Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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RUSSIA, UKRAINE, WAR, HARRIS
Microsoft said Friday it is halting all new sales of its products and services in Russia.
Brad Smith, Microsoft's president, announced the decision Friday as Western businesses continue to boycott Russia after it began its invasion of Ukraine last week. Microsoft
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OIL, RUSSIAN, BAN, GAS
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., advocated action against the American use of Russian energy Thursday on "The Ingraham Angle."
SEN. TOM COTTON: The Democrats are blind ideologues when it comes to oil and gas. I'm glad that Nancy Pelosi has finally come around to
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RUSSIA, MEDIA, NEWS, FACEBOOK
Russians could face prison sentences of up to 15 years for spreading information that goes against the government’s position on the war in Ukraine
DUSSELDORF, Germany -- Russians could face prison sentences of up to 15 years for spreading information that
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POLICE, SCHOOL, KANSAS, SUSPECT
New Zealand police cleared an anti-vaccine mandate protest outside New Zealand’s parliament building in Wellington on Wednesday after its participants resisted federal calls to disperse for nearly four weeks, Wellington’s Dominion Post reported.
Video footage
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SUPREME, COURT, BOSTON, DEATH
The Supreme Court, dividing on ideological lines, on Friday reinstated the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
The three liberal justices voted in favor of Tsarnaev‘s challenge to his death sentence, alleging juror bias. But the six
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FLORIDA, 15, ABORTION, BAN
Florida Republicans send 15-week abortion ban to governor
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Abortions after 15 weeks would be banned in Florida under a bill Republican senators sent to Gov. Ron DeSantis
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NATO, ZONE, UKRAINE, FLY
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Friday that the coming days in Ukraine "are likely to be worse" than up to that point following Russia's unprovoked attack on the country.
Speaking at an emergency meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels,
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UKRAINE, RUSSIA, 19, COVID
(CNN) Fourteen children were taken to hospitals Thursday after a vehicle crashed into a day care center in north-central California, officials said.
Most of the children were taken to hospitals for precautionary reasons, the Anderson Police Department said
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POLL, BIDEN, STATE, JOE
President Joe Biden’s approval rating received a significant bump after his State of the Union address and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist National poll released Friday.
The poll, conducted March 1-2, showed Biden’s approval
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JOBS, ADDED, 000, FEBRUARY
The U.S. economy added 678,000 jobs in February and the unemployment rate fell to 3.8 percent, the Department of Labor said Friday.
Economists had expected the economy to add 440,000 jobs and the unemployment rate to tick down to 3.9 percent. The range of
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DESANTIS, COVID, SCHOOL, THEATER
The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently told a group of college students participating in an event at the University of South Florida, "You do not have
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IRAN, DEAL, NUCLEAR, BIDEN
President Joe Biden delivers remarks on Russia’s attack on Ukraine in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., February 24, 2022. (Leah Millis/Reuters)
As the world is focused on Ukraine, President Biden is on the cusp of another catastrophic
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TRUMP, BARR, NEW, DONALD
Photo: The Hill
The politics morning show “Rising,” produced by The Hill and which I currently co-host, was suspended by YouTube on Thursday for allegedly violating the platform’s rules around election misinformation. Two infractions were cited: First, the
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BEIJING, RUSSIA, PARALYMPICS, IPC
(CNN) A record number of Para athletes -- around 700 -- were expected to compete in this year's Winter Paralympics in Beijing, but much of the focus the day before the Opening Ceremony fell on the 83 who won't.
That's after the International Paralympic Committee
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NORTH, KOREA, MISSILE, BALLISTIC
SEOUL — North Korea on Saturday launched a ballistic missile toward the sea off its east coast, its second missile test in a week, South Korean defense officials said.
The missile was launched at 8:48 a.m. from Sunan, near Pyongyang, the North Korean capital,
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STANFORD, MEYER, SOCCER, STAR
The victim’s parents added that after their daughter’s death, they learned that Katie had received an email from Stanford officials warning of potential disciplinary measures against her in relation to a situation in which she acted in defense of one of her
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BIDEN, UKRAINE, JOE, FINLAND
If nothing else, we’re talking optics, here. Disastrous optics. Then again, when has the out-of-touch-with-reality Biden White House ever demonstrated it gives a damn about Bidenoptics™?
I mean, it’s not like where Joe is has anything to do with what Joe does
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MASK, RULES, SCHOOL, MANDATES
“We are winning,” Mr. Adams said. “Let’s celebrate.”
The mayor’s announcement coincided with Los Angeles County’s lifting of nearly all of its indoor mask and vaccine-verification requirements. Masks are no longer mandatory in grocery stores, restaurants,
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KIDNAPPING, FAKING, PAPINI, CALIFORNIA
Sherri Papini, the California mother accused of faking her own kidnapping while she spent 22 days with an ex-boyfriend in 2016, appeared in court via Zoom for the first time Friday and was ordered to remain in Sacramento County Jail until at least Tuesday afternoon.
Papini,
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APOLOGISTS, PUTIN, PENCE, ROOM
Immediately after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the political debate in the U.S. was a free-for-all. Democrats and some Republicans aligned behind President Biden exhibiting what was once considered a traditional show of unity in a crisis. Other Republicans
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MOSQUE, PAKISTAN, KILLED, NORTHWEST
Police say a powerful bomb has exploded inside a Shiite Muslim mosque in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar, killing at least 30 worshippers and wounding dozens more, many of them critically
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- A powerful bomb exploded inside a Shiite
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