Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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RUSSIA, UKRAINE, WARSHIP, MISSILE
A Russian warship in the Black Sea was sunk by Ukrainian missiles, U.S. official says
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The Russian missile cruiser that was damaged in a fire on Thursday
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TRUMP, OHIO, VANCE, SENATE
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced Friday that he has been diagnosed with COVID-19.
DeWine was diagnosed Friday by his personal physician. He has been experiencing mild symptoms such as a runny nose, headache, body aches, and a sore throat, according to a tweet.
Fran,
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TAX, BIDEN, RETURNS, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, earned $610,702 during their first year in the White House and paid $150,439 in federal income taxes. That was a rate of 24.6% for 2021, well over the average of around 14%.
The totals were similar
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BORDER, BIDEN, 42, TITLE
Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans are demanding a hearing on the potential impact of President Joe Biden's decision to rescind Title 42.
Former President Donald Trump had put Title 42 in place to turn away migrants at the southern border due to the health
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CLASHES, JERUSALEM, HOLY, SITE
JERUSALEM — Clashes between Israeli riot police and Palestinians erupted at one of the holiest sites in Jerusalem early on Friday, the first day of a rare convergence of Ramadan, Passover and Easter, culminating weeks of escalating violence in Israel and the
Continued at New York Times...
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PSAKI, UKRAINE, JEN, STUPID
It’s a false mantra on the left that White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki is always “decimating” Fox’s Peter Doocy. We see how wrong that is daily in the regular briefings. That lie likely contributed to her getting her purported new job with MSNBC that she’s
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BORDER, TEXAS, ORDER, ABBOTT
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced border security deals Thursday with two Mexican states who have promised to deploy their own police to patrol the southern side of the U.S.-Mexico boundary, in exchange for Texas ending its crippling safety checks on commercial
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The arrest of Democratic New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin could give the Republican Party an opportunity to flip the state governorship red.
“We’ve had 15 years of Democrat governors have just leave office in disgrace … She is absolutely going to be tied as
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SQUAD, FIRING, CAROLINA, SOUTH
A South Carolina prisoner scheduled for execution later this month has chosen to die by firing squad rather than in the electric chair
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A South Carolina prisoner scheduled to be the first man executed in the state in more than a decade has
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UKRAINE, PUTIN, WAR, ZELENSKYY
One of the first two US lawmakers to tour the devastation in Ukraine said the horror he witnessed this week was “indisputable evidence of Putin’s war crimes.”
US Sen. Steve Daines of Montana and Indiana Rep. Victoria Spartz, who was born in Ukraine, traveled
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SEINFELD, SHERIDAN, 93, LIZ
(CNN) Liz Sheridan, a veteran stage and screen actress who played Jerry Seinfeld's mother, Helen, on "Seinfeld," died Friday morning, her manager and friend Amanda Hendon confirmed to CNN.
Sheridan had celebrated her 93rd birthday earlier this week, Hendon
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FEINSTEIN, DIANNE, MENTAL, SERVE
Look, it’s right there in the name: Senate, borrowed from the Romans and meaning a “council of elders.” More than ever, the label fits. This is the oldest Senate, by average age, in American history, at 64 years. Jim Inhofe and Richard Shelby, both 87, have
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CHINA, TAIWAN, VISIT, LAWMAKERS
Celebrity Doctor Mehmet Oz, who is running as a tough-on-China candidate in the race to fill Pennsylvania’s Senate seat, is coming under fire again for his long history with the communist country.
Dr. Oz, who had attempted to smear one of his top opponents
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SUBWAY, SHOOTING, NYC, SPLIT
The transit workers who kept calm and raced to help panicked survivors amid the chaos of the Brooklyn subway attack were honored Friday as heroes.
Metropolitan Transportation Authority workers received a special proclamation Friday morning at New York City
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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration is sharply raising rates for royalties companies pay on oil and natural gas extracted from federal lands as it moves forward under court order with sales of public fossil fuel reserves in nine states, Interior
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BIDEN, BARR, MICHAEL, FED
President Joe Biden will nominate Michael Barr to be the Federal Reserve's top regulator in charge of big banks. Barr, who served as assistant Treasury secretary for financial institutions during the Obama administration, seen here at a Treasury Department
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HARRY, MEGHAN, VISIT, QUEEN
Prince Harry and wife Meghan Markle arrived Friday in the Netherlands for the Invictus Games, marking the couple's first public appearance in Europe since formally giving up their royal roles.
The pair were all smiles as they greeted competitors at the Invictus
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PUTIN, FACT, CHECKER, PRICE
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In March, inflation jumped 8.5%, the biggest spike since 1981. Economic growth is expected to slow. Voters are expected to be angry. Yesterday, press
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Mike Bossy, the Hockey Hall of Fame wing who played a key role in propelling the New York Islanders to four consecutive Stanley Cup championships in the early 1980s, has died. He was 65.
The Islanders announced his death but gave no other details. Bossy revealed
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REPORT, DARYL, TWEET, PRO
LeBron James was reportedly steamed over the 2019 tweet from former Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey supporting Hong Kong protesters in their fight against a national security law.
Morey had tweeted in the NBA preseason about his support for Hong
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COVID, EGG, ROLL, EASTER
Resumption of this Easter tradition is a sign that the White House is opening up again, despite a recent spurt of COVID-19 cases among members of the Cabinet, the White House staff, Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband and members of Congress, including House
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BIDEN, JOE, PROFESSOR, COLLEGE
President Joe Biden lashed out at a college academic dean on Thursday as he toured North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.
During the tour, Biden promoted the idea of raising government grants to fund historic black colleges and universities,
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