Emerging Topics in U.S. News
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4th 2026
Updated 23:59 ET
13 articles
TRUMP, AI, INTELLIGENCE, FORCE
WASHINGTON — President Trump has tapped Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton as his new artificial-intelligence czar — and given him 120 days to report on the pros and cons of the technology.
Clayton will oversee a so-called Super Intelligence Force,
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CODE, PROMO, FOXNEWS, BET
Week 4 of the NFL continues today with a full slate of games and many high-profile matchups for us to choose from. Another high-profile choice is to take advantage of Betr’s offer of $200 in bonuses when you use promo code FOXNEWS for any NFL Week 4 matchup.
The
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BRAZIL, BOLSONARO, LULA, SON
Brazil’s heated presidential election was forced into a runoff on Sunday, according to election officials, with the right-wing challenger leading over the leftist incumbent in a race that may have sweeping consequences far beyond the country.
The challenger,
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12, GIRL, YEAR, YOUTH
Two men arguing over a parking spot began shooting at each other.
12-year-old girl fatally shot in park where youth football game was being played
BALTIMORE -- A 12-year-old girl was fatally shot and three other people were wounded at a Baltimore park where
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PIKE, CHRISTA, EXECUTION, BOTCHED
Tennessee Department of Correction Commissioner Frank Strada resigned from his post Saturday, a few days after murderer Christa Pike survived two doses of lethal injection and is still alive at a hospital.
Gov. Bill Lee (R) announced Strada’s resignation and
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PADRES, BREWERS, RUN, CONTROVERSIAL
If there's one thing the Major League Baseball postseason always delivers, it's drama. And Saturday night's game between the San Diego Padres and Milwaukee Brewers certainly had more than its fair share.
The Brewers entered the game and the series as big favorites,
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JAPAN, MARINE, ARRESTED, WOMAN
U.S. Marine arrested for alleged murder of a woman in Okinawa, Japan
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TOKYO — Japanese police arrested a U.S. Marine in the alleged robbery and murder of a woman on Okinawa, officials said Sunday, the latest criminal case on
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LAX, ALLEGED, REALTOR, TARGETING
A "Chinese foreign agent" was arrested by FBI agents Sunday at Los Angeles International Airport as she prepared to board a flight for Shanghai, China. According to a criminal complaint filed by a member of the FBI's counterintelligence squad on Saturday, Wanying
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MASS, SHOOTING, GEORGIA, PARTY
Overnight, there was a mass shooting in Georgia that left two people dead and 35 people injured.
According to local reports, the shooting occurred around 1:20 AM Sunday during a Dooly County High School homecoming block party in Vienna, GA, that had somewhere
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ENGAGED, DIRECTOR, FBI, PATEL
House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries says his party is on track to win back control of the House
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
House
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BOMBERS, BASE, TERROR, IRAN
All U.S. Air Force bombers in the U.K. were returned to their home bases in the United States following a suspected terror plot that U.S. officials have suggested may be linked to Iran targeting a U.S. military facility last week, officials said.
About a
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JAMES, LETITIA, CORNELL, STUDENT
Megyn Kelly went scorched earth on Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York Attorney General Letitia James, after James was appointed by the Dem leader to take over the “Cornell 7” gang rape probe.
The conservative podcaster accused Hochul of fixing the high-profile
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ILLEGAL, 000, UK, HIJABS
Haven't the taxpayers of the United Kingdom taken enough of a beating already? They are being required to feed, house and otherwise support a horde of illegal "asylum seekers," people who are coming to the UK precisely because of this, the perverse incentives
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BIRTHDAY, ALLEGEDLY, DEADLY, BARTENDER
A long-awaited getaway for two best friends celebrating birthdays together ended in tragedy when a bartender allegedly shoved a woman down stairs, leaving her fatally injured outside a South Carolina beachside bar.
Mary Lopez Hunt, 68, has been charged with
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SCHOOL, MURDER, CHAOS, SCARE
The Long Beach Unified School District is expecting to shut down two schools due to low enrollment and underutilization of the institutional capacity.
The district has recommended that Edison Elementary School and Gompers Elementary School be closed at the
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FIRED, COORDINATOR, MIDDLE, COLORADO
Colorado State was embarrassed on its own turf by Oregon State on Saturday to the tune of 56-26. The blowout loss came just a week after the Rams gave up 59 points to UTSA in a 59-45 loss, signaling that there is a very real issue on the defensive side of the
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SMITH, SPRINGSTEEN, WEARS, JACK
Former Special Counsel Jack Smith prosecuted two cases against Donald Trump — filing four felony counts in the election interference matter and an insane 40 in the claim that he mishandled classified documents.
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Not only did both investigations
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KENNEDY, SEN, TRUMP, FLOATS
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said he is thinking about running for president in 2028.
Host Kristen Welker said, “Let me ask you, the list of potential 2028 candidates continues to grow, as you know and as you say. And you’ve been
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WOMAN, ALARMING, TURN, UBER
A late-night ride experience is raising questions about what passengers should do when a routine trip begins to feel uncomfortable.
In a recent TikTok video, a woman said she was riding in an Uber at around 3 a.m. when her driver asked to stop at a parking
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ZIONISM, RACISM, UK, PARTY
Members of Britain’s far-left Green Party have voted in favour of the party declaring that “Zionism is racism” at its conference on Sunday, as the party continues to shift towards Islamic interests from its former focus on the environment.
After heavily courting
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ALITO, JUSTICE, COURT, THOUGHT
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr., left, and his wife Martha-Ann Alito, pay their respects at the casket of Reverend Billy Graham at the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, Feb. 28, 2018.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said he has
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DEATH, YEAR, GIRL, STRANGER
Authorities are trying to determine what prompted an apparent stranger to allegedly stab to death a seven-year-old girl on a Chicago sidewalk on Saturday.
The alleged assailant, reportedly a 48-year-old woman whose name so far has not been released by police,
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CAPTAIN, FLYDUBAI, FLIGHT, LIFE
The captain of the Flydubai jet targeted in Wednesday’s attempted hijacking said his co-pilot asked to pray just minutes before striking him from behind with a cockpit crash axe, as new evidence revealed the suspect’s apparent affinity for al-Qaeda and pro-al-Qaeda
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GAME, ANTHEM, VET, YEAR
Teams always try to do something special for their home openers, but the Islanders may have topped them all.
Staff Sergeant Dominick Critelli, a 105-year-old World War II veteran, played the Star-Spangled Banner at UBS before a capacity crowd for the New York
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