Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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KAVANAUGH, COURT, MURDER, SUPREME
(CNN) President Joe Biden on Wednesday said he was weighing executive actions he could take if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade's holding of a federal constitutional right to an abortion.
The President, during an appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" in
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BIDEN, KIMMEL, JIMMY, REPUBLICANS
President Joe Biden went on Jimmy Kimmel’s show Wednesday night — his first one-on-one interview since February — to air some grievances with the nation he’s tasked with leading.
Kimmel asked why no real action has been taken on gun violence. Biden’s answer?
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POLICE, UVALDE, SCHOOL, WAITED
“We think there are some injuries in there,” the man believed to be Chief Arredondo said several minutes before the breach, according to the transcript. “And so you know what we did, we cleared off the rest of the building so we wouldn’t have any more, besides
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NEW, GUN, YORK, CONTROL
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City will end its school mask mandate for children aged 2 to 4 on Monday, citing the subsiding threat of COVID-19 infections.
Mayor Eric Adams said masks would become optional at schools and daycare centers, but nevertheless suggested
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GUN, VIOLENCE, POLL, CONTROL
Democrats and police departments need to do better at forging alliances when it comes to gun violence, Mayor Adams said Thursday morning, a day after testifying before Congress about the impact of guns on New York City.
Adams, during an appearance on MSNBC,
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LYOYA, PATRICK, MICHIGAN, CHARGED
The prosecutor in Kent County, Michigan, has decided to charge Grand Rapids police officer Christopher Schurr with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Patrick Lyoya during a traffic stop in April.
Lyoya, an immigrant from the Democratic Republic
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SHOOTING, MARYLAND, MULTIPLE, VICTIMS
There were multiple victims in a mass shooting Thursday in Maryland , authorities said.
"On June 9, 2022, at approximately 2:30 PM, deputies from the Washington County Sheriff's Office responded to the 12900 block of Bikle Road, Smithsburg, MD, in reference
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PGA, GOLF, TOUR, SAUDI
The Saudi-backed LIV Golf tees off, and the PGA Tour quickly issues sanctions
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Even before it started, the Saudi-backed LIV Golf series reshaped the careers of several high-profile players,
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In a primarily party-line vote, the House passed a bill on Thursday to create a national "red flag" gun law, which aims to keep firearms away from people who are considered a threat to themselves or others, The Hill reports.
Known as the Federal Extreme Risk
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False. Seven Democrats and two Republicans sit on the select committee, contrary to Mr. McCarthy’s claim that it is entirely partisan. Moreover, Mr. McCarthy is omitting the fact that he is partly responsible for the small number of Republicans participating.
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The child of a slain Texas couple has been located 42 years after her parents' violent deaths, state authorities confirmed Thursday.
The new Cold Case and Missing Persons Unit with the Texas Attorney General’s Office made the announcement Thursday morning.
Holly
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COVID, 19, ORDERED, MILLIONS
NEW YORK — Millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses have been ordered for small children in anticipation of possible federal authorization next week, White House officials say.
The government allowed pharmacies and states to start placing orders last week, with
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POST, WASHINGTON, FELICIA, SONMEZ
I don’t normally write about stories like this, but when the schadenfreude is this alluring, I simply cannot pass up the opportunity. I am only a conservative commentator, after all. If Democracy Dies in Darkness, then former Washington Post columnist Felicia
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IRAN, NUCLEAR, CAMERAS, WATCHDOG
The head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency said Thursday that Iran is removing 27 surveillance cameras from nuclear sites in the country.
Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), made the comments at
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UKRAINE, DEATH, SENTENCED, RUSSIAN
Two Britons and a Moroccan captured fighting alongside Ukrainian forces having been sentenced to death by the Russia-backed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR).
27-year-old Aiden Aslin and 48-year-old Shaun Pinner, said to have been captured in the Ukrainian port
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SUMMIT, AMERICAS, BIDEN, PRESIDENT
Los Angeles welcomed leaders to the Summit of the Americas this week, the first time the U.S. has hosted this event since 1994.
President Bident took the stage at Microsoft Theater to open the summit Wednesday saying, “As we meet again today, in a moment when
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TANK, CHOCOLATE, FACTORY, PENNSYLVANIA
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A rescue operation is underway at the Mars M&M factory in Pennsylvania after two people fell into a tank full of chocolate, officials said.
“Fire crews have eliminated pulling them straight out of a tank,” Brad Wolfe, communications supervisor for Lancaster
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