Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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BALDWIN, ALEC, SHOOTING, GUN
New details have emerged regarding the on-set incident in which Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun on the set of the movie "Rust" that resulted in the death of the film’s director of photography, Halyna Hutchins.
According to a search warrant obtained by the Los
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BIDEN, DEAL, SPENDING, JOE
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to reporters before departing for Newark, New Jersey from the Delaware Air National Guard Base, New Castle, Delaware, U.S., October 25, 2021.
WASHINGTON – As President Joe Biden prepares to depart on Thursday for a week of summits
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COVID, VACCINE, 19, MODERNA
FILE PHOTO: A private security guard checks the body temperature of a customer outside a Starbucks coffee shop, as a precaution against the spread of coronavirus, in New Delhi, India, March 17, 2020. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/File Photo FILE PHOTO: A private
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FACEBOOK, WHISTLEBLOWER, DOCUMENTS, HAUGEN
The day of the Jan. 6 insurrection, Facebook noticed a rise in social media posts calling for violence and incitement around the certification of the U.S. presidential election result and the storming of the Capitol.
How the social media giant prepared for
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SUDAN, COUP, MILITARY, OFFICIALS
Soldiers arrested most of the members of Sudan's cabinet on Monday in what the information ministry called a military coup, prompting opponents of the takeover to take to the streets, where there were reports of gunfire and injuries in clashes.
Prime Minister
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TRUMP, BIDEN, DONALD, POLL
In their first two months in the White House, President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were practically inseparable — Harris traveled with Biden to the Pentagon, sat in the Roosevelt Room when he met virtually with a foreign leader and delivered her
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VACCINE, IRVING, MANDATE, NYC
(CNN) Protesters gathered outside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, on Sunday in support of Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving's decision to remain unvaccinated against Covid-19 despite local regulations that prohibit unvaccinated players from participating
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MALL, SHOOTING, INJURED, BOISE
BOISE, Idaho — There has been a shooting at a shopping mall with reports of multiple injuries, police in Boise said Monday, and one person is in custody.
Police on Twitter said they are working their way through each business at the mall, but don’t have information
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PARENTS, GARLAND, SCHOOL, AG
It’s time for Attorney General Merrick Garland to retract his memo siccing the FBI onto moms and dads.
Now that the National School Boards Association has recanted the scurrilous letter which he admitted was the sole basis for his decision to treat parents
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UNION, AMAZON, WORKERS, FILE
Workers for the Philadelphia-area transit system have voted to authorize a strike next month if an agreement isn’t reached on a new contract.
The Transport Workers Union Local 234 said that a vote at a Sunday morning meeting in south Philadelphia approved
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BORDER, AGENTS, FACEBOOK, POSTS
After the investigation, 60 employees were found to have violated the agency’s code of conduct after posting offensive images and memes, including one questioning whether a photograph of a dead migrant father and child was staged and doctored, and obscene pictures
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IDENTIFIED, VICTIM, WAYNE, GACY
Another victim of serial killer John Wayne Gacy's has been identified using DNA
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CHICAGO — A North Carolina man who moved to Chicago was one of the victims
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COAST, BOMB, CYCLONE, WEST
In California, power lines tumbled and more than 100,000 homes and businesses were in the dark early Monday.
Long stretches of I-80 and other highways were shut down by flooding and mud flows.
Downtown Sacramento also set a 24-hour record with over 5 inches
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TESLA, SOFTWARE, ISSUES, DRIVING
FILE PHOTO: A row of Tesla Model S sedans are seen outside the company's headquarters in Palo Alto, California April 30, 2015. REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage/File Photo FILE PHOTO: A row of Tesla Model S sedans are seen outside the company's headquarters in Palo
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TRIAL, RALLY, CHARLOTTESVILLE, UNITE
Hate on trial in Virginia, four years after deadly extremist rally
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The 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., turned violent, left one counter-demonstrator
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FAUCI, GAIN, FUNCTION, PAUL
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has been on the warpath against the shadowy dealings surrounding the COVID-19 virus for months, especially the venerated Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergens and Infectious Diseases. Back in May, Paul
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FLORIDA, MASK, WEAR, SURGEON
Florida's top health official was asked to leave a meeting after refusing to wear a mask at the office of a state senator who had cancer.
Tina Polsky, a Florida senator, recently received a breast cancer diagnosis and asked state surgeon general Joseph Ladapo
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000, 100, HERTZ, VEHICLES
Rental car giant Hertz announced it was buying 100,000 Tesla electric vehicles that will be available to customers starting next month.
Tesla stock soared on news of the massive order, and its market cap hit the $1 trillion milestone during intraday trading
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DESANTIS, FLORIDA, COPS, GOV
Just as Florida’s COVID situation is improving after leading the nation in cases and deaths, GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis is now offering bonuses to anti-vax cops in other states to work in Florida and interact with the public.
“On a scientific basis, most of those
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