Emerging Topics in U.S. News
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31st 2026
Updated 23:59 ET
11 articles
HALLOWEEN, CALIFORNIA, SHOOTING, STORE
"I know the mall has cameras, so hopefully we'll get some of that footage."
1 dead, 6 injured in shooting at California Halloween store, police say
New York City police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 39-year-old man, November 23, 2025, near a Midtown
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CODE, BET, CANELO, PROMO
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ALASKA, SENATE, DAN, DECOY
Justice Department seeks to isolate Alaska ballots amid criminal probe over Senate candidate
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The U.S. Department of Justice pushed Friday for a court order to isolate certain Alaska ballots to investigate
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EL, SAYED, ABDUL, SENATE
Lefty Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed — who has authored research papers advising Arab women not to breed outside their ethnic group – has “admirably” handled alleged racism that’s come his way, Mayor Zohran Mamdani claimed this week.
The socialist
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TRUMP, ELECTION, THREATS, WORKERS
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In a cascade of rulings in the days before Tuesday’s elections, federal judges have rejected the Trump
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FRANCE, PROTESTS, DEPLOYS, 70
PARIS (AP) – France prepared Saturday for a third consecutive weekend of protests over living costs and education, deploying 70,000 police and gendarmes and rerouting the Paris march to the capital’s edge as youth-led demonstrations spread across Europe.
Interior
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TRUMP, BILL, MAHER, KID
Bill Maher had a pretty rollicking time on his HBO show Real Time on Friday because, among his guests, he had Kid Rock.
It was Maher, his guest, sports commentator Stephen A. Smith, and Kid Rock, who all had dinner with President Donald Trump a few weeks ago.
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HALLOWEEN, TAKEOVERS, CURFEWS, VIOLENT
Cities across the country are putting teens on notice for Halloween weekend, rolling out curfews and crackdowns to head off the kind of chaos that unfolds during so-called teen takeovers.
From the Jersey Shore to suburban Atlanta, officials are setting curfews
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KAREN, BASS, PALISADES, HOUSING
Palisades Fire survivors are backing Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass — despite blaming her for the disaster.
Four residents who lost their homes in the deadly blaze told the California Post they remain furious over her administration’s failures surrounding the
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CHARTS, UPSET, TRUMP, DIVISIVENESS
On “The Alex Marlow Show,” Michael Whatley talked about the race.
Whatley said, “I am going to stand with President Trump. I am going to fight every single day for our North Carolina families, our North Carolina farmers, our North Carolina freedoms, and our
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DEATH, HOUDINI, HARRY, YEARS
Mystery cloaked the life and performances of escape artist Harry Houdini—and it followed him into his death, perplexing experts for the past century.
Houdini, a Hungarian born Erik Weisz, became one of the most famous magicians and vaudeville performers
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STABBED, NYC, WOMAN, 28
A woman who was stabbed in the neck while jogging on a Brooklyn bike path, as she prepared to run in the New York City marathon, has been declared brain dead, police sources said Saturday.
The 28-year-old runner was training on the waterfront near Bay Parkway
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COVERAGE, NEWS, ADULTS, GRAHAM
Americans are getting the majority of their news from social media, according to a new report.
Syracuse University’s Center for the Creator Economy found in its latest monthly Flash Report that social media platforms have overtaken traditional TV news as
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LAWYERS, ILHAN, ATTORNEYS, OMAR
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., has tapped two high-powered Washington, D.C.-based attorneys who have previously represented elected officials at the highest echelon of American politics.
Amid dueling federal investigations — one for immigration fraud and another
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TALKS, IRAN, TRUMP, RESTARTING
An AI-based anti-U.S. animation depicting Lego-shaped images of the Chinese Dragon, the legendary Persian Simurgh, and the Statue of Liberty is displayed during the 2nd Media-Expo International Exhibition in Tehran, Iran, on October 29, 2026. (Photo by Morteza
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BIG, ARIZONA, TEXAS, TECH
Halloween just became a whole lot scarier for Arizona.
No. 13 Texas Tech (7-1) defeated No. 22 Arizona (6-2) 34-26, delivering a massive blow to the Wildcats' College Football Playoff chances and Big 12 championship hopes. For Texas Tech, it was its 13th-straight
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WOMAN, MURDERING, WRONG, TINDER
Sydney Loofe thought she was heading out for a second date with a woman she met on Tinder. Instead, the 24-year-old vanished — and the man convicted of her murder would later make a disturbing admission about why she proved to be the “wrong person” to kill.
“I
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EXCLUSIVE, REPUBLICANS, ENTERS, TEXAS
Texas Attorney General and Republican U.S. Senate nominee Ken Paxton warned that Republicans cannot take victory in Texas for granted, describing his contest against Democrat James Talarico as the most difficult campaign of his political career during an exclusive
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MEN, WOMEN, SMALL, TRUMP
One phrase that gets lip service in medical training is, “Women are not just small men.” Meaning that women are different from men and may need sex-specific adjustments to their care. But practice often hasn’t matched that principle. Women were excluded from
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TRUMP, CONSTRUCTION, BLOCK, VIRGINIA
Virginia and D.C. sue to block construction of Trump arch
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The commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit on Saturday to block construction on President Donald Trump's proposed triumphal arch.
The
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ASSAULT, SEXUALLY, FIANC, WOMAN
An Arizona woman’s fiancé has been charged with hatching a plan to have a man sexually assault his own girlfriend — the alleged scheme backfiring when the mother of two fought off the attacker in the driveway of her home.
Police arrested Zarian Dyer, 23, after
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BOTCHED, EXECUTION, PIKE, CHRISTA
One month after Christa Pike survived a botched execution attempt, her attorneys filed an emergency motion demanding she be released from solitary confinement.
The convicted murderer, 50, was set to be the first woman put to death in Tennessee in over 200
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VOTE, REPUBLICANS, LEFTISTS, RED
Anthony Constantino, the Republican candidate running for Congress in New York’s 21st district, encouraged Republican voters to “make a plan to vote” and warned that the Democrat Party’s ideologies are “destructive.”
Speaking with host Matthew Boyle during
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NEW, BLAKEMAN, YORK, GOVERNOR
Robert Burck, who is also known as New York City’s (NYC) Times Square’s infamous “Naked Cowboy,” endorsed Republican New York gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman, stating that it was “time for a leader who sticks to the facts.”
In a post on X, Blakeman
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