah, I like the second iteration better, too. I'll explain why in a bit.
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First, as RedState
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NEW, YORK, WINDS, HEAVY
ALBANY — The state Education Department isn’t doing enough to embrace a more modern literacy curriculum, a Brooklyn lawmaker is charging as states like Mississippi soar past New York in critical reading scores.
Assemblyman Bobby Carrol (D-Brooklyn) is demanding
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DIANE, KEATON, ALLEN, WOODY
Woody Allen described a "drearier world" without ex-girlfriend and longtime friend Diane Keaton.
Allen wrote an essay about the movie star after her death at age 79.
"It’s grammatically incorrect to say ‘most unique,’ but all rules of grammar, and I guess
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DEATHS, OPIOID, CIATTARELLI, CLAIM
With the final days closing in on an especially messy New Jersey gubernatorial election, Republican candidate Jack Ciattarelli’s campaign slammed his Democratic opponent, Rep. Mikie Sherrill, for pushing a narrative that he "killed tens of thousands of people."
Sherrill
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JOHNSON, LONGEST, WARNS, BARRELING
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., delivered a stark warning during a Monday press conference on Day 13 of the government shutdown.
"We're barreling toward one of the longest shutdowns in American history unless Democrats drop their partisan demands and pass a
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ROMNEY, DEAD, FOUND, SISTER
The sister-in-law of former presidential nominee and Utah senator Mitt Romney was found dead on a street in a Los Angeles suburb Friday evening, according to officials and reports.
Carrie Elizabeth Romney was discovered dead on a street near a shopping mall
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GOV, STATE, NJ, AHEAD
New Mexico to become first state to offer free childcare New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan [[LOO-han]] Grisham says her state will be the first to offer free universal childcare, but critics of the plan say key challenges haven't been addressed.
National New
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PARADE, EASTER, DAY, NYC
New Yorkers were up in arms after the annual Columbus Day Parade was canceled because of the nor’easter blowing through the city, the first time in its nearly 100-year history it was scrapped due to weather.
“They f’n cancelled Columbus Day Parade in NYC because
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PROTEST, NAKED, PORTLAND, RIDERS
Protesters rallying against the Trump administration in Portland put the city’s quirky and irreverent reputation on display Sunday by pedaling through the streets wearing absolutely nothing — or close to it — in an “emergency” edition of the annual World Naked
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VANCE, STEPHANOPOULOS, BROADCAST, BRIBERY
Vice President JD Vance clashed with ABC News host George Stephanopoulos on Sunday as the vice president denied border czar Tom Homan accepted a bribe and accused the ABC host of losing credibility, leading the interview to abruptly end.
Stephanopoulos pressed
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PLANE, KILLING, CRASHES, MASSACHUSETTS
A small plane has crashed along a highway in southeastern Massachusetts, killing both people on board
Plane crashes onto a Massachusetts highway, killing 2 and wounding 1 on the ground
DARTMOUTH, Mass. -- DARTMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — A small plane crashed along
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ENABLER, PART, OFFICIAL, NY
FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche criticized the New York Times for an article on Monday claiming that Blanche had "disdain" for Patel.
The article, titled "Part Enabler, Part Buffer: The Bind of the Justice Dept.’s No. 2,"
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ALEC, STEPHEN, BALDWIN, NEW
On top of all the monumental events of this Monday, with all the cause to celebrate a major peace deal in the Middle East, we should not be surprised to learn that not everyone has been having a good day. That's to be expected, I suppose. Law of averages, and
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KEIRA, KNIGHTLEY, BOYCOTT, POTTER
Actress Keira Knightley said she was "not aware" of fan calls to boycott the new "Harry Potter" Full Cast audiobooks and said she was "very sorry."
"I was not aware of that, no. I’m very sorry," Knightley told Decider when asked about the calls to boycott
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NEW, GREENBERG, DEATH, ELLEN
Ellen Greenberg’s death has once again been ruled a suicide, following a new review by the Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office, according to media reports.
Per People, the report reaffirms that Greenberg, a 27-year-old Philadelphia schoolteacher, died
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EXPLAIN, BOSS, WEEK, WEISS
It was another week that was choked with news items, and the press was hacking up garbage reporting in the process. The government shutdown was an issue that they needed to completely recalibrate on behalf of the Democrats. Worse still was trying to explain
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FLIGHT, MEGA, STARSHIP, 11TH
SpaceX launches 11th test flight of its mega Starship rocket
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SpaceX launched another of its mammoth Starship rockets on a test flight Monday, striving to make it halfway around the world while releasing mock satellites like last
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GORILLA, SAN, GLASS, DIEGO
A gorilla at the San Diego Zoo gave visitors quite a fright on Saturday when he ran at a glass barrier.
The 10-year-old gorilla named Denny broke through one of the three layers of tempered glass that separates him from visitors watching him in his enclosure,
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DOUG, ATV, LENDINGTREE, FOUNDER
LendingTree CEO and founder Doug Lebda died in an ATV accident on Sunday, the company confirmed
NEW YORK -- NEW YORK (AP) — LendingTree CEO and founder Doug Lebda died in an an all-terrain vehicle accident over the weekend, the online loaning platform said
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TV, NIGHT, KIMMEL, LATE
Jimmy Kimmel could learn how to disagree without being so disagreeable from the comedian who launched late-night television.
Letters from “The Tonight Show” founding host Steve Allen I discovered in a warehouse during research for “The Man Who Invented Conservatism:
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OBAMA, MARON, MARC, TRUMP
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Former President Obama, speaking on stand-up comedian Marc Maron’s final podcast on Monday, said the Trump administration’s policies are a “test” of whether universities,
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