Emerging Topics in U.S. News
TUESDAY, MAY 23rd 2023
Updated 23:59 ET
63 articles
TRUMP, DESANTIS, 2024, RON
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Former President Donald Trump sits at the defense table with his legal team in a Manhattan court, April 4, 2023,
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DEBT, BIDEN, CEILING, MCCARTHY
House Republicans canceled the drafting of appropriations bills saying Speaker Kevin McCarthy needs flexibility in the debt limit negotiations with President Biden — but the delay also spares the party from pinpointing proposed spending cuts.
The House Appropriations
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WHITE, HOUSE, HAUL, TRUCK
A suspect is charged after crashing a truck into barriers near the White House
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Law enforcement officials in Washington, D.C., say a person who drove a rental truck into security
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LAKERS, LEBRON, NUGGETS, NBA
The Los Angeles Lakers brass certainly would like superstar LeBron James to return for another season in the NBA.
Less than 24 hours ago, the Lakers' season came to a close when they lost a fourth straight game to the Denver Nuggets in the Western Conference
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MEDIA, SOCIAL, SURGEON, GENERAL
“Are they playing baseball? Are they going to ballet?” echoed Dr. Harold S. Koplewicz, the president of the Child Mind Institute. If children are doing something besides going to school and spending time on screens, they may well have a balanced and healthy
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FLORIDA, NAACP, TRAVEL, ADVISORY
The Issue: The NAACP’s advisory that African Americans not travel to Florida because of recent laws.
NAACP President Derrick Johnson was just blowing hot air as his organization issued an advisory to African Americans not to travel to Florida (“NAACP’s Fla.
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HARRY, PROTECTION, PRINCE, POLICE
LONDON (AP) — A London judge ruled Tuesday against Prince Harry in his efforts to pay for police protection when he visits Britain.
A High Court judge rejected the Duke of Sussex’s assertion that the British government exceeded its authority when it denied
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DODGERS, NIGHT, PRIDE, GROUP
The Los Angeles Dodgers announced Monday that a satirical LGBTQ+ group called the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence will again be welcome at the team’s annual Pride Night, nearly a week after the team rescinded its original invitation.
“We have asked the Sisters
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NEW, YORK, NYC, FACES
For decades, affordable housing in New York City has followed a seemingly simple rule: To make new development more palatable, half of new affordable apartments must first be offered to people already living in the area.
The policy, put in place in 1988 by
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TYPHOON, MAWAR, GUAM, SUPER
It could be the strongest tropical cyclone to impact Guam in decades.
A powerful typhoon is headed toward Guam, which could be the strongest tropical cyclone to impact the island in decades.
Typhoon Mawar could directly hit Guam with winds as strong as 140
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GERSHKOVICH, DETENTION, EVAN, EXTENDS
FILE - Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court, in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, April 18, 2023. The Biden administration on Thursday, April 27, sanctioned Russia's Federal Security Service
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HUNTER, BIDEN, IRS, WHISTLEBLOWERS
A second IRS whistleblower in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) probe of Hunter Biden for tax fraud surfaced after the expulsion of the whole IRS team investigating the president’s son, documents sent to Congress revealed Monday.
The whistleblower, a special
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ABORTION, BAN, CAROLINA, SOUTH
House Democrats had filed 1,000 amendments to try to block the measure from reaching a final vote, but it wasn’t enough. The self-named “sister senators” tried to filibuster the measure, but they too were defeated. All three Republican men who voted against
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TARGET, PRIDE, BACKLASH, EMERGENCY
In response to consumer outrage and calls for boycotts prompted by social media influencer Kaylee Campbell Layton’s viral video revealing LGBT Pride clothing including “tuck” swimwear for concealing male appendages in the children’s section, Target corporate
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WATER, DEAL, COLORADO, RIVER
Last summer, the Colorado River system was headed toward collapse. Its reservoirs were at historic lows and sinking dangerously close to “dead pool,” at which point water can no longer pass downstream through the dams.
The situation ignited a tense debate
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BUD, LIGHT, SALES, NEW
New homes sold at a faster pace than expected in April as demand remains strong despite higher mortgage rates.
Sales rose 4.1 percent to an annual rate of 683,000 in April, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday. This was a faster pace than economists had
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ILLINOIS, CATHOLIC, ABUSE, CLERGY
Illinois AG: Catholic clergy sex abuse vastly underreported
Illinois’ attorney general says an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy found 451 clergy sexually abused nearly 2,000 children since 1950. That's far more than the church
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PROFESSOR, MACHETE, COLLEGE, ABORTION
Shellyne Rodriguez, a visual artist and professor based in the Big Apple, held a machete to the neck of a New York Post reporter Tuesday as she threatened to “chop” him up.
The Post visited her apartment in the Bronx borough of New York City a day after she
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ADMITS, FLORIDA, ADVISORY, TRAVEL
“’Let me kill over 100,000 manufacturing jobs – mostly in red states – or I’ll force America to default on bills we racked up and trigger a recession,’ is the opposite of a compelling message,” Andrew Bates, White House deputy press secretary, summarized in
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LAKE, KARI, ELECTION, ARIZONA
An Arizona judge threw out a lawsuit filed by Kari Lake over her defeat in last year’s race for governor, ruling that she had failed to prove that the state’s most populous county, Maricopa, had neglected to review voters’ signatures on mail-in ballot envelopes.
The
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POLICE, SETTLEMENT, FAMILY, MENTAL
DENVER (AP) — The parents of a 22-year-old Colorado man killed by a sheriff’s deputy while suffering a mental health crisis will get $19 million from government state and local agencies and changes to how officers are trained, under a settlement announced Tuesday.
The
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RUSSIA, BELGOROD, INCURSION, ATTACK
Russia on Tuesday said it quelled an attack in Belgorod, just over the Ukrainian border some 50 miles north of Kharkiv, killing dozens of attackers in a roughly 24-hour fight.
Moscow claimed the saboteurs were Ukrainian, though Kyiv has said it had nothing
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13, MS, MEMBER, BIDEN
An illegal alien, accused of murdering 20-year-old Kayla Hamilton, was released into the United States via the Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) program despite a criminal affiliation with the MS-13 Gang in El Salvador.
In January, Aberdeen, Maryland police
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DESANTIS, SUPREME, COURT, CONSERVATIVE
“I think if you look over, you know, the next two presidential terms, there is a good chance that you could be called upon to seek replacements for Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito,” Mr. DeSantis said, referring to two of the court’s most staunchly
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