Emerging Topics in U.S. News
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25th 2022
Updated 23:59 ET
12 articles
CHRISTMAS, POPE, WAR, ICY
Pope Francis has used his Christmas message Sunday to lament the “icy winds of war” buffeting humanity
Pope Francis delivers the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for 'to the city and to the world' ) Christmas' day blessing from the main balcony of St. Peter's Basilica
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EVE, HARRIS, CHRISTMAS, HOME
Three busloads of migrants from Texas were dropped off by the home of Vice President Kamala Harris late Saturday, on Christmas Eve.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, according to Fox News, was responsible for the latest transport of illegal immigrants to the Naval Observatory.
Mr.
Continued at Washington Times...
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STORM, WINTER, FRIGID, DEADLY
HAMBURG, NY - DECEMBER 24: A plow removes ice and snow along the Lake Erie shoreline on December 24, 2022 in Hamburg, New York. The Buffalo suburb and surrounding area was hit hard by the winter storm Elliott with wind gusts over 70 miles per hour battering
Continued at Huffington Post...
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KING, CHARLES, CHRISTMAS, QUEEN
King Charles III delivered his first Christmas Broadcast as Britain's reigning monarch on Sunday.
The late Queen Elizabeth II had been giving televised addresses since 1957, although the tradition dates back to King George V, her grandfather, in 1932.
Introduced
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TALIBAN, WOMEN, AFGHANISTAN, BAN
CNN —
A group of women took to the streets in the city of Herat in Afghanistan on Saturday, protesting against a Taliban order this week suspending all female students from attending university in the country.
Video footage circulating on social media showed
Continued at CNN...
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JEHOVAH, HALL, COLORADO, WITNESSES
A husband and wife were found dead after a murder-suicide Christmas morning inside a Jehovah’s Witnesses Kingdom Hall in Colorado — with an ongoing probe into “suspicious devices” also discovered at the grim scene, police said.
Thornton, Colo., police said
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COVID, CHINA, NEW, RAISES
China has stopped publishing daily COVID data amid reports of a huge spike in cases
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China has stopped publishing daily COVID-19 data, adding to concerns that the country's leadership may be concealing negative information
Continued at NPR...
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TWITTER, MUSK, FILES, TESLA
Twitter's new owner Elon Musk, during an appearance on the "All-in" podcast on Saturday, said that all the conspiracy theories about his new company are turning out to be true.
"To be totally frank," Musk said, "almost every conspiracy theory that people had
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PUTIN, READY, UKRAINE, CLAIMS
Ukrainian servicemen from 127 brigade mount a remote camera on the telescopic tower installed on a Soviet car "Volga" that was recast to observe and correct fire on the front line near Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2022. (Evgeniy Maloletka/AP)
President
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MOVE, CHRISTMAS, UKRAINIANS, RUSSIA
BOBRYTSIA, Ukraine (AP) – Ukrainians usually celebrate Christmas on Jan. 7, as do the Russians. But not this year, or at least not all of them.
Some Orthodox Ukrainians have decided to observe Christmas on Dec. 25, like many Christians around the world. Yes,
Continued at Breitbart...
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SUBSTATIONS, POWER, BURGLARS, WASHINGTON
Burglars in Tacoma, Washington, vandalized three power stations on Christmas morning, leaving about 14,000 customers without electricity, according to police.
At about 5:30 a.m. on Sunday, the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call of a burglary
Continued at New York Post...
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WHITWORTH, 83, KATHY, DIES
Kathy Whitworth, who joined the Ladies Professional Golf Association tour in the late 1950s when it was a blip on the national sports scene and who went on to win 88 tournaments, a record for both women and men on the United States tours, died on Saturday.
Continued at New York Times...
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BIDEN, CALLS, MEMBERS, CHRISTMAS
This Christmas, grab your cocoa and enjoy Fox Nation's latest episode to come from Tucker Carlson Originals, presenting: ‘The Joe Biden Christmas Special.'
Fox Nation is giving subscribers the gift of humor this holiday season, as Fox News host Tucker Carlson
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PATRIOTS, PLAY, MAC, BENGALS
A celebratory flight home turned scary for the Cincinnati Bengals.
Following their win over the New England Patriots on Saturday, the Bengals' team plane had to make an emergency landing at JFK International Airport after an engine failed, according to multiple
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TRUMP, CHRISTMAS, RANT, DONALD
Donald Trump wished a “Merry Christmas” Saturday that wasn’t so full of peace and goodwill ― but plenty full of himself.
“Merry Christmas to EVERYONE, including the Radical Left Marxists that are trying to destroy our Country, the Federal Bureau of Investigation
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SHOOTING, CHRISTMAS, EVE, UK
A shooting at a pub in England on Christmas Eve resulted in one woman dead and three men injured, according to police.
The Associated Press reported that the incident occurred just before midnight local time at the Lighthouse pub in Wallasey, and that the
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GOP, BILL, BLAST, SPENDING
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, are still seething over the Senate passing last week's $1.7 trillion omnibus bill, and apparently not waiting until 2023 to negotiate terms for such a massive spending initiative.
And from the two senators'
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DEPUTY, FLORIDA, CHRISTMAS, EVE
A Florida community is mourning the loss of a sheriff’s deputy after he was shot and killed by a domestic violence suspect on Christmas Eve.
The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office announced Cpl. Ray Hamilton, a five-year veteran of the department, was fatally
Continued at New York Post...
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TAIWAN, CHINA, MILITARY, DRILLS
China launched naval and airpower exercises around Taiwan on Sunday, a day after officials in Beijing blasted the Biden administration for an $858 billion defense bill that authorized additional security assistance for the self-ruling island that China claims.
China
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STUDENT, DEAD, TEXAS, FOUND
A Texas A&M University student who went missing on the day of his college graduation over a week ago has been found dead, police said.
The body of Tanner Hoang, 22, was discovered in Austin on Saturday, ABC News reported. Hoang was last seen the morning of
Continued at New York Post...
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SAILS, WEEK, 2ND, BOX
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Avatar: The Way of Water” sailed to the top of the box office in its second weekend, bringing in what studios estimate Sunday will be a strong $56 million in North America — a sign that the sequel may stay afloat into the new year and approach
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ARRESTED, MALL, SHOOTING, AMERICA
Five people have been arrested after a deadly shooting at Minnesota's Mall of America
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BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — Five people were arrested in the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old man at the Mall of America that sent the sprawling commercial
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COLLEGE, ELECTORAL, RASKIN, CHANGE
Rep. Jamie Raskin, Maryland Democrat and a member of the House Jan. 6 select committee, called the Electoral College a “danger” to the country that should be scrapped in favor of a direct popular vote to elect the president.
Congress last Friday passed legislation
Continued at Washington Times...
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FRANCO, HARRIS, STEELERS, COMMERCIAL
The Pittsburgh Steelers only led for 46 seconds on Saturday night - but that was all they needed.
Those 46 seconds were the final 46, as rookie George Pickens caught the game-winning touchdown on the Steelers' final drive of the night.
The score - from one
Continued at Fox News...