Emerging Topics in U.S. News
THURSDAY, JANUARY 15th 2026
Updated 23:59 ET
39 articles
ICE, MINNEAPOLIS, ANTI, ILLEGAL
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Gopher State Governor Tim Walz continue to ramp up the incendiary rhetoric against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as they attempt to do their jobs amid rising violence from unhinged protesters. As we’ve reported,
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ICE, MINNEAPOLIS, SHOOTING, AGENTS
is a correspondent at Vox, where he covers the Democratic Party. He joined Vox in 2022 after reporting on national and international politics for the Atlantic’s politics, global, and ideas teams, including the role of Latino voters in the 2020 election.
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TRUMP, MACHADO, NOBEL, WHITE
President Donald Trump is slated to meet with Venezuela’s opposition leader and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient María Corina Machado at the White House Thursday.
Trump announced Jan. 3 that the U.S. had captured dictator Nicolás Maduro and that the U.S.
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TRUMP, INSURRECTION, ACT, MINNESOTA
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President Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act Thursday as part of his immigration crackdown, blaming politicians in Minnesota who have opposed Immigration and
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TRUMP, PLAN, CARE, HEALTHCARE
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt detailed the “four commonsense pillars” of President Donald Trump’s newly unveiled framework for the “Great Healthcare Plan,” which the White House is calling on Congress to pass.
Leavitt outlined the president’s
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GREENLAND, TRUMP, TROOPS, DEPLOY
(L/R) US Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio depart the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus after a meeting with Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen and Greenland's Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt
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TRUMP, IRAN, LINDSEY, GRAHAM
WASHINGTON — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Thursday it was “beyond disturbing” to hear a report that Arab nations “intervened on behalf of Iran to avoid decisive military action by President Trump.”
“The ayatollah’s regime has American blood on its hands,”
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EVACUATION, EARTH, MEDICAL, ASTRONAUTS
Astronauts return to Earth after first-ever medical evacuation from ISS The NASA International Space Station (ISS) crew that included a sick astronaut splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, California, early on Thursday morning.
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KHALIL, MAHMOUD, COURT, APPEALS
A federal appeals court on Thursday threw out a lower court’s June order to release Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil from detention, triggering questions among his supporters about whether the government can immediately re-detain Khalil for deportation.
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REPORTER, HOME, FBI, SEARCHES
FBI searches a Washington Post reporter's home as part of investigation
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WASHINGTON — FBI agents searched a Washington Post reporter's home on Wednesday as part of a leak investigation into a Pentagon contractor accused of taking
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TANKER, VENEZUELA, SEIZES, CARIBBEAN
US forces seize a sixth Venezuela-linked oil tanker in Caribbean Sea
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Footage shows US capturing sixth Venezuela-linked tanker
The US has seized a sixth tanker in the Caribbean Sea
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SCHEME, POINT, BASKETBALL, SHAVING
26 people charged in sports bribery scheme involving US university basketball players
The charges come on the heels of a separate case of sprawling illegal betting schemes involving National Basketball Association (NBA) personalities and the New York mafia.
"This
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SPORTS, WOMEN, HEARING, ATHLETE
The Supreme Court this week heard arguments in a landmark pair of cases regarding the future of women’s sports, but the real drama lies in whether the Court will choose to answer an increasingly controversial question: What is a woman?
The arguments in Little
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CALIFORNIA, FEDERAL, JUDGE, MAP
A federal judge dismisses the DOJ's effort to get voter data from California
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The Trump administration on Thursday was dealt its first legal setback in its unprecedented effort to consolidate voter data traditionally
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VERIZON, OUTAGE, HOURS, BIG
A nationwide Verizon Wireless outage was finally resolved on Wednesday night after tens of thousands of phones were knocked into SOS mode and fuming customers were stuck without service for over 12 hours.
“The outage has been resolved. If customers are still
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BUSFIELD, TIMOTHY, ABUSE, ACTOR
Timothy Busfield was remanded Wednesday and held without bail in his first court appearance on multiple counts of child sex abuse.
Prior to Busfield's hearing, his lawyer claimed the "Thirtysomething" actor passed a voluntary independent polygraph test where
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SPENDING, SENATE, 174B, DEMS
After a brief series of delay tactics deployed by Democrats, the Senate passed a $174 billion spending package, sending a trio of funding bills to President Donald Trump's desk.
The move puts Congress one step closer to averting a partial government shutdown,
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HOCHUL, ICE, GUN, SUE
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is supporting legislation that would allow state residents to sue ICE agents for violating their constitutional rights.
The governor said on Tuesday during her State of the State address that she wants to allow New Yorkers to "hold
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DEPUTY, DIRECTOR, ICE, CONGRESS
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem announced Thursday via X that longtime U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) attorney Charles Wall will serve as the agency’s new deputy director as enforcement operations intensify nationwide.
"Effective
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ADAMS, ERNST, MORENO, GOP
On Tuesday’s “Alex Marlow Show,” host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow talked about Scott Adams.
He talked about the concept of systems a lot, where he thought that he was able to live his best life by trying to dial in his mechanisms of being able
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HUSBAND, ALLEGED, BRENDAN, KILLER
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The nanny who pleaded guilty to assisting in the alleged killings of a wealthy Virginia man’s wife and another man read a series of emotionally-charged jailhouse letters on Wednesday in which she professed her love for the husband
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EMERGENCY, PASSENGER, FI, BOMB
A Turkish Airlines flight made an emergency landing in Barcelona on Thursday morning after a passenger allegedly put a “bomb threat” in the name of an in-flight wireless network, according to authorities.
As the Turkish Airlines flight TK1853 from Istanbul
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HAUL, IRAN, DRIVER, TRUCK
LOS ANGELES — The driver of a U-Haul truck who plowed into a crowd of protesters said he had “no intention to hit anybody,” according to a statement he gave after the incident.
“I was really afraid for my life,” Calor Madanescht told Fox 11, saying that video
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TESLA, DEALERSHIP, ARIZONA, ARSONIST
The individual who pleaded guilty to Tesla-related arson has been slapped with a five-year prison sentence, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Arizona.
Ian William Moses, who pleaded guilty last year, was sentenced on Tuesday "by
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