Emerging Topics in U.S. News
SATURDAY, AUGUST 13th 2022
Updated 23:59 ET
43 articles
TRUMP, RAID, FBI, LAGO
The political battle lines hardened Saturday over the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago, President Trump’s Florida resort home.
A top Senate Republican has demanded the public release of the evidence that convinced a judge to let the agency take the unprecedented step
Continued at New York Post...
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RUSHDIE, SALMAN, ATTACK, STABBING
Novelist Salman Rushdie is on a ventilator after being stabbed at a speaking event Novelist Salman Rushdie suffered damage to his liver, nerves and an eye when he was attacked at a speaking event in western New York state Friday, according to his agent. He
Continued at NPR...
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INFLATION, ACT, REDUCTION, MOTHER
The decline in consumer price inflation in July was widely celebrated in financial markets and the White House, but it did little to deter lawmakers from enacting the Inflation Reduction Act this week.
That’s probably because the bill is not really aimed at
Continued at Breitbart...
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SCHOOL, PARENTS, ARRESTED, ARIZONA
Police in El Mirage, Arizona, arrested three parents who were trying to reach their children during a school lockdown on Friday.
The parents of Thompson Ranch Elementary School students “became confrontational with officers” when they were informed they couldn’t
Continued at Huffington Post...
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RUST, TRIGGER, SHOOTING, BALDWIN
When the FBI isn’t raiding the home of a former president and seizing the phones of Democrat political opponents, they apparently still dabble in legitimate police work from time to time. According to a new report, Alec Baldwin’s biggest defense following the
Continued at Red State...
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TEXAS, MIGRANT, NEW, YORK
Jose Rodriguez was tired, hungry and beaten down when he crossed the border from Mexico into Texas after a two-month journey. He didn’t have money, and he didn’t have many options. Although he had originally hoped to go to Miami, he heard there was a free bus
Continued at NY Daily News...
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UKRAINE, RUSSIAN, EAST, SUPPLY
Thousands of Russian troops posted west of Ukraine’s Dnieper River have found themselves in a vulnerable position as Ukrainian forces have blocked most eastern supply routes, the U.K. defense ministry said Saturday.
British intelligence has assessed that
Continued at Fox News...
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SHELTER, TIJUANA, VIOLENCE, PLACE
The United States Consulate in Tijuana has warned U.S. government employees in Tijuana, Mexico, and Baja California, as well as the public, to shelter in place amidst the eruption of violence.
"The U.S. Consulate General Tijuana is aware of reports of multiple
Continued at Newsmax...
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KELLY, GIVE, FIXING, CHARGE
CHICAGO (AP) - R. Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago that starts Monday is in many ways a do-over of his 2008 state child pornography trial, at which jurors acquitted the singer on charges that he produced a video of himself when he was around 30 having sex with
Continued at Washington Times...
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PAC, ROY, MOORE, DEMOCRATIC
A federal jury awarded Republican Roy Moore $8.2 million in damages Friday after finding a Democratic-aligned super PAC defamed him in a TV ad recounting sexual misconduct accusations during his failed 2017 U.S. Senate bid in Alabama.
Jurors found the Senate
Continued at Fox News...
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MONTENEGRO, 10, KILLED, PASSERBY
Montenegro has declared three days of national mourning after 10 people, including two children, were killed in an attack by a 34-year-old gunman in the western city of Cetinje
Flags flew at half-mast in front of the site of the attack in Cetinje, some 30
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CAR, CRASHES, INJURED, POLICE
A driver drove a vehicle into a restaurant in Arlington, Virginia, on Friday, leaving 14 people injured, according to police and fire officials.
Officials said the crash caused a structure fire that has since been extinguished.
It remains unclear what led
Continued at Fox News...
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UNRESOLVED, TILL, QUESTIONS, END
The white woman whose accusations prompted the lynching of Emmett Till in 1955 talks in a memoir about getting preferential treatment from Mississippi authorities soon after the killing
By her own telling, Mississippi authorities provided Carolyn Bryant Donham
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TALIBAN, WOMEN, RARE, GUNS
Aug. 15, 2021, was a dark day for Afghanistan — and for Afghan women in particular. The Taliban took control of the country and, in what seemed like an instant, stripped women of their rights. Within days, professionals who had spent their lives studying, working
Continued at New York Times...
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FESTIVAL, MUSIC, STAGE, COLLAPSE
Madrid, Spain (CNN) One person died Saturday and 17 have been injured, three of them seriously, after a stage collapsed at a music festival near Valencia, Spain, according to local officials.
Disaster struck at the Medusa Festival in the town of Cullera near
Continued at CNN...
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BOIL, WATER, ADVISORY, MICHIGAN
The advisory impacts over a dozen communities in the Detroit area.
Some Michigan residents are under a boil water advisory after a leak was discovered in a major water main that serves the Detroit area.
The Great Lakes Water Authority said it discovered a
Continued at ABC...
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DIES, LIQUID, CHILD, ASSAULT
A man on trial in Texas died after he chugged from a bottle containing a cloudy liquid as jurors convicted him on charges of child sexual assault.
When the first guilty verdict was announced inside the Denton courtroom on Thursday, Edward Leclair immediately
Continued at NY Daily News...
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FISH, DIE, RIVER, GERMAN
Laboratory tests following a mass die-off of fish in the Oder River detected high levels of salinity but no mercury poisoning its waters, Poland’s environment minister said Saturday as the mystery continued as to what killed tons of fish in Central Europe.
Anna
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MONEY, STREET, KILLING, SINEMA
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the Arizona Democrat who single-handedly thwarted her party’s longtime goal of raising taxes on wealthy investors, received nearly $1 million over the past year from private equity professionals, hedge fund managers and
Continued at Huffington Post...
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DEAD, VEGAS, DECADE, CASINOS
The torrential downpour that caused some of Las Vegas’s most iconic hotels and casinos to be consumed with floodwater turned deadly after two lifeless bodies were found.
Emergency services and firefighters removing debris from a flood channel near Las Vegas
Continued at New York Post...
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SOUTHERN, ABUSE, BAPTIST, FOLLOWING
Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention said Friday the nation's largest Protestant denomination is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice. They also said the investigation, which will examine reported clergy sex abuse, is "not something to
Continued at USA Today...
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HUSBAND, BOEBERT, NEIGHBORS, LAUREN
Authorities in Colorado are under fire for taking a hand’s off approach to a wild dispute between gun-toting Rep. Lauren Boebert’s neighbors and her apparently hot-head husband — after he allegedly threatened them and ran over a mailbox.
Newly released 911
Continued at New York Post...
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SNAKE, RATTLESNAKE, RESEARCHER, RENOWNED
An elderly renowned snake enthusiast died after he was bitten by a rattlesnake in West Virginia last week, his family said.
William H. “Marty” Martin, 80, was killed on Aug. 3 after he was bitten by a timber rattler on his property in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia,
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ANNE, MOM, HECHE, SON
Actress Anne Heche’s eldest son, Homer Laffoon, shared an emotional farewell to his mother following her death.
"My brother Atlas and I lost our Mom. After six days of almost unbelievable emotional swings, I am left with a deep, wordless sadness. Hopefully
Continued at Fox News...