Emerging Topics in U.S. News
SUNDAY, MARCH 26th 2023
Updated 23:59 ET
35 articles
TRUMP, BRAGG, DESANTIS, DA
Former President Donald Trump is reportedly drawing battle lines against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — by blackballing anyone who works for his potential Republican rival.
Trump campaign aide Justin Caporale, who helps lead Trump’s advance team, has declared
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MISSISSIPPI, TORNADO, 26, WEATHER
The tornado that tore through Rolling Fork was a rare and powerful storm.
President Joe Biden on Sunday approved disaster relief for Mississippi, making funding available to those impacted by the severe storms that battered the state on Friday night.
Federal
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PUTIN, NUCLEAR, UKRAINE, BELARUS
Ukraine's government on Sunday called for an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council to "counter the Kremlin's nuclear blackmail" after Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed plans to station tactical atomic weapons in Belarus.
One Ukrainian official
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NETANYAHU, DEFENSE, MINISTER, JUDICIAL
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — An Israeli good governance group on Sunday asked the country’s Supreme Court to punish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for allegedly violating a conflict of interest agreement meant to prevent him from dealing with the country’s judiciary
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JONATHAN, MAJORS, ARRESTED, ASSAULT
“Creed III” and “Ant-Man” actor Jonathan Majors was arrested Saturday over what New York City police say was his role in a domestic dispute.
The 33-year-old was taken into custody near an apartment in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan after the NYPD said
Continued at Washington Times...
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CHOCOLATE, MISSING, DEAD, FACTORY
The death toll from an explosion at an Eastern Pennsylvania chocolate factory rose Sunday to four and three people remained missing.
Eight people were injured in the Friday blast, which damaged and destroyed nearby buildings and homes.
West Reading Borough
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CHINA, TAIWAN, HONDURAS, TIES
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said that her country refuses to "engage in a meaningless contest of dollar diplomacy with China" after Honduras opened ties with Beijing on Sunday, ending relations with Taiwan that date back several decades.
"It is with deep
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FINAL, FOUR, STATE, DIEGO
Miami, trailing and listless for much of the first 30 minutes of its round-of-8 game against Texas on Sunday, mounted a stunning, compact comeback on Sunday in the N.C.A.A. tournament to claim the last spot in the Final Four next weekend in Houston.
Miami,
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TWITTER, CODE, LEAKED, SOURCE
Twitter says parts of its source code were leaked online
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NEW YORK — Some parts of Twitter's source code — the fundamental computer code on which the social network runs — were leaked online,
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GEORGIA, TORNADO, TIGERS, SAFARI
CNN —
Two tigers have been recaptured after escaping a Georgia safari park during a tornado warning Sunday morning, according to the park.
In a Facebook post, the Wild Animal Safari park in Pine Mountain wrote that it sustained “extensive tornado damage.”
No
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FAA, WITHDRAWS, BIDEN, NOMINEE
Phil Washington, Joe Biden’s embattled nominee to head the Federal Administration Aviation, has withdrawn his nomination, sources told Reuters Saturday evening.
One of the sources, a White House official, told Reuters that “an onslaught of unfounded Republican
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PHILADELPHIA, WATER, CHEMICAL, SPILL
The city of Philadelphia said Sunday afternoon that tap water is safe to drink after a latex emulsion spilled into the Delaware River on Friday.
The city's water department said in a news release Sunday afternoon that tap water from the Baxter Drinking Water
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MISSILE, NORTH, KOREA, FIRED
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s military says it detected North Korea firing at least one ballistic missile toward the sea off its eastern coast, adding to a recent flurry in weapons tests as the United States steps up its military exercises with the South
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TIKTOK, BAN, LAWMAKERS, THREAT
House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy said on Sunday lawmakers will move forward with legislation to address national security worries about TikTok, alleging China's government had access to the short video app's user data.
In the United States,
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FLORIDA, DAVID, PARENTS, PORN
The head of Florence’s Galleria del’Accademia on Sunday March 26, 2023 invited the parents and students of a Florida charter school to visit and see Michelangelo’s “David,” after the school principal was forced to resign following parental complaints that an
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BIDEN, JUSTICE, DEATH, LINE
CHICAGO — Rejon Taylor hoped the election of Joe Biden, the first U.S. president to campaign on a pledge to end the death penalty, would mean a more sympathetic look at his claims that racial bias and other trial errors landed him on federal death row in Terre
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RULES, PROTEST, YEARS, HONG
Dozens of people on Sunday joined Hong Kong's first authorized protest since the lifting of major COVID-19 restrictions under unprecedentedly strict rules, including wearing a numbered badge around their necks.
The rules set out by the police, who cited security
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12, CAMPUS, PENNSYLVANIA, FLOOR
Twelve people were hurt Saturday night after the second floor of a three-story apartment building collapsed during an off-campus Indiana University of Pennsylvania party, officials say.
Members of Pennsylvania state police, fire and emergency medical services
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COUPLE, HAITI, REPORTS, RANSOM
The family of a Florida couple missing in Haiti says the two American citizens were ordered off of a bus and kidnapped in the Caribbean nation a week and a day ago.
Relatives of Jean-Dickens Toussaint and his wife, Abigail Toussaint, both 33, say they already
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BANK, SILICON, VALLEY, FIRST
First Citizens BancShares Inc was in advanced talks to acquire Silicon Valley Bank , a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Sunday.
First Citizens could reach a deal as soon as Sunday to acquire Silicon Valley Bank from the Federal Deposit Insurance
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KHANNA, SENATE, RO, LEE
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Fremont) announced Sunday that he will co-chair Rep. Barbara Lee’s campaign for U.S. Senate.
Khanna, who has been urged by allies of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to consider a run at the presidency, had spent months considering a potential
Continued at LA Times...
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UBER, KILLED, MARINE, VETERAN
A California Marine Corps veteran and father of two was shot and killed while driving for Uber on Friday morning.
Aaron Orozco, 38, was driving for the rideshare company when he got into a “physical altercation” with two of his passengers at a 7-Eleven parking
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HOLLYWOOD, PRODUCER, FAKING, NATIVE
Maybe she can produce Elizabeth Warren’s biopic.
In the latest “Pretendian” scandal among left-wing elites, a prominent Hollywood producer is being called a phony, with activists alleging she has been faking her Cherokee heritage for years, according to a
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SQUAD, FIRING, IDAHO, EXECUTION
Republican Gov. Brad Little signed a bill allowing execution by firing squad, making Idaho the latest state to turn to older methods of capital punishment amid a nationwide shortage of lethal-injection drugs.
The Legislature passed the measure March 20 with
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