Emerging Topics in U.S. News
MONDAY, MAY 22nd 2023
Updated 23:59 ET
36 articles
SCOTT, TIM, 2024, PRESIDENTIAL
He is holding his announcement event at his alma mater, Charleston Southern.
Sen. Tim Scott, who grew up in working-class poverty to become South Carolina's first Black senator, and now the Senate's lone Black Republican, was set to declare his candidacy for
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DEBT, BIDEN, MCCARTHY, CEILING
A Politico report was ridiculed by conservatives after the publication claimed that President Biden has been attempting to negotiate with a stubborn Republican Party despite GOP House members previously passing a bill to raise the debt ceiling weeks prior.
Politico's
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NAACP, FLORIDA, DESANTIS, ADVISORY
Tallahassee NAACP president discusses travel advisory for black tourists NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks to Mutaqee Akbar, the president of the Tallahassee branch of the NAACP, about the organization's travel advisory for Black tourists visiting Florida.
National
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IDAHO, SUSPECT, GUILTY, BRYAN
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A judge entered not guilty pleas Monday for a man charged in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students, setting the stage for a trial in which he could potentially face the death penalty.
The Nov. 13, 2022, killings stunned
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TIKTOK, LAW, SUES, SUPREME
TikTok on Monday sued to block Montana from banning the popular video app, escalating its efforts to stop a prohibition that would be the first of its kind in the nation.
In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Montana, the company said
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TRUMP, JEAN, CARROLL, CNN
Writer E. Jean Carroll sought on Monday to amend the first of two defamation lawsuits against Donald Trump to demand at least $10 million in additional damages, citing comments he made on CNN after a jury found him not guilty of rape but liable for sexually
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WATER, COLORADO, RIVER, STATES
Last month, Chicago struck a deal to sell Lake Michigan water to a city 35 miles southwest of the city. The price tag: $1 billion.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot signed a 100-year agreement that will transport treated Lake Michigan water to Joliet, Illinois,
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SCHOOL, HIGH, TRANSGENDER, TRACK
Another biological boy has claimed a spot in California’s high school track and field championships, according to reports.
Sophomore Lorelei Barrett, of the Sherman Oaks Buckley School, an independent K-12 school, recently qualified for the girls’ 1600m race.
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CARPER, TOM, SEN, SEEK
Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware won’t seek reelection in 2024, opening up another seat Democrats will need to defend if they are to maintain their Senate majority next year.
The 76-year-old Democrat has been in public office for decades. He began his career as
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BIDEN, POLL, ECONOMY, 2024
An overwhelming majority of Americans disapprove of how President Biden is handling economic and immigration issues — though most Democrats still support the 80-year-old commander-in-chief, according to a new national survey.
An Associated Press-NORC Center
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BAKHMUT, BATTLE, UKRAINIAN, MILITARY
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Smoke rises from a building in Bakhmut, the site of the heaviest battles with the Russian troops in the Donetsk
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CEO, WRITERS, WARNER, BROS
David Zaslav, the boss of entertainment company Warner Bros Discovery, was giving a speech at a Boston University graduation ceremony when he was interrupted by students shouting "pay your writers", in support of the writers strike in the United States.
The
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EMERGENCY, STATE, DECLARES, EDUCATION
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper gave a briefing on Monday, declaring a “state of emergency” in the Tarheel State. Did the area get ravaged by some natural disaster that we all missed?
The answer is no. Rather, Cooper is declaring a “state of emergency” because
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58, RAY, STEVENSON, THOR
A rep for the actor said he died on Sunday, four days before his 59th birthday.
Ray Stevenson, the character actor who featured in movies like "Punisher: Warzone" and the Indian smash "RRR," has died, ABC News has confirmed.
A representative for the actor
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PRESIDENT, RUSSIA, MISSILE, AGREE
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi received an enthusiastic welcome in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, on Sunday, including his PNG counterpart touching his feet in a traditional Indian gesture of respect to elders.
Modi is on a Pacific tour that began with
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DATA, META, RECORD, HIT
LONDON (AP) — The European Union slapped Meta with a record $1.3 billion privacy fine Monday and ordered it to stop transferring user data across the Atlantic, the latest salvo in a decadelong case sparked by U.S. cybersnooping fears.
The penalty fine of 1.2
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NASCAR, WALLACE, RACE, BUBBA
NASCAR star Bubba Wallace finished in second place at the All-Star Race after Kyle Larson put on a dominant showing in the Cup Series’ return to North Wilkesboro Speedway.
But Wallace turned heads after the race when he appeared to flip off the camera before
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ABORTION, GENDER, NEBRASKA, AFFIRMING
As expected, Republican Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen signed a bill Monday that both limits gender-affirming care for young people and outlaws abortion at 12 weeks of pregnancy.
The abortion ban goes into effect immediately, and the restrictions on transgender
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CARMELO, ANTHONY, 19, NBA
Carmelo Anthony’s professional basketball career has come to an end.
After 19 seasons in the NBA, the 10-time All-Star announced Monday he has retired. Anthony posted a video to his social media pages addressing his career with highlights from his basketball
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IRAN, DEEP, NUCLEAR, UNDERGROUND
As tensions with Iran have escalated over its nuclear program, the U.S. military this month posted pictures of a bomb designed to penetrate deep into the earth and destroy underground facilities that could be used to enrich uranium.
The U.S. Air Force on May
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MADELEINE, SEARCH, MCCANN, POLICE
German police will begin searching for the body of missing British toddler Madeleine McCann, who disappeared 16 years ago, at a remote Portuguese reservoir that suspect Cristian Brueckner visited.
Law enforcement has begun setting up the search perimeter around
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MEDIA, TIKTOK, SOCIAL, TRENDS
Jonnifer Neal's Kia was stolen twice in one day — first from in front of her Chicago home and later from outside the mechanic shop where she took it to get fixed.
But Neal’s ordeal didn’t end there. After her car was recovered a month later, she was stopped
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SHARK, REPORTS, INJURIES, SURFING
A great white shark that measured over 12 feet long pinged twice off the coast of South Carolina.
The adult male shark, named "Ironbound," last measured at 12-feet, 4-inches long and weighed 1,189 pounds, and was tracked about 54 miles from the coast of South
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ABORTION, GOVERNOR, COLLEGE, CELEBRITIES
The storyline was a hook, line, and sinker for the right: A hotel kicked out American veterans to make room for an influx of migrants being shipped to the town. A media firestorm quickly slammed officials for a completely made-up occurrence.
Republican Assemblyman
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