Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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CHIEFS, RAIDERS, SWIFT, TAYLOR
Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce had another underwhelming game as the team fell to the Las Vegas Raiders on Monday afternoon, 20-14.
Kelce finished the game with five catches for 44 yards as he recorded his fifth straight game without a touchdown. The
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HAMAS, WAR, ISRAEL, GAZA
Egyptian officials tout a preliminary plan to end the Israel-Hamas war
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Egyptian officials have proposed a preliminary, multiphase plan to end the war in Gaza,
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POPE, CHRISTMAS, PEACE, FRANCIS
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Monday blasted the weapons industry and its “instruments of death” that fuel wars as he made a Christmas Day appeal for peace in the world and in particular between Israel and the Palestinians.
Speaking from the loggia of St. Peter’s
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CHRISTMAS, LEADER, IRANIAN, 47
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AIRSTRIKE, IRANIAN, SYRIA, ISRAELI
An Israeli airstrike in Syria took out a top Iranian commander Monday, prompting Iran to ominously warn Israel that it will “pay the price,” according to Tehran’s state media.
Seyed Razi Mousavi, an adviser in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards who helped coordinate
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CHRISTMAS, HOME, CHILDHOOD, BURNS
Beyoncé’s childhood home caught fire early on Christmas morning, though the family living there escaped safely.
The fire was reported at about 2 a.m. Monday and the Houston Fire Department arrived on the scene of the two-story brick house within three to five
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PRO, PALESTINIAN, PROTESTERS, HOMES
Anti-Israel activists were making trouble in NYC again -- this time on Christmas.
They disrupted carolers on Sunday night, blaring loud music to try to disrupt the carols around Washington Square Park.
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Then on Christmas day, they marched through
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IRAQ, ATTACK, BACKED, TROOPS
President Joe Biden answers a reporter's question as he walks from Marine One upon arrival on the South Lawn of the White House, Dec. 20, 2023, in Washington. Biden ordered retaliatory strikes Monday, Dec. 25, against Iranian-backed militia groups after three
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HARVARD, GAY, RESIGN, CLAUDINE
A high-ranking editor and columnist for the Washington Post is calling on Harvard University’s president Claudine Gay to resign, saying the instances of plagiarism in Gay’s published works have grown too numerous to ignore.
In her op-ed this week, associate
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PLANE, DAYS, FRANCE, INVESTIGATION
Men board the plane grounded by police at the Vatry airport , Monday, Dec. 25, 2023 in Vatry, eastern France. A charter plane grounded in France for a human trafficking investigation is scheduled to leave Monday for India, after an exceptional holiday ordeal
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BIDEN, TRUMP, IMMUNITY, REASON
Former President Donald Trump slammed President Joe Biden on Christmas, contending Biden is “illegally using all of the levers of Law Enforcement” to put him in jail.
Trump — who was indicted four times in 2023, with two coming from Biden’s Department of Justice
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POLICE, CAPITAL, CITY, THREATENING
Riot police in Serbia fired tear gas to prevent hundreds of opposition supporters from entering the capital’s city council building on Sunday in protest of what election observers said were widespread vote irregularities during a general election last weekend.
Serbia’s
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TRUMP, CHRISTMAS, TV, VOTING
Former President Donald Trump has launched a Christmas-themed ad blitz in early voting states like Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina ahead of the upcoming primary races. The video centers on a 2018 visit Trump made to the troops in Iraq as president.
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MEDIA, SCOLDS, REPORTING, START
President Biden chastised the media this weekend over its coverage of the economy as he grapples with lackluster approval ratings on the issue top of mind to most voters ahead of 2024.
“What’s your outlook on the economy next year?” a reporter asked the 81-year-old
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CHRISTMAS, AOC, MESSAGE, JESUS
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez likens Palestinians to Jesus while describing Israel as a violent occupying force in an online Christmas post, prompting critics to slam what they call her blatant “Jew hate.”
In her Instagram story on Christmas Eve, the lefty
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ARIZONA, VOTERS, JR, BIDEN
PHOENIX -- Some voted for Donald Trump, others for Joe Biden. A few had never wanted anything to do with politics before they heard Robert F. Kennedy Jr., on a podcast or YouTube video.
Lined up outside a Phoenix wedding hall tucked between a freeway, a railroad
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CHARLES, KING, CHRISTMAS, III
King Charles III reflected his coronation theme of public service Monday in a Christmas message that he connected to the health of the planet and wars that are raging.
In a prerecorded video shot with him standing beside a Christmas tree in Buckingham Palace,
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MALL, SHOOTING, INJURED, DEAD
OCALA, Fla. (AP) — Authorities in central Florida issued an arrest warrant Sunday for a 39-year-old man accused of fatally shooting another man at a shopping mall two days before Christmas in which police say the victim was “targeted.”
As of Sunday afternoon,
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CHRISTIE, DISTANT, FOCUS, STATE
EXETER, New Hampshire – Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie wasn’t in a holly, jolly mood at a recent campaign stop here — ducking inquiries from the press in apparent violation of his “tell it like it is” campaign slogan.
“Not taking any questions from
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