Emerging Topics in U.S. News
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25th 2022
Updated 23:59 ET
21 articles
TWITTER, MUSK, ELON, AMNESTY
Elon Musk announced Twitter will “tentatively” make available its updated paid verification service to users next Friday.
Musk said that the platform will start adding a different color of check mark for verified users based on the type of account. Individuals
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WORLD, CUP, ENGLAND, 2022
The United States' dream of advancing to the Round of 16, or "Knockout" round, in World Cup play may still be in doubt, but the undefeated run against England remains intact.
On Friday, the U.S. and England staged a scoreless draw in Qatar, the host country
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WALMART, VIRGINIA, GUNMAN, SHOOTER
Grace Hauck and Paul Bibeau
USA TODAY
CHESAPEAKE, Va. — The man accused of fatally shooting six people and wounding multiple others at a Walmart in Virginia late Tuesday legally purchased the gun that morning, police said Friday.
Officers also found a note
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TRUMP, FUENTES, NICK, DONALD
Former President Donald Trump slammed fellow reality TV alum Kim Kardashian to her ex-husband Kanye West, the rapper claimed in a new video.
The insults that the 76-year-old Trump allegedly spewed were censored out of the video that describes a meeting where
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HERSCHEL, RUNOFF, WALKER, GEORGIA
Democrats’ biggest challenge is fighting complacency, by finding a message that excites their base and at the same time appeals to voters who don’t often support the party.
Georgia Senate Runoff: What to Know Card 1 of 6 Another runoff in Georgia. The contest
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BIDEN, RUN, POLL, 2024
Hunter Biden’s long trail of suspicious business dealings will get new scrutiny as House Republicans, armed with subpoena power, begin what is expected to be an intense, politically charged probe into President Biden’s involvement in his son’s money-making
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CRUISE, PASSENGER, SHIP, OVERBOARD
The U.S. Coast Guard says a passenger who went overboard from a cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico was rescued on Thanksgiving after likely being in the water for hours
NEW ORLEANS -- The U.S. Coast Guard says a passenger who went overboard from a cruise ship
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SHOOTING, CLUB, COLORADO, SPRINGS
Club Q was a haven for the Colorado Springs LGBTQ community The Colorado Springs nightclub where five people were killed and 19 others were injured was a haven for queer people for decades in a city that hasn't always embraced its LGBTQ community.
National
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NATIONAL, PARK, WOMAN, HUSBAND
CNN —
A married couple’s hiking trip in a Utah national park turned deadly when they started experiencing symptoms of hypothermia, leading to the wife’s death, officials said.
The couple began a hike on a 16-mile trail Tuesday at Zion National Park and started
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BANS, ZTE, SALES, HUAWEI
The Federal Communications Commission on Friday announced it has adopted new rules banning communications equipment from several Chinese companies from being imported to or sold in the United States, due to the “unacceptable risk to national security.”
The
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KRIS, CANADIAN, WU, 13
Beijing's Chaoyang district court said on Friday that Wu would serve 11 years and six months for raping three women at his home in 2020 "when they were drunk and did not know or not able to resist".
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NASA, ORION, MOON, ENTERS
NASA's Artemis I Orion spacecraft's camera snapped some stunning new images of the moon and its crafters this week.
Using the Optical Navigation Camera on the sixth day of the mission, the black and white images highlight billions of years of history.
"Orion
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BLACK, FRIDAY, SHOPPERS, HOVERS
The reflections of passing shoppers are seen in the glass of a Hollister clothing store advertising sales on Nov. 21, 2022. (Rebecca Blackwell/AP)
NEW YORK — Black Friday marks a return to familiar holiday shopping patterns, but inflation is weighing on consumers.
Elevated
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COVID, YEAR, SURGES, DRIVING
A year after omicron began its assault on humanity, the ever-morphing coronavirus mutant drove COVID-19 case counts higher in many places just as Americans gathered for Thanksgiving. It was a prelude to a wave that experts expect to soon wash over the U.S.
Phoenix-area
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UKRAINE, HEAT, SCRAMBLES, POWER
The Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv is in survival mode after a brutal series of Russian aerial attacks left most citizens without power, drinkable water, or both.
About 70% of the city was left without power on Thursday morning after Russia's latest missile
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WALMART, POLICE, NORTH, SHOT
Detroit police officers who fired 38 rounds at a 20-year-old Black man wielding a knife will not be charged for his death, a county prosecutor said.
Porter Burks, who police said had schizophrenia, was believed to be experiencing a mental health crisis when
Continued at Fox News...
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DOG, SHOW, NATIONAL, TOP
Winston beat hundreds of other dogs to take home "Best in Show" at the 2022 National Dog Show, becoming the first French Bulldog to win the event's top prize.
Source: CNN
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RECAPTURED, RUSSIA, MISSILES, UKRAINIAN
KHERSON, Ukraine — Natalia Kristenko’s dead body lay covered in a blanket in the doorway of her apartment building for hours overnight. City workers were at first too overwhelmed to retrieve her as they responded to a deadly barrage of attacks that shook Ukraine’s
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ARIZONA, ELECTION, LAKE, KARI
Donald Trump looped Arizona Republican Kari Lake into a conspiracy-ridden spiel about the integrity of the state’s election results on Wednesday.
Lake, however, had disproved one of the former president’s claims just weeks ago.
Trump claimed on his Truth
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INFLATION, FRIDAY, BLACK, RECORD
New York CNN Business —
Black Friday isn’t what it used to be. But many Americans are still expected to spend on the holiday.
Mastercard projects that sales will grow 15% on Black Friday compared with last year. Spending will be driven by shopping in stores,
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SINGER, JIN, POP, MILITARY
The lead singer of the K-pop supergroup BTS doesn’t want his legion of screaming fans to be crowding around an army base in South Korea when his compulsory military training begins next month.
Kim Seok-jin, known professionally as Jin, urged fans to avoid
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HOME, EX, HOUSTON, SPOUSE
Police say a man believed to be a former spouse entered a Houston-area home and shot four people who were celebrating Thanksgiving, killing two and wounding two others Thursday evening
HOUSTON -- A man believed to be a former spouse entered a Houston-area
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SYRIA, TURKEY, INVASION, DE
Turkey earlier this week launched drone, air and artillery strikes on Syria and has vowed revenge on U.S.-allied Kurds for a Nov. 13 terror attack in Istanbul, a move that could lead to the release of thousands of imprisoned Islamic State terrorists, reports
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ZEN, CARDINAL, KONG, HONG
ROME — Cardinal Joseph Zen has been found guilty together with five others of failing to properly register the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund, which provided legal and medical aid to jailed protesters of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement.
Last May, Hong Kong’s
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