Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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PELOSI, DUI, ARRESTED, HUSBAND
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is seen with her husband, Paul Pelosi, in April. Paul Morigi via Getty Images
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) husband, Paul Pelosi, was arrested Saturday for driving while under the influence of alcohol in northern California,
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FESTIVAL, SHOOTING, DEAD, INJURED
An apparent argument at a Memorial Day festival in Oklahoma sparked a deadly shooting, police said Sunday.
One person was killed and seven injured, including two minors, in the Taft shooting, according to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.
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GUN, TOP, TOM, MAVERICK
"Top Gun" star Tom Skerritt is sharing his thoughts on the movie's sequel and reflecting on the original 1986 film.
Skerritt, who starred as Commander Mike "Viper" Metcalf in the original, opened up about what made "Top Gun" iconic during a recent interview
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HURRICANE, AGATHA, PACIFIC, MEXICO
The first hurricane of the eastern Pacific season has formed off Mexico's southern Pacific coast and is heading quickly for land
MEXICO CITY -- Hurricane Agatha, the first hurricane of the season, formed off Mexico’s southern Pacific coast Sunday and was heading
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GUN, DEM, REPUBLICANS, MURPHY
Serious bipartisan negotiations are underway in the Senate to come up with new gun laws to prevent mass shootings such as those at an elementary school in Texas and a grocery store in Buffalo, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Ct.) said Sunday.
The Democrat said some
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WEEKEND, MEMORIAL, DAY, CANCELLATIONS
Hundreds of flights worldwide were cancelled by mid-afternoon Sunday, adding to the mounting number of scrubbed flights during the busy Memorial Day holiday weekend in the U.S.
More than 1,260 flights had been canceled as of 2:30 p.m. EDT Sunday, according
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PLANE, 22, NEPAL, MISSING
(CNN) A plane operated by Nepal's Tara Air carrying 22 people went missing at 9:55 a.m. local time on Sunday, an airline spokesperson confirmed to CNN.
There were 19 passengers and three crew members on board, the spokesperson said. The plane was flying from
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RUSSIAN, EASTERN, UKRAINE, CITY
POKROVSK, Ukraine — Russian and Ukrainian troops engaged in close-quarter combat in an eastern Ukraine city Sunday as Moscow’s soldiers, supported by intense shelling, attempted to gain strategic footholds for conquering the region in the face of fierce Ukrainian
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ANTHEM, NATIONAL, KAPLER, RUSSA
CNN —
Chicago White Sox manager Tony La Russa said he disagrees with San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler’s stance on forgoing the pregame national anthem in the wake of the latest mass shooting in the US.
While La Russa agrees “there’s a lot of problems
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NATO, ERDOGAN, TURKEY, SWEDEN
President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey's talks last week with Finnish and Swedish delegations were not at the "expected level" and Ankara cannot say yes to "terrorism-supporting" countries entering NATO, state broadcaster TRT Haber reported on Sunday.
Turkey
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GEORGIA, DEAD, BOAT, CRASH
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Five people are dead after two boats collided on Saturday morning during the busy Memorial Day weekend in Georgia.
Search and rescue teams on Sunday recovered the bodies of the three people missing from a Saturday morning boat crash on the
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JERUSALEM, MARCH, AHEAD, UNREST
Unrest erupts at Jerusalem site ahead of nationalist march
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JERUSALEM — Nearly 2,000 Jewish pilgrims visited Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site early Sunday ahead of a nationalist parade
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MARCUS, ERICSSON, 500, WIN
Marcus Ericsson had to leave Formula One to become a global superstar — a goal achieved Sunday when the Swedish driver won the Indianapolis 500.
Ericsson took control of Sunday's race late and had it under control for Chip Ganassi Racing until a crash by
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FANS, JAMES, LIVERPOOL, TEAR
Riot police fired tear gas and pepper spray at Liverpool supporters forced to endure lengthy waits to get into the Champions League final amid logistical chaos and an attempt by UEFA and French authorities to blame overcrowding at turnstiles on people trying
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BAN, ASSAULT, WEAPONS, ADAM
Vice President Kamala Harris called for a ban on "assault weapons" on Saturday after she spoke at the funeral of a woman killed in the Buffalo, New York grocery store mass shooting earlier this month.
She called the firearm a "weapon of war" that has "no
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PUTIN, GERMANY, FRANCE, UKRAINIAN
French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Olaf Scholz urged Russian president Vladimir Putin to lift the blockade on Ukrainian grain in order to mitigate the growing global food crisis.
In an 80-minute phone call on Saturday, Macron and Scholz
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TAIWAN, BIDEN, STRATEGIC, MAST
Last week, in an unscripted moment, President Biden warned bluntly that if China invades Taiwan, the United States will come to the island’s defense.
“We’ve made a commitment,” Biden told reporters at a news conference in Tokyo.
Including military action?
“Yes,”
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MONKEYPOX, CASES, REACHES, HEALTH
Mexico on Saturday reported its first confirmed case of monkeypox, according to deputy health secretary Hugo Lopez-Gatell.
The patient was a 50-year-old permanent resident of New York who is being treated in Mexico City, Lopez-Gatell said on Twitter.
"He
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BROOKLYN, PEOPLE, OSAKA, NAOMI
Gervanto Davis beat Rolando Romero during the WBA World Lightweight Championship at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on Saturday. Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
A number of fans leaving a Brooklyn, New York, boxing match found themselves exiting
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BRAINER, KINZINGER, AGE, 21
Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that a federal law raising the age to buy guns to 21 was a “no-brainer” following the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX.
Kinzinger said, “I think raising the purchase
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CHINA, POLICIES, RIGHTS, CHIEF
The Biden administration accused China over the weekend of trying to “restrict and manipulate” a visit to the country by the United Nations’ top human rights official as part of an effort by Beijing to hide evidence of its genocide against Uyghurs and other
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