Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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LOVE, MACLEOD, BOAT, 90
Gavin MacLeod, who tasted stardom after years as a journeyman actor when he landed roles on two of the most successful television series of the 1970s and ’80s — as the news writer Murray Slaughter on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and Capt. Merrill Stubing on
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SCHOOL, CANADA, FOUND, INDIGENOUS
The remains of 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, have been found buried on the site of what was once Canada's largest Indigenous residential school — one of the institutions that held children taken from families across the nation.
Chief Rosanne
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BELARUS, SANCTIONS, PLANE, FORCED
The White House has announced that the United States will reimpose sanctions on Belarus next week after the forced diversion of a Ryanair flight to the country on May 23 and the arrest of an opposition journalist on board.
In a scathing statement Friday night,
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MEMORIAL, DAY, CANCEL, SIGN
Wei-San Ooi via Getty Images The phrase "Happy Memorial Day" has sparked debate, particularly among veterans.
We’re nearing Memorial Day, which to many Americans means time off work, permission to wear white, an occasion to fire up the grill, and other fun
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MILITARY, CRENSHAW, WOKE, WHISTLEBLOWER
Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, and Senator Tom Cotton, R-Ark., on Friday launched a whistleblower form for military service members so that the armed forces don't "fall to woke ideology."
The form is available on a new webpage on Crenshaw's website, which states
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VOTING, TEXAS, BILL, RESTRICTIONS
Austin, Texas (CNN) Texas Republican lawmakers moved closer Saturday to imposing a slew of new restrictions on voting, as key House and Senate members struck a deal on legislation that would make mail-in voting more difficult and prohibit the after-hours and
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YARD, GUNS, CALIFORNIA, AMMO
Sheriff Says The Rail Yard Shooting Suspect Stockpiled Guns And Ammo At His Home
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SAN FRANCISCO — The gunman who killed nine of his co-workers
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BLM, SHOOTING, CHARGED, ACTIVIST
On Friday, London’s Metropolitan Police said Cameron Deriggs has been charged with conspiracy to murder in connection with the violence. He was one of five men arrested earlier this week. The 18-year-old was taken into custody alongside another two suspects
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BUDGET, BIDEN, PROPOSAL, SMITH
President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the economy during a visit to Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio, May 27, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters)
A president’s budget is basically his wish list. The chief executive has no power to change tax rates
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TULSA, MASSACRE, ABRAMS, RACE
A nationally televised event commemorating the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, featuring appearances by Stacey Abrams and singer John Legend, has been canceled just four days before broadcast, with organizers blaming “unexpected circumstances with entertainers
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VOTE, JAN, COMMISSION, SCHUMER
As we reported previously, Cocaine Mitch rode again today when it came to the critical vote today on the Jan. 6 commission.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and the Republicans successfully blocked the creation of the commission when Democrats
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Mark Eaton, a former NBA star who played his entire career with the Utah Jazz, died Friday night, the team announced. He was 64.
The Jazz didn’t announce a cause of death. According to KUTV, Eaton left his home in Summit County, Utah, for a bike ride around
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STATES, UNEMPLOYMENT, BENEFITS, SEARCHES
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Job searches have jumped in GOP-led states that opted out of Joe Biden’s expanded unemployment benefits program. According to reports on Friday, job searches recently rose by five percent after at
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STUDY, COVID, PROVE, CLAIMS
A bombshell new study claims to have proof that Chinese scientists created COVID-19 in a lab and then tried to reverse-engineer versions of the virus to make it look like it evolved naturally from bats.
British professor Angus Dalgleish and Norwegian scientist
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11, DEATH, TEXAS, SHERIFF
A Texas sheriff fired 11 department employees and suspended six others without pay this week in connection with the death of an inmate who was found unresponsive in his cell in February after allegedly being hit multiple times by officers.
Harris County Sheriff
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REPORTS, LONDON, BORIS, CARRIE
LONDON (AP) — U.K. newspapers are reporting that Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his fiancée Carrie Symonds married Saturday in a small private ceremony in London.
The Mail on Sunday and the Sun said the couple wed at the Roman Catholic Westminster Cathedral
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BALTIMORE, PASS, STUDENTS, YEAR
Baltimore schools will move all students on to the next grade despite “tens of thousands” of them receiving failing marks during the disrupted academic year.
The Baltimore City Public Schools district created a new grading policy that will allow it “to move
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CRITICAL, RACE, THEORY, WOKE
Critical Race Theory was implemented in Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia, after backlash over a woke “underground railroad simulation” derived from Critical Race Theory, according to Fight for Schools, a political action committee combating the racist
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VIETNAM, NEW, CORONAVIRUS, VARIANT
(AFP) — Vietnam has discovered a new Covid-19 variant which spreads quickly by air and is a combination of the Indian and British strains, state media reported Saturday.
The country is struggling to deal with fresh outbreaks across more than half of its territory
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FLORIDA, EXTRADITED, SQUARE, TIMES
The man accused of opening fire in New York City’s Times Square and wounding three people, including a 4-year-old, earlier this month has been extradited to New York and is now in NYPD custody, authorities said Friday night.
Farrakhan Muhammad, 31, allegedly
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BIDEN, JOE, BIG, BOUNCE
Joe Biden was at Joint Base Langley speaking to members of the military ahead of the Memorial Day weekend to recognize their service.
Biden delivered long, rambling remarks, spending a lot of time talking about his son, Beau Biden, who had been in the military.
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TEACHER, LEAVE, TRANSGENDER, POLICY
Bryon “Tanner” Cross recently found himself in an unsavory situation.
He could either do according to what he believes to be right, or he could agree to the dictates of his school district — AKA his employer.
He chose Option A.
Standing before the school
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