Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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TRANSGENDER, SPORTS, WEST, VIRGINIA
The U.S. Supreme Court refused West Virginia’s bid to bar a 12-year-old transgender girl from competing on the girls’ track team at her middle school.
In its first decision involving transgender students and sports, the Supreme Court on Thursday refused West
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TENNESSEE, HOUSE, GUN, PROTEST
Tennessee’s GOP-dominated House on Thursday voted to expel Democratic Rep. Justin Jones from the Legislature for his role in a protest calling for gun control following last week’s shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville that killed six people,
Continued at Fox News...
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TAIWAN, CHINA, MEETING, MCCARTHY
China fired off a volley of condemnations on Thursday after Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, met the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, but it held off from the kind of military escalation that threatened a crisis last summer, when
Continued at New York Times...
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THOMAS, CLARENCE, GOP, LUXURY
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has for more than two decades accepted luxury trips nearly every year from Republican megadonor Harlan Crow without reporting them on financial disclosure forms, ProPublica reports.
In a lengthy story published
Continued at Washington Times...
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TRUMP, WITHDRAWAL, BIDEN, AFGHANISTAN
The White House will also release a 10-page unclassified summary on the exit.
The Pentagon and State Department are set to share with Congress their after-action reports on the 2021 military withdrawal from Afghanistan, the White House announced at Thursday's
Continued at ABC...
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POLICE, PLANE, DEAD, FLORIDA
A federal civil rights investigation has been opened into the police killing of a 17-year-old in Washington, D.C., after body camera footage of the fatal shooting was released Tuesday.
On March 18, Metropolitan Police Department and U.S. Park Police officers
Continued at USA Today...
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XI, MACRON, RUSSIA, BRING
Two of Europe's heaviest weights in politics are holding talks with China's President Xi Jinping at a time when the EU-Sino relationship is at a serious crossroads.
On the one hand, some in Europe would like to develop closer economic ties with Beijing. On
Continued at CNBC...
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PROTESTERS, PENSION, FRENCH, MACRON
A new wave of unrest over a pension reform engulfed Paris and other French cities Thursday, with enraged protesters occupying the building of the US-based investment firm BlackRock and setting fire to a popular restaurant favored by President Emmanuel Macron.
Dozens
Continued at New York Post...
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MULVANEY, DYLAN, ANHEUSER, TRITT
Country music artist Travis Tritt is cutting ties with Anheuser-Busch over the beer company's Bud Light partnership with transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney.
"I will be deleting all Anheuser-Busch products from my tour hospitality rider," Tritt posted on Twitter
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CASH, APP, FRANCISCO, LEE
The story of how Cash App founder Bob Lee died is horrible. He was only 43 and had two young daughters. But his death says everything about San Francisco and all the problems they have let get out of control.
The tech entrepreneur, who was also the chief product
Continued at Red State...
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ROCKETS, GAZA, ISRAEL, PASSOVER
Jerusalem CNN —
Dozens of rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel on Thursday, the Israeli military said, in a major escalation that comes amid tensions over Israeli police raids at the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.
It was the largest such attack since
Continued at CNN...
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EASTER, EGG, WHITE, ROLL
"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin suggested First Lady Jill Biden might have "racial blind spots" Thursday because she wanted to invite both the national champion LSU and runner-up Iowa women's basketball teams to the White House.
Co-host Whoopi Goldberg seemed
Continued at Fox News...
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ABUSE, REPORT, CHURCH, SEX
The Catholic Church is again at the center of a decades-long child sex abuse scandal, this time in Maryland.
The church has been embroiled in child sex abuse scandals for more than two decades that encompass hundreds of thousands of victims and that span the
Continued at Vox...
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SAUDI, IRAN, ARABIA, DIPLOMATIC
In this picture released by the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, left, shakes hands with his Saudi Arabian counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, right, and Chineses counterpart Qin Gang in Beijing, April 6,
Continued at Chicago Tribune...
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HOTEL, WRONG, TRAINING, ROOM
Feds barged into the wrong hotel room during a drill, then detained the guest inside
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Federal agents and military personnel conducting a training exercise at a Boston hotel
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BIDEN, WATER, VETOES, BILL
CNN —
President Joe Biden on Thursday vetoed a resolution that would have rescinded his administration’s hallmark water rule, with proponents of the rollback arguing that the regulation places a burden on the agriculture community by being too restrictive
Continued at CNN...
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POPE, HOLY, THURSDAY, LEADS
Pope Francis has begun the first of two major Holy Thursday ceremonies
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis led the first of two major Holy Thursday ceremonies, presiding at Mass in St. Peter's Basilica as he continues his stamina-testing Holy Week appointments days
Continued at ABC...
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PLATYPUS, TRAIN, WILD, ARRESTED
Police in Queensland, Australia, released surveillance images of a man in flip-flops carrying a platypus onto a train. Queensland Police.
A 26-year-old man in eastern Australia has been charged after allegedly stealing a platypus from its natural habitat and
Continued at Huffington Post...
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IRS, NEW, TAXPAYERS, SPEND
Washington CNN —
The Internal Revenue Service’s new commissioner, Danny Werfel, released on Thursday the agency’s highly anticipated plan for spending $80 billion in funding over the next decade – and attempted to reassure average taxpayers they don’t need
Continued at CNN...
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BIDEN, POLL, DESERVES, CNN
Just 32 percent of Americans say former President Joe Biden deserves reelection, down five points since December, a CNN poll found Thursday.
While few Americans think Biden deserves reelection, 54 percent of Democrats said they would like someone other than
Continued at Breitbart...
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KENNEDY, JR, ROBERT, BIDEN
Environmental lawyer and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will officially launch a Democratic presidential primary challenge against President Biden later this month.
Kennedy, the son of the late senator, attorney general and presidential candidate
Continued at Fox News...