Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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ROGAN, JOE, APOLOGIZES, RACIAL
NEW YORK (AP) — Spotify’s popular U.S. podcaster Joe Rogan apologized Saturday after a video compilation surfaced that showed him using a racial slur in clips of episodes over a 12-year span.
In a video posted on his Instagram account, Rogan, who hosts a podcast
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QUEEN, ELIZABETH, CAMILLA, PLATINUM
London (CNN) Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has used the historic milestone of her Platinum Jubilee to redefine the future of the monarchy, calling for the Duchess of Cornwall to be known as Queen Camilla when Charles becomes King.
When Charles married Camilla
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BOY, TRAPPED, YEAR, RESCUERS
A Moroccan boy stuck deep in a well for several days has been successfully pulled out but did not survive.
The five-year-old boy who had been stuck in the well for four days was pulled from the well in a northern village of Ighran in Morocco's Chefchaouen
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TRUMP, PENCE, ELECTION, DONALD
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) spoke to former President Donald Trump for 10 minutes the morning of the Capitol riot last January, according to a new report from CNN citing records obtained by investigators in the House.
Jordan has acknowledged that he spoke to
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UKRAINE, RUSSIA, 70, MILITARY
Russia on Saturday sent a pair of long-range nuclear-capable bombers on patrol over its ally Belarus amid spiraling tensions over Ukraine.
The Russian Defense Ministry said the two Tu-22M3 bombers practiced interaction with the Belarusian air force and air
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LOCKE, POLICE, AMIR, KILLING
Three days after Minneapolis police executing a no-knock warrant fatally shot Amir Locke, protests are expected to continue in the city as community members demand accountability for the death of a man remembered by family as a "bright light."
Car horns blared
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GOFUNDME, DONATIONS, TRUCKER, 10M
As we previously wrote, the Freedom Convoy truckers in Canada had raised a tremendous amount of money for their support through GoFundMe. GoFundMe first paused the account to review it, then declared they weren’t going to give the truckers the money because
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PELOSI, ATHLETES, WARNING, CHINA
Joy Behar told her co-hosts Friday on ABC’s “The View” that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was right for warning U.S. athletes not to speak out against China’s human rights abuses during the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
Thursday, Pelosi said, “I would
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There is a lengthy history of Hell Week-related deaths, with the most recent occurring in 2016. James Derek Lovelace died during an exercise where SEAL candidates were treading water in full gear in a giant pool. Lovelace’s instructor pushed him underwater
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WINTER, OLYMPICS, NEEDED, BEIJING
The Beijing Winter Games that opened on Friday are officially the XXIV Winter Olympics. They could have been the XXVI Winter Games — that’s the 26th for those of us who have forgotten our grade-school Roman numeral lessons — save for a historical interruption:
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HOUSE, WAFFLE, SHOOTER, PAROLE
Jurors refused to make parole possible after 51 years in prison for the man who shot and killed four people at a Nashville Waffle House in 2018
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Jurors refused to make parole possible after 51 years in prison for the man who shot and killed
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BEIJING, GOLD, OLYMPICS, 1ST
Image China won a new mixed-gender relay event in short-track speedskating. Credit... James Hill for The New York Times
With a flash of a skate, China won its first medal of the Beijing Winter Olympics on Saturday, which was also the first gold medal in a
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As the 2022 Winter Olympic Games — Genocide Games — continue in Communist China, NBC is refusing to run an ad critical of the totalitarian country and its human-rights abuses, even as Beijing continues its heavy-handed crackdown on announcers and TV crews broadcasting
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The best way to understand a controversial new resolution from the Republican National Committee censuring Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger is not, as some people have suggested, to legitimate the January 6 attack on the Capitol, but as something
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SANCTIONS, DEAL, IRAN, BIDEN
The Biden administration has waived sanctions related to Iran’s civilian nuclear activities as part of its efforts to bring the regime back into compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal – while stressing that the waivers did not equal sanctions relief for Tehran.
Secretary
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ESPN, VOTING, RIGHTS, GENOCIDE
ESPN logo and building are shown in down town Los Angeles, California (Mike Blake/Reuters)
ESPN featured a sports pundit Friday who said it’s hypocritical for Americans to be preoccupied with China’s egregious human rights violations in the context of the
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DIVERSITY, BRIAN, FLORES, NFL
(CNN) NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said the league will review its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, calling the lack of Black head coaches "unacceptable," in a leaguewide memo sent to club executives and presidents on Saturday.
The commissioner's
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PASSENGERS, UNRULY, DELTA, LIST
NEW YORK (AP) — Delta Air Lines has requested that the U.S. Department of Justice put any person convicted of a disruption on board a flight to the national “no fly” list.
In a letter to the Justice Department Attorney General Merrick Garland dated Thursday,
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DEAD, ATLANTIC, INQUIRY, FISH
(CNN) A spill of more than 100,000 dead fish in the Atlantic Ocean off the French coast has been described by the French Maritime Minister as "shocking" in an incident that has drawn the attention of environmental activist groups.
The French arm of Sea Shepherd
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POLAND, TROOPS, RUSSIA, ARRIVE
Newly deployed U.S. troops arrive in Europe as Russia bolsters its own forces
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The first of 2,000 U.S. soldiers newly deployed to Europe have arrived in
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WHOOPI, BILL, MAHER, GOLDBERG
Billionaire Ronald Lauder is warning against a “rising tide of Jew hatred,” ripping Whoopi Goldberg along with the Tennessee School District which banned the Pulitzer Prize winning Holocaust book Maus — and offering to send them all free copies.
“These latest
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