Emerging Topics in U.S. News
SATURDAY, JANUARY 31st 2026
Updated 23:59 ET
19 articles
TRUMP, MELANIA, AMERICA, FRAUD
Every good political journalist needs a good MAGA guy in their back pocket — someone you can call when things are looking messy in President Donald Trump’s GOP orbit. And my MAGA guy is John Fredericks.
Fredericks is a popular conservative radio host who goes
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EPSTEIN, JEFFREY, DOJ, FILES
Racy emails between a Hollywood mogul tapped to head the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles and Jeffrey Epstein’s convicted sex-trafficking madam were revealed in the latest document dump tied to the late pedophile.
Casey Wasserman, the 51-year-old CEO of Wasserman
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ICE, AGENTS, MAYOR, MINNESOTA
Milan protesters call for U.S. ICE agents to leave Italy as Winter Games approach
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Hundreds of protesters gathered in a central square in Milan on Saturday, demanding that U.S. ICE agents assisting with security at the Winter
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DON, LEMON, ARREST, DEFENDS
The Department of Justice (DOJ) charged former CNN host Don Lemon with federal civil rights crimes after he live streamed anti-ICE protesters storming a church in Minnesota.
Lemon, who was arrested on Thursday, was charged with “conspiracy and interfering
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IMMIGRATION, FEDERAL, ICE, RELATIONSHIP
The judge ordered the father and son be released no later than Tuesday.
Liam Conejo Ramos, 5, is detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers after arriving home from preschool, Jan. 20, 2026, in a Minneapolis suburb.
Liam Conejo Ramos, 5,
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JUDGE, FEDERAL, SURGE, MINNESOTA
In a bit of a surprise ruling on Saturday, a judge in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota denied the state's request for a preliminary injunction regarding the Trump administration's immigration enforcement operation in the state,
Continued at Red State...
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VIOLENT, OFFICERS, ANGELES, PROTEST
Los Angeles police arrested multiple violent agitators after issuing dispersal orders as protests erupted across the city Friday evening.
Thousands of protesters met in front of City Hall in the afternoon, before many marched to the federal detention center,
Continued at Fox News...
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TRUMP, CITIES, POORLY, RUN
President Donald Trump revealed that he told Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem the administration will not be participating with “various poorly run Democrat Cities with regard” to protests and riots.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump
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SHOW, KIRK, PRODUCER, CHARLIE
On Friday’s “Alex Marlow Show,” “Charlie Kirk Show” Producer Andrew Kolvet talked about the economy.
Kolvet said, “Charlie was really concerned in the final days of his life with a couple things that I believe are more true now than they even were then. And
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SINKS, MASSACHUSETTS, BOAT, COAST
The search for TV star fisherman and his crew who are missing off the coast of Massachusetts after their boat sank on Friday in the midst of dangerous winter weather plaguing the East Coast, has been called off.
Captain Gus Sanfilippo, his crew, and a fishery
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JUDGE, SCHEME, INCAPACITATED, VULNERABLE
A judge in Detroit, Michigan, is part of a group of suspects accused of targeting incapacitated people in an embezzlement plot.
The judge was identified as 46-year-old Andrea Bradley-Baskin of Michigan’s 36th District Court, Fox 2 reported on Friday.
In addition
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SINGLE, DEPORT, ILLEGAL, ALIEN
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Our ask is simple: Help us stand with ICE.
The men and women of ICE who are arresting and deporting dangerous illegals across the country need our support now more than ever before.
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With the left-wing media and Democratic politicians
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YEAR, RELEASE, DAD, DETENTION
Judge orders release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his dad from ICE detention
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SAN ANTONIO — A judge on Saturday ordered the U.S. government to release by Tuesday a 5-year-old boy and his father from a Texas detention center where
Continued at NPR...
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DRAYMOND, AMERICA, GREEN, BLACK
Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green has lashed out at a “Caucasian” referee, claiming the official gave him a technical foul after he told the ref not to put his hands in his face.
Green told reporters after the game not only that he was penalized
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OCCUPATION, NAZI, SYMBOL, TRACTION
Linking federal immigration enforcement efforts in Minneapolis to fascism, a yarn store has popularized a red cap based on a Norwegian hat used to protest the Nazi occupation of Norway in the 1940s.
A group of knitters at the Needle & Skein yarn store came
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POLITICAL, BILL, PRISONERS, VENEZUELA
Venezuela announces amnesty bill that could lead to release of political prisoners
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CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodríguez on Friday announced an amnesty bill that could lead to the release of hundreds
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SABALENKA, AUSTRALIAN, RYBAKINA, ELENA
Elena Rybakina stunned top-ranked women’s tennis pro Aryna Sabalenka on Saturday to win her first Australian Open and her second Grand Slam title, earning redemption after her previous loss to Sabalenka in 2023.
Rybakina, 26, rallied from 3-0 in the third
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GYMNAST, AD, SPORTS, ACLU
Jennifer Sey slammed The ACLU and Megan Rapinoe after the organization posted a video as a part of their latest campaign standing with transgender athletes.
She said the video made her "so angry." Sey is a USA National artistic gymnastics champion, and the
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CON, LEAD, EX, NYC
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Saturday appointed an ex-con-turned prison reformer as commissioner of the Department of Correction as his administration pushes a rehabilitation-focused overhaul of corrections.
Stanley Richards, who did time in the
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79, SANFORD, SON, WILSON
Grady Demond Wilson, the actor best known for playing Lamont Sanford on the popular 1970s series "Sanford and Son," has died at his home in California, according to The New York Times. Wilson was 79 years old at the time of his death.
This is a developing
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OHIO, SHERROD, BROWN, HAITIAN
Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians currently in the United States as "refugees" will expire on February 3rd. That means that these Haitians, whose temporary status has expired, will be expected to leave the United States. Presumably, they will go
Continued at Red State...
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OUTRAGED, FANS, ELIMINATES, DISNEY
Some Disney fans are saying they're furious after specialty fries were quietly eliminated from Disneyland — vanishing from the popular park in January.
The changes have been dubbed a "French fry apocalypse."
Filmstrip Fries at Award Wieners, the beer-battered
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SWALWELL, COMMUNIST, BELLS, ERIC
FIRST ON FOX: A previously unreported 2013 Facebook post by China's San Francisco consulate shows then-freshman Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., touting "great potential" for U.S.-China cooperation during a meeting with a senior CCP diplomat, which came during
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CEASEFIRE, GAZA, STRIKES, BREACH
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Saturday that strikes across Gaza were carried out in response to what it described as a ceasefire violation in which eight terrorists were identified exiting underground terror infrastructure in eastern Rafah.
The IDF
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