Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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JORDAN, SPEAKER, JIM, HOUSE
Hours after Rep. Jim Jordan’s failed bid to win the speaker’s gavel on Tuesday, Republicans and Democrats are weighing a plan to give Rep. Patrick McHenry the power to serve temporarily as House speaker while the GOP grapples with a weeks-long stalemate over
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TRUMP, ORDER, GAG, TRIAL
Former President Donald Trump will now face certain restrictions on one of his signature pastimes: attacking his perceived enemies.
On Monday, federal judge Tanya Chutkan issued a partial gag order that prevents Trump from going after witnesses, prosecutors,
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PUTIN, CHINA, TIES, UNDERSCORING
Russian President Vladimir Putin does not have any rivals for the presidency ahead of the coming election, the Kremlin claims.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian news outlets Tuesday that there is no competition against Putin ahead of the next presidential
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UKRAINE, MISSILES, TIME, RANGE
KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukraine has used U.S.-supplied ATAMCS long-range missiles for the first time in its war against Russia, hitting two Russian airbases in occupied Ukrainian territory in strikes that Ukraine and some Russian sources said had caused significant
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BRUSSELS, POLICE, DEAD, SHOT
Police in Belgium have fatally shot the suspected terrorist accused of killing two Swedish soccer fans in a rampage shooting on a Brussels street on Monday — triggering a nationwide manhunt, according to reports.
“We have the good news that we found the individual,”
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COURT, SUPREME, ETHICS, CONEY
Amy Coney Barrett says she supports an ethics code for Supreme Court justices
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As members of the U.S. Supreme Court continue to face scrutiny over potential ethical transgressions, one justice said
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BALDWIN, ALEC, SHOOTING, RUST
Hollywood star Alec Baldwin could soon face fresh charges in connection to the fatal Rust shooting almost exactly two years ago as New Mexico prosecutors seek to present new evidence to a grand jury.
The announcement represents a dramatic reversal after prosecutors
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SWIFT, TAYLOR, SMITH, MOM
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TRUMP, NEW, REPUBLICANS, GOP
Jordan would make Kevin McCarthy look like a master of compromise. There is every indication he would lead the House in a more radical, obstructionist way. He is, it should be noted, scandal-plagued: In 2018, a number of former Ohio State wrestlers accused
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PEPPER, WORLD, HOTTEST, RECORD
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FORT MILL, S.C. (AP) — Ed Currie, the South Carolina hot pepper expert who crossbred and grew the Carolina Reaper that’s hotter than most pepper sprays police use to subdue unruly criminals, has broken his own world record with a pepper
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BOY, MUSLIM, KILLED, PALESTINIAN
The murder of a boy in Illinois has raised concerns for some Muslim Americans.
A week after the start of the Israel-Hamas war, the killing of a 6-year-old boy, in what authorities say is a targeted hate crime in reaction to the conflict, is alarming many Muslims
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INDIA, COURT, MARRIAGE, SEX
India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a plea to legalize same-sex marriage, a stinging setback for gay people seeking equal rights in this socially conservative country of 1.4 billion people.
A five-member bench of judges ruled unanimously against the
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HARVARD, HAMAS, ISRAEL, STUDENT
Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer announced that he and his wife are resigning from the Harvard Kennedy School's executive board because of the school president’s response to a student letter that blamed Israel for the terrorist attack on their country.
Ofer released
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HAMAS, DEPORT, NATIONALS, COTTON
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., urged the Biden administration to deport foreign nationals who have expressed support for Hamas.
Cotton, in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, wrote: "The appalling explosion of antisemitism in the United States
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YEARS, 16, WRONGFULLY, SHOT
A Black man who spent more than 16 years imprisoned in Florida on a wrongful conviction was fatally shot Monday by a sheriff’s deputy in Georgia during a traffic stop, authorities said.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which is reviewing the shooting,
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EXTINCT, SPECIES, 21, ENDANGERED
Government officials said Monday that they plan to remove 21 species from the Endangered Species Act for the saddest of reasons: because they are extinct.
But remaining on the list, at least for a bit longer? The ivory-billed woodpecker, a majestic bird whose
Continued at New York Times...
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IRAN, BIDEN, BILLION, PRESSURE
The shocking news came just over a week ago, on October 7: Iran’s proxy terror force Hamas had flooded across Israel’s border and within hours had slaughtered hundreds of Israelis.
While the Biden administration was no doubt shocked too, it shouldn’t have
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HUNTER, BIDEN, TRUMP, POLL
More than half of US voters believe both first son Hunter Biden and former President Donald Trump have done something illegal — and a growing number believe the same of President Biden, a new poll has found.
The Fox News survey found 52% of registered voters
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IRS, FILE, FREE, ROLLOUT
The IRS plans to invite select taxpayers across 13 states to try out the agency's pilot electronic free file tax return system beginning in January.
The agency estimates that hundreds of thousands of taxpayers will participate in the limited rollout of the
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SMITH, JADA, PINKETT, EXPLOSIVE
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Jada Pinkett Smith continues to shock the public with revelations from her memoir “Worthy” ― but the actor said her family knew exactly what to expect from the book.
“What I did was tell them what’s in the book, what stories I was going
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