Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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POLICE, OFFICER, HELICOPTER, CRASH
One of the things that has been ironic about the police action against the Freedom Convoy in the city of Ottawa has been that the government’s complaint that people were blocked from going about their daily business in the city. While areas of the city might
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DAYTONA, 500, FOX, NASCAR
Austin Cindric drove his brand new NASCAR ride to victory in the Daytona 500 to celebrate team owner Roger Penske's 85th birthday.
Cindric drove a masterful race at Daytona International Speedway and the Ford drivers synched their strategy all week, then executed
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BERNIE, DEAD, MADOFF, SISTER
The sister of the late fraudster Bernie Madoff and her husband have been found dead in Florida in a suspected murder-suicide, according to a report.
The bodies of Sondra Wiener, 86, and her husband Marvin, 89, were discovered in their home Thursday in Valencia
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OLYMPICS, MEDAL, 2022, WINTER
30 hours after food poisoning, Jessie Diggins wins silver in 30-km cross-country race
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Jessie Diggins made history on multiple fronts Sunday when she took the silver in the women's
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MICHIGAN, WISCONSIN, COACH, HOWARD
Michigan basketball coach Juwan Howard threw a punch during post-game handshakes with the Wisconsin Badgers, sparking a massive brawl with the two teams.
Apparently angry about a late timeout called by the Badgers, Howard paused to have words with Badgers
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FRANCISCO, SAN, MAYOR, SCHOOL
San Francisco Mayor London Breed speaks during the California Democratic Convention in San Francisco, Calif., June 1, 2019. (Stephen Lam/Reuters)
Responding to the recall of three progressive members from her city’s school board, San Francisco mayor London
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DEAL, IRAN, ISRAELI, PM
An Iranian news outlet says lawmakers have urged President Ebrahim Raisi to obtain guarantees from the U.S. and three European countries that they won’t withdraw from the nuclear agreement being renegotiated in Vienna
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iranian lawmakers have
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CNN, MESS, CUOMO, LEGAL
Whether disingenuous or completely honest, the reality is the Jeff Zucker saga that saw his love interest Allison Gollust resign this week is a "legal mess for CNN," according to CNN's own media analyst Brian Stelter.
"Why is this all not being shared? Maybe
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SCHOOL, STUDENT, HIGH, GRAFFITI
(CNN) An elementary school student in South Carolina brought a loaded handgun to his school because he wanted to "shoot zombies," Detective J.C. Brewington from the Laurens Police Department said in a news conference on Friday.
A staff member of the elementary
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GREECE, FERRY, MISSING, ALIVE
ATHENS — Rescuers said on Sunday that at least one person had been found dead on a ferry that caught fire off the Greek island of Corfu on Friday, the first person known to have been killed in the blaze, though 10 others remain missing.
Hundreds have already
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REACH, SIGHT, INSANE, END
Krystal Guerra, 32, poses for a picture outside her apartment, which she has to leave after her new landlord gave her less than a month's notice that her rent would go up by 26%. via Associated Press
Krystal Guerra’s Miami apartment has a tiny kitchen, cracked
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HEALTH, WORKERS, CARE, POPE
Pope Francis on Sunday hailed health care workers as heroes for their service every day, not just during the pandemic, asking the public in St. Peter's Square to join with him in public applause.
Francis clapped his hands in what he said was a “great thank
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ADMINISTRATION, BIDEN, LEGAL, NEW
The Biden administration announced Saturday that it will either suspend or delay new federal oil and gas leasing, weeks after Judge James Cain of the Western District of Louisiana blocked the administration’s method of calculating the social costs associated
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BIDEN, CRUZ, WOMAN, TED
President Joe Biden’s determination to nominate a Black woman as the next justice on the Supreme Court of the United States proves Democrats “believe in racial discrimination,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, argued Sunday.
In an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” Cruz
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AHEAD, BIDEN, FENCE, STATE
Fencing will be reinstalled around the Capitol’s grounds as part of ramped-up security ahead of President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, given the potential threat of a truck-convoy protest similar to those in Canada, a new report says.
The fencing
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BIEBER, COVID, POSITIVE, JUSTIN
Justin Bieber’s Las Vegas show Sunday was postponed pop star tested positive for COVID-19.
According to People, the concert, which would have been the second of Bieber’s Justice World Tour, was rescheduled following a COVID-19 outbreak within Bieber’s team.
The
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PRESIDENTS, DAY, QUESTION, 2022
This Monday (Feb. 21) is Presidents Day, which is a federal holiday and means some businesses and offices will be closed.
Presidents Day, first observed in 1971, came out of Washington's Birthday, which is actually Feb. 22.
But Congress passed the Uniform
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ENGLAND, ISOLATE, COVID, PEOPLE
LONDON — People with COVID-19 won’t be legally required to self-isolate in England starting in the coming week, the U.K. government has announced, as part of a plan for “living with COVID” that is also likely to see testing for the coronavirus scaled back.
Prime
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