Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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BENEDICT, POPE, XVI, 95
Bells rang out over Jerusalem and the Palestinian territories and in cities the world over as leaders from Japan to Russia praised the late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who died early Saturday at age 95.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, issued
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For millions of Ukrainians, many of them under Russian bombardment and grappling with power and water shortages, New Year's celebrations will be muted as Russia’s 10-month war rumbles on with no end in sight
KYIV, Ukraine -- For millions of Ukrainians, many
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IDAHO, SUSPECT, KOHBERGER, BRYAN
Bryan Kohberger is wearing a suicide-prevention vest while being held at the Monroe County Correctional Facility in Pennsylvania following his arrest in conjunction with a quadruple homicide in Moscow, Idaho, Fox News confirmed Saturday with a law enforcement
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COURT, RULES, APPEALS, ABORTION
PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona court has ruled that abortion doctors cannot be prosecuted under a pre-statehood law that criminalizes nearly all abortions yet was barred from being enforced for decades.
But the Arizona Court of Appeals on Friday declined to repeal
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BARBARA, WALTERS, TV, 93
Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon and Katie Couric were among the many celebrities who honored Barbara Walkers after the legendary news anchor died on Friday at the age of 93.
The trailblazing TV journalist was the first woman to co-host a morning show during
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TAX, RETURNS, TRUMP, DONALD
New York CNN —
After years of legal battles, pontificating and theorizing, former President Donald Trump’s tax returns from 2015 to 2020 are now part of the public record. Many critics and political opponents have theorized that Trump fought the public disclosure
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CALIFORNIA, FLOODING, RAIN, NORTHERN
LOS ANGELES – California saw intense flooding and landslides across the state Friday as a wave of tropical moisture moved across the drought-stricken West from the Pacific Ocean.
The storms, the result of an atmospheric river of moisture — a long and wide
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KOREA, NORTH, FIRES, YEAR
North Korea fires 3 missiles amid tensions over drone flights
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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea fired three short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters in its latest weapons display
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MEGA, JACKPOT, MILLIONS, BIG
The first Mega Millions drawing of the new year will be a big one as no one won Friday night’s estimated $685 million jackpot.
The top prize increased to $785 million ahead of the next drawing Tuesday night.
No ticket purchased for the lottery matched all
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TATE, ANDREW, RAPE, HUMAN
His attorney has already appealed the Bucharest court's decision.
Controversial internet personality Andrew Tate will be detained in Romania for 30 days on charges of human trafficking and rape, officials said.
Tate, his brother Tristan Tate and two Romanian
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YEAR, END, JUDICIAL, ROBERTS
WASHINGTON — At the end of a wrenching year at the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. devoted his annual report on the state of the federal judiciary to threats to judges’ physical safety.
“The law requires every judge to swear an oath to perform
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GINNI, THOMAS, COMMITTEE, ELECTION
I previously wrote about how many on the left were angry about political consultant Ginni Thomas, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife, being left out of the Jan. 6 Committee’s final report. But as I said, it would have been hard even for those biased
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MINOR, PEOPLE, SCOTLAND, POLICE
The Chief Constable of Police Scotland is under fire for referring to paedophiles by their preferred term “minor-attracted people” (MAPs) in a European Union-linked report.
In his Year End Report for 2021/22, Chief Constable Iain Livingstone QPM said the Specialist
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HARRIS, KAMALA, BORDER, BADLY
More than four million migrants have flocked to the southern border since Vice President Kamala Harris was assigned the task of addressing the "root cause" of the crisis nearly two years ago.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection tracked 233,000 border encounters
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BORDER, MIGRANTS, 88, FLORIDA
Border Patrol agents in the five Texas-based sectors apprehended more than 266,000 migrants in the first two months of the new fiscal year. Nearly 107,000 of those entered through the El Paso Sector.
El Paso Sector Chief Patrol Agent Peter Jaquez reports the
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GOOGLE, MILLION, RESOLVE, 29
Google has agreed to pay a total of $29.5 million to settle two lawsuits over the company’s tracking of customer locations.
Google used location data from Indiana consumers to build detailed user profiles and target ads — but misled users about those practices
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CRASH, GABBERT, RESCUE, BUCCANEERS
Buccaneers quarterback Blaine Gabbert helps rescue a family from a helicopter crash
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Blaine Gabbert, often in the background as Tom
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A woman is behind bars after she allegedly tried to hire a hitman to kill her ex’s wife and the woman’s young daughter, prosecutors said.
Marilyn Zhou, 56, was charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder and one count of money laundering in Trenton,
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TAGOVAILOA, NFL, CONCUSSION, VIOLATED
An investigation by the NFL and NFLPA determined that Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa did not show concussion symptoms during last Sunday's game.
Tagovailoa was able to finish the Christmas Day game against the Packers. On Monday, he was placed in concussion
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WOMAN, ABUSE, LAWSUIT, SEX
A woman who alleges Bill Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in 1986 sued the comedian-actor, NBCUniversal and other companies Friday in New York, where five other women filed a similar lawsuit earlier this month.
Stacey Pinkerton says she was a 21-year-old
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GOP, HOUSE, CONGRESS, REQUESTS
The White House is throwing up roadblocks against a flood of Republican-led Congressional oversight requests targeting the Biden Administration, telling incoming committee chairs that they will have to refile their demands once the GOP officially takes control
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EPSTEIN, JPMORGAN, DEUTSCHE, SEEK
JPMorgan Chase & Co and Deutsche Bank AG asked a U.S. judge to dismiss lawsuits by women who accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse, and said the banks enabled and ignored red flags about the late financier's sex trafficking.
The banks in papers filed on
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