Emerging Topics in U.S. News
THURSDAY, JUNE 8th 2023
Updated 23:59 ET
73 articles
TRUMP, BIDEN, INDICTED, DOCUMENTS
Former President Trump says he has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that he mishandled classified material by keeping hundreds of sensitive documents from his time in the White House at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
The Department of Justice
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SUPREME, COURT, VOTING, RIGHTS
Black voters had challenged the redrawing of the 2022 election maps.
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that Alabama's congressional maps violate the Voting Rights Act, the landmark law designed to protect against racial discrimination in voting.
In a 5-4
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BIDEN, WHITE, HOUSE, PRIDE
President Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak met at the White House Thursday to shore up economic ties and discuss ways to help Ukraine repel Russian invaders.
Mr. Biden said the relationship between the countries is in “real good shape” and compared
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AIR, QUALITY, SMOKE, CANADIAN
Smoke drifting throughout the United States as a result of massive Canadian wildfires continues to leave millions of Americans at risk of exposure to extremely poor air quality.
As of Wednesday, more than 400 wildfires were burning across Canada, leading to
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PAT, ROBERTSON, 93, DIES
Legendary Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson HAS died at age 93, the Christian Broadcasting Network announced on Thursday, as Fox News Digital reported earlier in the day.
The cause of death was not given in the announcement.
Robertson was known for his
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TEXAS, IMPEACHMENT, NEW, PAXTON
Why It Matters: The decline hurts job seekers without college degrees and worsens disparities.
“New York is on the verge of a crisis, when it comes to jobs that are accessible to New Yorkers without a college degree,” Mr. Bowles said, and the decline is contributing
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NEWSOM, AMENDMENT, GUN, 28TH
California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom is leading a charge for a 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to take out some rights to bear arms, and Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves is calling Newsom to the floor for a debate.
"Gov. Newsom, I am willing
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CUBA, SPY, CHINA, BASE
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby stated that reports that China has reached an agreement for a spy facility in Cuba aren’t accurate but dodged
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HOLLOWAY, DER, SLOOT, VAN
WASHINGTON - JUNE 08: Beth Holloway participates in the launch of the Natalee Holloway Resource Center on June 8, 2010 in Washington, DC. Mark Wilson via Getty Images
LIMA, Peru (AP) — The main suspect in the 2005 disappearance of U.S. student Natalee Holloway
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CHILDREN, FRENCH, TOWN, KNIFE
4 young children are critically wounded in a knife attack in a French Alpine town
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PARIS — As bystanders screamed for help, a man with a knife stabbed
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SCHOOL, HIGH, STUDENTS, BACKLASH
Students are defending a teacher at El Dorado High School in Placentia, California, who was suspended after giving a lecture on pleasing the “booty hole.”
The teacher was caught on video instructing her students on how to have pleasure during anal sex, as
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FLORIDA, BLACK, WOMAN, SHOOTING
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A protester, holds a poster of Ajike Owens at the Marion County Courthouse, Tuesday, June 6, 2023, in Ocala,
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WILDFIRES, SMOKE, CANADA, DON
When will the smoke clear?
That’s what so many people in the eastern US are asking after winds swept smoke from wildfires in Canada into major cities including New York and Philadelphia earlier this week. It’s caused air quality to plummet. For part of the
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LIV, GOLF, PGA, MERGER
On Tuesday morning, the PGA Tour and LIV Golf announced a planned merger that ended nearly a full year of antitrust litigation between the two rivals. Until recently, LIV Golf, an upstart league founded in 2021, had portrayed the PGA Tour as a monopoly that
Continued at The Atlantic...
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BIDEN, SUNAK, UKRAINE, UK
President Joe Biden and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Rishi Sunak arrive for a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House on June 08, 2023 in Washington, DC.
Despite a U.S.-U.K. trade deal remaining very much elusive, British Prime Minister
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EX, MADELINE, KINGSBURY, ARRESTED
A Minnesota man has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend, after a deputy found human remains in a rural area
WINONA, Minn. -- A Minnesota man has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend, after
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BORDER, BIDEN, TEXAS, SECURE
AUSTIN, Texas – “I’m thinking to myself: Horror. Horror. Horror”
That was how Monica Maple, a retired assistant special agent in charge of ICE Homeland Security Investigations, described her feelings to me about when she learned last year that President Joe
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TEXAS, WALKWAY, COLLAPSES, DOZENS
Nearly two dozen teenagers from a summer camp were injured when an elevated walkway collapsed Thursday in a beachside city in Texas, with five flown to the hospital by helicopter
SURFSIDE BEACH, Texas -- Nearly two dozen teenagers from a summer camp were injured
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PENCE, TRUMP, MIKE, SHOWS
Former Vice President Mick Pence took the stage at a CNN Town Hall Wednesday on his 64th birthday in front of Republican voters in Des Moines, Iowa. Oddly, the event occurred on the same day that CNN chief Chris Licht is out at the network, in no small part
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COUNTEROFFENSIVE, UKRAINE, SOUTH, OFFICIAL
Ukrainian forces prepared for months for a counteroffensive against Russia.
Ukraine on Thursday began its long-awaited counteroffensive against Russia, officials told ABC News.
Well-trained Ukrainian troops had been gathering at strategic locations near the
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NEW, YORK, MIGRANTS, QUALITY
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is getting burned for a tweet she sent Wednesday about wildfire smoke blanketing New York City.
The far-right lawmaker shared video of the George Washington Bridge connecting New York City and New Jersey in a shroud of orange
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POLICE, FIRED, OFFICER, PARALYZED
Tim Scott has positioned himself as the Republican most serious about police and civil rights reform. But it turns out he may have sabotaged a (very moderate) police reform bill he and Senator Booker worked on in 2021, perhaps in preparation to run for president.
The
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PRIDE, CUT, CITY, FLAGS
An Oklahoma City man, Stan Sells, made a disturbing discovery on Tuesday when he found a swastika cut into the grass near his home.
Stan Sells, who has been involved in a prolonged dispute with a neighbor, believes that the neighbor is responsible for this
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VOLCANO, FLOCK, VIEW, KILAUEA
Hawaii's Mount Kilauea volcano has erupted again. Watch it live
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Hawaii's Mount Kilauea erupted Wednesday, though the main concern is not lava, but volcanic gas.
The eruption began at 4:44 a.m. Hawaii Standard Time
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