Emerging Topics in U.S. News
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15th 2022
Updated 23:59 ET
75 articles
TRUMP, 2024, DONALD, DESANTIS
PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former President Donald Trump ended months of speculation and launched his bid to retake the White House in 2024 Tuesday, an early attempt to clear the GOP primary field ahead of a potential rematch against Joe Biden.
“Ladies and gentlemen,
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HOUSE, MCCARTHY, SPEAKER, GOP
Democrats began the last Congress with the smallest House majority in 20 years: just 222 seats, four more than the minimum required for control.
In January, when the next Congress begins, Republicans could be back in power in the lower chamber -- with an even
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POLAND, BIDEN, RUSSIAN, MISSILE
Tuesday, at least two Russian cruise missiles missed the country of Ukraine and landed in Eastern Poland. Two Polish citizens were killed.
The missiles were part of an overnight blitz of about 100 sea- and air-launched cruise missiles targeting Ukraine’s electric
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MCCONNELL, SCOTT, SENATE, RICK
CNN —
Sen. Rick Scott of Florida told his fellow GOP senators he will challenge Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to be leader of the party in the chamber next year, according to a source who has seen a letter he sent to his colleagues.
Scott has little
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UVA, SHOOTING, SUSPECT, MIKE
University of Virginia shooting suspect Christopher Darnell Jones was facing disciplinary action from the school tied to failure to disclose a concealed weapon violation and refusal to cooperate with a school investigation into the matter.
Breitbart News reported
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TEXAS, BORDER, MIGRANT, ABBOTT
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday that his administration has started transporting migrants in his state to Philadelphia, the latest Democrat-led city affected by his plan to use desperate migrant families as political props.
In a statement, the Republican
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KARI, LAKE, ARIZONA, RACE
The Fox News Decision Desk can project that Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs will be the next Governor of Arizona. She defeats GOP candidate and former local news host Kari Lake.
Per Arizona law, the race may go to a recount.
Lake is a former TV
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GRAMMY, NOMINATIONS, BEYONC, BAD
Beyoncé leads nominations for the 2023 Grammy Awards
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Beyoncé is the top artist nominated in the 65th annual Grammy Awards, set for Feb. 5 at
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FTX, BANKMAN, FRIED, SAM
NEW YORK — Just days after cryptocurrency’s third-largest exchange collapsed, the public is starting to get an idea of how messy FTX’s bankruptcy case could be. Other crypto firms are failing as a result of FTX’s unraveling, events reminiscent of the domino-like
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XI, BIDEN, MEETING, CHINA
BALI, Indonesia — While President Biden and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, have eased tensions between their countries, they are vying for influence in Asia and beyond, offering competing stances on how to address poverty and the war in Ukraine.
Mr.
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IDAHO, STUDENTS, UNIVERSITY, POLICE
Officials say all four University of Idaho students who were found dead inside a home near campus on Sunday are considered victims in the case, but police have yet to release the cause of death or other details about the investigation.
Police discovered the
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NEW, YORK, MEDICAL, CITY
I’m a New Yorker. Born in New York. Reared in New York. Educated in New York. Parents from New York. Grandparents immigrated to New York. I live in New York. Even my dog’s a Yorkie. The Dutch who bought us for what gasoline costs now didn’t love New York more.
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WEINSTEIN, HARVEY, NEWSOM, TRIAL
Jennifer Siebel Newsom did not have to testify against Harvey Weinstein. But Monday, she did — reminding us that sexual assault carries its own kind of life sentence for victims.
Siebel Newsom took the stand in the downtown Los Angeles courtroom where Weinstein
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GEORGIA, JUDGE, ABORTION, OVERTURNS
SAVANNAH, Ga. — A judge ruled on Tuesday that Georgia’s law banning most abortions after six weeks, adding that it violated the U.S. Constitution and U.S. Supreme Court precedent when it was enacted three years ago and was therefore void.
Fulton County Superior
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BILLION, POPULATION, WORLD, HITS
The world’s population will likely hit an estimated 8 billion people on Tuesday, according to a United Nations projection, with much of the growth coming from developing nations in Africa.
Among them is Nigeria, where resources are already stretched to the
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UKRAINE, AIRSTRIKES, RUSSIAN, REPORTED
Russia fired off another round of airstrikes against civilian infrastructure across Ukraine on Tuesday, killing at least one person in Kyiv as the G20 leaders met to discuss a potential declaration condemning the war.
Just under 100 Russian missiles were fired
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JUDGE, BORDER, TITLE, 42
CNN —
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked Title 42 – a controversial rule that’s allowed US authorities to expel more than 1 million migrants who crossed the US-Mexico border.
Tuesday’s court order leaves the Biden administration without one of the key tools
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WALMART, OPIOID, BILLION, OFFERS
New York CNN Business —
Walmart agreed to the framework of a $3.1 billion settlement, which resolves allegations from multiple states’ attorneys general that the company failed to regulate opioid prescriptions contributing to the nationwide opioid crisis.
The
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MUSK, ELON, TWITTER, FIRES
It was easy to predict that Elon Musk’s first few weeks as Twitter’s owner would be a mess. But even if you thought the world’s richest man and Twitter’s most high-profile user would stumble once he owned his favorite messaging service, the scale of the chaos
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LAUNCH, NASA, MOON, ROCKET
CNN —
The historic Artemis I mission — an uncrewed test flight around the moon that will make use of the most powerful operational rocket in the world — could finally take flight this week, though the team is once again troubleshooting fueling issues with
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NBC, AIRLINES, REFUNDS, NEWS
Despite the effort to kill off the Pelosi attack news, the continued fumbles in the press keep the story alive.
The attack on Paul Pelosi, the spouse of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in the San Francisco home owned by the couple, continues to be vexing for the
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MARRIAGE, SEX, CHURCH, MORMON
In a stunning reversal from its previous position, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Tuesday that it supports congressional efforts to codify protections for same-sex marriage.
The church, commonly referred to as the Mormon church or
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YEMEN, IRAN, INTERCEPTS, EXPLOSIVE
On Tuesday, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command Public Affairs announced that, a week prior, the U.S. 5th Fleet intercepted a shipment of explosive material in the Gulf of Oman.
MANAMA, Bahrain – On Nov. 8, U.S. 5th Fleet intercepted a fishing vessel in the
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KILLING, AKLEH, JOURNALIST, SHIREEN
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, slammed the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday for opening an investigation into the death of Palestinian-American Shireen Abu Akleh, an Al Jazeera journalist who was fatally shot while covering an Israeli military raid on terrorists
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