Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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LIA, THOMAS, SWIMMER, WOMEN
As the latest jobs numbers continue to show a resurging labor market, women have seen an uneven and slower recovery. While men have already recouped their pandemic job losses, there are still about 1.1 million women missing from the labor force .
Women of
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UKRAINE, LVIV, RUSSIA, WAR
LVIV, Ukraine - Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said Friday on Telegram that several missiles hit a facility used to repair military aircraft and damaged a bus repair facility, though no casualties were immediately reported.
The plant had suspended work ahead of
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GAS, OIL, PRICES, UKRAINE
NEW DELHI (AP) — The state-run Indian Oil Corp. bought 3 million barrels of crude oil from Russia earlier this week to secure its energy needs, resisting Western pressure to avoid such purchases, an Indian government official said Friday.
The official said
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MODERNA, COVID, FDA, SEEKS
Moderna asked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday to authorize a fourth shot of its COVID-19 vaccine .
The biotech company wrote in a release that it had requested the agency amend the emergency use authorization (EUA) to allow for the additional
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GRINER, BRITTNEY, RUSSIA, ACCESS
A Russian court extended the detention of the W.N.B.A. star Brittney Griner by two months on Thursday, and denied an appeal from her legal team, who had hoped to have her transferred to house arrest.
Griner, 31, has been held in Russia since mid-February on
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SUPREME, COURT, KETANJI, BROWN
Black women form the first line of defense for a historic Supreme Court nominee
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A group of seven Black women posed for a photo near the Supreme Court last
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TEXAS, WILDFIRES, EVACUATIONS, PROMPT
Low humidity and gusty winds fueled multiple wildfires Friday in West Texas, burning homes and other structures and prompting evacuations of small communities.
Several wildfires merged to form what fire officials call a “complex” that was burning near Eastland,
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Don Young, a blunt-speaking Republican and longest-serving member of Alaska’s congressional delegation, has died. He was 88.
His office announced Young's death in a statement Friday night.
“It’s with heavy hearts and deep sadness that
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SPACE, PETE, DAVIDSON, ORIGIN
Requests for comment from Blue Origin and Mr. Davidson were not immediately returned early Friday.
A Blue Origin spokeswoman had said this week that Mr. Davidson would fly as an “honorary guest,” while the remaining five passengers were paying customers. They
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SPACE, STATION, YELLOW, INTERNATIONAL
Cosmonauts wear Ukrainian colors on space station
A trio of Russian cosmonauts arrived at the International Space Station on Friday, the first new faces in space since the start of the Russian war in Ukraine. The cosmonauts were wearing yellow and blue, the
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KILLED, YEAR, TEXAS, CRASH
A National Transportation Safety Board official said a 13-year-old was driving a pickup truck that collided head-on with a van in an accident that killed nine people Tuesday in Andrews County, Texas, the Associated Press reported.
The crash killed six members
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MASK, MANDATE, LOS, SCHOOL
Protesters gather in Brooklyn ahead of a march to city hall in New York City, October 25, 2021. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters)
New York City’s private employer vaccine mandate and the school mask mandate imposed on children five-and-under will remain in place indefinitely,
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KILLED, AMERICAN, UKRAINE, RUSSIA
James 'Jimmy' Hill died Thursday when he ventured outside a hospital in Chernihiv to find food.
He was there caring for his sick partner and 'refused to leave her bedside,' family say.
Hill was an American lecturer who grew up in Minnesota and taught in Ukraine
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NORWAY, AIRCRAFT, EXERCISE, TRAINING
Norwegian authorities were searching Friday for a U.S. Marine Corps aircraft that went missing during a training exercise.
Norway's military said in a statement that the Marine Osprey was reported missing Friday night when it did not make a scheduled arrival
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PUTIN, RALLY, APPEARS, TROOPS
Russians have revealed they were forced to cram into a packed Moscow stadium for a pro-war rally on Friday to listen to President Vladimir Putin insist the Kremlin would prevail in Ukraine.
In stunning scenes, tens of thousands of people could be seen cheering
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MEDICAL, CREDIT, DEBTS, REPORTS
Americans are getting a break from one of the largest sources of personal debt.
Credit reporting agencies Equifax, Experian and TransUnion announced significant changes in reporting medical collection debt that will remove almost 70% of medical debt from consumer
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NEW, SIGNALING, PUTIN, OPPONENTS
Facing stiff resistance in Ukraine and with crippling economic sanctions at home, Russian President Vladimir Putin is using language that recalls the rhetoric from Josef Stalin's show trials of the 1930s
NEW YORK -- Facing stiff resistance in Ukraine and crippling
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PUTIN, BACK, UKRAINIANS, FIGHT
Adrian Kellgren’s family-owned gun company in Florida was left holding a $200,000 shipment of semi-automatic rifles after a longtime customer in Ukraine suddenly went silent during Vladimir Putin’s invasion of the country
MIAMI -- Adrian Kellgren’s family-owned
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SMOLLETT, DEFAMATION, SUIT, BROTHERS
A federal judge in Chicago says a defamation lawsuit filed by two brothers who said they took part in a fake hate crime against Jussie Smollett can go forward
CHICAGO -- A judge in Chicago ruled Friday that an attorney for Jussie Smollett might have defamed
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RT, RUSSIA, REGULATOR, REVOKES
The United Kingdom’s broadcasting regulator Ofcom has announced that “with immediate effect” Russia’s state-funded news channel RT will have its licence to broadcast in Britain revoked over its coverage of the war in Ukraine.
Russia’s RT, formerly Russia Today,
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CAROLINA, NORTH, MEADOWS, MARK
Mark Meadows faces North Carolina investigation over his voter registration
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Mark Meadows, a White House chief of staff to former President Donald Trump, faces investigations in North
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