Emerging Topics in U.S. News
SUNDAY, AUGUST 9th 2026
Updated 23:59 ET
15 articles
CUNNINGHAM, SOPHIE, FOUL, CARRINGTON
Indiana Fever coach Stephanie White sure hasn't been covering herself in glory lately.
First, she failed to defend Sophie Cunningham, one of her star players both on and off the court, after Cunningham came under fire from the Left for saying she felt called
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TRUMP, NETANYAHU, PLAN, GAZA
Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky seemed to have a decently cordial White House meeting on July 28. The subject was the Ukrainian president’s request for a license to manufacture Patriot surface-to-air interceptor missiles. But two days after the meeting,
Continued at The Atlantic...
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SAYED, EL, SENATE, ABDUL
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Dem Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed on Sunday refused to break ties to notorious hate streamer Hasan Piker — while hinting he wants to sock the middle class with the bill for his Medicare for All plan.
El-Sayed
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BOAT, HARBOR, NEW, YORK
The NYPD and FDNY responded to a call of a capsized boat off of Liberty Island.
2 dead, 12 injured after boat capsizes in New York Harbor, officials say
Two people were killed and 12 others were rescued with minor injuries after a boat capsized off of Liberty
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CORTEZ, OCASIO, WOKE, VOTERS
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., dismissed her and other socialist politicians' past extreme controversial comments on ABC's "This Week" Sunday, joking that the "Woke 1" era was "crazy."
Host Jon Karl asked Ocasio-Cortez to comment on Wisconsin gubernatorial
Continued at Fox News...
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IRAN, TRUMP, SHUT, GAME
Haunted by Hoover, Trump searches for an endgame in Iran
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President Trump is confronting a question that has haunted presidents throughout history: how a war — one that has gone on longer than predicted —
Continued at NPR...
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HAWAII, GOP, CRUISES, DEMOCRATIC
Democratic Hawaii Gov. Josh Green defeated three little-known primary challengers seeking to lead the Aloha State.
Green, who was first elected governor in 2022, entered the unusual Saturday primary with a 56% approval rating. His primary win makes him a
Continued at Fox News...
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TRUMP, BEDMINSTER, NORAD, AIRCRAFT
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said its F-16 fighter jets intercepted multiple general aviation aircraft over Bedminster, New Jersey, on Sunday after the planes reportedly violated temporary flight restrictions in the area.
The 1st
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BIDEN, CANCER, HUNTER, JOE
Former President Joe Biden’s prostate cancer has metastasized further and is now spreading to other parts of his body, son Hunter Biden confirmed Saturday in a radio interview.
The cancer was first detected in May 2025 just four months after he left the White
Continued at Breitbart...
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TERROR, REIGN, MASTER, DISGUISE
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An Atlanta-area man dubbed the “Master of Disguise” is accused of robbing 10 stores at gunpoint during his months-long “reign of terror.”
Tracy Daryl Mingo, 33, of College Park, Ga., was arraigned Thursday
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FENDS, PROGRESSIVE, CHALLENGER, LONGTIME
The Democratic establishment won a key battle in the left's ongoing civil war with its socialist insurgency on Saturday.
Longtime Rep. Ed Case, D-Hawaii, won his primary bid to seek another term in the House of Representatives, defeating progressive state
Continued at Fox News...
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LEAGUE, LITTLE, GAME, REGIONAL
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Screen time is outta here!
A Long Island baseball team is having its best season ever – now just a pair of wins away from the Little League World Series – as a self-imposed cell phone ban on game days has been
Continued at New York Post...
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RANSOM, NANCY, GUTHRIE, NOTE
The two letters purported to be connected to Nancy Guthrie’s suspected abduction leave investigators with questions about their authenticity, but forensic psychologist Dr. Kris Mohandie says investigators made the right call by releasing them because doing
Continued at New York Post...
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PARKING, PUBLIX, FLORIDA, MACHETE
Two Florida men have been charged with aggravated battery after allegedly taking up arms — one with a machete and one with a hatchet — in a Publix parking lot.
The Aug. 4 "physical altercation" between Everette Krichbaum, 52, and James Gay, 35, was over
Continued at Fox News...
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SUSPECTED, FUGITIVE, FATHER, DANGEROUS
An "armed and dangerous" New York fugitive suspected of killing his 70-year-old father and setting the family home ablaze was captured Sunday, ending a multiday manhunt that drew in the FBI and police agencies across the state.
Thomas David Ryan, 32, was
Continued at Fox News...
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ARIZONA, GIRLFRIEND, NATIONAL, INDIAN
The man accused of murdering his teenage girlfriend in Arizona allegedly tried to cover his tracks, flee the country and vanish overseas.
Federal law enforcement sources told Fox News the accused killer, 20-year-old Varun Batchigari, is an Indian national
Continued at Fox News...
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FLORIDA, BIRDS, BEACH, MOTHBALLS
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Two Florida business owners have been charged with third-degree felonies after allegedly spreading about 1,500 “toxic” mothballs across a beach in hopes of keeping an “imperiled” bird species from nesting there.
If
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BALLOT, MAX, OHIO, MILLER
Republican Rep. Max Miller of Ohio will remain in his reelection race, after a key deadline passed for the GOP to replace him as its nominee, despite mounting calls from fellow Republicans for him to drop his reelection bid.
Under Ohio law, Republicans have
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USA, SAYED, LEE, TERRORIST
Thursday on “The Alex Marlow Show,” Lee Greenwood talked about patriotism.
Greenwood said, “These people that think America needs to be torn down…think about the immigrants who have come here for many years and recognized that they want to be assimilated.”
The
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BOSS, DUBLIN, IRISH, ORGANIZED
LONDON -- The alleged leader of an Irish organized crime gang is on his way back to Ireland from Dubai to face charges that he ran an international drug smuggling and money laundering empire with tentacles that stretched to Britain, Spain and the U.S.
An Irish
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GRASSLEY, VACUUM, BETH, DECEASED
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Beth sucked, but in a good way.
GOP Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley’s 1970s-era Hoover vacuum named Beth finally bit the dust after decades of being at his side as they battled filthy floors and awed the internet
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PARADE, NYC, DAY, DOMINICAN
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A 19-year-old man was stabbed multiple times near the Dominican Day Parade route in Midtown on Sunday, police said.
The teen was repeatedly knifed in the back and chest after an argument on 42nd Street between
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TRIAL, MURDER, TUPAC, DEATH
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The gangbanger who allegedly ordered the murder of Tupac Shakur undermined his own defense in a braggadocious phone call to his mistress, The Post can exclusively reveal.
Duane “Keffe D” Davis contradicted
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WIENER, SCOTT, CHATBOT, RAGED
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California state Sen. Scott Wiener is pulling the plug on a controversial AI chatbot and the billboards promoting it after his campaign faced a furious backlash over the parody targeting his congressional rival
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