Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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BIDEN, BUFFALO, SHOOTING, VICTIMS
Assuming his role as consoler in chief, President Joe Biden traveled to Buffalo, New York, on Tuesday to visit a community in mourning and call out the dangers of white supremacy on the national stage following Saturday's racially-motivated mass shooting at
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MUSK, TWITTER, ELON, DEAL
Elon Musk called out a Twitter executive who was caught mocking the billionaire's Asperger's in a newly-released video from Project Veritas.
Alex Martinez, identified by Project Veritas as Twitter's Lead Client Partner, was recorded knocking his incoming
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DEPP, JOHNNY, HEARD, AMBER
The rum and presumably Jack Sparrow will be gone when the next “Pirates of the Caribbean” film sets sail for theaters.
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer, who’s steered the franchise into a multibillion-dollar earner for Disney with Johnny Depp at the center, recently
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FORMULA, BABY, SHORTAGE, FDA
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has admitted having to take desperate steps to find baby formula for his own baby twins because of the supply crisis that is being blamed on his own administration.
“This is very personal for us,” the 40-year-old senior
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TRUMP, SUSSMANN, FBI, CLINTON
The Justice Department sued the former casino mogul Stephen Wynn on Tuesday, saying he had made repeated requests on behalf of the Chinese government to Donald J. Trump when he was president and seeking to force Mr. Wynn to register as a foreign agent.
In
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CARLSON, TUCKER, THEORY, BUFFALO
MSNBC contributor Donny Deutsch said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that Democrats need to make “MAGA maniacs” and Fox News Tucker Carlson the face of the Republican Party for the midterms.
Deutsch said, “We’re not going to win the next — between now and the
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HEARING, UFO, CONGRESS, UFOS
Congress is holding its first UFO hearing in more than 50 years
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Congress is set to hold its first public hearing on UFOs in more than 50 years today, as the House
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NATO, FINLAND, SWEDEN, LEADERS
CNN —
President Joe Biden on Thursday will welcome the Prime Minister of Sweden and the President of Finland to the White House in a key show of support days after both countries announced they would seek to join NATO.
The leaders are expected to discuss
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SHOOTING, SALON, DALLAS, HATE
A suspect has been arrested in connection with a shooting that wounded three women in a hair salon in the city’s Koreatown that authorities have said might have been a hate crime, police said early Tuesday.
The suspect was being interviewed and processed,
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11, COVID, BOOSTER, FDA
U.S. regulators on Tuesday authorized a COVID-19 booster shot for healthy 5- to 11-year-olds, hoping an extra vaccine dose will enhance their protection as infections once again creep upward.
Everyone 12 and older already was supposed to get one booster dose
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ABORTION, MICHIGAN, BAN, JUDGE
One day after the draft Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe vs. Wade leaked, Pennsylvania Democrat Josh Shapiro declared that his bid to become governor was the only thing preventing Republicans from restricting abortion access in the state.
“The
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BLM, FOUNDER, LIVES, MATTER
The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation dished out nearly $4 million in consulting payments to its board secretary, co-founder Patrisse Cullors' brother, and the father of Cullors' child.
BLM Global Network, the movement's primary nonprofit, paid
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FREE, COVID, TESTS, BIDEN
The federal government is offering another round of free COVID tests
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Americans can once again order free COVID-19 tests from the federal government by visiting COVIDtests.gov.
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SAND, DIES, DUNE, STATE
TOMS RIVER, N.J. – An 18-year-old man from Maine was killed Tuesday evening in the collapse of a hole on the beach that the man was digging with his 17-year-old sister, authorities said.
Township police officers and emergency medical services personnel went
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SOUTH, CAROLINA, SPORTS, SIGNS
South Carolina’s Gov. Henry McMaster on Monday signed a bill that would require transgender students to compete in sports based on the gender specified on their birth certificate.
"I think the girls ought to play girls and the boys ought to play boys," McMaster
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QUEEN, MAKES, LINE, APPEARANCE
Queen Elizabeth made a surprise visit to a train station in London to see a newly completed subway line named in her honor.
On Tuesday the 96-year-old, who is celebrating 70 years on the throne, was spotted at Paddington Station, where she unveiled a plaque
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CRUZ, TED, SUPREME, COURT
Texas Senator Ted Cruz ginned up the lawsuit in question by giving his campaign a $260,000 loan in 2018, when his re-election campaign faced a well-funded challenge by Democratic rival Beto O’Rourke. Under Section 304, his campaign could repay all but $10,000
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COVID, ADAMS, HIGH, ALERT
New York (CNN Business) New York Mayor Eric Adams is begging the city's business leaders, including JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, to ride the subway to work. Adams is pushing to bring people back to New York offices after years of working from home.
"We're going
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Brittanee Drexel was 17 when she vanished while on a spring break trip to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in 2009. Myrtle Beach Police Department via AP
The remains of a 17-year-old upstate New York girl who vanished 13 years ago while celebrating spring break
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