Emerging Topics in U.S. News
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22nd 2024
Updated 23:59 ET
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BIDEN, BORDER, NAVALNY, MOTHER
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BIDEN, TRUMP, BORDER, HALEY
Sen. Joe Manchin on why he can't endorse Trump, but isn't sold on Biden
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At 76, West Virginia senator Joe Manchin waves off the concerns of some of his colleagues
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BIDEN, PUTIN, FACT, TIMES
This week, Vladimir Putin finally -- allegedly -- murdered his chief political rival and critic Alexei Navalny. Navalny's death followed an attempt by Putin's operatives in 2020 to kill him by poisoning; Navalny survived the attempt, worked with online specialists
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ALABAMA, RULING, COURT, EMBRYOS
A second in vitro fertilization provider in Alabama is pausing parts of its care to patients after the state Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are legally considered children
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- A second in vitro fertilization provider in Alabama is
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TRUMP, BIDEN, MEDICAL, SCHLAPP
“I don’t care what the hell happens in this world,” Miller said earlier this month on a podcast with Charlie Kirk. “If President Trump gets reelected, the border’s going to be sealed, the military will be deployed, the National Guard will be activated, and
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GOOGLE, AI, WOKE, GEMINI
Images showing people of color in German military uniforms from World War II that were created with Google’s Gemini chatbot have amplified concerns that artificial intelligence could add to the internet’s already vast pools of misinformation as the technology
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MOON, FIRST, PRIVATE, LANDING
A spacecraft built and flown by Houston-based company Intuitive Machines sailed around the moon Thursday headed for an attempt at the first U.S. touchdown on the lunar surface in more than half a century and the first ever entirely by the private sector.
The
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NEW, YORKERS, 53M, POVERTY
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) is spending millions on debit cards for border crossers and illegal aliens as a study revealed Wednesday that a majority of New Yorkers live near the poverty line.
This week, Adams announced a pilot program that will funnel
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TRUMP, FANI, JUDGE, CASE
A week ago, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis took the stand in her misconduct hearing and gave explosive testimony that was oftentimes combative and belligerent towards Ashleigh Merchant, who is the defense attorney for former Donald Trump 2020 presidential
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TRIAL, RUST, ARMORER, SHOOTING
Attorneys prepared to make opening statements Thursday at the first trial related to the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by actor Alec Baldwin during a rehearsal for the Western film "Rust."
Before Baldwin's case progresses, the movie's weapons supervisor
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WENDY, WILLIAMS, DEMENTIA, APHASIA
Former talk show host Wendy Williams has been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia, her representatives announced in a statement on Thursday.
The conditions are the same diagnoses actor Bruce Willis received in 2022; his aphasia
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BIDEN, STUDENT, SUPREME, COURT
President Biden announced Tuesday he will personally cancel $1.2 billion in federal student debt for 153,000 borrowers.
The Supreme Court ruled in June that Biden’s $500 billion student-debt-forgiveness scheme was an illegal abuse of power.
But the White
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STUDENT, BLACK, TEXAS, SCHOOL
A trial is set for Thursday to determine if a Black high school student in Texas can continue being punished for refusing to change his hairstyle.
Darryl George, 18, faces punishment for violating his school district's dress code policy on hair length, which
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TRUMP, SOUTH, CAROLINA, RNC
For more than four decades, South Carolina has been the decisive contest in the Republican presidential primaries—the state most likely to anoint the GOP’s eventual nominee. On Saturday, South Carolina seems poised to play that role again.
Since the state
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SOCIAL, 16, MEDIA, UNDER
Florida is on the verge of passing one of the nation's most restrictive bans on minors' use of social media after the state Senate passed a bill Thursday that would keep children under the age of 16 off popular platforms regardless of parental approval.
The
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PANDAS, CHINA, DIEGO, SAN
China says it plans to send more pandas to the San Diego Zoo this year
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SAN DIEGO — China plans to send a new pair of giant pandas to the San Diego Zoo, renewing its longstanding gesture of
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COUNTRY, VERIZON, CELL, HIT
A massive AT&T network outage left many thousands of customers across the U.S. without cell service or internet access Thursday morning. Lesser outages in the Verizon and T-Mobile cell networks have also been widely reported.
NBC News reports that widespread
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JOBLESS, FALL, MARKET, CLAIMS
The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits fell to its lowest level in five weeks, even as more high-profile companies announce layoffs
Applications for US jobless benefits fall again as labor market powers on
The number of Americans applying for
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PROSECUTOR, SUSPECT, ARIZONA, MURDER
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TRUMP, RYAN, POPULISM, DONALD
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan in a Wednesday interview with the Washington Post clobbered Donald Trump, whining that "Trump populism" is now the "establishment" of the Republican Party. Declaring himself an "anti-establishment Republican," Ryan further whined
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IRANIAN, SUSPECTED, MADE, CHARGED
Four foreign nationals were charged Thursday with transporting suspected Iranian-made weapons on a vessel intercepted by U.S. naval forces in the Arabian Sea last month. Two Navy SEALs died during the mission.
U.S. officials said that Navy Special Warfare
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VICE, NEW, PREPARE, WORK
Executives at Vice Media are planning to lay off hundreds of more than 900 employees over the next week, eliminating staff from its digital publishing division, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The cuts will be the latest in a series of
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FLORIDA, HOLE, GIRL, SAND
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LOUISIANA, CARRY, CONSTITUTIONAL, GUN
Louisiana is one step closer to joining the list of states that allow people to carry concealed guns without a permit
BATON ROUGE, La. -- Louisiana is one step closer to joining the list of states that allow people to carry concealed guns without a permit,
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