Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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BIDEN, JOHNSON, JILL, TRUMP
President Biden is on his first overseas trip since taking office. The president landed in the United Kingdom on Wednesday evening and is set to meet with several European allies, participate in the G-7 and NATO summits, and participate in a high-stakes, in-person
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BORDER, HARRIS, BIDEN, CRISIS
Just days after telling Newsmax he will take the border crisis into his own state's hands, Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott is hosting a border summit, where he vows to announce his plan of action.
Abbott tweeted Thursday:
"Texas has done more than ANY STATE has
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OMAR, ISRAEL, ILHAN, DEMOCRATS
Jewish House Democrats have escalated a confrontation with Rep. Ilhan Omar over her recent statements equating the U.S. and Israel to Hamas and the Taliban.
A dozen Jewish Democrats issued a statement this week condemning Ms. Omar for using rhetoric they said
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THEORY, CRITICAL, RACE, BOARD
(CNN) Florida has become the latest state to ban critical race theory, continuing the growing charge by Republican lawmakers against schools teaching about systemic racism.
After hours of debate and public comment Thursday, the Florida State Board of Education
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BIDEN, VACCINE, DOSES, FOREIGN
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Joe Biden recently failed to disclose his policies towards Russia ahead of his upcoming summit with Vladimir Putin.
Speaking to U.S. troops based at Royal Air Force Mildenhall base, President Joe
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COVID, 19, VACCINE, DOSES
Slowing demand and the lingering effects of a 11-day pause on the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine mean states have hundreds of thousands of doses that may expire before they can find willing arms.
"When we had more demand than the supply could meet, expiration
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FAUCI, SCIENCE, SEN, FIRED
Tony Fauci is having a really bad run over the past couple of weeks. Of course, not as bad as the country that adopted some of the suggestions he made which helped confuse and anger Americans over the past year but I digress
I’m actually surprised that I have
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FLORIDA, DEAD, PUBLIX, SHOOTER
The bodies of three people, including a child, were found inside a Publix grocery store in Palm Beach County, Fla., on Thursday morning, according to the authorities, who said they had all been fatally shot.
The authorities were called to the store, in Royal
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TOOBIN, CNN, ZOOM, JEFFREY
Jeffrey Toobin, staff writer at The New Yorker, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., September 26, 2019. (Al Drago/Reuters)
CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin appeared on air on Thursday for the first time since he exposed himself during a Zoom video call
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INFRASTRUCTURE, BIPARTISAN, DEAL, GROUP
An aide familiar said the group will propose $579 billion in new spending.
Bipartisan Senate negotiators have reached an agreement on an infrastructure deal that would spend hundreds of billions in new federal dollars while also not increasing taxes, a key
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The wife of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán pleaded guilty Thursday to helping her notorious drug lord hubby run his expansive Sinaloa Cartel.
Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, copped to charges including conspiracy to distribute vast amounts of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine
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DRUG, ALZHEIMER, NEW, MEDICARE
Medicare Copays For New Alzheimer's Drug Could Reach $11,500 Annually
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WASHINGTON — A new $56,000-a-year Alzheimer's drug would raise Medicare premiums broadly, and some patients who are prescribed
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TRUMP, MUELLER, MCGAHN, PROBE
House Judiciary Committee Republicans are expressing frustration with their Democrat colleagues for what they say is a misuse of the committee’s resources after it released on Wednesday the transcribed testimony of former White House counsel Don McGahn in relation
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SOLAR, ECLIPSE, RING, FIRE
A "ring of fire" solar eclipse is visible in the U.S. for the first time since 2017.
The event -- which occurs when the moon passes directly between the Earth and the sun, blocking the sun's light -- illuminated the sky shortly after 5 a.m. EDT Thursday.
NASA
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BAN, ASSAULT, WEAPONS, SHOOTING
California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta on Thursday filed an appeal to a federal court decision that overturned the state’s ban on assault weapons, arguing that the law is needed “to protect the safety of Californians.”
The appeal seeks to reverse Friday’s decision
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RANSOM, 11, MILLION, MEAT
The world’s largest meat processor said on Wednesday that it paid an $11 million ransom in Bitcoin to the hackers behind an attack that forced the shutdown last week of all the company’s U.S. beef plants and disrupted operations at poultry and pork plants.
The
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PARK, TRUMP, LAFAYETTE, REPORT
The Washington Post, among other mainstream media organizations, created the false impression that President Donald Trump ordered Lafayette Square cleared with “tear gas” to remove “peaceful protesters” for a “photo-op” last June 1.
SUPERCUT: A look back at
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KEYSTONE, XL, PIPELINE, BIDEN
After more than 10 years, the embattled Keystone XL pipeline has officially been abandoned.
In a Wednesday statement, the Canadian developer TC Energy said that after reviewing its options with the government of Alberta, Canada — its partner on the $8 billion
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TRUMP, JENNER, GOP, DONALD
Republican Caitlyn Jenner, who is running to be California’s governor, on Thursday refused to say whether Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election.
During an appearance on “The View,” co-host Joy Behar asked Jenner: “A lot of Republicans in this country
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MACRON, FRENCH, SLAPPED, SENTENCED
The man who was caught on video slapping French President Emmanuel Macron across the face earlier this week has been handed a four-month prison sentence.
In an emergency trial, Damien Tarel, 28, was found guilty of violence against a person invested with public
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JR, HEAD, BROWN, ANDREW
The official autopsy of the unarmed Black man who was fatally shot in April by sheriff’s deputies in North Carolina says he died from a penetrating gunshot wound to the head
ELIZABETH CTIY, N.C. -- The unarmed Black man who was fatally shot in April by sheriff's
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POPE, REJECTS, GERMAN, CARDINAL
Pope Francis refused Thursday to accept the resignation offered by German Cardinal Reinhard Marx over the sex abuse scandal in the church, but said a process of reform was necessary and that every bishop must take responsibility for the “catastrophe” of the
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BLACK, BYRON, DONALDS, CAUCUS
Rep. Byron Donalds, one of only two Black Republicans in the House, says that he has been snubbed by the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC).
Donalds' communications director Harrison Fields told Fox News that the Florida Republican has engaged with multiple
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