Emerging Topics in U.S. News
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5th 2023
Updated 23:59 ET
112 articles
TRUMP, SPEAKER, HOUSE, MCCARTHY
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, made his pitch for the speaker’s gavel to the pragmatic Main Street Caucus on Thursday afternoon.
That group is a critical one for Jordan to please in order to win the top spot. The business-minded caucus boasts
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BORDER, BIDEN, WALL, CONSTRUCTION
Confronted with a surge of migrants, the Biden administration has decided to waive more than 20 federal laws, including environmental ones, to erect barriers along the Southern border.
The decision represents a significant reversal for President Biden, who
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BIDEN, WHITE, HOUSE, DOG
Radio host, columnist, and author Dennis Prager celebrated Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow’s Breaking Biden: Exposing the Hidden Forces and Secret Money Machine Behind Joe Biden, His Family, and His Administration as a “very important book” from “one
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SUBWAY, NEW, YORK, 10
FILE - A Nobel Prize medal is displayed during a ceremony in New York on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. The Nobel Prize winners of 2023 will be announced throughout the weeks of Oct. 2 and 9. (Angela Weiss/Pool Photo via AP, File)
FILE - A Nobel Prize medal is displayed
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UKRAINE, EUROPEAN, ZELENSKYY, SUPPORT
GRANADA, Spain (AP) — Some 50 European leaders used a summit in southern Spain’s Granada on Thursday to stress they stand by Ukraine at a time when Western resolve appears somewhat weakened. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that maintaining such
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GEORGE, GUILTY, SANTOS, TREASURER
Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., wearing a no shutdown button walks up the House steps for a vote in the Capitol on Thursday, September 28, 2023.
The former campaign treasurer to Rep. George Santos of New York will plead guilty Thursday in connection with a pending
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COURT, ALABAMA, MAP, SUPREME
Gerrymandering, whether engineered through judicial fiat or by legislators, is meant to weigh electoral results in a certain direction. From the map selected by the three-judge panel overseeing the Alabama redistricting map, it appears as though these judges
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MENENDEZ, BOB, SEN, STRUCK
LOADING ERROR LOADING
Sen. Bob Menendez’s (D-N.J.) then-girlfriend, now wife Nadine, hit and killed a man with her car in New Jersey in December 2018, according to police records first reported by NorthJersey.com and The Record on Wednesday.
Nadine Menendez,
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WISCONSIN, ARRESTED, RETURNS, RIFLE
An angry man armed with a loaded handgun was arrested after demanding to see Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers at the state Capitol — only to return hours later brandishing an assault rifle after posting bail, authorities said Thursday.
The 43-year-old man, who was
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JON, FOSSE, LITERATURE, NOBEL
Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse wins the 2023 Nobel Prize in literature
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Jon Fosse has won the 2023 Nobel Prize in literature, "for his innovative
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DICK, BUTKUS, 80, LINEBACKER
A photo of Dick Butkus sneering behind his facemask filled the cover of Sports Illustrated’s 1970 NFL preview, topped by the headline, “The Most Feared Man in the Game.” Opponents who wound up on the business end of his bone-rattling hits could testify that
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DRONE, SHOOTS, SYRIA, TURKISH
The United States on Thursday shot down an armed Turkish drone that was operating near its troops in Syria, the Pentagon said, the first time Washington has brought down an aircraft of NATO ally Turkey.
A Turkish defense ministry official said the drone that
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FEINSTEIN, DIANNE, FRANCISCO, SAN
Mourners pay their respects to the late U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein as family and friends listen to the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus during a day of lying in state at San Francisco City Hall, on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez/AP)
SAN FRANCISCO
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MEXICO, NYC, MAYOR, ERIC
U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Mexican Foreign Affairs Secretary Alicia Bárcena walk together during a meeting on security at the National Palace in Mexico City on Oct. 5, 2023.
Branding the scourge of fentanyl deaths the “top of the agenda,”
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DEATH, EXTRADITION, FAKING, FUGITIVE
An American who allegedly faked his death to escape rape charges in Utah continues to fight an extradition order and proclaim he is an Irish orphan who has never visited the United States.
"I conclude that he is as dishonest and deceitful as he is evasive
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SWIFT, TAYLOR, KELCE, TRAVIS
If you’re a football fan, you’ve probably heard more about Taylor Swift in the last two weeks than you have in your life to date. If you’re a Swiftie, you’ve probably heard more about tight ends, offensive linemen, and Kansas City than you ever dreamed you
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RAMASWAMY, IOWA, PROTESTERS, VEHICLE
Protesters rammed their car in the back of a campaign vehicle of Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy ahead of an event held in Grinnell, Iowa, Fox News Digital has learned.
A group of liberal protesters appeared outside Ramaswamy's event at Saints
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CRASH, PUTIN, PLANE, FRAGMENTS
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia claimed on Thursday that the warlord Yevgeny V. Prigozhin and his associates may have brought down their private jet with hand grenades while possibly under the influence of cocaine — a new narrative from the Kremlin about
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WEST, INDEPENDENT, CORNEL, GREEN
Progressive activist Cornel West switched parties for the second time as he wages a third-party presidential campaign.
West is planning to run as an independent for president, ditching the Green Party, which has a more formalized infrastructure to gain access
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OFFICERS, DEATH, SHOOTING, VIDEO
The three Philadelphia police officers injured in a shootout Wednesday evening were responding to a home where people were arguing about a video game, authorities said.
Two officers were shot in the leg and one in the hand, which differs from initial reports.
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YEAR, GIRL, RAPE, MURDER
A 5-year-old Kansas girl was raped and murdered at a homeless camp in the woods after neighbors say her mother had kicked her and other family members out of their house, according to reports.
Zoey Felix was found at a gas station with life-threatening injuries
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OLYMPICS, AHEAD, BEDBUGS, PARIS
The French government has been forced to step in to tackle an infestation of bedbugs as the tiny, blood-eating insects continue to plague the country ahead of France hosting the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne called an emergency meeting
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SCHOOL, TRANS, RISING, OUTRAGE
Parents and students were outraged over a transgender runner competing with the girls in the Maine XC Festival of Champions on Saturday.
Maine Coast Waldorf School high school sophomore Soren Stark-Chessa previously competed in the boys’ category for the school
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SWIMMERS, TEAM, MALE, COLLEGE
ROANOKE, VA – The battle Penn swimmer Lia Thomas started nearly two years ago when the biological male swimmer proudly held firm to a NCAA women’s swimming national championship trophy took a twist Thursday in Virginia where 10 members of the Roanoke College
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