Emerging Topics in U.S. News
TUESDAY, JULY 18th 2023
Updated 23:59 ET
91 articles
TRUMP, DESANTIS, TARGET, JAN
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday ventured outside of conservative media circles in the hopes of putting a damper on the storyline his GOP presidential run has failed to live up to the hype.
Stuck in distant second place behind former President Donald Trump
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BIDEN, ISRAEL, HOUSE, HUNTER
The House of Representatives this week embarked on its semi-regular, bipartisan ritual of pausing legislative business to condemn critics of Israel and celebrate that nation’s virtues. The only twist is that a congressional resolution put up for a vote on Tuesday
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KOREA, NORTH, BORDER, CROSSING
A U.S. national has crossed the inter-Korean border into North Korea without authorization while on a tour and is likely to be in the North's custody, the United Nations Command that oversees the demilitarized zone area at the border said Tuesday.
The person
Continued at Newsmax...
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CHARGES, MICHIGAN, FAKE, 16
The Michigan attorney general has announced charges against the state's 16 "fake electors," the office announced in a press release on Tuesday afternoon, for their alleged role in the scheme after the 2020 presidential election.
Attorney General Dana Nessel
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YEAR, CART, GOLF, FLORIDA
A Texas mom is facing charges of abusing her 3-year-old child by subjecting them to "multiple unnecessary" medical procedures.
Jessica Gasser, 27, was arrested in Rusk County last week and is being held at the Tarrant County Jail, sheriff’s deputies said.
The
Continued at Fox News...
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GILGO, BEACH, REX, HEUERMANN
Rapper Tupac Shakur is seen at a voter registration event in South Central Los Angeles in 1996. He was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting that same year. via Associated Press
Police carried out a search warrant on Monday in connection with the 1996 shooting
Continued at Huffington Post...
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JACKPOT, POWERBALL, BILLION, DRAWING
No winner in Monday's Powerball drawing has the next jackpot approaching $1 billion
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ST. JOSEPH. Mo. — The Powerball jackpot rose yet again to an estimated $1 billion after no winning ticket was
Continued at NPR...
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BAIL, CASH, ILLINOIS, STATE
The Illinois Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a major criminal justice reform law is constitutional, making the state the first in the nation to end cash bail as a condition of pretrial release — a provision that has triggered debate on racial inequality and
Continued at USA Today...
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RUSSIA, UKRAINE, DEAL, GRAIN
Ukraine claimed responsibility for an attack early Monday that caused significant damage to the Kerch Strait Bridge linking Russia’s Taman Peninsula in Krasnodar Krai Oblast with occupied Crimea.
Ukraine’s minister for digital transformation later said that
Continued at Red State...
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WHITE, HOUSE, COCAINE, NETANYAHU
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) said that he hopes the investigation into the cocaine brought into the White House is reopened and argued that the White House needs to be a place where “we know
Continued at Breitbart...
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POLICE, HIDING, WOMAN, CAR
A woman was left “extremely frightened” on the side of a Massachusetts highway Monday after making the horrifying discovery that a man had been hiding underneath a coat in the backseat of her car while she was driving.
A police officer in Yarmouth, near Cape
Continued at New York Post...
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TUPAC, SEARCH, MURDER, SHAKUR
Rapper Tupac Shakur attends a voter registration event in South Central Los Angeles, Aug. 15, 1996. Authorities in Nevada confirmed Tuesday, July 18, 2023, that they served a search warrant this week in connection with the long-unsolved killing of the late
Continued at Chicago Tribune...
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ACTORS, HOLLYWOOD, STUDIOS, STRIKE
The Hollywood actors’ union said Tuesday that it had exempted 39 independent film and TV projects from its strike, including two movies from A24, the secretive New York company that has become a force at the Academy Awards.
SAG-AFTRA, as the union is known,
Continued at New York Times...
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WOMAN, BISON, YELLOWSTONE, PARK
A bison severely injured a Minnesota woman on Saturday in Theodore Roosevelt National Park, the National Park Service said in a statement on Tuesday.
Park officials reported she was in serious but stable condition after suffering "significant injuries to her
Continued at Fox News...
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PHOENIX, HEAT, DAY, 19TH
The extreme heat scorching Phoenix set a new record Tuesday, the 19th consecutive day temperatures hit at least 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 Celsius) in a summer of suffering echoing around much of the globe.
As human-caused climate change and a newly formed
Continued at Newsmax...
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HAZING, NORTHWESTERN, LAWSUIT, SCANDAL
In this Dec. 1, 2018, file photo, Northwestern head coach Pat Fitzgerald directs his team from the sidelines. (Michael Conroy / AP / Associated Press)
A former Northwestern football player filed the first lawsuit against Pat Fitzgerald and members of the school’s
Continued at Chicago Tribune...
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HADID, CAYMAN, GIGI, ISLANDS
Gigi Hadid was arrested for marijuana possession while on vacation in the Cayman Islands earlier this month, according to a new report.
The 28-year-old supermodel and a friend were taken into custody after customs officials allegedly found “ganja and utensils
Continued at New York Post...
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CARLEE, RUSSELL, WOMAN, ALABAMA
The relieved parents of the Alabama woman who returned home over the weekend after vanishing for over 48 hours say their daughter “definitely” fought for her life during the unexplained ordeal — and added that they believe her purported abductor is still at
Continued at New York Post...
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HEAT, WAVES, PEOPLE, COUNTRY
Taking shelter in cooling centers. Flocking to community pools. Cooking breakfast on the pavement. Chilling in a walk-in refrigerator.
Americans across a broad part of the country are coping with a lengthy and dangerous heat wave this week as cities continue
Continued at USA Today...
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TIMES, NEW, WOUNDED, SQUARE
Three people were wounded Monday night when a suspect opened fire around 11:50 in gun-free Times Square.
NBC 4 reported that there was an argument between “a teen” and three others, when the teen eventually opened fire.
A 15-year-old, 17-year-old, and one
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KERRY, CLIMATE, CHINA, JOHN
In the sandstone desert of China’s far west, a local meteorological station recorded an all-time high temperature of 126 degrees. In central China, heat-induced mechanical problems trapped tourists riding on a cable car in midair.
The heat wave choking China
Continued at New York Times...
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ALDEAN, JASON, SMALL, SONG
Country singer Jason Aldean is responding to backlash over the lyrics and music video for his track “Try That In A Small Town,” telling fans the politically-charged song has nothing to do with race.
Aldean defended himself against accusations he’d written
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FBI, JORDAN, WRAY, DIRECTOR
Seamus Bruner, Director of Research at the Government Accountability Institute, says on the latest episode of the Drill Down podcast that FBI Director Christopher Wray’s Congressional testimony last week only confirms Bruner’s own research into the Bureau.
“The
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WASHED, OBJECT, AUSTRALIAN, SPACE
Authorities are investigating whether a cylindrical object about the size of a small car that washed up on a remote Australian beach is space junk from a foreign rocket
CANBERRA, Australia -- Authorities were investigating on Tuesday whether a cylindrical
Continued at ABC...