Emerging Topics in U.S. News
MONDAY, AUGUST 8th 2022
Updated 23:59 ET
67 articles
TRUMP, FBI, LAGO, MAR
(CNN) In the wake of then-President Donald Trump's infamous photo-op at the height of the George Floyd protests, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley penned a lengthy and vociferous critique of Trump in a resignation letter he ultimately never
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ARBERY, AHMAUD, HATE, LIFE
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Months after they were sentenced to life in prison for murder, the three White men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery in a Georgia neighborhood faced a second round of criminal penalties Monday for federal hate crimes committed in the
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TAIWAN, CHINA, MILITARY, DRILLS
China said on Monday it would hold new drills near Taiwan, a sign that Beijing may keep up a drumbeat of military pressure on the island after conducting its largest-ever exercises in the area in retaliation for Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit last week.
The
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BIDEN, KENTUCKY, FLOOD, DAMAGE
As we reported earlier, Joe Biden stopped in Kentucky to meet with Gov. Andy Beshear in between his vacation day in Delaware on his way to a week-long vacation in South Carolina. Biden was there to talk about the flooding that had happened last week that took
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JOHN, NEWTON, OLIVIA, 73
Actor John Travolta released a statement Monday about the death of Olivia Newton-John on social media. Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP
Legendary actor John Travolta released a tender statement on social media on the death Monday of “Grease” co-star Olivia Newton-John.
In
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TEXAS, MAYOR, ABBOTT, NYC
The American Civil Liberties Union wants federal immigration authorities to stop cooperating with Texas state troopers who transport migrants back to the southern border.
An executive order by Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, authorized state troopers to return
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POLICE, FAMILY, PETITO, GABBY
Petito's parents file wrongful death against Moab
Gabby Petito's family on Monday notified Utah officials of plans to file a wrongful death lawsuit alleging that police failed to recognize their daughter was in a life-threatening situation last year when officers
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ANNE, HECHE, CRASH, FIERY
Alec Baldwin’s rush to publicly support actress Anne Heche after her fiery car crash in Los Angeles has since drawn plenty of fiery criticism of its own.
As Breitbart News reported, Heche was behind the wheel when her Mini Cooper crashed into the side of a
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GAZA, ISRAEL, FIRE, CEASE
A fragile cease-fire deal to end nearly three days of fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants has held into the morning, signaling the latest round of violence may have abated
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- A fragile cease-fire deal to end nearly three
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ALBUQUERQUE, MUSLIM, KILLINGS, MEN
Police in Albuquerque investigating the slayings of four Muslim men released photos of a car believed to be tied to the possible serial-killer deaths that have left the community rattled.
Cops said in a press release Sunday they were pleading for the public’s
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MCCULLOUGH, DAVID, HISTORIAN, 89
Pulitzer Prize winning historian David McCullough has died
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David McCullough has died. He was a bravura historian and public intellectual whose
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UKRAINE, BILLION, ROCKETS, PLEDGES
CBS News announced changes to its upcoming Ukrainian documentary after deleting a tweet suggesting that only 30% of U.S. aid has been reaching the front lines of the war against Russia.
On Friday, the news organization originally tweeted a promotion for
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BILL, DEMOCRATS, TRUMP, ACT
Blog Post
The Senate yesterday passed on a party-line basis Democrats’ latest tax and spending bill, which they call the Inflation Reduction Act. President Joe Biden extolled that legislation, saying the bill “makes the largest investment ever in combatting
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OKLAHOMA, GUNDY, CALE, RESIGNS
The daughter of former Oklahoma football assistant Cale Gundy appeared to take issue with head coach Brent Venables' latest statement on his departure in a tweet that has since been deleted.
Venables released a separate statement on Monday supporting Gundy’s
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NUCLEAR, PLANT, RUSSIA, INSPECTIONS
11-year-old boys Maksym and Andrii salute to Ukrainian soldiers while holding plastic guns as they play at the self-made checkpoint on the highway in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, on July 20, 2022. (Evgeniy Maloletka/AP)
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia and Ukraine traded
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INFLATION, SCHUMER, ACT, SEN
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) bears the fingerprints of Democrat Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York and Joe Manchin of West Virginia. Their 725-page ruin belies its billing, beginning with its fraudulent title. While Americans reel under 9.1% year-on-year
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CLIMATE, INFECTIOUS, DISEASES, STUDY
Climate hazards, such as flooding, heat waves and drought, have worsened more than half of the hundreds of known infectious diseases in people, including malaria, hantavirus, cholera and even anthrax.
Researchers looked through the medical literature of established
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PETE, ROSE, RAPE, STATUTORY
Pete Rose on Sunday made his first on-field appearance with the Philadelphia Phillies since being banned from Major League Baseball 23 years ago for betting on games.
Rose, 81, was at Citizens Bank Park as part of a celebration of the 1980 Phillies World Series
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SCAM, YEARS, JERSEY, GOFUNDME
A New Jersey man has sentenced to five years in state prison for his role in a scam that duped donors out of almost $400,000 with a heartwarming story about a Good Samaritan who used his last $20 to buy his girlfriend gas while she was stranded on the highway.
Mark
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SCHOOL, GENDER, UVALDE, ARREDONDO
As the superintendent of the Hearne Independent School District in Texas, Adrain Johnson is well versed in the problems of rural public school districts, from campus security to attracting top teachers to a general lack of resources.
Johnson recently told
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WISCONSIN, TRUMP, TUESDAY, PRIMARY
Wisconsin Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Michels, left, speaks as former President Donald Trump, right, listens at a rally Aug. 5, 2022, in Waukesha, Wis. Michels casts himself as an outsider, although he previously lost a campaign to oust then-U.S.
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ACT, INFLATION, REDUCTION, GOP
In an interview on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed the $700 billion Inflation Reduction Act, a scaled-down iteration of the Build Back Better Act.
Cruz told host Maria Bartiromo that the legislation was “terrible”
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VACCINE, LYME, MAJOR, DISEASE
Pfizer and a French partner are launching a large clinical trial of an experimental vaccine that would be the only to prevent Lyme disease, the companies announced Monday.
If proven safe and effective, the vaccine, currently called VLA15, could be an important
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NEW, FACE, SCHEME, MICHIGAN
Two men accused of crafting a plan to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 and ignite a national rebellion are facing a second trial this week, months after a jury couldn’t reach a verdict on the pair while acquitting two others.
The result in April
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