Emerging Topics in U.S. News
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1st 2022
Updated 23:59 ET
58 articles
BIDEN, SPEECH, MAGA, DEMOCRACY
President Joe Biden is getting ready for his prime-time speech on Thursday night. The great “unifier” will likely create more division in his partisan remarks. His “semi-fascist” speech about “MAGA Republicans” was shot down even by Maryland Governor Larry
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TRUMP, DOCUMENTS, SPECIAL, MASTER
In fact, Alina Habba said on Fox News on Wednesday that the files were kept in an office where Trump “frequently” had guests.
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Habba took issue with a photo the Justice Department included in its legal brief detailing the reason for the search
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PANDEMIC, MATH, SCORES, READING
American students' reading and math scores fell sharply during the coronavirus pandemic.
The plummeting test scores were published by the Department of Education on Thursday, showing dramatic losses across the board for students in the U.S.
"In 2022, the
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COVID, CDC, BOOSTERS, ADVISERS
(CNN) There's a new kind of Covid-19 shot coming soon to a pharmacy or clinic near you.
The US Food and Drug Administration has authorized updated vaccinesthat target the original strain of the coronavirus as well as the Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5.
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ALASKA, PALIN, PELTOLA, SARAH
Some Republicans are denouncing ranked-choice voting after a Democrat won Alaska's only U.S. House seat by edging two GOP candidates, including former Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin.
Mary Peltola on Wednesday won a special election for Alaska's House
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TEXAS, CHICAGO, MIGRANTS, ABBOTT
EAGLE PASS, Texas — Migrants crossing the rain-swollen Rio Grande report that several members of their group were swept away during an attempted crossing Thursday. Border Patrol agents are performing a search and rescue operation.
Members of a group of about
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TWITTER, EDIT, BUTTON, PREMIUM
Twitter has finally answered the demands of its users by adding an edit button. But they’ll have to pay to use it.
The social media giant announced Thursday that it will be testing the edit feature for its premium accounts known as Twitter Blue.
The option
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WATER, JACKSON, CRISIS, MISSISSIPPI
The water crisis in Mississippi’s capital city has become so dire that residents are being told to shower with cold water — and to keep their mouths shut while they do it.
The director of health protection for the Mississippi State Department of Health, Jim
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RUSSIAN, EXECUTIVE, OIL, DIES
One less constant critic for Vladimir Putin.
Ravil Maganov, 67, chief executive of Russian private oil giant Lukoil — and a Ukraine war opponent — died in a six-story plunge from a Moscow hospital window.
The death Thursday was reported as a suicide by Russian
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PLANT, NUCLEAR, INSPECTORS, UKRAINE
As the U.N. experts set off on Thursday morning from Ukrainian-held territory toward the dangerous buffer zone separating the two armies, mortar shells struck the plant, the Ukrainian nuclear power company, Energoatom, said. It blamed Russian forces for the
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SCHOOL, NORTH, STABBING, HIGH
JACKSONVILLE, N.C. – At least one person is dead and two others were injured Thursday after an apparent stabbing at a high school in eastern North Carolina, authorities said.
A student resource officer requested assistance from the Jacksonville Police Department
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WILLIAMS, SERENA, OPEN, DOUBLES
Serena Williams wins again at US Open to advance to the third round
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NEW YORK — Serena Williams can call it "evolving" or "retiring" or whatever she wants. And she can be coy about whether
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GRAHAM, JUDGE, GEORGIA, LINDSEY
A federal judge has ruled constitutional protections don’t shield U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham from testifying before a special grand jury investigating possible illegal efforts to overturn then-President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia
COLUMBIA,
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GUNS, NEW, LAW, HOCHUL
New York's new concealed carry law, which will allow gun-free zones all around New York City and throughout the state, will be challenged in state and federal courts, former City Commissioner Brian Andersson, who served under Mayors Rudy Giuliani and Michael
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PUTIN, GORBACHEV, FUNERAL, ATTEND
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives at the German-Russian Petersburg Dialogue conference in Dresden, Oct. 10, 2006. (Markus Schreiber/AP)
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday paid tribute
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OFFICER, YEARS, 10, NYPD
A still frame from a Metropolitan Police Department bodycam shows Thomas Webster, in red jacket, at a barricade line on Jan. 6, 2021 in Washington, D.C.. via Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — A retired New York Police Department officer was sentenced on Thursday
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THOMAS, GINNI, WISCONSIN, OVERTURN
Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, moderates a pannel discussion titled "When did World War III Begin? Part A: Threats at Home" during the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention
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OATH, KEEPERS, JAN, CONNECTION
A lawyer for the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group has been charged with conspiracy in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol, authorities said Thursday.
Kellye SoRelle — general counsel for the antigovernment group — was arrested
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STUDENT, LOAN, BIDEN, FORGIVENESS
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To reduce inflation, battle climate change, reduce gas prices, stem rising crime and to protect our southern border, President Joe Biden has forgiven
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CALIFORNIA, NUCLEAR, PLANT, STATE
California lawmakers extend the life of the state's last nuclear power plant
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Citing searing summer temperatures
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SCOTT, MCCONNELL, RICK, CANDIDATES
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), slammed Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and the establishment wing of the Republican party on Thursday for trashing GOP Senate candidates in swing states.
“Unfortunately, many
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OZ, FETTERMAN, DEBATE, LL
Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman lambasted his GOP rival, Dr. Mehmet Oz, on Wednesday over a series of attacks on his health after the lieutenant governor suffered a stroke earlier this year.
Fetterman made the comments on MSNBC’s “The 11th Hour,”
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POLL, MIDTERM, TRAFALGAR, DEMS
Inflation remains the top issue for Americans heading into the 2022 midterm elections, while only one percent of voters said the economy is in “excellent” shape, according to a Wednesday Quinnipiac poll.
The poll asked respondents, “In your opinion, what is
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ABORTION, NEW, COURT, MILLION
New Mexico Democrat Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed an executive order that designates $10 million in taxpayer money to fund a new abortion clinic.
Grisham, who's running for reelection in November, issued her order Wednesday because "efforts to restrict
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