Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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SHOOTING, 14, VIDEO, YEAR
LOS ANGELES — A woman clutched at her bloodied face in an aisle splotched with red as she scrambled away from a man who had been pummeling her with a bike lock. A frightened employee at the Burlington clothing store told Los Angeles police officers that a man
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DENVER, AREA, SPREE, SHOOTING
DENVER — Alfredo Cardenas went to his daughter's tattoo shop Tuesday morning and lit a candle to remember her life. Alicia Cardenas, 44, was among the four people killed Monday night after a suspect opened fire in several locations in the Denver area.
"It’s
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COVID, 19, TEXAS, ANTIBODY
Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., said he has tested positive for COVID-19, but is experiencing no symptoms.
Rush made the announcement in a Monday tweet.
He wrote: "Today, after being notified of a recent exposure, I tested positive with a breakthrough case of COVID-19.
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NEW, COVID, CASES, YORK
New York (CNN Business) Apple has closed all of its New York store locations to browsing because of a surge in Covid-19 cases. The roughly one dozen locations in the city will be limited to picking up online orders.
"We regularly monitor conditions and we
Continued at CNN...
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CAPSULE, TIME, LEE, STATUE
Historians believe a box recovered during the removal of the pedestal for a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond on Monday is a long-sought time capsule, according to Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam.
Mr. Northam said the box will be opened Tuesday
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NEW, YEAR, EVE, HOLIDAY
A New York painter who suffered from a rare facial deformity has gotten a new nose for Christmas thanks to the generosity of a plastic surgeon who operated on him free of charge.
Conrado Estrada, 57, who is originally from Guatemala, had a large, disfigured
Continued at Fox News...
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ISOLATION, CDC, COVID, SHORTEN
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just dropped adjusted quarantine guidelines for COVID-19 and vaccinated individuals. This is after an outcry from the airline industry that the guidelines and the surge in Omicron variant cases were causing
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CUOMO, CHARGES, ALLEGATIONS, GOV
Former Gov. Cuomo won't face charges from allegations of unwanted kissing by 2 women
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A county prosecutor said Tuesday that former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo won't face
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CASES, COVID, 19, REPORTS
The U.S. on Monday reported more than half a million new COVID-19 cases – vastly worse than any other single day of the entire pandemic.
Monday's tally of more than 500,000 new cases was higher than the nation's previous record of more than 303,000, a USA
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RUSSIA, UKRAINE, TALKS, SECURITY
American and Russian diplomats have set a date for discussion of Moscow’s demand for “security guarantees” against NATO expansion amid rising tensions over troop buildup near the Ukrainian border, according to a new report.
According to Reuters, the bilateral
Continued at New York Post...
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RIGHTS, GROUP, HUMAN, ORDERS
The move is widely viewed as a watershed moment in Putin's crackdown on dissent.
MOSCOW -- In what has been described as a watershed moment for President Vladimir Putin's crackdown on dissent, Russia's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the closure of Memorial
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RUN, HIT, FLORIDA, KILLED
(CNN) Two children were killed and four others were hospitalized Monday afternoon after a hit-and-run crash in Broward County, authorities in South Florida said.
The ages of the children hospitalized range from 1 to 10, Stephen Gollan, battalion chief at Fort
Continued at CNN...
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CLIMATE, GRETA, BIDEN, THUNBERG
Who would have thought that I’d ever agree with anything Greta Thunberg has to say? Yet, here we are, with the climate cult leader slamming Joe Biden for not being a leader, something every person on the right has long believed is correct. Of course, the details
Continued at Red State...
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MAXWELL, JUDGE, COVID, TRIAL
The judge presiding over the sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell cited an “astronomical spike” in the number of coronavirus cases in New York City before telling jurors when she sent them home Tuesday that they were expected to work toward a verdict
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HOME, PRICES, OCTOBER, SURGE
U.S. home prices went through the roof in 2021 Home prices have been on a tear during the pandemic. A new report out Tuesday shows home prices nationally are up 19% in a single year.
National U.S. home prices went through the roof in 2021 U.S. home prices
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BORDER, OFFICIAL, TERRORIST, POTENTIAL
El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a lost migrant in the Jacumba Wilderness near the California border with Mexico. The rescue occurred shortly before the Christmas holiday weekend after local dispatchers received a distress call from the lost Salvadoran.
Agents
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OMICRON, DELTA, VARIANT, STATE
Becoming infected with the Omicron variant of COVID-19 could boost immunity against the earlier Delta strain, according to a new study from South Africa.
In the small study, scientists at the Africa Health Research Institute in Durban found that people who
Continued at New York Post...
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RIOT, DISCRIMINATION, GENDER, 100
Riot Games, the video game maker behind popular titles like League of Legends and Valorant, said on Monday evening that it had agreed to pay $100 million to settle a gender discrimination suit with more than 2,000 current and former female employees.
The class-action
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CANCELED, FLIGHTS, RESURGES, DELAYED
New York (CNN Business) Thousands of flights have been canceled over the past several days as Covid cases surge across the globe.
On Tuesday, another 2,200 flights have been canceled, with nearly 700 of them within, into or out of the United States, according
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DEAL, IRAN, NUCLEAR, OPPOSED
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Tuesday he is not opposed to a "good" nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, but voiced skepticism that such an outcome would emerge from the current negotiations.
Bennett spoke a day after negotiators from
Continued at Fox News...