Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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MUSK, TWITTER, ELON, BUY
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has reportedly offered to buy 100 percent of Twitter stock at $54.20 per share in cash and restore free speech across the platform. The offer comes several years after Musk infamously tweeted his plan to take Tesla private at $420 a share.
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SUBWAY, SHOOTING, SUSPECT, BROOKLYN
Brooklyn subway shooting suspect Frank James makes his first court appearance
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Frank James, the suspect arrested in the Brooklyn subway attack, made his first court appearance on Thursday.
James,
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BIDEN, UKRAINE, POLL, JOE
America, the Biden family syndicate has a new strategy — or at least it appears so.
As the walls continue to close in on the Bidens, Joe’s sister, Valerie Biden Owens has taken a new tack, clearly designed to have it both ways. Finally, begrudgingly somewhat
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ABORTION, 15, DESANTIS, FLORIDA
Kentucky ended virtually all in-state abortions on Wednesday, enacting a sweeping law that bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, restricts minors’ access to the procedure, and cracks down on medication abortions. It’s now the state with the harshest abortion
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TEXAS, BORDER, MEXICO, ABBOTT
A second busload of illegal immigrants from Texas arrived in Washington on Thursday morning, delighting leaders of neighboring counties who said they will be more than happy to have those surging the border right now settle in the D.C. area.
Texas Gov. Greg
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BIDEN, 42, TITLE, BORDER
Republican lawmakers who recently traveled to the southern border gave their reactions to the news that a Guatemalan migrant caravan is expected to reach the U.S. around the time that Title 42 ends.
A migrant caravan coming from Guatemala is expected to
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RUSSIAN, UKRAINE, WARSHIP, SEA
A Russian warship that gained notoriety when Ukrainian troops under attack told it to “go f—- yourself” has been badly damaged in a blast, according to Ukrainian and Russian military,
Ukraine claimed it struck the 610-foot missile cruiser Moskva — the flagship
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OFFICER, LYOYA, SHOT, PATRICK
DETROIT – Patrick Lyoya was a "quiet kid" who didn't like to fight, according to his father.
Peter Lyoya said his son, a 26-year-old Congolese refugee, "made a small mistake" this month. Then he was fatally shot in the back of the head by a Grand Rapids police
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PRESIDENTIAL, COMMISSION, RNC, DEBATES
The Republican National Committee on Thursday unanimously voted to withdraw from its participation in presidential debates sanctioned by the Commission on Presidential Debates, calling the organization "biased" against the GOP and saying it does not "serve
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TRUMP, POLL, VOTERS, RATING
Donald Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity that former Attorney General William Barr should have had the “courage” to risk being impeached by backing up Trump’s false claims of election fraud in 2020.
We “had a chance” to change the election results, Trump
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TRUMP, MILLER, STEPHEN, CAPITOL
An Ohio man who acknowledges he joined the mob at the U.S. Capitol last year and ignored a variety of warning signs says he was only following orders from the president, Donald Trump
An Ohio man charged with storming the U.S. Capitol and stealing a coat rack
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NATO, RUSSIA, SWEDEN, FINLAND
PARIS — Rejecting a “herd-like conformity” with the Biden administration, Marine Le Pen, the French far-right candidate for the presidency, said Wednesday that France would quit NATO’s integrated military command if she were elected and would seek for the alliance
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BLACK, LIVES, MAYOR, ERIC
(CNN) Black adults in America are nearly 40 points more likely than the general population to say that their racial background is central to the way they think about themselves, according to a new poll from the Pew Research Center, and how Black Americans view
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Ed Buck, a onetime Democratic donor and activist, was sentenced by a federal judge in Los Angeles on Thursday to 30 years in prison for giving two men fatal doses of methamphetamine at his West Hollywood apartment, prosecutors said.
The sentencing concludes
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NEW, COVID, OMICRON, SPREADING
When coronavirus variants emerged in full force in late 2020, the news suddenly turned into alphanumeric soup. Remember? The U.K. variant, B.1.351, GR/501Y.V3. After this initial period of chaos, the World Health Organization came up with a sanity-preserving
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QUEEN, HARRY, MARKLE, MEGHAN
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry quietly visited Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle together on Thursday for the first time since their move to America.
The couple stopped by on their way to the Netherlands for the Invictus Games, according to their spokesperson.
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HUNTER, BIDEN, NEPHEW, ROLE
James "Whitey" Bulger's nephew, Jim Bulger, was a business associate of Hunter Biden, and according to emails obtained and reviewed by Fox News Digital, appears to have played a key role in a number of his Chinese business ventures.
Whitey Bulger was a notorious
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NEW, MEXICO, WILDFIRE, DEAD
A wind-driven wildfire in New Mexico is believed to have killed 2 people
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Firefighters scouted the drought-stricken mountainsides around a New Mexico village as they looked for opportunities
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CONVICTED, MEMBER, ISIS, BEATLES
A member of Islamic State group known as 'Beatles' is convicted in Americans' deaths
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A jury convicted a British national Thursday for
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WAR, UKRAINE, FOOD, GLOBAL
As the war in Ukraine continues, so does the threat to a global food crisis NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with David Beasley, executive director of the World Food Programme, about the ongoing food insecurity problem in Ukraine during the war.
World As the war in
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RWANDA, SEND, ASYLUM, SEEKERS
LONDON — Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain announced plans on Thursday to send some asylum seekers thousands of miles to Rwanda to have their applications processed, a significant hardening of migration policy.
The British government has so far failed
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BOOSTER, 11, PFIZER, COVID
Pfizer and BioNTech said Tuesday that they would ask the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to authorize a booster dose of their coronavirus vaccine for emergency use in healthy kids ages 5 to 11.
The vaccine makers said new data shows children in that age
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