Emerging Topics in U.S. News
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1st 2023
Updated 23:59 ET
50 articles
TRUMP, TRIAL, JR, DONALD
Former President Trump during the LIV Golf Pro-Am at Trump National Golf Club in May in Sterling, Va.
Supreme Court justices on Wednesday sounded ready to rule that a T-shirt with the phrase “Trump Too Small” cannot be trademarked by a California attorney
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GAZA, HAMAS, ISRAEL, CROSSING
At least five Americans were among the group of civilians who fled Gaza for Egypt on Wednesday, U.S. officials say.
All five U.S. citizens – who are the only known Americans to leave Gaza today – were aid workers. The U.S. State Department says that it will
Continued at Fox News...
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BIDEN, CHINA, DEAN, PHILLIPS
President Biden will travel to Maine on Friday to pay his respects to the 18 people killed and more than dozen wounded during a gunman’s rampage through a bar and bowling alley in Lewiston, Maine, last week, the White House announced.
Shortly after the massacre,
Continued at New York Times...
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HOUSE, SANTOS, GEORGE, TLAIB
The House on Wednesday night voted down a resolution to expel Rep. George Santos, deferring all future discipline to an ongoing ethics inquiry into the lying Long Island Republican.
The resolution failed 179-213, despite 24 Republicans and 155 Democrats casting
Continued at New York Post...
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JOHNSON, SPEAKER, ISRAEL, AID
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WASHINGTON ― A Republican proposal to offset the cost of U.S. aid to Israel by cutting IRS funding would backfire and actually lose billions of dollars for the government, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.
House Speaker
Continued at Huffington Post...
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CORNELL, STUDENT, JEWISH, THREATS
A 21-year-old engineering student has been arrested on charges of posting the "horrendous" anti-Jewish death threats online at Cornell University that left the New York school on high alert this past weekend.
Patrick Dai, a native of Pittsford, New York, has
Continued at Newsmax...
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FED, RATES, INFLATION, STEADY
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powel speak at a news conference at the Federal Reserve in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. The Federal Reserve kept its key short-term interest rate unchanged Wednesday for a second straight time but left the door open to
Continued at Chicago Tribune...
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INFANT, YEARS, RATE, TIME
The rate of infants dying before their first birthday jumped 3% in 2022, the biggest surge in 20 years, according to new provisional federal data.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday that the U.S. infant mortality rate hit 5.6
Continued at Washington Times...
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TRUMP, REPUBLICANS, JOHNSON, PALESTINIANS
But Johnson does owe a lot of money. Every year, he has listed a mortgage on which he owes hundreds of thousands of dollars and a personal loan on which he owes tens of thousands. In 2019, he opened up a home equity line of credit, also worth tens of thousands
Continued at New Republic...
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SERIES, WORLD, DIAMONDBACKS, RANGERS
The Cup Series is the highest level of racing in NASCAR. All season, racers participate in a variety of racing events, aimed at qualifying for the playoffs, and finally, the championship.
In NASCAR’s early days, races took place on dirt surfaced racetracks.
Continued at Fox News...
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YEAR, HALLOWEEN, GUN, POINTS
The child's mother and three other children witnessed the incident.
A man has been arrested after allegedly pulling a gun on a 6-year-old and pointing it at his head over Halloween candy, police say.
The incident occurred at approximately 7:25 p.m. on Saturday
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AI, ORDER, BIDEN, NEWSLETTER
Vice President Kamala Harris in the U.K. on Wednesday declared that the Biden administration would lead in setting international rules for artificial intelligence to control the way the tech is used worldwide.
Speaking from the American embassy in London,
Continued at Washington Times...
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ISLAMOPHOBIA, HOUSE, WHITE, FIGHT
With Jews feeling increasingly unsafe on the streets of the United States -- and Jewish students on American college campuses definitely having their safety threatened -- the tone-deaf White House thought this was the perfect time to announce their new initiative
Continued at Red State...
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GRANGER, REELECTION, SEEK, REP
Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX), a top Republican ringleader who fought Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) as he sought the Speaker’s gavel, will not run for reelection, according to reports.
Granger, 80, had begun taking heat in her Fort Worth district for opposing Jordan and
Continued at Breitbart...
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BASKETBALL, KNIGHT, 83, COACH
Hall of Fame basketball coach Bobby Knight has died at 83
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Basketball Hall of Famer Bobby Knight, whose unapologetic style earned legions of fans and critics alike, died Wednesday at his home in
Continued at NPR...
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FRIED, BANKMAN, SAM, BUILT
Sam Bankman-Fried testified Tuesday at his federal fraud and conspiracy trial he was unaware that while he was chief executive of Alameda Research, employees at the hedge fund were spending $8 billion of FTX customer funds.
"When you claim you learned in September
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KEN, BUCK, ELECTION, REP
Colorado Republican Rep. Ken Buck won't run for re-election to the U.S. House in 2024, he announced Wednesday.
In a video to constituents, Buck criticized the GOP for what he called the "insidious narratives" that the 2020 presidential election was stolen,
Continued at Fox News...
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NORTH, KOREA, SOUTH, SHELLS
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea‘s top spy agency believes North Korea sent more than a million artillery shells to Russia since August to help fuel Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine, according to a lawmaker who attended a closed-door briefing
Continued at Washington Times...
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MAYORS, BIDEN, MIGRANTS, BIG
The Democrat mayors of Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles and New York are pressing to meet with President Joe Biden about getting federal help in managing the surge of migrants they say are arriving in their cities with little to no coordination, support
Continued at Newsmax...
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KENTUCKY, TRAPPED, PLANT, COLLAPSE
One man was dead and another was trapped after a structure collapsed at a coal preparation plant in eastern Kentucky on Tuesday evening.
Gov. Andy Beshear confirmed the death on Wednesday morning. “Kentucky, we have some tough news out of Martin County to
Continued at New York Times...
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CARAVAN, MIGRANT, BORDER, CRISIS
The largest migrant caravan in a year, estimated to include some 7,000 people, is heading toward the US — and its leader claims President Biden has “dropped the ball” on immigration and allowed Latin American countries to “gang up” on his administration.
This
Continued at New York Post...
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THREATENING, PILOT, FLIGHT, DELTA
A former Delta co-pilot was indicted earlier this month after being accused of threatening to shoot the captain of a commercial flight “multiple times” if he diverted the flight because of a passenger’s medical emergency.
Jonathan Dunn was indicted on Oct.
Continued at New York Post...
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MATTHEW, PERRY, FRIENDS, JOHN
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John Stamos will never forget what his friend, the late Matthew Perry, did for him.
The “Full House” actor still vividly recalls wanting to quit show business when his Season 9 appearance on “Friends” went awry. Stamos said it was Perry
Continued at Huffington Post...
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PROJECTS, WIND, OFFSHORE, CANCELS
Orsted, a leading offshore wind farm developer, said on Wednesday that it would scrap plans to build two wind farms off the coast of New Jersey, a substantial blow to the state’s efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
The move, which will force Orsted, a
Continued at New York Times...