Emerging Topics in U.S. News
TUESDAY, AUGUST 30th 2022
Updated 23:59 ET
36 articles
BIDEN, PENNSYLVANIA, SPEECH, REPUBLICANS
President Joe Biden screamed, “I am determined to ban assault weapons in this country!” during a Tuesday speech in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
Biden segued to “assault weapons” by talking about passing Sen. John Cornyn’s (R-TX) gun control package this summer.
He
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WATER, MISSISSIPPI, JACKSON, CRISIS
The water supply in Jackson, Mississippi, remained unsafe for residents to drink or brush their teeth Tuesday amid the city’s ongoing water crisis and a state of emergency.
Excessive rainfall had doused the state capital and central Mississippi throughout
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GORBACHEV, MIKHAIL, 91, SOVIET
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who brought down the Iron Curtain, died at the age 91 following a long illness Tuesday, according to Russian state and independent media.
Gorbachev’s office said earlier that he was undergoing treatment at Moscow’s
Continued at New York Post...
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TRUMP, FBI, LAGO, MAR
Former President Donald Trump has hired Chris Kise, a former Florida solicitor general, and ally of Gov. Ron DeSantis, to represent him in the explosive Justice Department probe that led to the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida and
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2022, SCHEDULE, NFL, 2023
Nearly 70% of teachers within the Los Angeles Unified School District have seriously considered leaving the teaching profession as a result of working conditions within the district, according to a report from a prominent teachers’ union.
The report, compiled
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TWITTER, MUSK, WHISTLEBLOWER, DEAL
(CNN Business) Elon Musk is formally citing allegations leveled by Twitter's whistleblower, Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, as justifications for terminating a $44 billion acquisition deal for the social media company.
On Monday, Musk's legal team sent a letter to Twitter
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IRAQI, CLERIC, TELLS, CLASHES
BAGHDAD (AP) — An influential Iraqi cleric called on his supporters to withdraw Tuesday from the Green Zone, where they have traded heavy fire with security forces in a serious escalation of a monthslong political crisis gripping the nation.
In a televised
Continued at Washington Times...
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PAKISTAN, FLOODS, AID, EMERGENCY
More than 1 million homes have been destroyed because of flash floods.
Seventy-five people have died and 59 have been injured in Pakistan over the last 24 hours due to severe weather, further devastating a country that's experiencing historic rain and flooding,
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UKRAINE, SOUTH, RUSSIANS, FIGHTING
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged Russian troops to flee for their lives after his forces launched an offensive to retake southern Ukraine, but Moscow said it had halted the attack in its tracks and inflicted heavy losses on Kyiv.
Ukraine said
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WILLIAMS, OPEN, SERENA, CLINTON
(CNN) A day after her sister Serena advanced to the second round of the singles play at US Open tennis tournament, Venus Williams was not as fortunate, losing in straight sets to Alison Van Uytvanck of Belgium.
Appearing in an Open-era record 23rd US Open,
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SOCIAL, GOOGLE, TRUTH, TRUMP
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Google is blocking Truth Social, former President Donald Trump’s social media network, from its app store due to concerns over its content moderation policy.
Trump started the app after Twitter banned
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HUNTER, LAPTOP, FBI, FACEBOOK
When Mark Zuckerberg dropped the bomb on Joe Rogan’s podcast that the FBI had contacted social media companies to effectively warn them about a “Russian misinformation” that was the Hunter Biden laptop story, many people became rightly angry.
Fresh off the
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BORDER, BIDEN, PATROL, CHIEF
The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com.
By the time you read this, 5 million illegal immigrants will have entered our country since Joe Biden took over the presidency. That’s a stunning
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SAFEWAY, SHOOTER, OREGON, NATIONAL
The Forum Shopping Center in Bend, Ore. remained closed Monday, Aug. 29, 2022 as police investigated a shooting at the Safeway there that left two people and the suspected gunman dead Sunday night. Dave Killen/The Oregonian via AP
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Safeway
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LIQUID, DISHWASHING, CALIFORNIA, DIES
(CNN) One woman died and two others were hospitalized after they were served dishwashing liquid instead of juice at their California assisted living facility on Sunday night, officials said.
Police responded to Atria Park, an assisted living facility in San
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ARTEMIS, NASA, MOON, SATURDAY
NASA scrubbed the launch of its Artemis I mission on Monday, but scientists at the space agency were pouring over data from the attempt in hopes of sending the spacecraft in the coming days, the first step in a series of launches that could see astronauts headed
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STUDENT, LOAN, COLLEGE, RYAN
Pedestrians pass by a Westwood College building in Torrance, California, Aug. 14, 2009. The Biden administration says it will cancel any federal student loans used to attend the for-profit Westwood College from 2002 through 2015 after officials found that the
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CALIFORNIA, BILL, WORKERS, FOOD
California Dems Pass Bill That Could Pay Fast Food Workers Up To $22 An Hour
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Democratic legislators in California passed a bill on Monday that will create an unelected state-run board to impose minimum
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STORMS, DEAD, POWER, MICHIGAN
The 14-year-old girl, who was also not identified by the authorities, had been walking with a friend in the backyard of her home in Monroe, Mich., about 40 miles southwest of Detroit, when she thought she smelled a bonfire and reached for a stick, unaware that
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HOCHUL, DESANTIS, GOV, NEW
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ripped New York Gov. Kathy Hochul Tuesday for suggesting at a rally earlier this month that Empire State conservatives should take a hike.
“You have the governor of New York saying all Republicans need to get on a bus and leave the
Continued at New York Post...
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TRAIN, TEXAS, CARS, DERAIL
Two train cars in El Paso, Texas, derailed Monday evening, killing at least one person and damaging a gas line, fire officials said.
The derailment happened near Barton Street and homes in the area were initially evacuated as a safety precaution, El Paso Fire
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HERSCHEL, WARNOCK, RACE, WALKER
Trump-endorsed Republican candidate Herschel Walker has taken a two-point lead over incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) in the Georgia senate race, according to an Emerson College poll released Tuesday.
Walker’s two-point lead (46 to 44 percent) is within
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DEATH, TEXAS, MONKEYPOX, ADULT
A Texas patient who was infected with monkeypox has died, though state health officials said Tuesday it's too early to say what role the virus may have played in the death.
The adult, who died in a hospital in Harris County, was "severely immunocompromised"
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COLLEGE, LEWIS, CLARK, STUDENT
A 19-year-old male student died and two 18-year-old women were injured Monday night when a column collapsed on their hammocks at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.
There were six people in three hammocks supported by columns at the center of the college’s
Continued at Washington Times...