Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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FAUCI, CDC, COVID, TESTING
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering amending its new, five-day isolation guidance for asymptomatic patients to include testing, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday.
Last week, the CDC cut in half the amount of time it recommends asymptomatic
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SOUTH, PARLIAMENT, FIRE, AFRICA
A major fire ripped through South Africa's Parliament complex on Sunday, gutting offices and causing some ceilings in the building that houses the national legislature to collapse.
As firefighters struggled to tame the blaze, a dark plume of smoke and flames
Continued at Fox News...
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NEW, COVID, YEAR, FRANCE
Paris (CNN) The Omicron variant's rapid spread across France has prompted the government to slash Covid-19 isolation times for vaccinated people and move to further isolate the unvaccinated from public venues in a bid to ease the financial and social burdens
Continued at CNN...
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MAYOR, ADAMS, ERIC, NYC
“Live each day like it’s your last” is not normally wise advice. But on his first weekday in City Hall, Mayor Eric Adams would be wise to review former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s final week in office. No matter how long a mayoral tenure lasts, your last week always
Continued at New York Post...
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TRUMP, POLL, JAN, REPUBLICANS
Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wy., the top Republican on the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, said former President Donald Trump is "clearly unfit for future office [and] clearly can never be anywhere near the Oval Office ever
Continued at ABC...
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MISSING, COLORADO, WILDFIRE, CAUSE
Investigators are still trying to determine what sparked a massive fire in a suburban area near Denver that burned neighborhoods to the ground and destroyed nearly 1,000 homes and other buildings.
Three people are missing following the inferno that broke out
Continued at Newsmax...
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SOUTH, NORTH, BORDER, KOREA
The South’s military said it was still trying to determine who the border-crosser was — whether a South Korean citizen, a North Korean spy or unhappy defector going home, or some other possibility. No South Korean soldiers were missing from their units along
Continued at New York Times...
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ANTONIO, BROWN, JETS, BUCS
The New York Jets suffered a heartbreaking loss against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday after veteran quarterback Tom Brady led a 93-yard drive in the final minutes of the game for a 28-24 victory.
The Jets took the lead early on with a pair of touchdowns
Continued at Fox News...
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KONG, HONG, DISSENT, OUTLET
Stand News acting chief editor Patrick Lam is escorted by police after they searched his office in Hong Kong, China, December 29, 2021. (Tyrone Siu/Reuters)
CitizenNews, a crowd-funded website established in 2017 by Hong Kong journalists, announced on Sunday
Continued at National Review...
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OFFICER, SHOT, NYPD, HEAD
New York City Mayor and NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell had just minutes before they have had to respond to an officer being shot in the city on New Year's Day.
An off-duty NYPD officer is in stable condition after being shot in the head while sleeping in
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(CNN) Officials have rescued 21 people who were trapped on the Sandia Peak Tramway in Albuquerque, New Mexico for more than 12 hours during icy conditions Friday night.
The Bernalillo County Fire Department received a call around 2 a.m. to assist in search
Continued at CNN...
Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona stressed the need to keep schools open for in-person learning despite a surge in coronavirus cases brought on in significant part by the omicron variant.
Cardona's words during an interview with "Fox News Sunday," came
Continued at Fox News...
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YEAR, MALFUNCTION, EVE, WARDROBE
“That resilience shouldn’t end here. Let’s bring that into the New Year with us,” she told the crowd of vaccinated fans at the end of the show. “We’ve all learned how to expect the unexpected, and rather than see it as a problem, let’s see it as an opportunity.
Continued at Huffington Post...
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BRINGS, POWER, KENTUCKY, STORM
Kentucky storm brings flooding, damage and power outages
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HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear declared a state of emergency on Saturday as powerful storms
Continued at NPR...
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SUDAN, ANNOUNCES, PRIME, MINISTER
NAIROBI, Kenya — Sudan’s prime minister, who was ousted in a military coup but reinstated over a month ago, resigned from office on Sunday, in the latest upheaval to disrupt the country’s shaky transition to democracy from dictatorship.
The decision by Prime
Continued at New York Times...
A large European Union flag attached to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on Friday to mark the start of France's six-month presidency of the bloc was removed on Sunday after it drew outrage from far-right and right-wing leaders.
Junior European Affairs Minister
Continued at Newsmax...
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HEAD, COVID, VACCINE, MANDATE
A Louisiana federal judge has ruled that President Joe Biden cannot require teachers in the Head Start early education program to be vaccinated against COVID-19
MONROE, La. -- President Joe Biden cannot require teachers in the Head Start early education program
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Police in Florida are searching for two people who burned a part of Key West’s famous Southernmost Point buoy early New Year’s Day after setting a fire near the tourist attraction
KEY WEST, Fla. -- Police in Florida are searching for two people who burned
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POWERBALL, MILLION, 522, JACKPOT
Powerball has yet to find its jackpot winner of 2022, making the next drawing worth $522 million.
Jackpot hopefuls fell short of the $500 million prize for the 37th consecutive drawing on Saturday.
The winning numbers were 6, 12, 39, 48, 50 and 7. Four winning
Continued at New York Post...
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BETTY, WHITE, ROLE, DEATH
The U.S. Army is among the number of organizations and public figures to offer up tributes to the late Betty White following her passing.
The television icon's death was confirmed Friday at age 99, just 18 days shy of her 100th birthday.
Since the news of
Continued at Fox News...