Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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MAUI, WILDFIRES, TOLL, DEATH
Incinerated cars crushed by downed telephone poles. Charred elevator shafts standing as testaments to the burned down apartment buildings they once served. Pools filled with charcoal colored water. Trampolines and children's scooters mangled by the extreme
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TRUMP, JUDGE, CASE, JAN
Former President Trump walks to speak with reporters before boarding his plane at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Aug. 3, after facing a judge on federal charges that he conspired to subvert the 2020 election.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan
Continued at LA Times...
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SCHOOL, HIGH, BASKETBALL, CALIFORNIA
The Chino Valley Unified School District (CVUSD) continues to find itself at the center of controversy due to its new policy requiring educators to inform parents if their children indicate that they wish to “transition” to the opposite sex. The policy flies
Continued at Red State...
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SUPREME, COURT, ILLINOIS, BAN
The Supreme Court put OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy settlement on hold Thursday in an order siding with the Biden administration’s request to reexamine provisions shielding the Sackler family from liability.
The single-page order does not contain
Continued at Huffington Post...
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FRIED, BANKMAN, SAM, FTX
NEW YORK — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was sent to jail Friday to await trial after a bail hearing for the fallen cryptocurrency wiz left a judge convinced that he had repeatedly tried to influence witnesses against him.
U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan
Continued at Washington Times...
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UKRAINE, BIDEN, REQUEST, FUNDING
An Ohio Republican is demanding President Biden "explicitly" say what the U.S. is "trying to achieve" in Ukraine after the White House's latest funding request.
Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, led a letter with 11 of his colleagues to Biden calling on the president
Continued at Fox News...
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POLICE, CALIFORNIA, JUDGE, WIFE
A New York man escaped police custody from the fifth floor of a hospital using bed sheets. Now, the search is on to find him.
Yenchun Chen, 44, was in police custody at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in Manhattan on Wednesday when he escaped the hospital through
Continued at USA Today...
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IOWA, STATE, FAIR, TRUMP
The political atmosphere of this year's state fair in Iowa The Iowa State Fair is all about fun, food and frivolity. But every four years, it's also all about politics. Amid the tumultuous political environment, the fair takes a different tone in 2024.
Elections
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MIGRANT, DIES, CHICAGO, BUS
A three-year-old migrant child died while being transported to Chicago, Illinois, aboard a bus sponsored by the State of Texas. The child died as the bus neared Salem, Illinois, late Thursday.
The child, believed to be from Venezuela, was transported from
Continued at Breitbart...
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MOON, RUSSIA, FIRST, YEARS
A rocket carrying a lunar landing craft blasted off Friday on Russia’s first moon mission in nearly 50 years, racing to land on Earth’s satellite ahead of an Indian spacecraft.
The launch from Russia’s Vostochny spaceport in the Far East of the Luna-25 craft
Continued at New York Post...
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POLICE, OFFICER, VIDEO, KENOSHA
Police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, have launched an internal investigation after a video posted to social media appears to show an officer punching a Black man the officer mistakenly thought was involved in a hit-and-run crash
KENOSHA, Wis. -- Police in Kenosha,
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ALABAMA, BRAWL, CAPTAIN, WOMAN
Police in Alabama said Thursday that a fourth person has been arrested on a misdemeanor assault charge in connection with a riverside brawl that drew national attention.
Major Saba Coleman of the Montgomery Police Department said the 21-year-old woman turned
Continued at Fox News...
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HOUSE, DENVER, HOSPITALIZING, FIRE
A teenager and two adults thought to be vacationing in North Carolina's Outer Banks died early Friday morning in a fatal house fire, city officials said Friday.
The fire also injured three other people and decimated the waterfront home in Kill Devil Hills.
The
Continued at Fox News...
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IRAN, AMERICANS, DEAL, HELD
When Siamak Namazi traveled to Tehran in the summer of 2015, Iran had just signed a landmark nuclear deal and the government was encouraging expatriates to return home and bring their expertise and dollars.
So the 51-year-old Iranian American businessman flew
Continued at New York Times...
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HIGH, TIME, HIT, SUICIDE
A record number of nearly 50,000 Americans took their own lives last year, and naturally, the media blame firearms.
A main “driver” of suicide is “the growing availability of guns,” Jill Harkavy-Friedman, senior vice president of research at the American Foundation
Continued at Breitbart...
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MINERS, DUST, COAL, RULE
Coal miners speak out in support of strengthened silica dust exposure standards At a hearing in West Virginia, coal miners spoke out in support of better silica dust exposure standards proposed by the government in response to new black lung cases among coal
Continued at NPR...
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TREE, BANYAN, LAHAINA, SCORCHED
Maui’s famous 150-year-old banyan tree was severely scorched by wildfires ravaging the Hawaiian island this week.
Planted in 1873, the banyan tree now covers more than half an acre of land. The tree is one of the major historical landmarks in Maui’s Lahaina
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HATE, CRIME, INDICTED, MURDER
The 17-year-old charged with murder as a hate crime in the fatal stabbing last month of a gay Black dancer at a Brooklyn gas station pleaded not guilty at an arraignment on Friday.
The teenager, Dmitriy Popov, entered the plea in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn,
Continued at New York Times...
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SCHOOL, HUNTING, CLASSES, ADMIN
FIRST ON FOX: Nearly two dozen Senate Republicans are calling on the Biden administration to withdraw its guidance to block funding for schools that have hunting and archery programs.
In a Friday letter sent to President Biden, Wyoming Republican Sen. John
Continued at Fox News...
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RECALLED, ICE, CREAM, LISTERIA
A company based out of New York has begun recalling soft serve ice cream cups in 19 states and the District of Columbia, a move prompted by possible Listeria contamination.
Real Kosher Ice Cream, based in New York, announced the recall in a Wednesday alert
Continued at New York Post...
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FOX, CORP, LAWYER, CASE
Rupert Murdoch introduces Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during the Herman Kahn Award Gala, Oct. 30, 2019, in New York.
Viet Dinh, chief legal officer for Fox Corp. and a close ally of Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, is leaving his position at the company.
Fox
Continued at LA Times...