Emerging Topics in U.S. News
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9th 2026
Updated 23:59 ET
46 articles
BAD, BUNNY, HALFTIME, BOWL
When it comes to sports, I’m a sentimental fool.
And my eyes were barely dry from watching the Netflix “Miracle” documentary on Saturday night when Super Bowl XL kicked off with a patriotic montage of the big game throughout the years.
It’s been 60 years
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GUTHRIE, NANCY, DEADLINE, SAVANNAH
Nancy Guthrie search enters its second week as a purported deadline looms
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The search for Today Show co-host Savannah Guthrie's mother is now in its second week. Over the weekend, the Guthrie family said they have
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EPSTEIN, MAXWELL, HOUSE, TRUMP
The House Oversight Committee's deposition of Ghislaine Maxwell ended less than an hour after it began on Monday morning, when the convicted accomplice of the late Jeffrey Epstein pleaded the Fifth Amendment.
Maxwell appeared before lawmakers virtually for
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NEW, YORK, NYC, REACH
Nearly 15,000 nurses walked off the job at five hospitals across the city.
New York City nurses reach tentative agreements with some hospitals to end strike
Members of the New York State Nurses Association union picket outside Mount Sinai West Hospital, Jan.
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BOWL, SUPER, WIN, SEAHAWKS
Fans of the Seattle Seahawks celebrated into the night after their team produced a devastating defensive display to beat the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl.
Supporters of both sides shared their reflections on the game, and on Bad Bunny's half-time
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EPSTEIN, FILES, PAM, BONDI
Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) has positioned himself as a firebrand when it comes to exposing the Epstein files, and he now has a chance to prove it's not just partisan grandstanding.
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Following the release of more information on Monday, his
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MAMDANI, TRUMP, EMMA, JO
Sunday on “The Alex Marlow Show,” Emma-Jo Morris discussed New York.
Morris said, “She gave him universal pre-K. … It’s crazy, he explains like the hostage-taker explains what he’s received in ransom in the New York Times.”
The Alex Marlow Show, hosted by
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AMERICAN, SKIER, OLYMPIC, TRUMP
Eileen Gu, the California-born Olympian who has chosen to compete for Communist China instead of the United States, has taken strong exception to President Trump’s criticism of American skier Hunter Hess.
In an interview with The Athletic, Gu, 22, said she
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ICE, CALIFORNIA, JUDGE, ANTI
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A federal judge on Monday struck down a new California law that banned federal immigration agents and other law enforcement officers from wearing masks in the state, but
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EPSTEIN, ANDREW, WILLIAM, UK
The Prince and Princess of Wales said Monday they are "deeply concerned" by recent revelations in the Jeffrey Epstein files, according to a statement released by Kensington Palace.
A spokesperson for Prince William and Catherine, Princess of Wales, told
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LAI, JIMMY, KONG, HONG
The U.S. urged China to reverse what Secretary of State Marco Rubio called an "unjust and tragic" sentence against Hong Kong publisher and democracy activist Jimmy Lai, after Beijing-backed courts handed the 78-year-old a 20-year prison term under the national
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VONN, CRASH, LINDSEY, OLYMPIC
American skier Lindsey Vonn says she has "no regrets" after a crash in the women's downhill competition at the Winter Olympics resulted in a "complex tibia fracture" which will require multiple surgeries.
The 41-year-old's arm got stuck in a gate just 13 seconds
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JAPAN, CONSERVATIVE, SUPERMAJORITY, HISTORIC
The contrast between America’s great island allies on opposite ends of the world couldn’t be more drastic.
Japan has just given its common-sense conservative prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, a two-thirds supermajority in the national legislature’s Lower House
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ID, VOTER, JEFFRIES, REPUBLICANS
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., was pressed on CNN Sunday as to why he considered voter ID legislation to be "voter suppression" despite Democratic victories in states with enforced ID laws.
"State of the Union" host Dana Bash asked Jeffries
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TRUMP, BLOCK, CANADA, BRIDGE
A bruise can be seen on the back of President Donald Trump’s left hand at the World Economic Forum on January 22, 2026 in Davos, Switzerland. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
President Donald Trump has been on the world stage for more than a decade now, during
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MARYLAND, HIGH, SCHOOL, SHOOTING
The high school was placed on lockdown, police said.
Law enforcement near the scene of a shooting at Thomas S. Wootton High School in Rockville, Md., Feb. 9, 2026.
Law enforcement near the scene of a shooting at Thomas S. Wootton High School in Rockville,
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STRIKE, FRANCISCO, TEACHERS, SAN
Some 6,000 public schoolteachers in San Francisco have gone on strike for the first time in nearly 50 years
SAN FRANCISCO -- About 6,000 public schoolteachers in San Francisco went on strike Monday, the city's first such walkout in nearly 50 years.
The strike
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BOARDS, DEFYING, TANKER, OCEAN
The War Department announced on Monday morning that the U.S. military boarded a vessel overnight "without incident."
The department's post on X noted that the U.S. had "hunted" the ship "from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean."
"When the @DeptofWar says
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MELANIA, THOMAS, DIRECTOR, ANDERSON
First Lady Melania Trump’s longtime senior advisor and Melania producer Marc Beckman fired back at director Paul Thomas Anderson and Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood after they claimed the inclusion of music from their work Phantom Thread in Mrs. Trump’s hit film
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JAKE, SPEEDSKATING, LEERDAM, RECORD
As Dutch speedskater Jutta Leerdam broke an Olympic record in her gold-medal-winning run on Monday, her fiancée Jake Paul couldn’t contain his emotions.
He was crying for joy.
Paul was on his feet in the stands, bawling his eyes out as Leerdam didn’t just
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DEATH, 18, TOLL, MAMDANI
One person died outside in the brutally cold weather over the weekend — bringing the outdoor death toll to 18 during the historic freeze, City Hall officials said Monday.
The person was found on the street just after 9 a.m. Saturday at East Gun Hill Road and
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DEAD, PACIFIC, DRUG, SURVIVOR
The United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) announced Monday that the US military carried out an operation targeting a drug-trafficking vessel in the Eastern Pacific, leaving two people dead and one survivor.
“On Feb. 9, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander
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PLANE, GEORGIA, SMALL, MINOR
Video shows small plane crash on Georgia highway, minor injuries reported: Police A single-engine plane performed an emergency landing on the highway in Gainesville, Ga., crashing into multiple vehicles. Minor injuries were reported, according to the polic
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FRANCISCO, SAN, BOWL, LX
49ers defensive end Keion White was the victim of a non-life-threatening shooting early Monday morning in San Francisco, the team said in a statement.
San Francisco Police Department released a statement saying, at approximately 4:06 a.m., officers "responded
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