Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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VETERANS, DAY, NATIONAL, HARRIS
New Memorial on the National Mall honors Native veterans who served the nation
Enlarge this image toggle caption Alan Karchmer/The National Museum of the American Indian Alan Karchmer/The National Museum of the American Indian
Harvey Phillip Pratt is an artist
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KHERSON, TROOPS, RUSSIA, UKRAINIAN
Russia's defense ministry said on Friday it had completed the withdrawal of troops from the western bank of the Dnipro river in Ukraine's southern Kherson region.
In its daily briefing, the ministry said all Russian forces and equipment had been transferred
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BIDEN, CLIMATE, COP27, SUMMIT
Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt CNN —
President Joe Biden arrives Friday to the climate summit underway in an Egyptian Red Sea resort eager to highlight major new US investments toward limiting climate change, a sharp difference from the last time he showed up at a
Continued at CNN...
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ARIZONA, KELLY, MARK, ELECTION
Arizona Democrat Sen. Mark Kelly is projected to win re-election, according to Decision Desk HQ.
Sen. Mark Kelly is a former astronaut and the husband of former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. His GOP opponent, 36-year-old Blake Masters, is a businessman
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FTX, CRYPTO, BANKRUPTCY, FILES
Crypto trading platform FTX is filing for bankruptcy and its CEO has resigned.
The cryptocurrency sector is reeling after the collapse of FTX, a digital currency exchange valued earlier this year at $32 billion and made famous by a Super Bowl ad starring comedian
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TWITTER, MUSK, ELON, ACCOUNTS
Just a few days into the launch of the revamped Twitter Blue system that allowed anyone with $8 to be verified, the platform has paused paid verification due to imposter accounts springing up on the platform — as almost everyone that has used Twitter predicted
Continued at Breitbart...
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STUDENT, BIDEN, JUDGE, FORGIVENESS
A federal judge in Texas blocked President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness program on Thursday, declaring the program unlawful and putting millions of student-loan borrowers in further limbo.
U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, an appointee of former Republican
Continued at USA Today...
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MCCONNELL, GOP, LEADERSHIP, SENATE
Senate Republicans won't delay their leadership elections set for next week despite a growing number of calls from conservative senators who want a postponement and are growing frustrated with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other leaders.
"It makes no
Continued at Fox News...
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BORDER, RESIGN, OFFICIAL, ASKED
WASHINGTON — The Customs and Border Protection commissioner said Friday that he had been asked to step down but was refusing to do so, in what appears to be the Biden administration’s first attempted shake-up after the midterm elections.
The commissioner,
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NEVADA, LOMBARDO, JOE, SISOLAK
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Republican Joe Lombardo, a career police officer and sheriff in Las Vegas who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has been elected governor in Nevada.
Lombardo defeated Steve Sisolak, regaining the governorship of the Silver State
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NICOLE, FLORIDA, HEAVY, TROPICAL
STUART, Fla. – Tropical Depression Nicole was moving through Georgia Friday morning after a day of causing havoc as it churned through Florida as a hurricane and then a tropical storm, leaving tens of thousands of homes and businesses without power.
The rare
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ARIZONA, RACE, MAYOR, COUNT
U.S. Rep. Karen Bass overtook businessman Rick Caruso in the seesaw battle to be mayor of Los Angeles, with Friday’s tally showing the veteran lawmaker 4,384 votes ahead of the real estate developer in a contest that will not be settled until next week at the
Continued at LA Times...
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MCCARTHY, HOUSE, GOP, RUN
Thursday on FNC’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Rep. Bob Good (R-VA), a member of the House Freedom Caucus, vowed House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) would not go without Republican opposition in his effort to be House Speaker.
Partial transcript as follows:
INGRAHAM:
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LACHEY, EX, VETERAN, SIMPSON
Fox News Channel viewers can expect to see a lot of camouflage Friday for Veterans Day.
FOX Corporation, which proudly salutes United States veterans and the organizations that serve them every day, teamed with U.S.VETS’ "Make Camo Your Cause" campaign as
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BALLOTS, NEVADA, 000, MAIL
A little more than 50,000 mail ballots still need to be counted in Clark County, Nevada’s most populated center, Clark County Registrar of Voters Joe Gloria said during Friday’s daily press conference, as Republican Adam Laxalt and incumbent Democrat Sen. Catherine
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SCREAM, CLIMATE, PAINTING, ACTIVISTS
Two people have tried in vain to glue themselves to Edvard Munch’s 1893 masterpiece “The Scream” at a museum in Norway's capital
COPENHAGEN -- Norwegian police said two people tried in vain Friday to glue themselves to Edvard Munch’s 1893 masterpiece “The
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SCHOOL, BOARD, CANDIDATES, BIG
The high school football coach who lost his job for praying on the 50-yard line after games will return to the field and the school in March, a federal judge ordered on Thursday.
The ruling comes after the Supreme Court said in June that the school violated
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66, CONROY, BATMAN, KEVIN
Star Wars actor Mark Hamill, who played Batman's nemesis The Joker in Batman animations and video games, said Conroy was "one of my favourite people on the planet" in his statement, adding he "loved him like a brother".
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CHALLENGER, SPACE, SHUTTLE, PIECE
A piece of the wrecked Space Shuttle Challenger has been discovered on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean by a History Channel film crew looking for World War II artifacts.
The Challenger exploded after its launch on Jan. 28, 1986, killing all seven crew members.
"The
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REP, LEE, DEMOCRAT, WINS
Nevada Democrat Rep. Dina Titus wins reelection to U.S. House
Enlarge this image toggle caption Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
Democratic Rep. Dina Titus has won reelection in Nevada's 1st Congressional
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EARTHQUAKE, TONGA, TSUNAMI, MAGNITUDE
CNN —
The government of the island nation of Tonga called for an immediate evacuation inland on Friday following what it said was a 7.9 magnitude earthquake that triggered a tsunami warning.
“A strong earthquake has occurred near Tonga and felt in whole of
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