Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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BALDWIN, ALEC, SET, SHOOTING
(CNN) The goal of movies and TV series is to make scenes look realistic. When it comes to prop guns, they don't just look dangerous.
Such was the case in the death Thursday of Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie "Rust" in New Mexico. The 42-year-old director
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SCHOOL, PARENTS, LETTER, DOMESTIC
In the Congressional Oversight hearings this week, Attorney General Merrick Garland was asked about the infamous letter where he labeled parents who express opposition to a school board’s agenda as “domestic terrorists”.
As my colleague, Nick Arama reported:
Under
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MCAULIFFE, VIRGINIA, OBAMA, RACE
Months after calling on Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam to resign over a racist photo in his medical school yearbook, the commonwealth’s current Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Terry McAuliffe, dismissed it as “a dumb mistake 40 years ago” and tried
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BIDEN, POLL, APPROVAL, RATING
What’s dragging down President Biden’s approval rating?
Everyone.
And everything.
Mr. Biden’s approval ratings have declined on nearly every issue and among nearly every demographic group in national surveys over the last two months, as the promise of a
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ASTROS, WORLD, SERIES, RED
HOUSTON — Rookie Luis García showed the poise of an October ace, Yordan Alvarez stayed hot at the plate and the Houston Astros earned yet another trip to the World Series, beating the Boston Red Sox 5-0 Friday night in Game 6 of the AL Championship Series.
The
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ARABIA, ZERO, NET, EMISSIONS
Saudi Arabia pledges net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2060
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — One of the world's largest oil producers, Saudi Arabia, announced Saturday it aims to reach "net zero"
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VACCINE, COVID, KIDS, PFIZER
Parents should have the option to vaccinate their children when a vaccine becomes available. This is especially true for parents of kids with pre-existing medical conditions, including obesity.
As highlighted in a recent study from the Centers for Disease
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JFK, ASSASSINATION, BIDEN, RECORDS
The United States will delay the release of records connected to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and officials claimed the coronavirus pandemic is to blame.
The decision was announced in a memo signed by President Joe Biden and issued from the
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JAPAN, PRINCESS, BIRTHDAY, MAKO
FILE PHOTO: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida leaves a news conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo, Japan October 14, 2021. Eugene Hoshiko/Pool via REUTERS FILE PHOTO: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida leaves a news conference
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LEADER, AL, SYRIA, SENIOR
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military says it killed a senior Al-Qaeda leader in an airstrike Friday in northwest Syria.
Army Maj. John Rigsbee, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, said in a statement that Abdul Hamid al-Matar was killed by a drone strike.
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AMBASSADORS, ERDOGAN, 10, TURKEY
Turkey's Erdogan orders the removal of 10 ambassadors, including U.S. envoy
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ISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that he had ordered 10 foreign ambassadors who
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CAMPUS, UNIVERSITY, SHOOTING, HOUSING
One person is dead and seven others injured after a shooting at an off-campus party near a Georgia university.
The incident occurred early Saturday morning in Fort Valley, near Fort Valley State University, authorities said.
Several students suffered non-life-threatening
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MIGRANT, MEXICO, CARAVAN, PAST
Migrants take shelter in makeshift camp along the International Bridge in Del Rio, Texas, September 20, 2021. Picture taken with a drone. (Adrees Latif/Reuters)
Barely a month after over ten thousand Haitian migrants flooded Del Rio, Texas, overwhelming border
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ABORTION, TEXAS, HEAR, LAW
Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor decried the high court's refusal to block the Texas abortion law as "catastrophic."
The court on Friday promptly agreed to review Texas Senate Bill 8 in response to concerns from abortion providers and the Justice Department.
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Evidence-based explanations of the coronavirus crisis, from how it started to how it might end to how to protect yourself and others.
It may be time for your Covid-19 vaccine booster shot.
The Food and Drug Administration has now authorized additional doses
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TRIAL, MIGRANT, SALVINI, GERE
PALERMO, Italy (AP) — Italy’s right-wing former interior minister, Matteo Salvini, went on trial Saturday charged with kidnapping for refusing in 2019 to allow a Spanish migrant rescue ship to dock in Sicily, keeping the people onboard at sea for days.
It
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LAKERS, SUNS, LOSS, BENCH
Three Los Angeles Lakers were involved in two separate incidents at the Staples Center on Friday night during their 10-point loss to the Phoenix Suns in their second game of the 2021-22 regular season.
Anthony Davis, Dwight Howard and Rajon Rondo were all
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DEAL, 2T, BIDEN, HARRIS
A deal within reach, President Joe Biden and Congress’ top Democrats edged close to sealing their giant domestic legislation, though the informal deadline appeared to slip as they worked to scale back the measure and determine how to pay for it.
Negotiations
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FACEBOOK, STEAL, INSURRECTION, STOP
(CNN Business) Just days after insurrectionists stormed the Capitol on January 6th, Facebook's Chief Operational Officer Sheryl Sandberg downplayed her company's role in what had happened.
"We know this was organized online. We know that," she said in an interview
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LA, PALMA, VOLCANO, SPAIN
Aerial footage shows lava flows from La Palma volcano Lava from the volcano on Spain's La Palma island had spread across about 3.3 square miles as of Oct. 21, the Copernicus Emergency Management Service reported.
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COLORADO, WALL, YEARS, DAY
Faith was only licensed to care for up to six children at her Colorado Springs private day care and only two of them were allowed to be under the age of 2. Her lawyer argued that she did not have malicious intentions, only that she found it difficult to say
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