Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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HOUSE, WHITE, BIDEN, COVID
FILE PHOTO: The White House is seen on the day when the Senate handed U.S. President Trump the first veto override of his presidency, passing the National Defense Authorization Act. in Washington, D.C., U.S. January 1, 2021. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno FILE PHOTO:
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BEZOS, JEFF, SPACE, BLUE
Bezos Is Back On Earth — But The Space Tourism Industry Is Just Launching Off The spaceflight company Blue Origin, founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, has successfully completed its first flight into space with passengers aboard, including the Amazon founder
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COVID, 19, TRAVEL, VACCINE
Azithromycin, an antibiotic used to treat COVID-19, was no more effective at freeing non-hospitalized patients of COVID-19 symptoms than a placebo, a study found.
Findings from researchers affiliated with University of California San Francisco published in
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TRUMP, BARRACK, TOM, AGENT
Thomas Barrack, the chair of former President Trump’s inaugural committee and a prominent Southern California businessman and philanthropist, was arrested Tuesday on federal charges that he and others were engaged in a conspiracy to shape Trump’s foreign policy
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OLYMPICS, TOKYO, GAMES, JAPAN
The head of the organizing committee for the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday did not rule out a last-minute cancellation of the global sporting showpiece, amid rising coronavirus cases that have presented organizers with mounting challenges.
Asked at a news conference
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GREENE, TWITTER, TAYLOR, MARJORIE
(CNN) Twitter on Monday evening temporarily suspended Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene after she shared misinformation about Covid-19 and vaccines, a company spokesperson told CNN.
The Georgia Republican, who has a track record of incendiary rhetoric, will not
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OLYMPICS, TOKYO, GAMES, JAPAN
The Tokyo 2020 organizing committee said it will continue to monitor cases.
The chief of the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee addressed concerns of rising COVID-19 cases during a press conference on Tuesday and did not rule out the possibility of a last-minute
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FAUCI, PAUL, RAND, WUHAN
An extremely tense exchange between Dr. Anthony Fauci and Sen. Rand Paul took place this morning. It happened during a Senate hearing in which Paul pinned Fauci down on NIH-funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the lab suspected
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BORDER, BIDEN, CRISIS, GOP
The border crisis is worsening, undercutting President Biden’s early assurances that the chaos along the U.S.-Mexico boundary was just a seasonal blip.
The Border Patrol reported the most action in 21 years in June. Agents recorded 178,416 arrests, defying
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Fox News host Sean Hannity received a round of applause on Tuesday for comments he made Monday night urging his viewers to “please take Covid seriously” and telling them, “I believe in the science of vaccination” — remarks seemingly standing in contrast to
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BRITNEY, SPEARS, BIPARTISAN, FREE
Outside a Los Angeles courthouse on Wednesday, throngs of Britney Spears fans — and nearly an equal number of reporters and photographers — gathered under the afternoon sun as a judge evaluated Ms. Spears’s legal representation and conservatorship.
Supporters
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SCHOOL, MASK, COVID, UPGRADES
Even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that vaccinated individuals did not need to wear masks indoors two months ago, experts now are calling for people to "vax it and mask it."
Los Angeles County this weekend mandated that
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CALIFORNIA, LARRY, ELDER, TAX
California voters are getting an unprecedented peek at the personal finances of the candidates seeking to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom in September’s recall election, after hundreds of pages of documents were published online detailing salaries, investments and
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WEATHER, FIRE, OREGON, BOOTLEG
More than 80 current wildfires were burning through 1,157,976 acres in 13 states.
20,000 firefighters are battling the blazes.
'Fire clouds' and dry lightning add to misery.
Pacific Gas & Electric said Sunday that its equipment may have been involved in
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CHINA, MICROSOFT, HACKING, DENIES
China shot back at accusations by the US and its allies that Beijing was behind a series of ransomware attacks and the hacking of Microsoft’s email server this spring, dismissing the charge as “made up out of thin air” and claiming that America “is the world
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INDIA, PANDEMIC, TOLL, COVID
The report released Tuesday estimated excess deaths — the gap between those recorded and those that would have been expected — to be 3.4 million to 4.7 million since the pandemic began through last month. It said an accurate figure may “prove elusive,” but
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CUBA, BIDEN, EMBASSY, HAVANA
The White House announced Monday President Joe Biden held a Zoom video conference call with Cuban-American celebrities in an attempt to organize a policy in response to nationwide anti-communist protests on the island.
The call was hosted by the Director of
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BEN, JERRY, ISRAEL, BOYCOTT
In this Nov. 8, 2019 file photo, Ben Cohen, left, and Jerry Greenfield, co-founders of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, attend a protest in Washington. The Vermont-based Ben & Jerry's has always been known for promoting social causes as much as its flavors of ice cream,
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CDC, DELTA, VARIANT, 83
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday that 83% of sequenced coronavirus samples in the U.S. are the dreaded delta variant that spreads rapidly and is fueling outbreaks in select states and at least 90 countries.
“This is a dramatic increase,
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HARRY, PRINCE, MEMOIR, CHARLES
Prince William and Prince Charles are said to be worried about what Prince Harry might reveal in his upcoming tell-all.
On Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Duke of Sussex confirmed to Fox News that the 36-year-old is writing what his publisher is calling an
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FINED, HANDBALL, BIKINI, SHORTS
Norway’s women’s beach handball team was fined by the European Handball Federation on Monday, after players wore shorts, instead of the required bikini bottoms, during a game over the weekend.
The International Handball Federation requires women to wear bikini
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