Emerging Topics in U.S. News
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29th 2022
Updated 23:59 ET
70 articles
TRUMP, FUENTES, DINNER, GEORGIA
Washington CNN —
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy was asked on Tuesday about how he hadn’t yet condemned former President Donald Trump for having dinner a week ago with Nick Fuentes, a White nationalist and Holocaust denier.
McCarthy said, “I don’t think
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CUP, WORLD, IRAN, MATCH
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — The protester who ran onto the field during a World Cup match carrying a rainbow flag and wearing a blue Superman T-shirt with messages in support of Ukraine and Iranian women was banned Tuesday from attending any more matches during the
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CHINA, PROTESTS, PENTAGON, BIDEN
China continues to rapidly build its stockpile of nuclear warheads, according to the Pentagon's latest annual report on China's military that now estimates China could have as many as 1,500 warheads by 2035.
The U.S. is also concerned by what a senior defense
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SENATE, MARRIAGE, SEX, BILL
The Senate on Tuesday passed a bill that will codify the right to same-sex and interracial marriage.
In all, a dozen Republicans joined Democrats to send the legislation to the House, resisting pressure from more conservative wings of the party to stand in
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STRIKE, BIDEN, RAIL, LEADERS
Biden urges Congress to avert a rail strike
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A rail strike is likely without congressional action, President Biden warned Tuesday morning before meeting with bipartisan House and Senate leaders
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TWITTER, MUSK, ELON, APPLE
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is stepping into the controversy over Twitter, doing what a lot of other Republican politicians should be doing, but aren’t.
DeSantis spoke out against the report that Apple was considering removing Twitter from the App Store in response
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KEEPERS, OATH, SEDITIOUS, CONSPIRACY
Jurors have reached a verdict on the fate of five defendants linked to the far-right Oath Keepers charged with seditious conspiracy in what was the government’s highest-stakes Capitol riot trial held so far.
The verdict, which came after three days of deliberations,
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LOA, MAUNA, VOLCANO, HAWAII
Mauna Loa is erupting for the first time in nearly 40 years, forcing closures and putting Hawaii residents on high alert.
The U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said Monday that the eruption continued in the Northeast Rift Zone, with three
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UKRAINE, AID, NATO, WINTER
Too much is never enough, NATO ministers were told in Romania on Tuesday, as they met to drum up more support for Ukraine, including a direct U.S. call for increased deliveries of electrical components for the war-torn country’s decimated power transmission
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SUPREME, COURT, IMMIGRATION, BIDEN
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is taking up a dispute over a blocked Biden administration policy that would prioritize deportation of people in the country illegally who pose the greatest public safety risk.
Republican-led states sued and won a nationwide
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TORNADOES, SOUTH, SEVERE, PATH
A surly weather front threatened to drive severe thunderstorms and tornadoes across the south-central U.S. on Tuesday while what AccuWeather called an "atmospheric fire hose" was forecast to hammer the West as the nation braced for a week of wild, dangerous
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WALMART, SHOOTING, SURVIVOR, VIRGINIA
The Virginia Walmart employee who killed six of his coworkers in a mass shooting last week asked if they received active shooting training weeks before unleashing his massacre, a new lawsuit says.
Killer Andre Bing would ask his peers the ominous question,
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POLICE, BOSTON, INFANTS, APARTMENT
Police say human remains found at a Boston apartment building earlier this month are those of four infants
BOSTON -- Human remains found at a Boston apartment building earlier this month are those of four infants, police said.
The remains are of two boys
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REP, MCEACHIN, DONALD, DIES
Virginia Democratic Rep. Donald McEachin died on Monday at the age of 61 following a battle with colorectal cancer.
McEachin was first elected to Congress in 2016, serving Virginia's 4th District. He was re-elected to the House for a fourth term earlier this
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ILL, MENTALLY, NEW, YORK
4. New York City will remove mentally ill people from the streets.
Mayor Eric Adams directed the police and emergency medical workers to involuntarily hospitalize people with severe, untreated mental illness who are a danger to themselves, even if they posed
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IDAHO, MURDERS, WEEKS, STUDENT
Authorities towed away five vehicles from the house where four University of Idaho students were brutally murdered as investigators continue to search for clues on who killed the students.
A tow truck removed the cars — some of which are believed to have belonged
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COVID, TWITTER, POLICY, MISINFORMATION
Twitter quietly chucked out its COVID-19 misinformation policy last week as the platform’s new overlord, Elon Musk, continues making changes that have so far proven frightening to advertisers.
A page aimed at increasing transparency surrounding content moderation
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WATER, HOUSTON, BOIL, CRISIS
HOUSTON — Houston officials lifted an order Tuesday that had called for more than 2 million people in the nation’s fourth-largest city to boil their tap water before drinking or using it.
The boil order had been in effect since Sunday, when a power outage
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KARDASHIAN, KIM, DIVORCE, SETTLE
LOS ANGELES — Kim Kardashian and Ye have reached a settlement in their divorce, averting a trial that had been set for next month, court documents filed Tuesday showed.
The former couple and their attorneys filed documents asking for a judge’s approval of
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BIDEN, SECRET, SERVICE, NANTUCKET
Sometimes, some stories just make you go, “Hmm…”
The story about what happened to the five rental vehicles that Joe Biden and his family used while they were on vacation in Nantucket is one of those stories.
The Biden family spent the past week in Nantucket.
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STUDENTS, HOME, PROTESTS, UNIVERSITY
Chinese universities send students home in an effort to prevent more protests
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BEIJING — Chinese universities are sending students home as the ruling Communist Party tightens anti-virus controls and tries
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OFFICER, MISSOURI, DEATH, KILLING
A Missouri inmate convicted of ambushing and killing a St. Louis area police officer he blamed in the death of his younger brother was executed Tuesday night.
Kevin Johnson, 37, died after an injection of pentobarbital at the state prison in Bonne Terre. It
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SPEAKER, MCCARTHY, GOP, SCENARIO
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said Monday on Newsmax TV’s “Spicer & Co.” that if Republican members “play games,” the Democrats may end up picking the next House speaker.
Anchor Sean Spicer said, “We’ve had a couple of these folks that say that
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YEARS, 51, REUNITES, FAMILY
A family in Fort Worth is reunited after their daughter was kidnapped 51 years ago, thanks to a DNA match on 23&Me, the family announced on Facebook. KTVT's Nick Starling reports.
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