Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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TENNIS, OPEN, ROUND, BARTY
(CNN) American tennis player Shelby Rogers rallied to upset No. 1 seed Ashleigh Barty of Australia, the top-ranked woman in the world, in the third round of the US Open in New York on Saturday night. The final score was 6-2, 1-6, 7-6 (7-5).
Rogers, ranked
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TALIBAN, MCCAUL, REP, PLANES
Rep. Mike McCaul, R-Texas, on Sunday blasted President Biden for the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, saying that he has "blood on his hands" for the 13 U.S. service members who were killed in the Kabul airport blast.
McCaul also asserted that the Taliban has
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BORDER, PATROL, WALL, TEXAS
SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico — The feds have turned to cutting-edge cameras developed by a virtual-reality wunderkind to help them monitor the southern border — by creating an invisible border wall.
The high-tech watch poles known as Autonomous Surveillance Towers
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FLORIDA, INCLUDING, BABY, GUNMAN
Four people are dead including a mother who was still cradling her now-deceased baby in what Florida sheriff's deputies are calling a massive gunbattle early Sunday with a suspect they said was “ready for battle.”
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said the unidentified
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JAPAN, SOCCER, SUGA, MINISTER
FILE PHOTO: Japan's Internal Affairs Minister Sanae Takaichi attends a news conference at Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's official residence in Tokyo, Japan September 11, 2019. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo FILE PHOTO: Japan's Internal Affairs Minister Sanae
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POPE, AFGHAN, REFUGEES, COUNTRIES
Pope Francis Is Urging The World's Nations To Take In Afghan Refugees
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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis is encouraging countries to welcome Afghan refugees who are seeking a new life.
During
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SHOT, SON, MONTHS, WIFE
More than two months after his wife and son were murdered, a prominent South Carolina attorney was shot on the side of the road Saturday, police and family representatives said.
Alex Murdaugh, 53, called 911 Saturday afternoon to report being shot near Varnville,
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GUINEA, PALACE, SOLDIERS, HEAVY
CELLOU BINANI via Getty Images Members of the Armed Forces of Guinea drive through the central neighbourhood of Kaloum in Conakry on September 5, 2021 after sustainable gunfire was heard.
CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Mutinous soldiers in the West African nation
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POLICE, GAME, YEAR, HIGH
There is a “high probability” that police officers’ gunfire killed an 8-year old girl and injured three other bystanders at a Pennsylvania high school football game, the Delaware County District Attorney announced.
Fanta Bility died at a hospital after being
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SOLHEIM, CUP, GOLF, TEARS
Sep 5, 2021; Toledo, Ohio, USA; Jennifer Kupcho of Team USA hugs captain Pat Hurst after winning her match on the seventeenth green during morning foursomes in the 2021 Solheim Cup at Inverness Club. Mandatory Credit: Raj Mehta-USA TODAY Sports Sep 5, 2021;
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Satellite Photos Show Just How Bad The Flooding From Ida Has Been In New Jersey
When the remnants of Hurricane Ida swept through New Jersey last week, the devastation left behind was unlike anything most residents had ever seen.
Satellite photos taken over
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MIGRANT, CARAVAN, MEXICO, 400
Mexican security officials have reportedly broken up a sizable new “caravan” of migrants seeking to travel from southern Mexico to the U.S. border.
Police and migration officials headed off the caravan, which had assembled for the fourth time in recent days,
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NAVY, CRASH, HELICOPTER, KILLED
The U.S. Navy on Sunday identified the five sailors now presumed dead after a more than 72-hour search and rescue mission was called off following their helicopter crash off the coast of San Diego.
The five sailors, all assigned to the Helicopter Sea Combat
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FIRE, CALDOR, TAHOE, LAKE
How Caldor Fire Crews Are Combating Fatigue With lighter winds and cooler temperatures, firefighting conditions are improving, but the work of containing the Caldor Fire is still backbreaking.
National How Caldor Fire Crews Are Combating Fatigue How Caldor
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39, SARAH, GIRLS, HARDING
“Many of you will know of Sarah’s battle with cancer and that she fought so strongly from her diagnosis until her last day. She slipped away peacefully this morning,” she wrote. She added that Harding was a “bright shining star” and would have wanted to be
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LEAK, FORD, PROMPTS, MICHIGAN
“We urge Michiganders in the affected areas to take swift action and evacuate their homes,” Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, chief medical executive and chief deputy for health at the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, said in a joint statement with the
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OVERDOSE, DEAD, JOHNSON, COMEDIAN
A batch of fentanyl-laced cocaine killed a comedian and two others, and left the ex-girlfriend of Darius Rucker in a Los Angeles hospital, a report said.
Fuquan Johnson, writer for “Comedy Parlour Live,” died after overdosing at a Venice home Friday night,
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CIVIL, WAR, AFGHANISTAN, MILLEY
U.S. Army General Mark Milley testifies at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on his nomination to become the Army’s chief of staff, on Capitol Hill in Washington July 21, 2015. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst )
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff general
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NEWSOM, RECALL, CALIFORNIA, ELIZABETH
Sen. Elizabeth Warren stood side-by-side with Gov. Gavin Newsom in Culver City on Saturday and urged California voters to reject the effort to recall him from office, calling the top Republican candidate hoping to replace Newsom “California’s own Donald Trump.”
Warren
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Sep 4, 2021; Iowa City, Iowa, USA; Iowa Hawkeyes defensive back Riley Moss (33) and defensive back Dane Belton (4) react after a 30 yard interception return for a touchdown by Moss against the Indiana Hoosiers during the first quarter at Kinnick Stadium.
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