Emerging Topics in U.S. News
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14th 2022
Updated 23:59 ET
33 articles
TRUMP, POLL, BIDEN, DESANTIS
President Joe Biden has come under intense pressure to free former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan after he swapped Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, a.k.a. the “Merchant of Death,” for WNBA star Brittney Griner.
While the Biden administration has celebrated the release
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TWITTER, MUSK, ELON, JET
The Twitter account tracking Elon Musk’s private jet has been suspended, a month after Musk had promised not to ban the profile in the name of “free speech.”
Jack Sweeney, who ran the jet tracker, had told Business Insider on Sunday that his account had already
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WORLD, CUP, MOROCCO, FRANCE
AL KHOR, Qatar (AP) - French President Emmanuel Macron traveled to Qatar on Wednesday to attend the World Cup semifinal match between France and Morocco, a politically charged encounter between the north African country and its former colonizer.
Macron was
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HOUSE, BILL, SHUTDOWN, GOVERNMENT
WASHINGTON — The House scheduled action on Wednesday on a weeklong spending bill to avert a government shutdown this weekend, as top lawmakers rushed to cement an emerging deal on a sprawling spending package to keep federal programs running into next fall.
The
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TWITCH, BOSS, STEPHEN, ELLEN
Just days before Stephen “tWitch” Boss, known as the DJ on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” tragically took his own life, he was seen dancing and smiling throughout his California home.
On Monday night, his wife of nearly 10 years, Allison Holker, posted several
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PELOSI, PAUL, ATTACK, DEPAPE
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The man accused of attacking the husband of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said there was “evil in Washington” and he was looking to harm Pelosi because she is second in line for the presidency, a San Francisco police investigator testified
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KYIV, UKRAINE, RUSSIA, IRANIAN
Russia launched 13 Iranian-made Shahed drones into Kyiv Wednesday, in one of the largest attempted strikes of its kind on the Ukraine capital, Fox News Digital was told.
All 13 drones were apparently targeting energy infrastructure but were downed before they
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WAHL, GRANT, ANEURYSM, DIED
CNN —
Sports reporter Grant Wahl died of a rupture of an ascending aortic aneurysm with hemopericardium – an accumulation of blood in the sac around his heart – his wife, Dr. Céline Gounder announced on Wednesday. The aneurysm was slowly growing and had gone
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STORM, TORNADOES, BRINGS, BLIZZARD
A destructive storm marched across the United States, spawning tornadoes that touched down in parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana, where the deaths of a young boy and his mother were reported, and it delivered blizzard-like conditions to the Great Plains
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FRIED, BANKMAN, SAM, PARENTS
In the hours before Sam Bankman-Fried surrendered to police at his home on the Bahamian island of New Providence, he was still engaged in something like a last-ditch press tour: a final, desperate attempt to make amends after his $32 billion crypto empire unraveled
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SCHOOL, BOARD, BEN, HIGH
A middle school in Wisconsin closed temporarily after a teacher and a student were bitten by yellow sac spiders last week.
Dozens of yellow sac spiders were found at Wilson Middle School in Manitowoc, a city about 80 miles north of Milwaukee, the school's
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HOOK, SANDY, SCHOOL, 10
On Dec. 14, Jackie Hegarty of Newtown, Connecticut, knows her phone will be "flooded" with messages, as it is each year on that day, the anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting.
Hegarty, a Sandy Hook survivor, lost 20 young classmates
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FED, RATE, INFLATION, INCREASES
The Fed continues its crackdown on inflation, pushing up interest rates again
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The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by half a percentage point Wednesday, as it continues
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BORDER, TEXAS, MIGRANT, CUELLAR
Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., roasted the White House on "America's Newsroom" Wednesday after press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed Republicans are refusing to work with the Biden administration to find solutions to secure the southern border as migrants
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IRAN, WOMEN, COMMISSION, RIGHTS
Iran was ousted from a United Nations women's commission Wednesday for policies contrary to the rights of women and girls, a move proposed by the United States after Tehran's brutal crackdown on protests sparked by the death of a young woman in custody.
The
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LGBTQ, VIOLENCE, SURVIVORS, CLUB
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Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) slandered Republicans on the House Oversight and Reform Committee during a Wednesday hearing on LGBTQ hate crime, starting
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BIDEN, LEADERS, AFRICA, NATIONS
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The U.S. is, according to some analysts, "playing catch-up" with Russia and China again, as President Biden hosts 49 African heads of state and royalty at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington this week.
Russia, China and
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COVID, LONG, CDC, 500
Long COVID has caused or contributed to at least 3,500 deaths in the United States, an analysis of death certificates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found.
The study, published Wednesday, is believed to be the first nationwide examination
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POLICE, MISSISSIPPI, OFFICERS, KILLED
CNN —
Two police officers were shot and killed early Wednesday morning in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
The two officers received a call for service at a Motel 6 on Highway 90, according to a news release from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.
The officers
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COVID, CHINA, IMPOSSIBLE, TRACKING
China reduces COVID-19 case number reporting as virus surges
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BEIJING (AP) — China's National Health Commission scaled down its daily COVID-19 report starting Wednesday in response to a sharp
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MISSISSIPPI, GIRL, YEAR, KILLING
PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty to raping and killing a 16-year-old girl was put to death by lethal injection in Mississippi on Wednesday evening, becoming the second inmate executed in the state in 10 years.
A coroner pronounced Thomas Edwin
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TIKTOK, DEVICES, GOVERNMENT, BAN
The Senate approved legislation Wednesday to bar the use of TikTok on government phones and devices amid national security concerns about the Chinese-owned social media platform.
Through a vote of unanimous consent, the upper chamber approved the No TikTok
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TORNADO, LOUISIANA, YEAR, DEAD
A series of tornadoes ripped through the South on Tuesday, resulting in the deaths of a young boy and mother whose home was destroyed in Louisiana, officials said.
The mother and her 8-year-old son were reported missing after a tornado touched down in Keithville
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DESANTIS, COVID, VACCINES, FAUCI
Dr. Anthony Fauci criticized Gov. Ron DeSantis’, R-Fla., after the governor called for the state Supreme Court to convene a grand jury to probe any "wrongdoing" related to the coronavirus vaccine.
DeSantis made his announcement on Tuesday, explaining on "The
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