Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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FIRE, BRONX, APARTMENT, 19
Doctors worked Monday to save the lives of several people gravely injured when smoke from a fire knocked them out or trapped them in their apartments in a New York City high-rise building. Nineteen people, including nine children, died in the blaze.
Dozens
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DJOKOVIC, AUSTRALIAN, VISA, NOVAK
Djokovic was detained upon arrival for the Australian Open, beginning Jan. 17.
The Australian government has overturned a decision to cancel Novak Djokovic's visa, saying the Serbian tennis star will be released immediately from immigration detention.
Djokovic
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RUSSIA, UKRAINE, TALKS, TENSIONS
American and Russian diplomats kicked off negotiations in Geneva on Monday against the backdrop of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s massive buildup of troops and military equipment along Ukraine’s border and heightened tensions between the Washington and
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PILOT, TRAIN, PLANE, CRASHED
Pilot hospitalized after Los Angeles plane crash
A small plane crashed on railroad tracks just outside a suburban Los Angeles airfield on Sunday. Officers pulled out the pilot just before a commuter train hit the plane. The pilot was hospitalized. (Jan 10
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JORDAN, JAN, JIM, PANEL
The House select committee investigating last year’s Capitol riot warned Rep. Jim Jordan over his refusal to participate in the panel’s Jan. 6 probe.
A spokesman for the committee accused the Ohio Republican of retreating from his initial stated intent of
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COVID, POSITIVE, TESTS, 19
New York (CNN Business) Savannah Guthrie, host of NBC's morning show 'Today,' announced Monday that she has Covid-19 — just a few days after her co-anchor Hoda Kotb announced she was positive for the virus.
Kotb, meanwhile, returned to Studio 1A this week
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ROBERT, DURST, CONVICTED, DIES
For all the garish headlines that attended his wife’s disappearance and the gruesome killing of Mr. Black, it was the slaying of Ms. Berman that finally wrote an end to one of America’s longest running true-life crime thrillers, the case of a wealthy man who
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CHICAGO, TEACHERS, UNION, DAY
The leader of the Chicago Teachers Union on Monday blamed the city’s mayor for the continued standoff over COVID-19 protocols as classes for hundreds of thousands of students were canceled for a fourth day.
CTU President Jesse Sharkey said union and district
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GOLDEN, WINNERS, GLOBES, LIST
Now that it is officially a Hollywood pariah, the Golden Globes had little choice but to announce its winners via social media during its non-televised ceremony on Sunday. But even that seemingly simple task went wrong as the group’s Twitter feed became a string
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VOTE, CITY, NONCITIZENS, LAW
More than 800,000 will soon be eligible to cast ballots in municipal elections in New York City.
NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE D espite misgivings, New York City’s new mayor, Eric Adams, has rolled over for the city council and allowed more than 800,000 noncitizen
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KAZAKHSTAN, UNREST, 000, DETAINED
Authorities in Kazakhstan say nearly 8,000 people were detained by police during protests that descended into violence last week and marked the worst unrest the former Soviet nation has faced since gaining independence 30 years ago
MOSCOW -- The authorities
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CLAY, AIKEN, CONGRESS, ANNOUNCES
Former "American Idol" runner-up Clay Aiken is making a second bid for Congress in his home state of North Carolina.
Aiken will run as a Democrat in the 6th Congressional District after previously making an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. House of Representatives
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POLL, TOP, INFLATION, PRIORITIES
Most economists and analysts saw the jobs report for December as a disappointment – but not Joe Biden.
Instead, shortly after the announcement he rushed to the cameras and took a victory lap on the economy.
Biden boasted that no president in recent times
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RAIDERS, CHARGERS, TIE, BRANDON
The San Francisco 49ers clinched a playoff spot with a 27-24 overtime victory over the NFC West champion Los Angeles Rams on Sunday thanks to Robbie Gould's 24-yard field goal with 2:45 left in overtime and a game-ending interception by Ambry Thomas.
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TRUMP, ELECTION, ROUNDS, MIKE
Former President Donald Trump has blasted Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., as "woke" and has added him to Trump's "RINO" list.
"'Senator' Mike Rounds of the Great State of South Dakota just went woke on the fraudulent presidential Election of 2020," Trump wrote in
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MCCARTHY, GOP, EXCLUSIVE, COMMITTEES
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., says he would block Reps. Ilhan Omar, Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell and other Democratic lawmakers from serving on committees should Republicans win the House in the midterm elections.
"The Democrats have created
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CHINA, CITY, BEIJING, OMICRON
Chinese Communist Party authorities forbade all of Tianjin’s 15 million residents from leaving the city Sunday in an effort to contain the municipality’s recent Chinese coronavirus epidemic, which threatens to affect neighboring Beijing just 25 days before
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FOX, JESSE, WATTERS, NEWS
Congratulations to Jesse Watters on his permanent Primetime hosting gig. When Fox News’ Primetime premiered on January 18, 2021, it offered a lead-in to the opinion segment of Fox News, with a hybrid of news with different perspectives. The rotating host format
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COVID, LONGEST, WORLD, UGANDA
Uganda's schools reopened to students on Monday, ending the world's longest school disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The reopening caused traffic congestion in some areas of the capital, Kampala, and students can be seen carrying their mattresses in
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ALABAMA, GEORGIA, CHAMPIONSHIP, NATIONAL
(CNN) No. 1 Alabama and No. 3 Georgia will go at it again Monday night in the College Football Playoff National Championship game.
The rematch pits the Crimson Tide against Georgia for the second time in little over a month, after Alabama handed the Bulldogs
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BOY, DEATH, YEAR, MOTHER
A suspected Chicago carjacker stole a vehicle over the weekend with a 1-year-old boy and a teenager inside, police said.
Omar Soto, 28, now faces one felony count each of aggravated vehicular hijacking and aggravated kidnapping in connection with the Saturday
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