Emerging Topics in U.S. News
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24th 2024
Updated 23:59 ET
171 articles
TRUMP, BIDEN, NEW, HALEY
Senator John McCain’s first town hall in May 1999 was awful. Thirteen people milled around at a nearly empty American Legion Hall in Manchester, and only nine of them were still deciding whom to vote for in the first-in-the-nation primary.
But the Arizona
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SHOW, DAILY, JON, STEWART
Former comedian Jon Stewart, fresh from his breathtaking failure at Apple TV+, is returning to the Daily Show where merit doesn’t matter.
“[Former c]omedian Jon Stewart is rewinding the clock, returning to The Daily Show as a weekly host and executive producing
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OHIO, VETO, CARE, GENDER
House Bill 68 bans gender-affirming care for transgender and nonbinary teenagers. The measure applies to treatments including puberty blockers, hormones, and medical procedures; it also prohibits trans high school and college students from participating on
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BOEING, MAX, 757, 737
The CEO of Alaska Airlines has ripped Boeing in the wake of the recent near-disaster, revealing that loose bolts were found on “many” of the company’s 737 MAX 9 planes.
CEO Ben Minicucci said that a new in-house inspection of the Boeing model in the fleet
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LAKE, KARI, GOP, ARIZONA
After seeming to bribe Senate hopeful Kari Lake not to run, Arizona GOP Chair resigns
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The head of the Arizona Republican Party resigned Wednesday following the release of a surreptitiously
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PLANE, UKRAINIAN, CRASHES, RUSSIA
A Russian military transport plane carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war crashed Wednesday morning in Russia’s Belgorod region near Ukraine, according to Russia's Defense Ministry.
Six crew members and three other people were also on the flight, the Defense
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COURT, SUPREME, TRUMP, BALLOT
Maine's top court refuses to rule before Supreme Court on whether Trump will stay off ballot
Maine's Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal from Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, who requested last week for the high court to consider her earlier decision to
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HAMAS, ISRAELI, HOSTAGES, FIRE
Perhaps the one thing Hamas didn't count on was its ability to command public support in Gaza. Residents of the embattled territory took to the streets on Wednesday morning to demand their terrorist government release the remaining Israeli hostages taken during
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KELCE, MAHOMES, BILLS, PATRICK
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BARBIE, OSCARS, SNUBS, CLINTON
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CITY, NEW, MAYOR, ADAMS
On Wednesday, Mayor Eric Adams made New York the first major city in the country to declare social media a public “mental health crisis,” comparing it to tobacco and guns.
In his third State of the City address, the Mayor called out platforms including TikTok,
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DESERT, DEAD, REMOTE, COMMUNITY
Deputies found the bodies of six people at a remote dirt crossroads in the Mojave Desert in Southern California, a scene described as so grisly that TV stations blurred some of the images captured by their helicopter overhead.
San Bernardino County Sheriff's
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EXECUTION, NITROGEN, ALABAMA, GAS
Alabama will be allowed to carry out the country’s first inmate execution by nitrogen gas after a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday — just one day before a convicted killer is set to die by the new method.
The 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals rejected
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WOMAN, CAR, OVERTURNED, HOURS
A woman survived nearly 15 hours atop her overturned pickup truck in a surging creek in Northern California before being rescued by a helicopter
A helicopter team rescued a woman Tuesday morning who was trapped for almost 15 hours atop her overturned pickup
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BODY, FOUND, COLLEGE, STUDENT
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SOUTH, NORTH, KOREA, CRUISE
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ABSENCE, HART, LEAVE, TEAM
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ARABIA, STORE, SAUDI, FIRST
Saudi Arabia has opened its first alcohol store in the diplomatic quarter of its capital Riyadh, two sources told CNBC.
The news, which has not been officially confirmed by the Saudi government, marks a major breakthrough for the highly conservative Muslim
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WOMAN, BOYFRIEND, TIMES, PROBATION
The California woman who was convicted of stabbing her boyfriend to death 108 times during a “cannabis-induced psychosis” received a slap on the wrist Tuesday for the brutal killing.
Bryn Spejcher, 33, was sentenced to two years probation and was ordered to
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ARGENTINA, MILEI, STRIKE, NATIONWIDE
It has been six weeks since President Javier Milei took office in Argentina, and since then, gas prices have doubled, inflation has soared and the value of the national currency has plummeted.
Such turmoil, he had warned, should be expected. Fixing decades
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FORD, MILLION, TRIM, RECALL
Nearly 1.9 million Ford Explorers are being recalled over an insecure piece of trim
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The Ford Motor Co. is recalling nearly 1.9 million Explorers over a piece of trim that
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SCHOOL, CHOICE, COVID, WEEK
This week is National School Choice Week, which makes it a good time to ponder the state of the school choice coalition. During the Clinton–Bush school reform era, broad swaths of the public—both Republicans and Democrats—supported charter schools and different
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IRAQ, MILITIA, SITES, HITS
U.S. hits Iraq militia sites and anti-ship missiles in Yemen
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. military struck three facilities in Iraq and two anti-ship missiles in Yemen operated by Iranian-backed
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CITY, CHIEFS, BOSTON, ANNOUNCES
A fifth friend has come forward claiming he was present at the Kansas City Chiefs watch party that resulted in three men freezing to death in their pal’s backyard — and has revealed new details about the trio’s final hours.
The fifth person – who has not been
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