Emerging Topics in U.S. News
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2nd 2026
Updated 23:59 ET
19 articles
TRUMP, KENNEDY, CENTER, EPSTEIN
President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he will be shutting down the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for two years starting in the summer. Trump claims the shutdown, which comes after a series of high-profile boycotts and cancellations, will allow
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EPSTEIN, JEFFREY, FILES, EMAILS
WASHINGTON — Delegate Stacey Plaskett’s correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein and his associates following his Florida conviction on child sex offenses was more extensive than previously known, newly released documents reveal.
Plaskett (D-USVI), a non-voting
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SAVANNAH, GUTHRIE, MOM, MOTHER
Nancy Guthrie was last seen in the Catalina Foothills area on Saturday.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department announced on Sunday that a woman missing in Arizona is the mother of "Today Show" host Savannah Guthrie.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department announced
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DAY, GROUNDHOG, PHIL, PUNXSUTAWNEY
A dawn ceremony Monday will see celebrity groundhog Punxsutawney Phil emerge from hiding and deliver his annual long-term weather forecast.
The choice is clear as always: if the fearless four-legged sage emerges from his burrow and sees his shadow Winter will
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ICE, ANTI, CREW, PORTLAND
We're seeing a lot of action from the anti-ICE crew in Minnesota.
As we reported, some of them were setting up "checkpoints" at intersections to screen for ICE to prevent ICE from getting into the neighborhood. If that wasn't bad enough, then they also allegedly
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TRUMP, POWELL, BIG, DONALD
Dan Scavino, White House deputy chief of staff and a longtime aide to President Donald Trump, got married Sunday at Mar-a-Lago in a ceremony attended by the president and a host of senior administration officials.
Speaking briefly to reporters ahead of the
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GOP, TRUMP, SHUTDOWN, BILL
Representative Anna Paulina Luna, a Republican from Florida, during the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 16, 2024.
Because Democrats are not helping Johnson and the GOP fast-track the measure, the speaker will
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OLYMPICS, WINTER, CORTINA, USA
U.S. sledder Katie Uhlaender appeal denied, won't race at Milan Cortina Olympics
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MILAN — An international sports tribunal on Monday ruled it lacks jurisdiction to intervene in the case of Katie Uhlaender, an American skeleton
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CONTEMPT, CLINTONS, HOUSE, EPSTEIN
WASHINGTON — The Republican chairman of the Oversight Committee has rejected an 11th-hour offer from Bill and Hillary Clinton’s attorneys to testify before the panel, as a House vote is expected to hold the 42nd president and former first lady in contempt of
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SHOW, HALFTIME, NFL, BAD
Turning Point USA has announced that Kid Rock and country star Lee Brice will headline its “All American Halftime Show,” which will air live during Super Bowl LX this coming weekend. “The All American Halftime Show will be a unique, patriotic event proudly
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BILLIE, GRAMMYS, LAND, EILISH
Woke pop star Billie Eilish is taking heat after piously proclaiming that the United States was built on “stolen land,” even as she has taken a man to court and sought a restraining order after he trespassed at one of her homes.
Eilish was applauded by woke
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NOEM, KRISTI, HOUSE, TESTIFY
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has come out in favor of at least one reform that Democrats are demanding of her department — in one of the most turbulent cities where the Trump administration has been engaging in immigration enforcement.
Noem posted
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2026, GRAMMY, DALAI, WINNERS
The 2026 Grammy Awards had many performances, speeches, and awards handed out, but what were the must-see moments?
The show ended with a bang, as Bad Bunny became the first Spanish-speaking artist to win Album of the Year. Earlier in the show he addressed
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DEAL, INDIA, TRADE, TRUMP
President Donald Trump announced Monday that the United States and India have reached a trade agreement and that India has committed to stop buying Russian oil.
Trump revealed the developments in a Truth Social post on Monday and called Indian Prime Minister
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DON, CHURCH, LEMON, MINNESOTA
The Trump administration has made two more arrests in connection with the disruption of a Jan. 18 church service by anti-ICE demonstrators, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Monday.
“If you riot in a place of worship, we WILL find you,” Bondi wrote on X.
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PETER, ATTIA, EPSTEIN, NEWS
If you didn’t know who Peter Attia was last week, here’s how you’ll remember him going forward: Attia is the guy who once emailed Jeffrey Epstein to confirm that “pussy is, indeed, low carb. Still awaiting results on gluten content, though.”
Until recently,
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ATTACK, UNPROVOKED, SHOT, GEORGIA
Two officers were shot, one fatally, Sunday morning in what Gwinnett County, Georgia, Police Chief J.D. McClure described as an “unprovoked attack.”
11 Alive reported the shooting took place at “the Holiday Inn in the 1700 block of East Park Place Boulevard”
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TRUMP, 75, IMMIGRANTS, COUNTRIES
Trump administration sued over visa freeze on immigrants from 75 countries
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A group of civil rights organizations and U.S. citizens is suing the State Department over its sweeping suspension of immigrant
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TEACHERS, OFFICIALS, SIGNAL, UNION
The leader of the Minneapolis teachers union admitted elected officials are involved and not ashamed of being part of the Signal chats organizing anti-ICE activity.
During an interview with Al Jazeera, President of the Minneapolis Federation of Educators Marcia
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BORDER, RAFAH, CROSSING, GAZA
Gaza’s Rafah border crossing with Egypt resumed limited operations Monday under the terms of the Israeli-Hamas ceasefire agreement, reopening a critical gateway that had been largely closed for nearly two years.
The reopening comes with tight restrictions.
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BRENDAN, BANFIELD, PLOT, MURDER
A Virginia jury has found former IRS law enforcement officer Brendan Banfield guilty of aggravated murder in the 2023 killings of his wife, Christina Banfield, and a second victim, Joseph Ryan, according to reports.
Banfield, 40, was convicted in Fairfax
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REBUILD, TRUMP, LEE, ZELDIN
We’ve reported on how President Donald Trump is tired of watching California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass fail to speed up rebuilding efforts following the disastrous — and preventable — wildfires that burned down huge sections of the
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SUPER, DEAD, 72, BOWL
Scott Laidlaw, a member of one of the Dallas Cowboys’ Super Bowl champion teams in the 70s, passed away last week, according to his family.
He was 72 years old.
Laidlaw, a running back on Dallas’ 1978 champion squad, entered the league in 1975 and spent four
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GABBARD, ELECTION, ASSESSMENT, SECURITY
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard detailed her ongoing election security assessment in a letter to congressional lawmakers Monday, saying President Trump “specifically directed” her to be present for the execution of a search warrant in Fulton
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