Emerging Topics in U.S. News
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17th 2024
Updated 23:59 ET
15 articles
NAVALNY, ALEXEI, BODY, PUTIN
Anti-Kremlin activist Bill Browder said he believes Alexei Navalny's death was intended as a message to political opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of elections next month.
Dissident Navalny, who died Friday, had been serving a 19-year prison
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TRUMP, FRAUD, MILLION, JUDGE
Friday, a New York judge ordered Donald Trump to pay an approximately $350 million fine in a civil fraud trial.
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TRUMP, BUY, DEM, GOV
Seeking to appeal to younger voters, former President Donald Trump set foot in Philadelphia's "Sneaker Con" to unveil limited-edition Trump sneakers and make a call in what promises to be a key 2024 presidential election battleground.
"We have a few young
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AVDIIVKA, UKRAINE, RUSSIA, HELD
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukraine’s military chief said early Saturday that he’s withdrawing troops from the city of Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine, where outnumbered defenders have battled a Russian assault for four months.
The timing is critical as Russia is looking
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FIREFIGHTER, EXPLOSION, VIRGINIA, KILLED
A firefighter was killed after a house in Virginia exploded Friday night, injuring 11 other people and scattering pieces of the home across the neighborhood, officials said.
Firefighters arrived at the home in Sterling, Va., a suburb of Washington, about 7:40
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SHOOTING, PARADE, CHIEFS, GAME
Kansas City's Children's Mercy Hospital discharged all of its patients Saturday who were admitted after the fatal shooting at the Super Bowl parade for the Kansas City Chiefs.
The hospital confirmed with Fox News Digital all patients had been discharged.
The
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GERMANY, DEFENSE, SPENDING, NATO
Germany's defense minister said on Saturday that his country's commitment to spend 2% of GDP on defense was just the starting point and that more would likely be needed.
Earlier in the day, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz insisted that the 2% spending target
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DRIESELL, LEFTY, 92, DIES
Lefty Driesell, coach who put Maryland on college basketball's map, dies at 92
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Lefty Driesell, the Hall of Fame coach whose folksy drawl belied a fiery on-court demeanor that put Maryland on the
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TRUMP, NATO, CLINTON, QUIT
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned NATO members Saturday to take her one-time presidential rival Donald Trump's talk on the alliance "literally and seriously," as "he will pull us out of NATO" if he's reelected as president.
Clinton told attendees
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TRUMP, HALEY, NAVALNY, VETERANS
For most of the 12 or so years in which Alexei Navalny crusaded against the rule of Vladimir Putin, the Russian president tried to avoid mentioning his gadfly by name, even as he and his minions tried every which way, assassination included, to silence him.
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VAN, BLACK, MEDIA, KILLED
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” CNN Senior Political Commentator and former Obama Adviser Van Jones stated that while it’s untrue that “the black community only cares about a black kid getting killed if a white cop does it or a white supremacist
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EAST, BIDEN, PALESTINE, YEAR
I often wonder what people think when they meet Joe Biden and they see some of the weirdness that we've reported up close and personal.
I reported about the remarks that Biden made on Friday and how he was greeted by protesters that were not happy with him,
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WOMAN, WILLIS, FANI, PRIVATE
Hollywood star Barbra Streisand has found her next big role: defense attorney for Fulton County district attorney Fanni Willis.
Barbra Streisand has argued her case for the embattled Fani Willis, who is on trial in Georgia for her alleged ethical violations
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STORM, NORTHEAST, SNOW, MID
More than a foot of snow fell in Center Valley, Pennsylvania.
Winter storm slams parts of Northeast, leaving more than a foot of snow in Pennsylvania
A winter storm has hit parts of the Northeast, with more than a foot of snow already reported in Pennsylvania
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SHELTER, DIED, BOY, MIGRANT
A 5-year-old Venezuelan migrant boy who became ill at a migrant shelter in Chicago before Christmas and then passed away died from sepsis and a bacterial infection that causes strep throat, an autopsy released Friday shows.
Jean Carlos Martinez Rivero tragically
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TRUMP, ABORTION, NEW, DONALD
Donald Trump is privately expressing support for a specific compromise on abortion rights, according to a report from The New York Times.
The Times claims that Trump would support the idea of a federal 16-week abortion ban with exceptions in the cases of rape,
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TEXAS, GIRL, EAST, 11
LIVINGSTON, Texas — Polk County Sheriff’s Office Deputies arrested Don Steven McDougal Friday night on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. McDougal is reported to be the last person known to be with 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham before she
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ACTIVIST, CONDEMNS, FUNERAL, ARCHDIOCESE
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York condemned the funeral of a transgender community leader that was held at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Thursday, calling the event an insult to the Catholic faith and saying it was unaware of the identity of the deceased
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LIBRARY, DUE, CALIFORNIA, CRIME
A California library is shutting down because rampant criminal activity has threatened patrons and employees.
The Contra Costa County Library said Friday that the decision to close the Antioch Community Library branch on Saturday was made after “repeated dangerous
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RUN, TEXAS, BOY, ILLEGAL
Ten-year-old Texas boy Alex Wise was struck by an automobile on February 8th in a hit-and-run accident and later died of his injuries. The driver was one Rogelio Ortiz, 50, a Mexican national who was in the country illegally, having previously been deported
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LAYOFFS, CAMPAIGN, PRESIDENTIAL, DEAN
Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips will not drop out of the Democratic presidential primary despite this week laying off the majority of his campaign staff.
Phillips confirmed the news of the layoff in a post on the X platform on Friday, although indicated that
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LUXURY, PUSHBACK, ADAMS, HOUSING
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has done a U-turn on plans to convert an abandoned luxury apartment complex into a shelter for illegal migrants after the community in Harlem opposed the proposal.
Adams turned up unannounced at a community meeting in the Upper
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CITIES, TREND, HOTTEST, ZONING
The hottest trend in American cities? Zoning reform The rules that dictate what can be built and where were often meant to be exclusionary, experts say. With homes too few and rents too high, many cities are loosening rules to encourage more housing.
National
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