Emerging Topics in U.S. News
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28th 2023
Updated 23:59 ET
204 articles
BIDEN, TRUMP, DEBATE, GOP
EXCLUSIVE: The $250,000 wire Hunter Biden received from his Chinese business partners was labeled as a "personal investment," despite his legal team claiming the funds were part of a loan and previously saying he never "received any return on his investment,"
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SHUTDOWN, GOVERNMENT, MCCARTHY, HOUSE
How a government shutdown would affect community health centers Federally funded health centers across the U.S. fear a government shutdown could further disrupt medical care for the uninsured and undocumented. They already face inflation and staffing challenges.
National
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TECH, CEO, BALTIMORE, LAPERE
The convicted felon accused in the murder of a tech CEO in Baltimore, Maryland, was taken into custody late Wednesday after two days on the run.
Authorities reportedly caught 32-year-old Jason Billingsley in Bowie, the New York Post reported Thursday.
Investigators
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NEWSOM, DEBATE, GOP, PRESIDENTIAL
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Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday confronted California Gov. Gavin Newsom about possibly accepting the Democratic nomination for president, prompting a lively exchange. (Watch the video below.)
Newsom has not been running for president
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KOREA, NORTH, SOLDIER, AMERICAN
The American soldier who sprinted into North Korea across the heavily fortified border between the Koreas two months ago arrived back in the U.S. early Thursday, local affiliate video appeared to show.
Pvt. Travis King’s release was secured with the help of
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MENENDEZ, RESIGN, CHARGES, BOB
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., enters a closed-door meeting of the Senate Democratic Caucus to address his colleagues for the first time since he was indicted on federal bribery charges at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
WASHINGTON
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GAMBON, MICHAEL, HARRY, 82
Veteran actor Michael Gambon, who was known to many for his portrayal of Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore in six of the eight “Harry Potter” films, has died, his publicist said Thursday. He was 82.
A statement by his family, issued by his publicist, said
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DESANTIS, BIDEN, IMPEACHMENT, DEMOCRATS
Despite appointing the Supreme Court justices who proved critical in overturning Roe v. Wade, Mr. Trump has ducked questions about whether he would support a 15-week ban, the baseline position of many anti-abortion activists in the Republican Party. And, with
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SENATE, DRESS, CODE, FETTERMAN
Wows: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s bid to appease man-boy John Fetterman just lost to a revolt of the grown-ups.
And by a unanimous vote, too.
(Did we really just say that?)
After Schumer announced a rule change to let Fetterman do his blue-collar
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WORKERS, FOOD, FAST, CALIFORNIA
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday signed into law a sweeping deal his office helped forge between fast-food companies and unions that will give workers in the industry a pay increase next year.
The legislation represent a rare peace agreement, hammered out in
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HALF, KARABAKH, GOVERNMENT, NAGORNO
Ethnic Armenians are pouring out of Nagorno-Karabakh since Azerbaijan takeover.
LONDON -- At least 75,500 ethnic Armenian refugees have now fled Nagorno-Karabakh, more than half the disputed enclave's population, according to local authorities, as the exodus
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PHILADELPHIA, LOOTING, SPREE, NIGHT
Philadelphia suffered its second night in a row of mass looting incidents and destructive social media-fueled mayhem on Wednesday, resulting in more than 50 arrests, police said.
On Wednesday, groups of thieves, apparently working together, destroyed property
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AI, CENTER, NSA, LOVE
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is helping to kill off cable TV. So now we have one more reason to love AI.
Just imagine how much better the world will be if AI actually accomplishes everything we’ve been told it could accomplish…
AI will hopefully replace all
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ELEPHANTS, RIGHTS, FIRST, CITY
In a rather bizarre move, the city of Ojai, California, has set a legal precedent by formally recognizing the legal rights of elephants. This makes the city the first in the United States to grant legal rights to a nonhuman species.
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The ordinance,
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REMAINS, FOUND, SUZANNE, MORPHEW
The remains of a 78-year-old man with dementia who left his home to go for a walk in 1991 and never returned have been identified after New Hampshire authorities used modern DNA testing technology, the state attorney general's office said Thursday.
Benjamin
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POWERBALL, MILLION, JACKPOT, DRAWING
After no one hit it big in the Wednesday night drawing, the Powerball grand prize jackpot jumped to an estimated $925 million for the next drawing Saturday.
Wednesday’s jackpot total, by the time of the drawing, was up to $850 million.
If someone hits the
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TREE, ARRESTED, ICONIC, BOY
A famous centuries-old in Northumberland National Park in the United Kingdom was cut down overnight, and police have captured the 16-year-old culprit.
Located at the Sycamore Gap near Hadrian’s Wall, the tree was featured in the 1991 movie, "Robin Hood: Prince
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TWITTER, ELON, MUSK, CEO
Linda Yaccarino is angry.
Not at Elon Musk, the man who hired her to be the CEO of Twitter, the company he subsequently renamed X. Yaccarino says he’s a brilliant leader who is turning his company into something that has more ambition than “any other company
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TAIWAN, FIRST, DOMESTICALLY, SUBMARINE
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen celebrated a milestone in national defense with the introduction of the island's first domestically built military submarine, set to thwart China's regional ambitions and bolster security amid rising tensions.
"Even if there
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ALLIGATOR, PHILLIES, GAME, EMOTIONAL
A Jonestown, Pennsylvania, man and his emotional support alligator were barred from attending Wednesday's Philadelphia Phillies game, according to multiple reports.
The man was identified by The Philadelphia Inquirer as Joie Henney, who keeps WallyGator to
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GLACIERS, SWISS, YEARS, VOLUME
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GENEVA (AP) — A Swiss Academy of Sciences panel is reporting a dramatic acceleration of glacier melt in the Alpine country, which has lost 10% of its ice volume in just two years after high summer heat and low snow volumes in winter.
Switzerland
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ARIZONA, SINEMA, LAKE, KARI
Arizona republican candidate for governor Kari Lake greets the audience during a stop on the Truth and Courage PAC's Take Back America Bus Tour with U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), ahead of the midterm elections, at San Tan Flat in Queen Creek, Arizona, U.S.,
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ROTTERDAM, KILLED, DEADLY, SHOOTINGS
Two people were killed by a lone gunman who opened fire and started fires in a hospital and an apartment in the Dutch city of Rotterdam on Thursday, the city's police chief said.
The shooter, a 32-year-old student from Rotterdam, wore a bulletproof vest as
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IRANIAN, INFLUENCE, BIDEN, DEMANDS
Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, confronted one of President Biden's nominees for a senior Defense Department position on Thursday concerning another administration official who was implicated this week in an Iranian influence operation on the U.S. government.
The
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