Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Also, I suspect the non-US HN users are slowly getting fed up with this one topic capturing a large part of the online conversation.
Hmmm no I can't imagine that, could you describe your view more? Why would they be fed up, in your view?