Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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ROE, COURT, SUPREME, WADE
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court privately voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade case that has guaranteed the right to abortion for nearly a half-century, according to a leaked draft opinion from February published online Monday night by Politico.
In
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TRUMP, GOP, OHIO, SENATE
Much like how many in the establishment raced to stop Donald J. Trump’s 2016 ascendancy to the GOP presidential nomination and eventually the White House, donor class and swamp forces are swooping into Ohio to try to block Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance
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COURT, BOSTON, FLAG, CHRISTIAN
Boston violated the free speech rights of a Christian group by refusing to fly a flag bearing the image of a cross at City Hall as part of a program that let private groups use the flagpole while holding events in the plaza below, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously
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BOARD, DISINFORMATION, BIDEN, DHS
(CNN) The Department of Homeland Security and the White House are defending a new initiative to help target disinformation amid fierce criticism from Republicans who cast the effort as overreac h and attacked its leader.
Last week, DHS announced an interagency
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DEPP, JOHNNY, HEARD, AMBER
The Depp-Heard trial is bringing attention to intimate partner violence NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Kellie Lynch, who researches intimate partner and domestic violence, about how this abuse is influencing public opinion in the trial of Johnny Depp and Amber
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PHILADELPHIA, YEAR, MURDER, 12
A 13-year-old boy is in critical condition after he was shot in the head in Philadelphia on Saturday, police said.
Elijah Simmons, 19, and Caresa McFarland, 32 were arrested in connection with the shooting, which cops believe was an accident.
The unidentified
Continued at New York Post...
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JAN, COMMITTEE, JUDGE, GOP
In a decision that could reverberate across other Jan. 6 legal cases, a federal judge has rejected a Republican National Committee lawsuit seeking to block a campaign vendor from providing records to the House committee investigating the 2021 Capitol riot.
The
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Well, hello first Monday in May.
The year’s biggest night in fashion, the Met Gala, returns to its usual berth on the social calendar this year after pandemic upheaval. And if it feels like one of those what, already moments, it is.
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JUDD, COUNTRY, NAOMI, HALL
Naomi Judd, one half of the country duo the Judds, died by suicide after years of struggling with mental illness, multiple sources told People.
Naomi’s daughters, Wynonna and Ashley, said they lost their mom to “the disease of mental illness” in a statement
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OFFICER, NYPD, RIOT, CAPITOL
Jurors are deliberating in the federal trial of a New York Police Department veteran charged with assaulting an officer who tried to protect the Capitol from an attacking insurrectionist mob last year
WASHINGTON -- Jurors deliberated on Monday in the federal
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NEW, MEXICO, FLEE, FIRE
Structure protection teams are working on all sides of the wildfire.
Wildfires are continuing to scorch through the Western U.S., fueled by high winds, low humidity and arid landscapes.
The Calf Canyon Fire and the Hermits Peak Fire in New Mexico have burned
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MUSK, ELON, TWITTER, HOST
Elon Musk, in his effort to buy Twitter, signaled that under his ownership, the company would allow all speech that the First Amendment protects. “By ‘free speech,’ I simply mean that which matches the law,” he tweeted on April 26. “I am against censorship
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EXECUTIONS, LETHAL, TENNESSEE, REVIEW
Tennessee is pausing executions to enable an independent review of its lethal injection procedures after a testing oversight forced the state to call off the execution of Oscar Smith an hour before he was to die this month, Republican Gov. Bill Lee said Monday.
Former
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MEAD, BARREL, LAKE, BODY
A barrel containing decomposing human remains was discovered by boaters at Lake Mead in Nevada, authorities said Monday.
The macabre find was made by a park-goer Sunday afternoon at Lake Mead National Recreation Area near Hemenway Harbor in Boulder City, the
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POLL, REPUBLICAN, GOP, LEADS
House Republicans’ internal polling shows their candidate ahead in a race for a longtime Democrat-held seat in Texas that will be decided in a special election next month.
Flipping the seat from blue to red would give Republicans an early boost ahead of the
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Sunday on FNC’s “Fox Report,” Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) warned that the Biden administration lifting Title 42 at the border would result in people crossing the U.S.-Mexico doubling or even tripling.
Marshall argued the Biden White House hadn’t been able to
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DINNER, CORRESPONDENTS, NOAH, DESANTIS
(CNN) For the first time in more than two years, official Washington gathered Saturday night for the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
It was, largely, a sedate affair -- most notable for its normality. President Joe Biden told some (mostly forgettable)
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JILL, BIDEN, UKRAINIAN, REFUGEES
Jill Biden will spend Mother's Day meeting with Ukrainian mothers and children who fled for their lives after Russian President Vladimir Putin opened war against Ukraine, the White House announced late Sunday.
The May 8 meeting will take place in Slovakia,
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