Emerging Topics in U.S. News
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20th 2024
Updated 17:12 ET
72 articles
TRUMP, EDUCATION, PICKS, DR
As Donald Trump assembles his economic team, a tension seems to have emerged between his desire to reassure Wall Street and his promise to push back against globalization by enacting sweeping tariff policies.
Despite calling himself “a tariff man,” Mr. Trump
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UKRAINE, RUSSIA, MISSILES, ATTACK
The once solidly "neutral" Nordic nations in Northern Europe are taking precautions to ready their citizens to be able to cope under war-like conditions as the security apparatus on the continent continues to deteriorate amid the war in Ukraine.
Sweden on
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GAETZ, TRUMP, GOP, ETHICS
There are precedents for forcing the release of a committee report.
Congress could go around Ethics Committee if it doesn't release Gaetz report
While the House Ethics Committee will meet behind closed doors on Wednesday to discuss its investigation into
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WOMEN, TRANS, JOHNSON, MACE
Earlier Tuesday we reported on a resolution being introduced by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) that would effectively make the women's restrooms on Capitol Hill off-limits to biological males including those who identify as transgender "women."
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LAKEN, RILEY, MURDER, GEORGIA
A man has been convicted of murder in the killing of Laken Riley
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ATHENS, Ga. — A Venezuelan man has been convicted of murder in the killing of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, a case that fueled
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JOE, TRUMP, MORNING, MEETING
MSNBC is garbage. The people who work at MSNBC are garbage. MSNBC is a wholly owned subsidiary of NBC News, which has turned NBC News into garbage. And Comcast is the king of garbage, or the non-binary leadership entity of garbage, so as to not offend anyone.
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TRUMP, SPACEX, LAUNCH, MUSK
Nov 16, 2024; New York, NY, USA; President-elect Donald Trump talks with Elon Musk (right) during UFC 309 at Madison Square Garden. Mandatory
President-elect Donald Trump will attend Tuesday's launch of the SpaceX rocket Starship with company CEO Elon Musk.
Trump's
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TRUMP, MUSK, ELON, TEXAS
CLAIM: Former President Bill Clinton appeared on CBS’ The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Tuesday where he claimed that President-elect Donald Trump recently told Christian voters — “Christian nationalists,” Clinton called them — that if they helped him return
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BIDEN, WHITE, HOUSE, QUESTIONS
A group of White House staffers sent a letter of dissent on Monday over the Biden administration’s decision not to enforce its own ultimatum over the Israeli government’s restriction of humanitarian aid to Gaza. With just weeks until President-elect Donald
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TRUMP, DEPORTATION, OFFERS, TEXAS
Texas offered the incoming Trump administration a 1,400-acre ranch for the president-elect's mass deportation operation.
Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham in a letter sent Tuesday to Trump said her office is "fully prepared" to enter an agreement with any
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BOMB, CYCLONE, WASHINGTON, STATE
'Bomb cyclone' to bring rain, snow and winds to US northwest
Weather Forecast: US West coast braces for once-in-a-decade bomb cyclone
A storm developing off the coast of the US northwest is forecast to bring high winds, flooding and snow to over seven million
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GAZA, NETANYAHU, ATTACKS, STATE
The foreign leader who has most engaged President-elect Donald Trump is undoubtedly Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Israeli prime minister was quick to congratulate the Republican leader, and the two have chatted by phone repeatedly since the election.
Trump’s message?
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TRUMP, CITY, SANCTUARY, LOS
Los Angeles to become an immigration 'sanctuary'
Trump, who will be sworn in in two months, has promised mass deportation s once he returns to the White House. His chosen "border czar", Tim Homan, has urged sanctuary cities to "get the hell out of the way"
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TRUMP, DANCE, PULISIC, CHRISTIAN
If liberals upset by the Trump Dance craze sweeping through the NFL look to the league to put a stop to the trend, they will not find the help they seek.
According to Front Office Sports (FOS), the NFL has “no issue” with the celebrations and no plans to stop
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FEMA, HOUSE, TRUMP, REPUBLICANS
Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., took aim at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), arguing that its recent response to multiple deadly storms shows the agency needs to be "completely revamped."
"The No. 1 thing that hurts FEMA’s reputation is the fact
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TYSON, FIGHT, PAUL, MIKE
Death was in the discourse leading up to Friday night’s boxing match between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson. Marketing the fight, the two combatants repeatedly threatened to kill each other; a Netflix promo documentary referenced the bitten and bloodied ear Tyson
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SMITH, SUSAN, PAROLE, KILLING
Susan Smith to appear in front of parole board 30 years after killing her 2 sons
A South Carolina woman who admitted to drowning her two children 30 years ago is set to appear before a parole board for the first time on Wednesday to make a case for her freedom.
On
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RUST, BALDWIN, ALEC, PREMIERE
The mother of late cinematographer Halyna Hutchins is boycotting the world premiere of "Rust" at a film festival in Poland on Wednesday, saying she views it as an attempt by Alec Baldwin to "unjustly profit" from her daughter's death.
The Western is premiering
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PARTY, NOONAN, DEMS, GOP
Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that the Democratic Party is no longer the party of the “little guy.”
Noonan said, “The Democratic Party was seen as three things, it seems to me. One, it was the party of the
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TRUMP, MASS, MILITARY, DEPORTATIONS
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Delegates hold “Mass Deportations Now” campaign signs during the Republican National Convention at the
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TRUMP, AMBASSADOR, NATO, MATTHEW
President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday named former acting Attorney General Matthew G. Whitaker as the next United States Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
“I am pleased to announce that former Acting Attorney General, Matthew
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HEZBOLLAH, ROCKETS, FIND, LEBANON
When Israeli soldiers began entering southern Lebanon as part of the IDF’s ground offensive, they encountered Hezbollah’s massive weapons stockpiles – most of them filled with advanced, recently produced Russian weapons, The Wall Street Journal reported.
According
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KONG, HONG, YEARS, SENTENCED
Authorities in Hong Kong sentenced 45 prominent pro-democracy activists to up to 10 years in prison on Tuesday for violating a wide-ranging national security law imposed on the area by China.
The activists are accused of agreeing to veto government-proposed
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JEFFRIES, LEADER, MANDATE, HOUSE
Minority Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said that the “mandate” that Republicans have been talking about following President-elect Donald Trump’s victory — and the victory of other Republicans, taking the Senate and maintaining the House majority —
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