Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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TRUMP, JAN, COURT, RELEASE
(CNN) Stripped of the executive power that once let him evade accountability, former president Donald Trump appears to be losing his fight to keep his secrets from the American people. It's a remarkable development for a man long recognized for his powerful
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DAY, VETERANS, SERVED, HONORS
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CLIMATE, CHINA, CHANGE, DEAL
On Wednesday the world’s two largest greenhouse gas emitters sounded more like allies in the fight against climate change than fierce rivals, with both Mr. Xie and Mr. Kerry saying both nations were responsible for keeping rising global temperatures from reaching
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TESLA, MUSK, SHARES, SELLS
Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk disclosed in a filing on Wednesday that he had sold shares of the electric-car maker.
As reported by CNBC, the billionaire's sales amount to more than 930,000 shares worth over $1.1 billion. He still holds in excess of 170 million
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XI, CHINA, JINPING, COMMUNIST
China's Communist Party, with eye on history, gives Xi Jinping the same status as Mao
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BEIJING — Leaders of China's ruling Communist Party on Thursday set the stage for President Xi Jinping to extend
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BELARUS, POLAND, CRISIS, MIGRANT
A volunteer sorts clothes for migrants at a centre for migrants in a fire station during migrant crisis on Belarusian - Polish border, in Michalowo, Poland, November 11, 2021. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel A volunteer sorts clothes for migrants at a centre for migrants
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TEXAS, JUDGE, BAN, MASK
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott suffered a setback Wednesday in his fight against school mask mandates as a federal judge overturned his executive order banning the requirements.
Austin US District Judge Lee Yeakel ruled that Abbott’s order violated the
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DE, KLERK, SOUTH, AFRICA
JOHANNESBURG -- F.W. de Klerk, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela and as South Africa’s last apartheid president oversaw the end of the country’s white minority rule, has died at the age of 85.
De Klerk died after a battle against cancer
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ARBERY, AHMAUD, KILLING, PASTORS
BRUNSWICK, Ga. — A tense discussion broke out Thursday during the murder trial of three white men charged in Ahmaud Arbery's killing when a defense attorney said the presence of "high-profile members of the African American community" may pressure or intimidate
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BIDEN, OFFERS, JOE, INFLATION
Joe Biden was delivering remarks today for Veterans Day at Arlington National Cemetery.
He spoke a lot about his son Beau Biden who was a veteran, though he did not die in war, but of cancer.
But then he got into trouble and created a big stir when he referred
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RUST, CREW, MEMBER, SHOOTING
LOS ANGELES — The head of lighting on the film “Rust” filed a lawsuit Wednesday over Alec Baldwin‘s fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the New Mexico set of the Western, alleging negligence that caused him “severe emotional distress” that
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BILL, CHAMBER, COMMERCE, BIDEN
A total of 32 House and Senate Republicans helped push President Joe Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure package over the finish line, most of whom have been showered with campaign cash from the leading lobbying group behind the bill — the United States Chamber
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BILL, INFLATION, MANCHIN, BIDEN
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain argued that inflation concerns “make the strongest possible case” for the Build Back Better reconciliation bill that “doesn’t put any more money into the economy on net.”
Klain
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BLOODSHED, MATTER, LIVES, BLACK
“If he thinks that they’re going to go back to the old ways of policing, then we are going to take to the streets again. There will be riots, there will be fire and there will be bloodshed because we believe in defending our people,” said Hawk Newsome, co-founder
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LOCKDOWN, RECORD, UNVACCINATED, NEW
BERLIN (AP) – Austria’s chancellor on Thursday stepped up threats of lockdown measures for unvaccinated people, as new coronavirus cases in the Alpine country are soaring.
Austria has taken a series of measures in recent weeks in an effort to curb the spread
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CHINA, PROPERTY, BEIJING, GUANGZHOU
FILE PHOTO: A man walks on a scaffolding at the construction site of the Beijing Xishan Palace apartment complex developed by Kaisa Group Holdings Ltd in Beijing, China, November 5, 2021. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo FILE PHOTO: A man walks on a scaffolding
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POLL, DEMOCRATS, REPUBLICANS, DEBATE
Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC) described President Joe Biden as a “puppet” on Wednesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily while observing the president’s visibly impaired cognition.
Murphy, a physician specializing in urology, stated, “I don’t know that
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MEMO, LETTER, ENGAGED, DOMESTIC
A national parents’ organization has named 26 state associations that have distanced themselves from the National School Boards Association (NSBA) since its top officials wrote to President Joe Biden requesting he use federal law enforcement to target parents
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GI, VETERANS, BILL, LEGISLATION
World War II veteran Lawrence Brooks holds a photo of him taken in 1943, as he celebrates his 110th birthday at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, on Sept. 12, 2019. For Veterans Day, a group of Democratic lawmakers is reviving an effort to pay
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