Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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BORDER, BIDEN, PATROL, AGENTS
What Happens To Border Patrol Officials After They Harm Migrants? NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Andrea Guerrero, executive director of Alliance San Diego, a community empowerment organization, about the allegations of abuse against the U.S. Border Patrol agency.
National
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BOOSTER, COVID, BIDEN, 19
President Biden received a booster shot of a COVID-19 vaccine in front of the cameras Monday, hoping to set a high-profile example after he prodded regulators to approve extra doses to stiff-arm the virus ahead of winter.
The president, donning a black mask,
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MERKEL, GERMANY, ELECTION, NARROWLY
Olaf Scholz waves on stage at the Social Democrats (SPD) headquarters after the estimates were broadcast in Berlin on September 26, 2021 after the German general elections. ODD ANDERSEN | AFP | Getty Images
LONDON — The German election is heading for tough
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INFRASTRUCTURE, PELOSI, VOTE, BILL
The timeline for the House to vote on a bipartisan infrastructure bill keeps getting delayed, as it was first scheduled for Monday, then announced for Thursday, and now President Biden indicated it could end up getting pushed even later.
Amid speculation that
Continued at Fox News...
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KELLY, TRAFFICKING, SEX, TRIAL
NEW YORK ― R. Kelly, the R&B singer who rose to fame in the 1990s, has been found guilty on all charges related to racketeering and sex trafficking after a trial at the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse.
After nine hours of deliberation, a jury of seven men and
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SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) — The Americans won back the Ryder Cup and perhaps a whole lot more Sunday, sending a strong message to Europe with a powerful performance from their youngest team in history.
Scottie Scheffler, one of six Ryder Cup newcomers for the Americans,
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HINCKLEY, JOHN, REAGAN, RELEASE
(CNN) The Justice Department reached a deal with John Hinckley Jr., who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981, to free him from the strict conditions of release that he's been living with for several years.
Hinckley was released from a mental
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LIZ, CHENEY, MARRIAGE, WRONG
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Liz Cheney says she was wrong to oppose gay marriage in the past, a stand that once split her family.
Cheney, R-Wyo., a fierce critic of fellow Republican Donald Trump, also tells CBS News' “60 Minutes” that she views her reelection campaign
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DEBT, SENATE, BILL, REPUBLICANS
Senate Republicans prepared to vote Monday against a House-passed government funding bill, virtually killing the measure, The Washington Post reported.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., last week said GOP lawmakers were not willing to vote for
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LAUNDRIE, BRIAN, PETITO, TOLD
The manhunt for Brian Laundrie in a Florida nature reserve will be scaled back this week following the death of his fiancée Gabby Petito.
The FBI is now leading the search that will be "targeted based on intelligence," said North Port Police spokesperson Josh
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CHINA, CANADIANS, HUAWEI, COTTON
FILE PHOTO: Alibaba Group CEO Daniel Zhang (Zhang Yong) speaks at the World Internet Conference (WIC) in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province, China, November 23, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo FILE PHOTO: Alibaba Group CEO Daniel Zhang (Zhang Yong) speaks at the
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WORKERS, VACCINE, NEW, YORK
Tens of thousands of state health care workers could lose their jobs if they refuse to get a Covid shot by Monday. New York is a test case as President Biden pushes for all U.S. health workers to be fully vaccinated.
Image Governor Kathy Hochul of New York
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BIDEN, ZERO, DOLLARS, CLAIM
There’s a new tactic that the Democrats are pushing to help Joe Biden’s sputtering agenda get approved by Congress.
One of the huge problems with his plans is how expensive it is. Just the conservative numbers on the infrastructure bill and the budget reconciliation
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BIDEN, JOE, HUNTER, PRESIDENT
New e-mails on Hunter Biden make it obvious yet again that his career has always been about selling influence with his dad, now-President Joe Biden.
These e-mails don’t come from Hunter’s infamous laptop, yet most of the media will still ignore them in their
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Gas station pumps ran dry in British cities on Monday and vendors rationed sales as a shortage of truckers strained supply chains to breaking point.
A post-Brexit shortage of lorry drivers as the COVID-19 pandemic eases has sown chaos through British supply
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So, word on the street is U.S. Rep. Karen Bass is going to run for mayor of Los Angeles.
As my Times colleagues Dakota Smith and David Zahniser reported last week, three sources who asked to remain anonymous said she will join the increasingly crowded field
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TONY, AWARDS, INHERITANCE, ROUGE
Highlights From The Tony Awards
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Broadway's biggest stars paired lavish gowns with face masks for an extravagant and pandemic-altered Tony Awards.
The 74th Annual
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COVID, VIEW, HOSTS, FALSE
Hosts Of The View Say Their COVID Tests Were False Positives
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NEW YORK — The two co-hosts of "The View" whose COVID-19 tests derailed a planned interview with Vice President Kamala Harris
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2020, FBI, SPIKE, MURDERS
Police tape at a crime scene in Chicago, Ill., in 2017. (Joshua Lott/Reuters)
Murders soared 30 percent in the U.S. from 2019 to 2020 in the steepest single-year increase on record for the FBI.
More than 21,000 homicides were reported in 2020, reaching a
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BARBERS, TALIBAN, PROVINCE, BEARDS
It’s shear terror.
Things are getting hairy for barbers in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, where the Taliban police have banned them from shaving or trimming beards in violation of Islamic law, the BBC reports.
“No one has a right to complain,” reads a notice
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PACKERS, 49ERS, RODGERS, AARON
LeBron James gave a shout-out to Colin Kaepernick in the wake of the San Francisco 49ers’ loss to the Green Bay Packers on Sunday night.
James reacted to a tweet showing Kaepernick in his second year as quarterback in the NFL torching the Packers in the divisional
Continued at Fox News...