Emerging Topics in U.S. News
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21st 2022
Updated 23:59 ET
80 articles
TRUMP, NEW, FRAUD, YORK
We are about to find out if Donald Trump ever littered or jaywalked in his entire life.
He is under scrutiny for everything else with prosecutors throughout the country — all motivated by partisanship — filing all manner of lawsuits and criminal investigations
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PUTIN, BIDEN, UKRAINE, RUSSIA
Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly, President Joe Biden on Wednesday cast the defining conflict facing global leaders as a duel between democracy and autocracy, directly responding to new threats from Russian President Vladimir Putin to escalate
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FED, RATE, INTEREST, INFLATION
U.S. Senate candidate Adam Laxalt is calling Nevada “ground zero of the national inflation crisis,” after the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC) posted data showing 15.6 percent inflation in the Silver State — which is double the national average.
The
Continued at Breitbart...
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FIONA, PUERTO, HURRICANE, RICO
Jennifer Lopez and Lin-Manuel Miranda urged support for Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic after Hurricane Fiona hit. Associated Press
When Hurricane Fiona hit Puerto Rico on Sunday, it caused disastrous landslides and knocked out the power grid, leaving
Continued at Huffington Post...
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DESANTIS, MARTHA, VINEYARD, MIGRANTS
A defiant Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who was hit with a class-action lawsuit for flying a group of roughly 50 Venezuelans to Martha’s Vineyard, blasted the Biden administration for treating migrants “horribly” and said sanctuary cities have to “bear the brunt”
Continued at New York Post...
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JAN, THOMAS, AGREES, INTERVIEW
CNN —
The House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, has come to an agreement with Ginni Thomas, the conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, to be interviewed by the panel in the coming weeks, according to a source
Continued at CNN...
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FLOYD, GEORGE, LANE, DEATH
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A former Minneapolis police officer who pleaded guilty to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday.
Thomas Lane is already serving a 2½-year federal
Continued at Washington Times...
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DEAD, FOUND, POLICE, YEAR
A Belk employee was found dead at a South Carolina location of the department store Monday, four days after her death, officials said.
Police identified the victim as 63-year-old Bessie Durham, and said her body was discovered inside a bathroom stall at the
Continued at NY Daily News...
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MEGA, MILLIONS, JACKPOT, CLAIM
We finally have a winner.
Nearly two months after the Mega Millions $1.34 billion winning ticket was announced, two people have finally claimed the ticket to win the third-largest jackpot in U.S. history, Illinois Lottery announced Wednesday. The winnings
Continued at USA Today...
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INFLATION, RYAN, FED, VOTERS
Who’s switching?
Nate tried to figure out which Hispanic voters were moving right by creating a subgroup of poll respondents: people who said they had voted for a mix of Democrats and Republicans in recent elections and said they were planning to vote Republican
Continued at New York Times...
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JUDGE, AARON, HOME, RUN
Aaron Judge became the sixth person in MLB history to hit 60 home runs in a single season on Tuesday night.
Judge’s 60th blast of the year was a leadoff solo shot in the ninth inning off of Pittsburgh Pirates’ Wil Crowe.
Judge is also the third Yankee to
Continued at Fox News...
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PROTESTS, IRAN, MAHSA, AMINI
As street protests in Iran turned increasingly deadly, President Ebrahim Raisi on Wednesday accused the West of maintaining a double standard on human rights.
Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly, Raisi attempted to deflect international outrage
Continued at LA Times...
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HOUSE, BILL, ELECTION, REFORM
The House just passed a bill that would make it harder to overthrow an election
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The House on Wednesday passed a set of electoral reforms aimed at shoring up ambiguities and archaic
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UKRAINE, RUSSIA, VETERANS, PRISONER
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Two U.S. military veterans who disappeared while fighting Russia with Ukrainian forces have been released after about three months in captivity, relatives said Wednesday.
Alex Drueke, 39, and Andy Huynh, 27, went missing in the Kharkiv region
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ILLEGAL, MARTHA, VINEYARD, RECORD
Fox News host Jesse Watters reacted to illegal migrants suing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis after he sent them to Martha's Vineyard on "Jesse Watters Primetime."
JESSE WATTERS: The illegals who DeSantis flew to the Vineyard are suing him. Let that sink in. Illegal
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MONUMENT, WASHINGTON, VANDALIZED, RED
(CNN) — United States Park Police say the Washington Monument is temporarily closed and a man is in custody for allegedly vandalizing the monument with paint on the evening of Tuesday, September 20.
The man splashed red paint and wrote a profane message on
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TEEN, REPUBLICAN, NORTH, DAKOTA
Well, that didn’t take long.
The North Dakota man who allegedly confessed to killing an 18-year-old man because of his political beliefs was released from jail on Tuesday after posting a $50,000 bond. Shannon Brandt, 41, spent only a few days in custody on
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GAS, PRICES, DAYS, DECLINE
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Following nearly 100 days of declines, gas prices rose slightly Wednesday, and are forecasted to change little in the near future.
The national average price rose by about a cent to $3.68, snapping a 98-day
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MERCURY, SUNS, SARVER, ROBERT
Robert Sarver, the owner of N.B.A. and W.N.B.A. teams in Phoenix, said he planned to sell both teams after an investigation found that he had mistreated employees for years. Sarver owns the N.B.A.’s Suns and the W.N.B.A.’s Mercury.
The N.B.A. fined him $10
Continued at New York Times...
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BIDEN, PANDEMIC, COVID, EMERGENCY
China’s Global Times government newspaper accused leftist President Joe Biden this week of declaring the Chinese coronavirus pandemic “over” as a means of boosting Democrat prospects in the upcoming midterm elections, predicting that doing so would “lead to
Continued at Breitbart...
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SETS, PROTEST, FUNERAL, FIRE
TOKYO – A man set himself on fire near the Japanese prime minister’s office on Wednesday in an apparent protest at the government’s decision to hold a state funeral for former premier Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated earlier this year, media reported.
The
Continued at New York Post...
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WHALES, BEACHED, TASMANIA, HUNDREDS
CNN —
More than 200 whales have been found stranded in Australia on the western shore of Tasmania, wildlife officials said.
The animals, which appear to be pilot whales, are currently stranded on a beach and a sand bank, the Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service
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BIDEN, TRUMP, POLL, 2024
Most registered voters are still saying that former President Donald Trump performed better than President Joe Biden on a slate of critical issues, according to a new Harvard-Harris poll.
The first is Biden's overall job approval rating. His disapproval currently
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NEPTUNE, TELESCOPE, NEW, PHOTOS
NASA has released new glamour shots of Neptune, and the planet and its rings haven’t looked this good in decades
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Neptune and its rings haven’t looked this good in decades.
NASA released new glamour shots of our solar system's outermost
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