Emerging Topics in U.S. News
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18th 2023
Updated 23:59 ET
138 articles
ISRAEL, BIDEN, HOSPITAL, GAZA
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The U.S. Department of State warned Americans on Tuesday not to visit Lebanon amid the intensifying Israel-Hamas war.
On Oct. 7, Hamas — a militant group located in Gaza — launched a massive attack on Israel. Israel retaliated and launched
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JORDAN, SPEAKER, JIM, HOUSE
Supporters of Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-Ohio) House speakership quest have targeted the wife of a Republican lawmaker opposing his bid, sending her anonymous text messages and emails warning that her husband could be booted from Congress if he doesn’t support Jordan’s
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HOLLOWAY, NATALEE, DER, SLOOT
Joran van der Sloot, the main suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway, pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal extortion charges related to the Alabama teenager's disappearance and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
As a part of the plea deal,
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CAPITOL, PRO, PROTESTERS, CEASEFIRE
Videos show Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) riling up a crowd of pro-Palestinian protesters outside of the Capitol on Wednesday by spreading the false claim from Hamas terrorists that an Israeli airstrike killed 500 Palestinian civilians at a hospital in Gaza.
“We
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TRUMP, POLL, BIDEN, ELECTION
On Dec. 24, 2020, Kenneth Chesebro and other lawyers fighting to reverse President Donald J. Trump’s election defeat were debating whether to file litigation contesting Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory in Wisconsin, a key swing state.
Mr. Chesebro argued there
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TROOPS, ATTACK, IRAQ, DRONE
Two U.S. defense officials have confirmed to Fox News that the U.S. intercepted two one-way attack drones targeting Iraq's al-Asad air base where American troops are located.
The incident happened early Wednesday morning local time. No injuries have been reported.
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RUSSIAN, ATTACK, ARRIVES, LAVROV
Two people were killed and at least four wounded after an apartment building was destroyed in a Russian air attack on the city of Zaporizhzhia, officials in the Zaporizhzhia region in Ukraine said on Wednesday.
"Search and rescue operations are ongoing at
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ISRAEL, STUDENTS, FIRM, OFFERS
Three Ivy League students who signed on to letters supporting Hamas against Israel have lost job offers from one of the top U.S. law firms.
Davis Polk rescinded letters of employment for three law students at Harvard and Columbia universities after the students
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PUTIN, XI, MEET, CHINA
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The leaders of Russia and China met Wednesday in Beijing and called for close foreign policy coordination, as concerns grow about possible conflicts with the West over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and Beijing’s rising threats against Taiwan.
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AI, CHINA, NEWSLETTER, EXPERT
Facebook (now known as Meta) is reportedly steering its new AI chatbots towards a business-focused direction, aiming to transform them into powerful tools for advertisers.
Bloomberg reports that Chris Cox, Meta’s chief product officer, recently unveiled the
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POLICE, SHOT, FATALLY, CARDS
PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. — A GameStop clerk who police say fatally shot a fleeing shoplifter has been charged with manslaughter.
Derrick Guerrero, 33, was working at the video game retailer’s store in a suburban Fort Lauderdale strip mall Tuesday night when a
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TRUMP, TRIAL, ARRESTED, CIVIL
Former President Donald Trump, accompanied by members of his legal team, comments outside of his civil business fraud trial, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023, at New York Supreme Court in New York. (Seth Wenig/AP)
NEW YORK — A woman was arrested Wednesday after she
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EGYPT, REFUGEES, UNWILLING, PALESTINIAN
As the Israel–Hamas war rages on, Jordan’s King Abdullah isn’t throwing out the welcome mat to refugees uprooted by the crisis, and neither is Gaza's neighbor, Egypt. In fact, Abdullah said, no refugees allowed:
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Jordan's King Abdullah on Tuesday
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BERLIN, SYNAGOGUE, ATTACK, GERMAN
BERLIN (AP) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz strongly condemned a firebomb assault on a synagogue in Berlin on Wednesday, saying “we will never accept when attacks are carried out against Jewish institutions.”
Assailants threw two Molotov cocktails early Wednesday
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SECURITY, AIRPORTS, FORCED, VERSAILLES
PARIS (AP) – The Palace of Versailles was evacuated for security reasons on Wednesday for the third time since the weekend, the former royal chateau said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. It was among a spate of evacuations in the past five days around
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SWIFT, TAYLOR, KELCE, STAR
Travis and Jason Kelce talked about their father meeting Taylor Swift and the two being spotted during the Kansas City Chiefs and Denver Broncos game talking to each other in the suite.
Swift and Ed Kelce were at the game talking to each other. It appeared
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HATE, CRIMES, FBI, REVEAL
FIRST ON FOX: Attorney General Ashley Moody is telling Florida colleges and universities that the state has a "zero-tolerance policy" for hate crimes amid concerns about anti-Jewish attacks due to the war in the Middle East.
In a memo to 21 college and university
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GEORGIA, TRAFFIC, DEPUTY, STOP
Leonard Allan Cure, freed after a wrongful conviction, is shot dead in a traffic stop
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Leonard Allan Cure spent more than 16 years imprisoned in Florida on a wrongful conviction, fighting relentlessly for his release
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TRUMP, MADDOW, MSNBC, EXECUTE
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow said Wednesday that if former President Donald Trump is elected again, he would put the news station on trial and “execute us.”
“He wants to put MSNBC on trial for treason so that he can execute us,” Ms. Maddow said Wednesday on “The
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UPENN, DONOR, MAJOR, SCHOOL
The fallout over the University of Pennsylvania’s (UPenn) response to antisemitism on campus in the wake of the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel continued this week when it lost yet another major donor.
David Magerman, who helped build the trading systems
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DONALD, TRUMP, GAG, ORDER
Democrats’ goal of censoring Donald Trump was embraced by an Obama-appointed federal judge in D.C. on Monday. She then imposed a sweeping gag order demanded by the politicized prosecutor, Jack Smith, to muzzle Trump as he campaigns for president.
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GRETA, THUNBERG, ARRESTED, ACTIVIST
Activist wunderkind Greta Thunberg has been arrested for the second time in a year, this time in London, as she protested against fossil fuels.
Greta Thunberg was detained in London on Tuesday alongside several others under the Public Order Act as they attempted
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COURTROOM, VICTIM, KILLER, MURDER
A courtroom brawl broke out in Texas Tuesday between the family of a 16-year-old Texas girl who was shot in the back 22 times and the murder suspect who was accepting a plea deal.
Frank DeLeon Jr. was appearing in court in Houston to plead guilty in the case
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USERS, NEW, MUSK, FEES
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LONDON (AP) — Elon Musk’s social media platform X has begun charging a $1 fee to new users in the Philippines and New Zealand, in a test designed to cut down on the spam and fake accounts flourishing on the site formerly known as Twitter.
The
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