Emerging Topics in U.S. News
FRIDAY, JUNE 12th 2026
Updated 23:59 ET
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CUP, WORLD, TEAM, 2026
Referees at the World Cup have new rules to whistle during games
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LOS ANGELES — The referees chosen to work the 2026 World Cup have some new tools to speed up the games and ensure that any match-altering officiating
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IRAN, TRUMP, DEAL, PEACE
Iranian state media on Friday printed a variety of claims about the draft ceasefire agreement between Iran and the United States, including some reports that Iran would make a verifiable commitment to refrain from developing nuclear weapons.
Iran’s state-run
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KARMELO, ANTHONY, METCALF, AUSTIN
As convicted killer Karmelo Anthony's family faces questions over hundreds of thousands of dollars raised through online fundraisers, the father of slain Texas teenager Austin Metcalf says his family is still dealing with death threats, harassment and the
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TRUMP, CENTER, KENNEDY, JUDGE
Workers erect scaffolding at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, June 12, 2026.
But the appeals court has yet to rule on that request by the administration, and it is not known when it will issue a decision.
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals
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MUSK, SPACEX, ELON, TRILLIONAIRE
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Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel ripped Elon Musk as a “wealthy weirdo” and accused the newly minted trillionaire of “stealing from us” as the businessman launched a historic IPO.
During his monologue Thursday,
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KNICKS, GAME, NEW, CUP
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Travel plans for nearly 50,000 World Cup fans are still up in the air a day before the almost sold-out game at Metlife Stadium in New Jersey Saturday night, The Post has learned.
Only 23,600 fans have either
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WEAPONIZATION, JUDGE, ANTI, FUND
The judge was concerned that officials have not disavowed the fund in writing.
President Donald Trump speaks before signing a proclamation in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, June 11, 2026.
President Donald Trump speaks before signing a proclamation
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WHITE, HOUSE, JUDGE, UFC
It's Game On at the White House for the UFC event set to take place there this weekend. D.C. District Judge Amit Mehta (an Obama appointee, FWIW) just body-slammed an eleventh-hour effort to stop President Trump’s White House UFC extravaganza, denying plaintiffs’
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SHOOTING, MIDLAND, TEXAS, DEAD
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At least one person was killed and 10 others injured as an active shooter opened fire in West Texas and barricaded himself inside a building Friday, officials said.
The nightmare tally in Midland was announced
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JASMINE, MARLOW, KARMELO, CROCKETT
Thursday on “The Alex Marlow Show,” Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow talked about the UFC.
Marlow said, “So, the left-wing efforts to try to lawfare this thing to death have failed and we think this thing’s going to go on.”
The Alex Marlow Show, hosted
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PLATNER, NAZI, GRAHAM, HUNTER
An alleged former girlfriend of Maine Democrat Senate nominee Graham Platner claimed that he cheated on his fiancée with her and that he defended his Nazi tattoo as a reminder that the “U.S. was the evil bad guy overseas.”
The ex-girlfriend told the New York
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WARNER, PARAMOUNT, JUSTICE, BROS
Paramount-Warner Brothers merger gets Justice Department approval The Justice Department closed its investigation into the proposed $110 billion merger of Paramount and Warner Brothers Discovery, saying it found no threat to competition or consumers.
Business
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YEAR, SWEPT, LAGUNA, BEACH
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The 5-year-old San Bernardino girl who was swept out to sea by a massive wave in Laguna Beach this week was set to start kindergarten later this summer, school officials said.
Amada Mia Brown, who died after
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BECERRA, XAVIER, POLL, DEM
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The California Chamber of Commerce has endorsed Xavier Becerra’s bid for governor —the first Democrat the powerful business group has ever supported in a gubernatorial race.
CalChamber’s board of directors
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DE, TRUMP, STRIKE, TREN
President Donald Trump on Friday night announced the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) "delivered a swift and lethal kinetic strike" to successfully execute Niño Guerrero, the "infamous" leader of Tren de Aragua, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization
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VICTOR, WEMBANYAMA, NBA, SPURS
Victor Wembanyama’s national anthem controversy didn’t go away after Game 1 of the NBA Finals.
It just appears that almost everyone around the NBA decided to stop talking about it.
Before Game 1 between the San Antonio Spurs and New York Knicks, cameras showed
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PROBE, FRAUD, CALIFORNIA, VOTER
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Florida Sen. Rick Scott is urging the Justice Department to dig deeper into a California voter fraud case involving a woman who admitted paying homeless people on Los Angeles’ Skid Row to register to vote.
In
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SOUTH, KOREAN, YOON, DRONE
A South Korean court sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to 30 years in prison Friday in a case that accused him of ordering drone flights over North Korea in an effort to justify his declaration of martial law.
Yoon, 65, was sentenced alongside former
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CITIZEN, ARRESTED, ESPIONAGE, SUSPECTED
China arrests a U.S. scholar with a history of Myanmar activism, suspected of spying
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CHIANG MAI, Thailand — China has arrested a U.S. citizen on suspicion of spying, the Chinese government said Friday.
Min Zin, who heads
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FED, CHAIR, WARSH, PREDECESSORS
New Chairman of the Federal Reserve Kevin Warsh arrives during a swearing in ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on May 22, 2026.
The immediate short-run question is where Warsh stands on the issue of removing a signal in the Fed's
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MONTHS, OFFICER, ICE, PROTEST
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A man who admitted to assaulting a federal officer during protests outside a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland, Oregon, last year was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison on Thursday.
Robert
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GABBARD, BIOLABS, FUNDED, RECORDS
I've written many times on how and why, as a biologist, the notion of biological agents, not to mention messing around with pathogens, scares the absolute kapok out of me. Nukes have some after-effects, but once the bomb has gone off, it's over. The same can
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BRONCOS, ARRESTED, LINEBACKER, JONATHON
Denver Broncos linebacker Jonathon Cooper was arrested Thursday for the second time in a week after police nabbed him for violating an order of protection filed against him in Colorado.
The NFL player was arrested on misdemeanor charges of violation of a protection
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ZAC, BROWN, UFC, COUNTRY
Country singer Zac Brown has defended his decision to perform the National Anthem at the upcoming UFC match on the White House lawn, calling it a matter of patriotism.
Brown revealed on The Pat McAfee Show on Wednesday that his decision had nothing to do with
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