Emerging Topics in U.S. News
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24th 2024
Updated 04:12 ET
43 articles
TRUMP, TRIAL, GAG, HUSH
Fox News host Jesse Watters questions the legal standing of the gag order on former President Trump in the NY vs. Trump trial Tuesday on "Jesse Watters Primetime."
JESSE WATTERS: The trial of the century. Day six, the crime the Democrats still haven't named.
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BIDEN, TRUMP, ISRAEL, STUDENTS
Joe Biden has told a lot of lies over his time in office.
But what sets him apart from politicians before him is the shamelessness with which he tells falsehoods—that even after the stories are roundly debunked, he continues to tell the same false story without
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AID, UKRAINE, SENATE, ISRAEL
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) on the Senate floor Tuesday decried the $95 billion foreign aid package, calling it “legislative blackmail” to get Republicans to drop their demand for border security.
The Senate is set to approve the $95 billion foreign aid package;
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ABORTION, FLORIDA, CASE, SUPREME
What's at stake in Idaho abortion case The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a case about whether state law or federal law should prevail when they conflict during a serious pregnancy complication.
Politics What's at stake in Idaho abortion case
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ANTI, ISRAEL, COLUMBIA, NYU
New York City Democratic Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday the escalation in violence stemming from the anti-Israel protests across the city is likely the work of "outside agitators."
Adams made the comments at his usual Tuesday press conference. Addressing the
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PROTESTS, COLUMBIA, CAMPUS, STUDENT
Protesters on Monday broke through barriers around Gould Plaza, the school said.
More than 150 people were arrested at New York University on Monday night, police said, as pro-Palestinian protests spread on college campuses throughout the country.
Students,
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NASSAR, 138, FBI, LARRY
DETROIT — The U.S. Justice Department announced a $138.7 million settlement Tuesday with more than 100 people who accused the FBI of grossly mishandling allegations of sexual assault against Larry Nassar in 2015 and 2016, a critical time gap that allowed the
Continued at Washington Times...
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TEACHERS, BILL, TENNESSEE, PASS
Tennessee lawmakers passed a bill on Tuesday to allow teachers and other school staff members to carry concealed handguns on school campuses. The measure, if it goes into law, would require those carrying guns to undergo training and have the approval of school
Continued at New York Times...
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JOHNSON, SECURITY, BORDER, YEAR
Update: Speaker Johnson announced he will not be fining Thomas Massie
The House Sergeant at arms has threatened Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) with a $500 fine for posting a video on X of Democrats waving Ukraine flags as the House passed tens of billions in funding
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MCCORMICK, CASEY, SHOWDOWN, SENATE
Democrat Sen. Bob Casey and Republican challenger David McCormick will face each other in Pennsylvania's high-stakes U.S. Senate contest in November, as Tuesday's primary election put them on track for a race that could decide control of the Senate next year.
Casey
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CONGRESS, SANTOS, GEORGE, BID
There will be no comeback for former Rep. George Santos.
The New York Republican said Tuesday that he is ending his longshot 2024 congressional bid.
Mr. Santos said he feared his independent bid in the 1st Congressional District on Long Island would split
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BAN, TIKTOK, EMBRACES, CONGRESS
TikTok and its China-based parent company ByteDance combined to spend over $7 million so far this year to try and stop Congress from passing legislation that could ban the social media app in the United States.
ByteDance alone spent a record $2.68 million
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POLICE, OFFICER, ADAMS, LUIS
SEATTLE — A former Washington state police officer wanted after killing two people, including his ex-wife, was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound following a chase in Oregon, authorities said Tuesday. His 1-year-old baby, who was with him, was taken
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LEE, SUMMER, DEMOCRAT, MEMBER
Rep. Summer Lee (D-PA) is the first member of the progressive group of House Democrats known as the Squad to be up for a 2024 primary challenge, a contest expected to be a preview of how Democratic divides over Israel could play out this year.
Lee, one of
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ABORTION, MIKE, TUCKER, GOP
“Matt Gaetz, he paid minors to have sex with him at drug parties. Bob Good endorsed my opponent, a known neo-Nazi. These people used to walk around with white hoods at night. Now they’re walking around with white hoods in the daytime,” he continued. “Look,
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GOOGLE, FIRES, PROTESTING, EMPLOYEES
Google has fired more than 50 employees in the past week for participating in protests against the company’s cloud computing deal with the Israeli government, according to activist group No Tech for Apartheid.
The Washington Post reports that the firings come
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MILK, VIRUS, FLU, BIRD
Federal regulators on Tuesday said that samples of pasteurized milk from around the country had tested positive for inactive remnants of the bird flu virus that has been infecting dairy cows.
The viral fragments do not pose a threat to consumers, officials
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APPEAL, EVAN, JUNE, GERSHKOVICH
MOSCOW (AP) — Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich will remain jailed on espionage charges until at least late June, after a Moscow court on Tuesday rejected his appeal that sought to end his pretrial detention.
The 32-year-old U.S. citizen was detained
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TESLA, INCOME, GLOBAL, TEXAS
Tesla will cut thousands of employees from its Gigafactory Texas as part of a companywide tightening effort.
According to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification from the electric vehicle giant, the Texas facility in Austin will lose 2,688 workers
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DEAL, CAITLIN, NIKE, CLARK
It begins.
No sooner had former Iowa women's basketball sensation Caitlin Clark become the WNBA's top draft pick than the lefties among us began to whine mightily about the "unfairness" of her standard rookie contract.
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"Pay her what she's worth!"
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TITLE, IX, BIDEN, NEW
Biological males in girls’ bathrooms and dorms?
Sanctions if you don’t use somebody’s preferred pronouns?
Bringing back kangaroo courts for your sons, brothers and fathers?
These are only some of the new Title IX rules dictated to you by the US Department
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ALLIGATOR, FLORIDA, RUNWAY, AIR
An alligator that recently wandered onto the runway at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, subjected wranglers to a workout as they tried to catch it.
It did not take long for officers with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to arrive
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FTC, NONCOMPETE, CLAUSES, CHANGE
Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan testifies before a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Oversight of the Federal Trade Commission, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., July 13, 2023.
The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday voted 3-2 for a nationwide
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YEAR, LEVEL, SURGES, BOX
With the year nearly a third over, the domestic box office is down 21 percent from last year, and last year’s box office stunk.
Box Office Mojo shows the 2024 domestic box office at $1.935 billion as of today, April 23. This same time last year, the domestic
Continued at Breitbart...