Emerging Topics in U.S. News
MONDAY, DECEMBER 18th 2023
Updated 23:59 ET
56 articles
BIDEN, JOE, HUNTER, MOTORCADE
Hunter Biden was photographed Monday afternoon shopping in Delaware with his father, President Biden, just days after he defied a congressional subpoena to attend a closed-door deposition.
Hunter and the president together visited a jewelry store in Greenville,
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TRUMP, RUDY, GEORGE, GIULIANI
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COURT, TRUMP, CASE, SUPREME
ATLANTA — A federal appeals court on Monday ruled that former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows cannot move charges related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia to federal court.
Meadows was indicted in August along with former President
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POPE, SEX, COUPLES, FRANCIS
Pope Francis has formally signed off on allowing Catholic priests to bless same-sex couples -- a radical change in Vatican policy.
A document from the Vatican's doctrine office released Monday provides guidance and details the declaration, which states, in
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ISRAEL, GAZA, CIVILIANS, SECRETARY
President Biden’s new demand that Israel ease up in its war on Hamas is a perilous and nonsensical cave to the growing anti-Israel wing of the Democratic Party.
Nonsensical, because it endorses the utterly false notion that Israel’s being callous about the
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JONATHAN, MAJORS, GUILTY, ASSAULT
Actor Jonathan Majors receives mixed verdict in criminal domestic violence trial
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Actor Jonathan Majors, once a promising and fast-rising Hollywood star, was found guilty on two out of four charges
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TEXAS, SIGNS, ARREST, ILLEGAL
Testing the limits of how far Texas can go to keep migrants out of the U.S., Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday signed into law sweeping new powers that allow police to arrest those who cross the border illegally and give local judges authority to order
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SOUTHWEST, MELTDOWN, AIRLINES, 140
The department said that Southwest had run afoul of consumer protection laws by failing to provide prompt customer service, flight notifications and refunds to passengers affected by the meltdown. In a statement, Bob Jordan, Southwest’s chief executive, said
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TRUMP, POLL, IOWA, NEW
Former Melania Trump adviser Stephanie Winston-Wolkoff has created quite the cottage industry by seemingly betraying and attacking the former First Lady since leaving the White House.
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Of course, long before seeking the approval of the Trump-hating
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CONFEDERATE, ARLINGTON, MEMORIAL, JUDGE
In an all-too-rare move these days, a statue honoring the Confederate war dead is staying put. At least for the time being.
U.S. District Judge Rossie Alston of the Eastern District of Virginia, who was nominated by Donald Trump in 2019, issued a temporary
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STEEL, JAPANESE, 14, NIPPON
The United States Steel Corporation, which played a critical role in helping the Allies defeat Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany in World War II, is now being sold to Japan’s largest steelmaker.
Early on Monday, executives with U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel Corporation
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WEEKS, ERUPTS, VOLCANO, ICELAND
People watch as the night sky is illuminated caused by the eruption of a volcano on the Reykjanes peninsula of south-west Iceland seen from the capital city of Reykjavik, Monday Dec. 18, 2023. (Brynjar Gunnarsson/AP)
STOCKHOLM — A volcanic eruption started
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SEA, RED, ATTACKS, INTERNATIONAL
Mock drones and missiles are displayed at a square on December 07, 2023 in Sana'a, Yemen.
U.S. officials are planning to expand a maritime force in the Red Sea to defend against escalating attacks from the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, which have impeded international
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EARTHQUAKE, CHINA, KILLS, NORTHWESTERN
A government worker looks at the debris of a house brought down in the earthquake in Jishishan county in northwest China's Gansu province Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023. At least 100 people were killed in a magnitude 6.2 earthquake in a cold and mountainous region
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FRANKE, RUBY, ABUSE, CHILD
Former parenting advice YouTuber Ruby Franke was charged with four counts of aggravated child abuse.
She pleaded guilty to all four, saying she had the "deepest regret" and "sorrow" for her family and six children.
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PALESTINIAN, PRO, PROTESTERS, ANTI
Anti-Israel protesters targeted actor Alec Baldwin Monday evening as the “30 Rock” star suddenly appeared during a protest after hundreds of agitators flooded into Penn Station and Grand Central Station during a fiery demonstration where they told Israel to
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SEX, SENATE, TAPE, STAFFER
Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., has broken his silence after one of his staffers was allegedly fired over a sex tape filmed in a Senate hearing room.
"I was angry. I was disappointed," Cardin told Fox News earlier Monday when speaking about the scandal. "It’s a breach
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MAYOR, ADAMS, CITY, 11
Just when you thought President Joe Biden was a gaffe machine, New York City Mayor Eric Adams just said, “Hold my beer.”
During an interview with WPIX-TV’s Dan Mannarino, the mayor completely fumbled an answer when asked what word he would use to describe
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BORDER, EXCLUSIVE, RAILWAY, OPERATIONS
A House Democrat in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) is breaking from the group to call for "tougher" border security measures after the ongoing migrant crisis forced U.S. officials to suspend railway operations between Texas and Mexico in two cities.
The
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GIULIANI, GEORGIA, WORKERS, ELECTION
A federal jury in Washington ordered Rudolph W. Giuliani last week to pay $148 million in damages to two former Georgia election workers he defamed by spreading baseless claims that they tried to steal votes from Donald J. Trump on Nov. 3, 2020.
Mr. Giuliani,
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NORTHEAST, POWER, STORM, FLOODING
Workers clear flooding on the Mosholu Parkway in the Bronx on Monday.
Heavy rain and howling winds associated with a major coastal storm were pounding portions of the Northeast early Monday as officials in Philadelphia, New York and Boston asked residents
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INDUSTRY, CANDIDATE, RUSSIA, PUTIN
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday presented documents to Russia’s Central Election Commission to register as a candidate in the 2024 presidential election.
“He submitted them,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian state media.
Supporters
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EGYPT, EL, 89, SISI
Over a decade at the helm of the Arab world’s most populous country, there have been times when President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt looked like a man dangling from a ledge by the tips of his fingers.
There was the time 10 years ago, for instance, when
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TRIAL, KONG, HONG, LAI
HONG KONG (AP) — A landmark national security trial opened Monday in Hong Kong for prominent activist and publisher Jimmy Lai, who faces a possible life sentence if convicted under a law imposed by Beijing to crush dissidents.
Lai, 76, was arrested in August
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