Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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SCHOOL, THREATS, BOARD, GARLAND
(CNN) A new lawsuit alleges faculty at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts perpetrated sexual abuse on minor students over the course of two decades, in the 1970s and 1980s.
Former students who brought the lawsuit allege that during that time
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COVID, VACCINE, 19, BOOSTER
Here’s even more definitive evidence that vaccines save lives.
A new study of more than 3.4 million Pfizer jab recipients has confirmed that vaccination is 90% effective against severe COVID-19 illness for at least six months after the second dose.
It’s the
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SPILL, OIL, CALIFORNIA, PIPELINE
Cleanup crews and environmental authorities are racing to contain the devastation linked to a large oil spill off the Southern California coastline as new concerns emerge over how the leak was handled in the critical hours after oil started spewing from a damaged
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CHINA, TAIWAN, JAPAN, MINISTER
FILE PHOTO: A Japan Coast Guard boat (front) and vessel sail as Uotsuri island, one of the disputed islands, called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, is pictured in the background, in the East China Sea August 18, 2013. REUTERS/Ruairidh Villar FILE PHOTO:
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BIDEN, SPENDING, BILL, JOE
The White House continued stonewalling Monday in response to questions about President Joe Biden’s son Hunter’s ten percent stake in a Chinese firm.
“I’d point you to his representatives on that, he doesn’t work in the administration,” White House press secretary
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BRIAN, LAUNDRIE, PETITO, GABBY
The family of Brian Laundrie has released a statement from a lawyer on why he returned to Florida without fiancee Gabby Petito, who was later found killed in Wyoming.
Steven P. Bertolino, the Laundrie family’s Long Island lawyer, released a statement Tuesday
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TRUMP, FORBES, 400, DONALD
I did, however, underestimate the mob. “America’s streets belong to the anti-Trump left,” I wrote, which was true for much of 2020 but not on Jan. 6, 2021. And that underestimation was part of a larger one: I didn’t quite grasp until after the election how
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SINEMA, KYRSTEN, FLIGHT, BATHROOM
These virtue-signaling leftists just can’t get enough of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ). Just one day after they harassed the lawmaker in a public restroom at Arizona State University (ASU) where she is a lecturer, they showed up at the airport from which she was
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REPORT, FRENCH, 000, ABUSE
French clergy have sexually abused more than 200,000 children over the past 70 years, a major investigation released on Tuesday found, and its authors accused the Catholic Church of turning a blind eye for too long.
The church had shown "deep, total and even
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BORDER, BIDEN, PATROL, TEXAS
Biden promised to halt building Trump's border wall — but new construction has begun Critics in Texas say President Biden is going against his promise to halt construction of the Trump border wall.
National Biden promised to halt building Trump's border wall
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SPACE, CREW, FILM, RUSSIAN
A Russian actor and a film director have rocketed to space on a mission to make the world’s first movie in orbit
MOSCOW -- A Russian actor and a film director rocketed to space Tuesday on a mission to make the world’s first movie in orbit.
Actor Yulia Peresild
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NIH, COLLINS, FRANCIS, DIRECTOR
NIH director Francis Collins is stepping down after 12 years
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Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, the largest funder of basic and clinical
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TEXAS, GEORGE, FLOYD, PARDON
In 2004, George Floyd was one of scores of people arrested on the word of a Houston narcotics officer, Gerald M. Goines, who said he had watched Mr. Floyd hand over a “dime rock” of crack cocaine during an undercover drug buy.
But after a botched drug raid
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NASSAR, AGENTS, CASE, DECISION
A top Justice Department official told lawmakers Tuesday that the attorney general is reviewing the controversial decision not to prosecute FBI agents accused of botching and lying about the explosive case involving the sexual abuse of the U.S. gymnastics team.
Deputy
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SUPREME, SUSPICIOUS, COURT, CAPITOL
U.S. Capitol Police vehicles block a street as investigates a suspicious vehicle (C) in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., October 5, 2021.
U.S. Capitol Police said Tuesday they extracted a man from an SUV parked in front of the Supreme Court
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PENCE, TRUMP, MIKE, JAN
Former Vice President Mike Pence said Monday that he has a “strong relationship” with former President Donald Trump and added that the two had sat down and “talked through” their differences in the days after the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the US Capitol.
“Look,
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TENNIS, RADUCANU, TEAM, FINALS
FILE PHOTO-Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Tennis - Women's Singles - Round 1 - Ariake Tennis Park - Tokyo, Japan - July 25, 2021. Caroline Garcia of France in action during her first round match against Donna Vekic of Croatia REUTERS/Piroschka Van De Wouw FILE PHOTO-Tokyo
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TESLA, MILLION, FORMER, EMPLOYEE
New York (CNN Business) A former worker at Tesla's Fremont, California, factory was subjected to a racially hostile workplace, according to a federal jury, which awarded him $136.9 million in damages Monday.
Owen Diaz, the plaintiff in the case, reported he
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RAIDS, UNION, FBI, SERGEANTS
via Associated Press Sgt. Ed Mullins, the head of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, center, speaks to the media in 2017.
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal agents raided the offices Tuesday of a New York City police union, the Sergeants Benevolent Association, and
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PILCHER, BRIDGERTON, MARC, EMMY
Stars of Netflix’s “Bridgerton” paid tribute to the hit show’s Emmy Award-winning hair and makeup designer Marc Pilcher, who died Sunday at the age of 53 after contracting COVID-19.
Pilcher, who last month was awarded a Creative Emmy for his hairstyling on
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