Emerging Topics in U.S. News
FRIDAY, MARCH 15th 2024
Updated 23:59 ET
75 articles
TRUMP, WILLIS, FANI, CASE
In his ruling, Georgia Judge Scott McAfee chastised Willis for the affair, describing it as a “tremendous lapse in judgment,” and even weighed putting a gag order on the District Attorney’s Office that would prevent them from discussing the case in public.
Trump’s
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HOUSE, BIDEN, IMPEACHMENT, WHITE
On Friday, White House Counsel Ed Siskel sent Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson a letter, claiming that the impeachment inquiry of Joe Biden was "over," and telling Johnson, "It's time to move on." Mr. Siskel has evidently not read the Constitution,
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SCHUMER, BIDEN, NETANYAHU, ISRAEL
President Biden on Friday praised Senator Chuck Schumer’s call on Israel to hold new elections to replace the prime minister, calling it “a good speech” without endorsing specifics in it.
Mr. Biden said that Mr. Schumer, a Democrat from New York and the Senate
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TIKTOK, CHINA, BAN, BILL
The House of Representatives just passed a bill that mandates the divestiture of TikTok from ByteDance – a company under complete control of the Chinese Communist Party – in a 352-65 vote.
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Unfortunately, lawmakers are considering separate bills
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GAZA, AID, FIRST, SHIP
A ship carrying 200 tons of aid is approaching the coast of Gaza to inaugurate a sea route from Cyprus
The first ship to use a new sea route approaches Gaza with 200 tons of aid
WADI GAZA, Gaza Strip -- A ship carrying 200 tons of aid approached the coast
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STATE, DEAD, POLICE, NEW
Many people were injured after a tornado hit the towns of Winchester and Selma in Indiana on Thursday, but no deaths have been reported, police said.
"There have been many many significant injuries but I don’t know the number, I don’t know where they are.
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DRAG, SHOW, SUPREME, COURT
Supreme Court again refuses to intervene in drag show controversy
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The Supreme Court on Friday declined to get involved in a First Amendment challenge to a drag show ban. It was the second time
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MEDIA, OFFICIALS, SOCIAL, SUPREME
The Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that public officials can be sued for blocking critics on social media.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett said that officials using personal accounts for official statements may not delete comments or block critics.
Officials
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BIDEN, LAKEN, RILEY, TRUMP
PALM BEACH, Florida — Former President Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee for president in 2024, told Breitbart News exclusively that Laken Riley’s parents are “great people” who “lost an angel” when an illegal alien that Democrat President Joe Biden’s
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MCDONALD, REPORTED, TECH, OUTAGE
When I was thinking about getting a sausage biscuit this morning from good ole Mickey D's, this news popped up. Thankfully, there have been no reported outages here in the United States. Yet.
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Seems that those apps we all love to use to get discounts
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DEALERS, SUPREME, COURT, DRUG
The Supreme Court ruled Friday that thousands of low-level drug dealers are ineligible for shortened prison terms under a Trump-era bipartisan criminal justice overhaul.
The justices took the case of Mark Pulsifer, an Iowa man who was convicted of distributing
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PANEL, FLIGHT, MISSING, BOEING
A United Airlines flight that took off on Friday morning from San Francisco International Airport landed in Oregon in the afternoon missing an external panel, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
The panel was found to be missing after the plane, a Boeing
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RUSSIAN, ODESA, KILL, UKRAINE
A Russian missile strike on Odesa in southern Ukraine on Friday killed at least 14 people and injured 46 others, local officials said.
A first missile struck houses and when emergency crews arrived at the scene a second missile landed, authorities said. Among
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SUBWAY, SHOOTING, DEFENSE, BROOKLYN
A man was left critically injured after being shot multiple times Thursday afternoon after police allege he provoked another man on a subway train in Brooklyn, and was then shot by his own weapon.
At a news conference after the altercation, CBS News reports
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REALTOR, COMMISSIONS, SETTLE, GROUP
A powerful real estate trade association has agreed to pay $418 million and change its rules to settle lawsuits claiming homeowners have been unfairly forced to pay artificially inflated agent commissions when they sold their home.
The National Association
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MIGRANT, GIRL, HAITIAN, RAPE
A Haitian national, released into the United States, is accused of raping a 15-year-old girl at a migrant shelter in the sanctuary state of Massachusetts.
Cory Alvarez, a 26-year-old migrant from Haiti, has been arrested and charged this week with aggravated
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POLICE, OFFICER, VIOLENT, RYAN
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A New Mexico State Police officer was fatally shot near the city of Tucumcari
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DEPLOYED, TROOPS, FEARS, PUBLIC
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HANNITY – Fox News host weighs in on former special counsel Robert Hur's congressional testimony into his investigation of Biden's classified documents
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HUR, ROBERT, DOCUMENTS, UPPER
The Issue: Special Counsel Robert Hur’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.
Special Counsel Robert Hur was in a difficult position during Tuesday’s hearing (“Hur gets hit with left-right combo,” March 13).
He didn’t want to appear to
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EMERGENCY, NAVARRO, PETER, FILES
Navarro was ordered to report to jail for defying a Jan. 6 committee subpoena.
Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro on Friday filed an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in an attempt to remain out of prison as he works to overturn his conviction
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FUNDRAISER, MANUEL, MIRANDA, CLINTON
Hillary Clinton and Lin-Manuel Miranda are teaming up to co-host a Broadway fundraiser for Joe Biden's presidential campaign, featuring a performance of "Suffs: The Musical."
The musical, co-produced by Clinton, tells the story of the women's suffrage movement,
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RODGERS, AARON, HIT, JAKE
Just hours — literally hours — after the Democrat party ordered a hit on third-party candidates, CNN’s Jake Tapper and Pamela Brown launched a smear campaign against NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
If that’s not coincidence enough, the report came just a day
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SNOWSTORM, COLORADO, POWER, KNOCKS
Colorado snowstorm knocks out power for thousands
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DENVER — A major storm dumped heavy snow in Colorado on Thursday – forcing flight cancellations and shutting down a highway that connects
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GERALD, LEVIN, DEAD, FORMER
Gerald Levin, who led Time Warner Media into a disastrous $182 billion merger with the internet provider America Online, died Wednesday at the age of 84, according to media reports.
Levin had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, although his cause of death
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