Emerging Topics in U.S. News
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27th 2023
Updated 23:59 ET
43 articles
TRUMP, BALLOT, COURT, SUPREME
Michigan Supreme Court says Trump can remain on state's primary ballot
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The Michigan Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Donald Trump can remain on the state's primary ballot,
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TRUMP, DONALD, HOLIDAY, SWIFT
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GAZA, ISRAEL, HAMAS, HEAVY
Standing before a gray backdrop decorated with Hamas logos and emblems of a gunman that commemorate the bloody Oct. 7 attack on Israel, Osama Hamdan, the organization’s representative in Lebanon, professed no concern about his Palestinian faction being dislodged
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MIGRANT, BORDER, SURGE, MEXICO
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas met Wednesday with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to talk stemming from the record-breaking surge of illegal immigration along the US-Mexico border.
The
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NEW, YORK, MIGRANT, NYC
The New York Times filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft seeking to end the practice of using its stories to train chatbots
FILE - A sign for The New York Times hangs above the entrance to its building, Thursday, May 6, 2021 in New York. The
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BIDEN, HUNTER, HOUSE, SUBPOENA
On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee released a letter sent to White House Counsel Edward Siskel regarding Hunter Biden's defiance of not one but two Congressional subpoenas, as well as President Joe Biden's possible involvement in his son's defiance
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LEE, SUN, KYUN, ACTOR
Lee Sun-kyun, a South Korean actor known for his role in the Oscar-winning film "Parasite," was found dead. He was 48.
Authorities confirmed that Lee was discovered dead in a car in Seoul, Wednesday, after weeks of an intense police investigation into his
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TOM, SMOTHERS, 86, BROTHERS
Tom Smothers, half of the Smothers Brothers and the co-host of one of the most socially conscious and groundbreaking television shows in the history of the medium, has died at 86.
The National Comedy Center, on behalf of his family, said in a statement Wednesday
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KOHL, OWNER, FORMER, 88
Herb Kohl, a former Democratic U.S. senator from Wisconsin and former owner of the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team, has died. He was 88.
His death Wednesday was announced by Herb Kohl Philanthropies, which did not give a cause but said he died after a brief
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FOX, NEWS, 2023, DAWNED
The establishment media continued its biased reporting by selectively ignoring important storylines that contradict its grand narratives.
Americans noticed the bias. Fifty percent of Americans said the national media intend to mislead, misinform, and persuade
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NEW, YEAR, EVE, RECORD
The Sunshine State boom at the expense of New York now includes acclaim as the best place in the United States to celebrate New Year's Eve, according to a new study.
The city of Orlando, Florida, has supplanted the Big Apple as the nation's top New Year's
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TIMES, SUES, MICROSOFT, OPENAI
The New York Times sues ChatGPT creator OpenAI, Microsoft, for copyright infringement
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The New York Times sued OpenAI and its biggest backer, Microsoft, over copyright infringement on Wednesday,
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PALESTINIAN, PRO, BLOCK, LAX
Well, it's a day ending in "y" which means it's another day in which anti-Israel protesters are wreaking havoc on unsuspecting shoppers, travelers, partygoers, or all of the above in an effort to spread their hateful "ceasefire" and "Israel is guilty of genocide"
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TRAPPED, DAYS, TRUCK, RESCUED
A man who had been trapped for several days in the wreckage of his crashed truck was rescued Tuesday after being found by two fishermen in Portage, Indiana.
Fishermen Mario Garcia and his son-in-law Nivardo Delatorre were walking along Salt Creek looking for
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NORTH, KIM, YEAR, END
The North Korean regime hosted an expensive function this week to gather the country's elites for a meeting.
The Central Committee of the North Korean Workers' Party gathered in Pyongyang on Tuesday for the plenary meeting to review policies leading into the
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HARVARD, CLAUDINE, GAY, PLAGIARISM
Going against the woke grain isn’t a recipe for job security at Harvard, but some prominent faculty are bucking the tide as they seek to pull the university out of its downward spiral.
As the Ivy League school wrestles with a leadership crisis, a handful of
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PREGNANT, TEEN, BOYFRIEND, DEAD
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — A missing pregnant Texas teenager and her boyfriend were found dead in a parked car Tuesday in San Antonio and police said they may have been there for days.
Savanah Nicole Soto, 18, and Matthew Guerra, 22, were reported missing by police
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GASTON, GLOCK, 94, GUN
Gaston Glock, the Austrian developer of the handgun that bears his name, died on Wednesday. He was 94.
The Glock company announced his death, the Austria Press Agency reported.
Glock, a reclusive engineer, founded the company in 1963 in Deutsch-Wagram, near
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LAUREN, BOEBERT, DISTRICTS, CONGRESSIONAL
Representative Lauren Boebert, a far-right House Republican, announced on Wednesday that she would run in a more conservative district in Colorado — seeking to increase her chances after a strong primary challenger emerged in her district.
The move — from
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MISSING, REMAINS, POLICE, HELPS
Missouri police say they are "confident" they have found the remains of a man who’d been missing since 2013, thanks to a tip from a YouTuber.
Investigators with the Camden County Sheriff’s Office believe the remains most likely belong to Donnie L. Erwin, who
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GOVERNMENT, MILEI, MEDIA, NEW
Argentina’s new president isn’t slowing down. Javier Milei, who was recently elected after a tense race, took office earlier this month and has already been working to fulfill his promise to slash the size of government.
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Milei has already done
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IOWA, DONALD, TRUMP, SMITH
As The New Republic’s Matt Ford wrote last week, most of the critics of the ruling have “skipped past whether the decision was legally sound and went straight to whether it was a good idea politically,” offering little more than flimsy reasoning along the way.
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DELORS, JACQUES, DIES, 98
BRUSSELS — Jacques Delors, a Paris bank messenger’s son who became the visionary and builder of a more unified Europe in his momentous decade as chief executive of the European Union, has died in Paris, the Delors Institute think tank told The Associated Press
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CHICAGO, MAYOR, CRISIS, COUNTRY
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson pleaded Wednesday for the federal government to take a bigger role in tackling the migrant crisis, warning that the Windy City and other parts of the US are being overwhelmed by new arrivals.
“Without real, significant investment
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