Emerging Topics in U.S. News
SATURDAY, APRIL 15th 2023
Updated 23:59 ET
17 articles
TRUMP, INDICTMENT, DESANTIS, 2024
CNN —
Former President Donald Trump raised a combined $18.8 million in the first quarter of 2023 through his joint fundraising committee and his campaign – and saw a spike in donations after being indicted by a Manhattan grand jury on March 30 – according
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PM, JAPAN, THROWN, EXPLOSIVE
A pipe-like object was thrown near Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during an outdoor speech in the city of Wakayama on Saturday, Japanese media said.
Kishida was evacuated, Jiji said. An explosion-like sound was heard at the scene, public broadcaster
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SUDAN, GROUP, ARMY, PARAMILITARY
Smoke is seen rising in Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday, April 15, 2023. Fierce clashes between Sudan's military and the country's powerful paramilitary erupted in the capital and elsewhere in the African nation after weeks of escalating tensions between the two
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LIGHT, BUD, MULVANEY, JR
Donald Trump Jr. defended beer conglomerate Anheuser-Busch on his podcast Thursday, urging listeners not to continue boycotting the company.
Trump claimed that the company was too "iconic" to continue boycotting, and that the executives have learned a lesson.
"So
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MARATHON, BOMBING, 10, BOSTON
How the Boston Marathon bombings changed Twitter, media and how we process tragedy
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On April 15, 2013, two improvised bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston
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SAILORS, AMERICAN, MISSING, MEXICO
Three experienced American sailors that were last seen cruising the Mexican coast have been missing for 11 days, the US Coast Guard said.
Kerry O’Brien, Frank O’Brien and William Gross left the resort town of Mazatlán on April 4 aboard the Ocean Bound, a 44-foot
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NYC, HOUSE, CRIME, GOP
Joseph Borgen, a Jewish man brutally beaten in a vicious anti-semitic attack near Times Square in 2021, will testify during the House Judiciary Committee’s special “field hearing” on Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s performance next week.
Borgen,
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GERMANY, NUCLEAR, PLANTS, POWERING
Multiple protests took place as Germany’s green government shut down the country’s three remaining nuclear power plants forever.
Protests took place in Berlin and Munich on Saturday against the imminent shutdown of Germany’s final three nuclear power plants.
The
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QUESTIONS, PENTAGON, TEIXEIRA, JACK
Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old junior enlisted airman with the Massachusetts Air National Guard, who has been charged as being behind the leak of classified U.S. military and U.S. intelligence documents had a high-level top security clearance that raises even
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APOLOGIZES, FOX, MISUNDERSTANDING, JUDGE
The United States Supreme Court published a momentous decision on Friday, April 14: Axon Enterprises v. Federal Trade Commission. After decades of lower court deference to federal agency proceedings, the high Court allowed two parties (one suing the FTC and
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BIDEN, IRELAND, TRIP, PERFECT
Joe Biden might’ve just found his theme song for the 2024 election.
The U.S. president concluded his trip to Ireland this week with a speech at St. Muredach’s Cathedral, and he arrived at the Ballina landmark on Friday with the perfect entrance music: “I’m
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ABORTION, GENDER, SIGNS, RIGHTS
Florida’s state medical boards also issued a rule last year prohibiting doctors from offering gender-affirming care to new patients under 18. Though not a law, the decree has the same effect of ending care.
Two more state legislatures, in Oklahoma and South
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FIRE, PLANT, GEORGIA, EVACUATION
Those within a 1/2-mile of the resin manufacturing plant were told to evacuate.
An evacuation was issued after a large fire reignited at a Georgia plant on Saturday, officials said.
The fire was first reported around 7 a.m. local time at a Pinova plant in
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BORDER, RUSSIA, MEMBER, NATO
IMATRA, Finland — The construction of barbed-wired fence along Finland’s long border with Russia - primarily meant to curb illegal migration - has broken ground near the southeastern town of Imatra less than two weeks after the Nordic country joined NATO as
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RUSSIAN, MISSILE, UKRAINE, AWAITS
At least 11 people were killed and 22 wounded after Russian missile strikes in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk, Ukrainian authorities said Saturday.
Crews also searched for four more people thought to be trapped under the rubble of an apartment building
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TRAIN, MAINE, HAZARDOUS, MATERIALS
Officials say several cars on a freight train have derailed and caught fire in rural Maine
Several cars on a freight train derailed and caught fire early Saturday in rural Maine, officials and the train operator said. Three workers were hurt, but their injuries
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MACRON, FRANCE, PENSION, PLAN
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron’s unpopular plan to raise France’s retirement age from 62 to 64 was enacted into law Saturday, the day after the country’s constitutional body approved the change.
Macron’s signature and publication in the Official
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CHINA, TAIWAN, COLLEGE, VETERANS
A Chinese government diplomat expressed hope that Germany will support its takeover of Taiwan.
Wang Yi, China's top diplomat, made the comments in a statement shared by the Chinese foreign ministry on Saturday, stating that he "hopes and believes" the European
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46, SHEEHAN, SCRIPT, GUITARIST
Ireland’s president has led tributes to Mark Sheehan of Irish rock band The Script after the guitarist's death at age 46
LONDON -- Ireland’s president has led tributes to Mark Sheehan, guitarist with Irish rock band The Script, after his death at the age of
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IMPORTS, POLAND, FARMERS, FOOD
WARSAW, Poland (AP) – Poland’s government said Saturday that it has decided to temporarily prohibit grain and other food imports from Ukraine as it seeks to soothe the rising anger of Polish farmers, who say they are losing huge amounts of money to a glut of
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RUTGERS, AGREEMENT, UNIVERSITY, STRIKE
Rutgers University and union representatives have announced an agreement on a framework for new contracts with several faculty unions, allowing a halt to a five-day strike that was the first such job action in the 257-year history of New Jersey’s flags...
NEW
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NEW, HAMPSHIRE, DESANTIS, FUNDRAISING
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sold out a Republican dinner in New Hampshire, pulling in more than a quarter of a million dollars and breaking the record for the state party’s largest fundraiser.
The Republican governor and likely 2024 presidential candidate headlined
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NEW, POLICE, FATALLY, SHOOTING
A New Mexico man was shot and killed by police who mistakenly knocked on his door to investigate a domestic violence incident, according to reports.
Three officers from the Farmington Police Department in northern New Mexico knocked at Robert Dotson’s door
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MILE, EMU, CHASE, ESCAPED
The pet emu has a history of escaping his enclosure
A city-wide manhunt.
A police chase down the main street.
Social media sites filled with locals describing what they had just witnessed.
While these are usually the tell-tale signs of crisis, the small
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