Emerging Topics in U.S. News
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd 2026
Updated 07:12 ET
29 articles
GOLD, TEAM, HOCKEY, USA
US beats Canada for first men's hockey gold at the Olympics since 1980
The United States celebrates after a sudden-death overtime goal by United States' Jack Hughes (86) against Canada during the men's ice hockey gold medal game at the 2026 Winter Olympics,
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LAGO, MAR, KILLED, ARMED
The armed man shot and killed by Secret Service agents at Mar-a-Lago after he was seen stalking onto President Trump’s estate with a shotgun and a gas canister in hand lost his older sister in a head-on car crash years earlier.
Austin Tucker Martin, 21, of
Continued at New York Post...
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BLIZZARD, NYC, MAMDANI, SNOW
Northeast readies for a major winter storm, with blizzard warnings in effect
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Officials are warning those in the path of a dangerous winter storm to take precautions and heed warnings as blizzard conditions are set
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EL, CARTEL, MENCHO, MEXICO
Four professional soccer matches in Mexico were postponed Sunday after violence flared near Guadalajara — one of the country’s host cities for the 2026 World Cup — in the wake of a military operation that left cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera, known as "El
Continued at Fox News...
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TRUMP, STATE, UNION, ADDRESS
President Donald Trump hosted governors from around the country for dinner in the East Room on Saturday night, where he touted economic, border, and crime progress, as well as military strength.
Cabinet members, like Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Health
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TRUMP, TARIFFS, SUPREME, COURT
Why the Supreme Court Struck Down Trump’s Tariffs
Our reporter Ann E. Marimow describes the rationale of the Supreme Court’s 6-to-3 ruling to strike down President Trump’s sweeping tariffs.
By Ann E. Marimow, Sutton Raphael, June Kim and Whitney Shefte
February
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TSA, PRECHECK, ENTRY, GLOBAL
The Department of Homeland Security suspended TSA PreCheck and Global Entry nationwide at 6 a.m. Sunday, as the Democrat-triggered DHS shutdown entered its second week and just as a major winter storm moves into the Northeast air corridor.
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GREENLAND, TRUMP, SHIP, HOSPITAL
WASHINGTON — President Trump said Saturday that he was dispatching a hospital boat to Greenland shortly after news broke that Denmark’s Joint Arctic Command evacuated a crew member from a US Navy submarine.
Danish defense minister Troels Lund Poulsen publicly
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AVALANCHE, SKIERS, VIGIL, DEADLIEST
Vigil held to remember the 9 skiers killed in California avalanche Members of the California community closest to Castle Peak Mountain, where an avalanche killed nine backcountry skiers, gathered for a vigil to remember the lives lost.
National Vigil held
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PRINCE, ANDREW, ARREST, FORMER
Former Prince Andrew will not be receiving special treatment after his arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office, according to experts.
Simarjot Judge Singh, legal analyst and managing partner at Judge Law, told Fox News Digital that the public
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FEET, PUERTO, MENCHO, BLIZZARD
Over 3,000 flights have been canceled at major Big Apple airports as a historic blizzard threatens to bury the region in at least two feet of snow, reports said.
With perilous conditions expected to batter the Northeast Sunday, several major airlines grounded
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WINTER, EILEEN, MEDAL, GU
Eileen Gu, the controversial American-born Team China skier, finished her 2026 Winter Olympics run with a gold medal in the women’s freeski halfpipe event.
Gu delivered the gold medal on her final run of the event. She scored a 94.75 – just 0.75 points better
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NEWSOM, COST, LIVING, FATE
Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., was vague on whether he believes he and former Vice President Kamala Harris may face off against each other in a 2028 presidential primary.
While promoting his upcoming memoir "Young Man in a Hurry," Newsom was asked by CNN's
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TAX, MAMDANI, HIKE, HONCHO
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has painted himself as the unfortunate victim of a historic budget crisis, but he really should be counting his lucky stars.
New York City has a big spending problem, but not a revenue problem.
Yet that could change soon — warning signs
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EXILED, PRINCESS, REGIME, IRANIAN
Noor Pahlavi’s heart breaks as she watches her people suffer in Iran – a land in which she never stepped foot, yet remains forever in her blood.
The exiled princess recounted in a wide-ranging interview with The California Post the horrors inflicted on protesters,
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RONDALE, MOORE, DEAD, RECEIVER
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NFL wide receiver Rondale Moore was found dead at his Indiana home on Saturday, officials
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TRUMP, NETFLIX, FIRE, RICE
A drone view shows the Netflix logo on one of the company's buildings in the Hollywood neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, U.S., Jan. 20, 2026.
President Donald Trump late Saturday called on Netflix to fire board member Susan Rice or "pay the consequences,"
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TRUMP, CALIFORNIA, CONVENTION, DEMOCRATS
U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Dublin) addresses supporters at a bar in San Francisco during the California Democratic Party’s annual convention. He received the most votes for the party’s gubernatorial endorsement but fell far short of the 60% needed to win it.
This
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FMR, STRATEGIST, DEMOCRAT, PARTY
Sunday on “The Alex Marlow Show,” former Democratic Strategist Julian Epstein talked about his former party.
Epstein said, “The public hasn’t changed that much on a lot of these issues since the ’90s. … But what has changed is the activist left and particularly
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SHERIFF, DNA, CASE, NANCY
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos revealed that there are problems with the DNA evidence collected from Nancy Guthrie’s house that could take up to a year for the private Florida lab he’s using to resolve.
Local cops recovered DNA from the missing 84-year-old
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GOVERNMENT, TOURISTS, CHAOS, CITY
Puerta Vallarta is, by most reports, a pleasant place for a vacation, or at least, it was. On Sunday, we learned that tourists from the United States and elsewhere were asked to not leave the resort properties. In effect, to shelter in place. The request comes
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IRAN, NEW, UNIVERSITY, UNREST
University students hold new protests in Iran around memorials for those killed
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — New anti-government protests have begun in Iran, witnesses said Sunday, as university students in Tehran and another
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SAN, DIEGO, SHUT, BACTERIA
Hundreds of tax-defaulted properties across San Diego County are headed to the auction block next month, with officials opening registration for interested bidders.
The County Treasurer-Tax Collector’s Office said 686 parcels will be offered during the annual
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CITY, THRIVING, ANGELENOS, APOCALYPTIC
Los Angeles City Hall looked less like the nerve center of America’s second-largest city Friday — and more like an abandoned office complex after a zombie apocalypse.
Entire hallways with deserted offices. Corridors eerily silent. Parking garage empty besides
Continued at New York Post...