Emerging Topics in U.S. News
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5th 2022
Updated 23:59 ET
31 articles
TRUMP, JUDGE, MASTER, SPECIAL
A federal judge has granted former President Donald Trump's request to appoint a "special master" to review materials that the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago last month. CNN's Sara Murray and Kara Scannell break down the judge's ruling with constitutional law attorney
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PRIME, MINISTER, LIZ, TRUSS
Liz Truss will become the United Kingdom’s 56th prime minister after narrowly defeating Rishi Sunak.
Britain’s Conservative Party has chosen Foreign Secretary Liz Truss as the party’s new leader, putting her in line to be confirmed as prime minister.
The
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BIDEN, LABOR, DAY, SPEECH
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is making his third trip to Pennsylvania in less than a week and returning just two days after his predecessor, Donald Trump, staged his own rally there — illustrating the battleground state’s importance to both parties
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STABBING, SUSPECTS, DEAD, CANADIAN
REGINA, Saskatchewan (AP) — Canadian police searched across the expansive province of Saskatchewan for two suspects believed to have stabbed to death 10 people in an Indigenous community and a nearby town in one of the deadliest mass killings in the country’s
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FLETCHER, ELIZA, ABDUCTION, MEMPHIS
A body has been found near where Memphis jogger Eliza Fletcher went missing last week, though police have not positively identified the remains.
“At 5:07 pm, officers in the 1600 block of Victor located a deceased party,” the Memphis Police Department tweeted
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KILLED, ISRAELI, SOLDIER, REPORTER
Israeli investigations into the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in May concluded that she was likely to have been unintentionally shot by an Israeli soldier but was not deliberately targeted, the military said Monday.
Abu Akleh, a U.S.-Palestinian
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FBI, BIDEN, HUNTER, WHISTLEBLOWER
Timothy Thibault, the FBI agent alleged to have interfered with an investigation into Hunter Biden, was assigned by the Washington Field Office as “point man” to manage whistleblower Tony Bobulinski, the first son’s former business partner, before the 2020
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CRASH, SEATTLE, PLANE, COAST
The Coast Guard suspended the search for survivors Monday after a seaplane crashed Sunday afternoon in the Puget Sound near Seattle.
One body was recovered and nine people were unaccounted for, including one child, the Coast Guard said. The plane, bound for
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FIRE, CALIFORNIA, WILDFIRE, ACRES
(CNN) Prolonged drought has exacerbated fire conditions throughout California, where six active wildfires have consumed tens of thousands of acres in less than a week, and led to the deaths of at least two residents, officials say.
In all, fires burning across
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PENN, STILLER, RUSSIA, SEAN
Russia sanctions 25 more Americans, including Sean Penn and Ben Stiller
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Russia imposed personal sanctions Monday on 25 Americans, including actors
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CHINA, EARTHQUAKE, SOUTHWEST, SHAKES
BEIJING — A strong earthquake shook a mountainous, steep-sloped area in southwestern China shortly after noon on Monday, and China’s state television said at least 21 people had been killed and more than 30 injured.
The full extent of the damage remained unclear
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CHICAGO, MIGRANTS, TEXAS, LIGHTFOOT
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot claims Texas Governor Greg Abbott is “manufacturing a human crisis” by sending 50 more migrants to the Windy City on air-conditioned buses. On the day the 50 migrants arrived in Chicago, approximately 3,774 arrived by illegally
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CALIFORNIA, POWER, GRID, HEAT
California faces a high risk rolling blackouts on Labor Day amid a heat wave and record levels of electricity demand that the grid cannot meet, thanks in part to a rush to renewable energy and the phasing out of fossil fuels and nuclear power in recent years.
The
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RUSSIAN, EMBASSY, KABUL, BOMBER
Russia’s state news agency RIA Novosti says an explosion has gone off outside the Russian Embassy in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Russia’s state news agency RIA Novosti says an explosion has gone off outside the Russian Embassy in Afghanistan’s
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OVATION, BRENDAN, FRASER, STANDING
Brendan Fraser poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'The Whale' during the 79th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy on Sept. 4. AP
VENICE, Italy (AP) — Brendan Fraser is having a moment at the Venice International
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POLICE, VEGAS, REPORTER, SUSPECT
Police have released surveillance images of a possible suspect in the fatal stabbing of a Las Vegas newspaper’s investigative reporter, although the images don’t show the person’s full face
LAS VEGAS -- Police released surveillance images Monday of a possible
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LOAN, STUDENT, BIDEN, HANDOUT
Patrice Onwuka, of the Independent Women's Forum, voices her concerns over President Joe Biden's student loan debt handout.
PATRICE ONWUKA: The elites are the ones who are in charge in Washington. They are the ones who are staffing House offices and frankly,
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UKRAINE, NUCLEAR, OFFLINE, SHELLING
Power plant situation 'extremely complex and challenging': IAEA
The head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog said the situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant remains "extremely complex and challenging."
International Atomic Energy Agency Director
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VENICE, WILDE, OLIVIA, FLORENCE
VENICE, Italy (AP) — The Venice Film Festival is buzzing with anticipation for Olivia Wilde’s “Don’t Worry Darling,” which is having its world premiere Monday night on the Lido.
By 8 a.m. Monday, dozens of Harry Styles fans were camping out in front of the
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STORM, TROPICAL, EARL, DANIELLE
Though Hurricane Danielle and Tropical Storm Earl are forecast to meander in the open Atlantic, Earl is forecast to become the season’s first major hurricane late in the week. Additionally, a third tropical wave has emerged off the west coast of Africa.
Tropical
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DAY, LABOR, SMALL, COUNTRY
Happy Labor Day!
Aside from the three-day weekend, this holiday gets little recognition from conservatives, because it is a paean to organized labor and its “accomplishments.” Accomplishments which have done more to harm small business and free enterprise,
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SOUTH, TYPHOON, KOREA, HINNAMNOR
Thousands of people were forced Tuesday to evacuate in South Korea as Typhoon Hinnamnor made landfall in the country’s southern regions, unleashing fierce rains and winds that destroyed trees and roads, and left more than 20,000 homes without power
High waves
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GAS, EUROPE, RUSSIA, ENERGY
Russia will keep gas supplies to Europe via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline shut down completely until the west lifts sanctions against Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin says.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Monday laid blame for the shutdown
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NADAL, OPEN, TIAFOE, SLAM
NEW YORK — Maryland’s Frances Tiafoe ended Rafael Nadal’s 22-match winning streak at Grand Slam tournaments by beating the 22-time major champion 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 in the U.S. Open’s fourth round on Monday.
Tiafoe is a 24-year-old who is seeded 22nd at Flushing
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