Emerging Topics in U.S. News
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16th 2026
Updated 23:59 ET
32 articles
TRUMP, ZACHARIA, PRESS, KATIE
New White House press secretary defends her record President Donald Trump described new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia as an attorney, but Zacharia acknowledged that she took the bar exam and never passed.
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SCHOOL, OREGON, SHOOTER, HERO
The Oregon teen who burst into an elementary school, killing three students and a teacher, used his mom’s shotgun to fire at a pickup truck before his deadly rampage, according to a report.
The unidentified 16-year-old shooter, a Bend resident, was heading
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DODGERS, WORLD, BREWERS, SERIES
Brewers sweep the Dodgers to reach the World Series for the first time since 1982
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LOS ANGELES — After 44 years, the Milwaukee Brewers are finally going back to the World Series.
Propelled by a lockdown bullpen and repeated
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GAME, RAYS, CODE, PROMO
Steady rain in Cleveland forced MLB to postpone Game 4 of the American League Championship Series. The stadium grounds crew was forced to pull the tarp well before the scheduled 8 p.m. ET first pitch.
The grounds crew continued working in an effort to salvage
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POPE, LEO, LUNG, CANCER
Pope Leo XIV called Russian President Vladimir Putin while recovering from surgery in the hospital to urge him to call a ceasefire in the city of Oleshky in Ukraine.
"During the conversation, the Holy Father expressed his deep concern about the grave humanitarian
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BORDER, TRUMP, BIDEN, HISTORY
President Donald Trump’s Office of National Drug Control Policy has overseen an enormous decrease in drug overdose deaths since such deaths peaked under former President Joe Biden.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) predicts provisional drug
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SAYED, EL, MICHIGAN, DEMS
Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) has just dropped an eye-watering $1 million cash transfer onto progressive Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and his campaign, an amount that even the New York Times seems surprised by.
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NEWS, FOX, DIGITAL, BROADCAST
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MUSK, FLYING, ROADSTER, TESLA
Elon Musk showed off a new Tesla Roadster that flies, flips and drives upside down during an event Thursday at a SpaceX facility in McGregor, Texas. The EV performs its acrobatics using cold gas thruster technology from SpaceX.
Car and Driver reports that
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DEBATE, SENATE, CARDS, HIGH
Alaska Democratic Senate hopeful Mary Peltola faced ridicule Thursday night after her use of notecards during a debate with Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan drew mocking responses from GOP critics — including a pointed jab from her incumbent opponent.
Sullivan
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FLAGS, SIX, SHUT, DEATH
Six Flags Over Georgia shut down its “Goliath” roller coaster for maintenance due to a wasp’s nest just hours before a teacher fatally fell out of the ride, a parkgoer told The Post.
Hassan Kariem, 42, was killed and four children were injured when he was
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FLANAGAN, MINNESOTA, TAFOYA, DEBATE
Republican Senate candidate Michele Tafoya schooled Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan in a debate Friday for passing the buck on the fraud scandals that have overtaken her state in recent years.
Asked whether she had “any ownership over the fraud that occurred
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DATA, TEXAS, CENTERS, PAXTON
Lately, AI data centers are public enemy No. 1. The concerns are legion: how much water and electricity they consume, the noise they generate, the sprawling buildings they bring to communities, and the technology they’re powering that may or may not take all
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BUSINESS, BREITBART, INFLATION, DIGEST
Inflation Has Escaped the Gas Station
September’s inflation reports came drenched in gasoline. Unfortunately, there are signs that inflation is heating up outside of the energy complex.
The Labor Department said Thursday that the producer price index jumped
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TRUMP, BILL, MAHER, SMITH
President Donald Trump has the ability to reach people, including those who don't necessarily agree with him.
We saw that again on Friday. RedState previously reported that Real Time host Bill Maher said he was going to be having dinner with Trump this week.
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MOM, KILLED, NYC, DAUGHTER
The mother of a 5-year-old girl found lifeless inside her Queens apartment was charged with murder – after she chillingly confessed to a 911 operator, “I killed my daughter,” cops and sources said Friday.
Francis Cabello, 32, — wearing a long white gown and
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CHEERLEADER, FATE, DEATH, UNIVERSITY
A former University of Kentucky cheerleader who admitted to killing her newborn son, whose lifeless body was found stuffed in a trash bag, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Laken Snelling, 22, pleaded guilty at Fayette Circuit Court in August to first-degree
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EVACUATION, NORTE, ANGELES, SOUTH
Evacuation orders in California are in effect due to a rapidly growing wildfire that has already burned six homes in the southern Los Angeles area.
The Norte Fire erupted on Friday in Orange County and quickly grew to 465 acres by the evening. One firefighter
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GROUPS, PAID, RESETTLE, TENS
Two church non-profits have taken in at least $62 million to build the Somali community in Minnesota — leading to the rise of Ilhan Omar and the fraud scandals that have gripped that state, The Post can reveal.
Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services
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ARREST, SCHEME, STAMP, ALLEGED
A fugitive accused of stealing more than $600,000 in federal food stamp benefits has been returned to the United States after being arrested in India last month, FBI Director Kash Patel announced.
Manjit Singh Bedi, one of the FBI's Most Wanted Fraudsters,
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CARNEY, CANADA, MARK, PRIME
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney warned Thursday that the United States is trying to break Canada so it can “own us” as he urged oil-rich Alberta not to begin a process toward separation in Monday’s referendum.
The vote is not a direct referendum on independence.
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NITHYA, RAMAN, EXPLAIN, BACKED
How can Nithya Raman run the city of LA if one of her pet projects is missing $87 million? That’s a question voters will be asking after the city attorney’s latest bombshell report.
The report says that the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA), which
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COLLEGE, FOOTBALL, PLAYOFF, EXPANDING
Expansion of the College Football Playoff only needs a few approval signatures and final votes before we can officially start discussing what the sport will look like moving forward now that monetary figures are being finalized.
Over the past month, college
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BILLIONAIRE, MAINE, ADMITS, DONATIONS
Maine Democrat Troy Jackson acknowledged accepting campaign donations from billionaires during Thursday’s Senate debate after Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) challenged him over his promises to reject billionaire and corporate PAC money.
Collins pressed Jackson
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