Emerging Topics in U.S. News
TUESDAY, JANUARY 16th 2024
Updated 23:59 ET
191 articles
TRUMP, IOWA, HALEY, DESANTIS
Trump did not appear at his first trial against Carroll in May. But this time around, not only is he in the courtroom, he may even testify—although that will have to wait until January 22. But Judge Kaplan set a long list of restrictions on what Trump and his
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TRUMP, EMMYS, IOWA, GOP
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BIDEN, HUNTER, ART, HOUSE
Special counsel David Weiss' office on Tuesday issued a biting rebuttal to Hunter Biden's attempt to have three felony gun charges against him thrown out, calling Biden's selective prosecution claim "a fiction designed for a Hollywood script."
Attorneys representing
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YEMEN, HOUTHI, IRANIAN, SEALS
Navy SEALs carried out a nighttime seizure Thursday of a dhow carrying Iranian-made propulsion, guidance, and warheads for Houthi medium-range ballistic missiles and anti-ship cruise missiles; during the mission, two SEALs went missing in the water.
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TEXAS, BORDER, ADMIN, BIDEN
The Biden administration, in a new filing to the Supreme Court, has admitted that three migrants who drowned last week died long before Border Patrol agents sought access to the Shelby Park area from Texas officials -- after the administration had blasted the
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KOREA, SOUTH, NORTH, KIM
North Korea dictator Kim Jong Un has proposed rewriting the nation's constitution to label South Korea as its "primary enemy state" and annex it should war erupt in the peninsula.
The move would break from decades of policy under Kim's father and grandfather,
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TAX, CREDIT, CHILD, DEAL
Bipartisan tax deal could expand Child Tax Credit and extend business tax breaks
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Top lawmakers on the Senate and House tax writing committees announced a deal on a temporary
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HOCHUL, NEW, GOV, BUDGET
Gov. Hochul just rolled out a characteristically careful budget that points toward fiscal sanity.
Let’s hope she sticks to her guns against the coming demands from the tax-and-spendaholic Legislature.
The gov has no new taxes in her $233 billion budget proposal
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HAMAS, GAZA, HOSTAGES, FORTRESS
Qatari officials say they have brokered an agreement between Israel and Hamas that would allow medications to be delivered to Israeli hostages and Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, marking a significant breakthrough in the indirect talks between the
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COWBOYS, COACHING, BILL, PLAYOFF
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WILLIS, FANI, TRUMP, PROSECUTOR
Republican Gov. Brian Kemp (GA) opposes launching a criminal probe into Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, instead preferring an oversight committee investigation that would slow-walk accountability, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) exclusively
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EAGLES, KELCE, JASON, REPORTS
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VOTE, AID, SANDERS, SENATE
On Tuesday, the Senate voted down a resolution that would have set the stage for Congress to place conditions on U.S. military aid to Israel — quashing what has so far been the most serious effort on Capitol Hill to hold the U.S. ally to account for its brutal
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COURT, TRANSGENDER, BATHROOM, SUPREME
Republican Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos slammed Democratic proposals for redrawn legislative maps as a "political gerrymander" on Tuesday, threatening to appeal a contentious redistricting case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Submitted maps are currently
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CRIMES, CLUB, SHOOTER, HATE
People visit a memorial outside Club Q, the LGBTQ nightclub that was the site of a deadly 2022 shooting that killed five people, June 7, 2023, in Colorado Springs, Colo. The shooter who was sentenced to life in prison for killing five people the club in Colorado
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GILGO, SERIAL, BEACH, CHARGED
Heuermann was initially charged with the murders of three women in July 2023.
Prosecutors in Suffolk County, New York, have charged alleged serial killer Rex Heuermann with murdering Maureen Brainard-Barnes, who disappeared in 2007 while working as an escort,
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SHARK, BOY, 10, YEAR
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DOLAN, OWNER, WEINSTEIN, JAMES
A woman has alleged that New York Knicks owner James Dolan sexually assaulted her a decade ago and then set her up to be molested by now-imprisoned film producer Harvey Weinstein, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles.
In 2013, plaintiff
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CHICAGO, DEAD, ROBOTS, CHARGING
If you watched any NFL football action over the weekend, you know that much of the country is in a cold spell. A Bills game in Buffalo, NY, had to be postponed because of a huge storm, while in Kansas City, the Chiefs took on the Dolphins in the coldest game
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DAVOS, ZELENSKYY, SUPPORT, UKRAINE
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is headlining a frenzied first full day of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in the Swiss ski resort of Davos, where top officials from the United States, the European Union, China, the
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SPIRIT, JETBLUE, AIRLINES, JUDGE
A federal judge is siding with the Biden administration and blocking JetBlue Airways from buying Spirit Airlines, saying the $3.8 billion deal would reduce competition
FILE - A JetBlue airplane is shown at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York,
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CONGRESSIONAL, LEADERS, BIDEN, SECURITY
U.S. President Joe Biden will host Democrat and Republican leaders at the White House on Wednesday to discuss Biden's national security supplemental request, the White House said.
Democrat Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Republican Senate Minority Leader
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PLANES, AIRPORT, JAPANESE, COLLIDE
A Korean Air plane with 289 people on board hit a parked Cathay Pacific aircraft at New Chitose Airport in northern Japan.
The incident occurred as the Korean Air plane was moving from its parking spot to the runway for takeoff.
There were no injuries, fire
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BURGUM, TRUMP, ROLE, ADMIN
Former President Trump praised ex-rival North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum on an Iowa stage Monday night, promising him an "important" role in the next administration.
Trump, who swept all but one of Iowa's 99 counties during the first in the nation caucuses Monday,
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