Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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GUN, BIPARTISAN, DEAL, FRAMEWORK
Actor Matthew McConaughey has issued a statement of support after a bipartisan group of senators have agreed to a framework regarding gun control and gun violence after last month's horrific mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, which
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CHINA, HIJACK, ACCUSES, SUPPORT
Singapore CNN —
Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe on Sunday accused the United States of being a “bully” and “hijacking” countries around the region, during a combative speech in which he said his country would “fight to the very end” to stop Taiwanese independence.
“Taiwan
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ALASKA, PALIN, SPECIAL, HOUSE
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s bid to fill the House seat of late Rep. Don Young is alive and well after she picked up the most votes in a nonpartisan special election primary on Saturday.
Ms. Palin, the 2012 GOP vice presidential nominee, topped a field
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PARLIAMENTARY, MACRON, FRANCE, ELECTIONS
France holds parliamentary election in vital test for Macron
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PARIS — French voters are choosing lawmakers in a parliamentary election Sunday as President Emmanuel Macron seeks
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INFLATION, FED, EL, AVOIDED
Former Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke said in a Sunday interview that the Fed may be able to avoid a recession and address inflation with a "soft-ish landing."
"I think a recession is possible," Bernanke told CNN's Fareed Zakaria when asked if he agreed
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RESIGNS, BROOKINGS, PRESIDENT, ALLEN
FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2015, file photo, retired Gen. John Allen testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to examine the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. On Wednesday, June 8, 2022, the prestigious
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BIDEN, 2024, CORTEZ, OCASIO
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that she would not commit to endorsing President Joe Biden for 2024 until the time came.
Ocasio-Cortez said, “Our party is changing, our party is dynamic, and millennials
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NORTH, KOREA, ARTILLERY, SEOUL
In this photo provided on Saturday, June 11, 2022 by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a plenary meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party’s Central Committee held during June 8 - June 10, 2022 in Pyongyang, North Korea. Independent
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GAS, PRICES, STATION, GALLON
A Minnesota gas station is letting its customers know it feels for them as national fuel prices continue to skyrocket.
“We hate our gas prices too,” the owners of Murphy’s Service Center posted on the sign outside the St. Anthony station — where prices spiked
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TOBY, STOMACH, KEITH, CANCER
Country singer Toby Keith was diagnosed with stomach cancer last fall, he announced Sunday.
“I’ve spent the last 6 months receiving chemo, radiation and surgery. So far, so good. I need time to breathe, recover and relax,” he said in a statement on Instagram.
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TONY, AWARDS, 2022, BROADWAY
Evan Agostini/Invision/AP Ariana DeBose The best photos from the 2022 Tony Awards
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Broadway's best are being recognized Sunday night at New York's Radio City Music Hall.
The Tony Awards show is hosted by Broadway veteran
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PRIDE, EVENT, GROUP, ARRESTED
Police in Greece say one migrant was killed and 17 others, including a driver, were injured when a pickup truck trying to evade pursuing police slammed into a fence
THESSALONIKI, Greece -- A pickup truck trying to evade pursuing police in northeastern Greece
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MCDONALD, RUSSIA, RESTAURANTS, REBRANDED
(CNN) The golden arches and Big Mac may have gone, but Russians saw McDonald's restaurants reopen on Sunday under new branding and ownership.
The American fast-food giant has been renamed "Vkusno & Tochka," which translates to "Tasty and that's it."
Vkusno
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COONS, SCHUMER, CHRIS, TRUMP
While appearing on “Fox News Sunday” with Bret Baier, Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) came up with a novel way to answer a question about the dangerous rhetoric Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) used during a 2020 pro-abortion rally, which I previously wrote about.
On
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NIGHTCLUB, SHOOTING, WOUNDED, INDIANA
2 people were killed in a shooting at a nightclub in Gary, Ind.
GARY, Ind. — Two people were killed and four others were wounded in a shooting at an Indiana nightclub early Sunday, police said.
Officers responding to reports of shots fired around 2 a.m. in
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AMAZON, PAIR, FOUND, MISSING
Possible human remains have been found in the search for a missing British journalist and an Indigenous guide who vanished a week ago in a remote area of the Brazilian Amazon.
Dom Phillips, who has been a regular contributor to The Guardian newspaper, and
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EFFECTIVE, PFIZER, UNDER, COVID
Prepared Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine syringes for children ages 5 to 11 and adults are displayed on a table at Northwest Community Church in Chicago. (Nam Y. Huh/AP)
Federal health officials said Sunday that kid-sized doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccines appear
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SHOT, LOUISVILLE, BIG, GUN
All of the victims are juveniles.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was updated after the police initially said there was a fatality but later corrected themselves and said no one died from the shooting.
Five teenagers were left injured after they were shot Saturday
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NAVY, CRASHES, SAFETY, PAUSE
Last Wednesday, my colleague Jennifer Van Laar provided an update about reports of a Marine aircraft crash in southern California:
A military aircraft purportedly carrying “nuclear material” has crashed in Imperial County, CA, about 30 miles north of the Mexican
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UKRAINE, SENTENCE, DEATH, UK
Ukraine: UK man's family 'devastated' by death sentence
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LONDON — The family of a British man condemned to death for fighting for Ukraine said it is devastated by the outcome of what it termed a "show trial" and called
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HEAT, DANGEROUS, WAVE, HISTORIC
A historic heat wave continued its march across the nation Sunday after Phoenix, Las Vegas and Denver joined a plethora of cities and towns posting record temperatures and more than 50 million Americans sweltered under heat advisories.
Temperatures in California’s
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