Emerging Topics in U.S. News
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1st 2023
Updated 23:59 ET
74 articles
BIDEN, DEBT, HOUSE, MCCARTHY
White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield dodged multiple questions about President Biden's document scandal on Tuesday despite claiming they're being transparent.
CNN host Victor Blackwell asked Bedingfield about the FBI's search of the Penn Biden
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TYRE, NICHOLS, FUNERAL, MEMPHIS
Tyre Nichols was remembered at his funeral in Memphis
The funeral for Tyre Nichols was held in Memphis Wednesday. Nichols died three days after being beaten by police who pulled him over for a traffic stop.
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BRADY, TOM, RETIREMENT, NFL
The internet is abuzz this morning with news that Tom Brady is officially retiring from football … again. He apparently means it this time.
Brady took to Instagram with a video thanking his family, friends, and fans for their support:
“Hey guys I’ll get to
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TRUMP, HALEY, NIKKI, PRESIDENTIAL
CNN —
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is expected to announce she’s running for president on February 15 in Charleston, according to a person familiar with her plans.
Haley would be the first Republican to jump into the 2024 presidential race this
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AMERICAN, AFRICAN, AP, STUDIES
The official curriculum for a new Advanced Placement course on African American studies downplays some components that drew criticism from conservatives including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who had threatened to ban the class in his state.
In the framework
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ZOO, DALLAS, MONKEYS, FOUND
Investigators said the former director of a zoo in southern Mexico killed and cooked four of the zoo's pygmy goats and served them up at a Christmas-season party
MEXICO CITY -- The former director of a zoo in southern Mexico killed four of the zoo’s pygmy
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COVID, EMERGENCY, 19, END
The declaration of a COVID-19 public health emergency three years ago changed the lives of millions of Americans by offering increased healthcare coverage, beefed-up food assistance and universal access to coronavirus vaccines and tests.
Much of that is now
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POLICE, BASKETBALL, SCHOOL, GAME
State troopers were called to the Alburgh Community Education Center just before 7 p.m. Tuesday after a report of a large fight involving spectators during a seventh- and eighth-grade boys basketball game between Alburgh and St. Albans. AlburghSchool.org
ALBURGH,
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FED, RATE, INTEREST, HIKE
WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation is cooling, and parts of the economy appear to be weakening. But Chair Jerome Powell is likely Wednesday to underscore that the Federal Reserve’s primary focus remains the need to fight surging prices with still-higher interest rates.
With
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BORDER, HOUSE, GOP, HEARING
WASHINGTON – A new Congress kicks off their investigations into President Joe Biden's administration. First up on the list? The president’s policies on immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border.
The House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing Wednesday and
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OREGON, SUSPECT, KIDNAPPING, GUNSHOT
An alleged southwest Oregon kidnapper died Tuesday following a standoff with police that ended with the kidnapper apparently shooting himself.
CNN reported that the deceased alleged kidnapper, 36-year-old Benjamin Obadiah Foster, holed up in a residence after
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OMAR, HOUSE, FOREIGN, AFFAIRS
A group representing more than 2,000 Orthodox rabbis in the United States is urging House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
On Monday, the Coalition for Jewish Values said it sent
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WINTER, STORM, POWER, ICE
Traffic sits at a standstill along westbound I-20 near Cedar Ridge Drive and Loop 408 in Dallas, Jan. 31, 2023. (Elías Valverde II/AP)
AUSTIN, Texas — Bands of sleet and snow that brought traffic to a standstill across the nation’s midsection, canceled thousands
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ABORTION, PILLS, WARN, AGS
Attorneys general in 20 conservative-led states are warning CVS and Walgreens that they could face legal consequences if they sell abortion pills by mail in those states
ST. LOUIS -- Attorneys general in 20 conservative-led states warned CVS and Walgreens
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SANTOS, GEORGE, DOG, INTERVIEW
Serial liar George Santos got testy when an ostensibly friendly interviewer grilled the Republican Long Island congressman on his litany of fabrications, asking the freshman lawmaker at one point: ”Where do you draw the line between right and wrong?”
The
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RADIOACTIVE, CAPSULE, FOUND, TRUCK
After a tiny, dangerously radioactive capsule was lost in the Western Australian desert in mid-January, the authorities feared that it could take weeks or even months to find it. The device was smaller than a penny, while the search zone was an 870-mile stretch
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EAGLES, RAPE, CHARGES, PHILADELPHIA
CNN —
A player for the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles has been indicted on rape charges in Ohio, according to an indictment announced Wednesday by the Ohio Attorney General’s Office.
A grand jury indicted Josh Sills, 25, accusing him of raping a woman and holding
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OSBOURNE, OZZY, CANCELS, INJURY
Hard rock legend Ozzy Osbourne announced the cancellation of his 2023 tour dates in the U.K. and continental Europe.
Osbourne issued a statement early Wednesday saying damage to his spine suffered in an accident four years ago will prevent him from touring.
“I
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FEES, CREDIT, BIDEN, CARD
WASHINGTON — The federal government's consumer protection watchdog proposed a new rule on Wednesday to ban excessive credit card late fees, potentially reducing them by as much as $9 billion per year.
Congress banned exorbitant credit card fees under the Credit
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DR, PHIL, TV, SHOW
Daytime television psychologist "Dr. Phil" McGraw said he will end his talk show after 21 years in the coming months, but viewers haven't seen the last of him.
"Dr. Phil" was the most prominent spinoff from Oprah Winfrey's show, which once dominated daytime
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GUN, CALIFORNIA, NEWSOM, SHOOTINGS
Five months after a high-profile gun-control bill died amid Democratic infighting in Sacramento, California lawmakers are trying to revive the legislation to strengthen the state’s restrictions on who can carry loaded firearms in public.
The legislation was
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ARRESTED, NATHAN, CHASING, HORSE
A former actor accused of running a sex cult was arrested by Las Vegas police Tuesday for allegedly sexually assaulting Indigenous girls as young as 13 for roughly two decades, police records show.
“Dances With Wolves” actor Nathan Chasing Horse, 46, was taken
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COLLEGE, GIFT, BACKLASH, FLORIDA
The proposal will go before the state legislature in March. It’s part of a larger war the governor is waging against “woke culture.” This includes signing a law limiting what professors can teach about race and another that would require tenured faculty to
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MUSK, TWITTER, ELON, CAPITOL
According to Politico, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., has expressed frustration over Elon Musk snubbing Congressional Democrats in hs first tour of the U.S. Capitol as Twitter owner.
"I am deeply concerned with how he’s running that company into the ground,"
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