Emerging Topics in U.S. News
FRIDAY, MARCH 29th 2024
Updated 23:59 ET
40 articles
BIDEN, FUNDRAISER, TRUMP, OFFICER
Just 5% of former President Donald Trump's supporters say they would change their vote in November if he's convicted of a crime, while 93% say they would still vote for him, according to a new Daily Mail/J.L. Partners poll.
Poll results, released Friday:
82%
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BRIDGE, BALTIMORE, COLLAPSE, KEY
President Biden said on Friday that he would travel to Baltimore next week as officials race to manage the fallout from the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
The president will join Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland, a close political ally, as he visits the
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YEAR, EVAN, GERSHKOVICH, RUSSIA
It's been one year since Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich was arrested by Russia on false espionage charges.
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On Friday, his employer put a blank space
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BUS, 45, BRIDGE, KILLING
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Harrowing video has been released showing the moment a cement truck in Texas collided
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TRUMP, JUDGE, DAUGHTER, ORDER
The request comes after Trump targeted the daughter of the judge in his NY case.
Two days after former President Donald Trump targeted the daughter of the judge overseeing his New York hush money case on social media, lawyers for the Manhattan district attorney
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TRUCKS, HEAVY, RULES, EPA
EPA's new rules to clean up heavy trucking met with support and criticism
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The Biden administration has approved the strictest-ever limits on greenhouse gas emissions
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JR, GOSSETT, LOUIS, 87
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries “Roots,” has died. He was 87.
Gossett’s nephew told The Associated Press that the actor died Thursday night
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TRUMP, CASE, GEORGIA, APPEALS
During the hearings, the key witness against Willis crumbled on the stand, admitting he didn’t know when Willis and Wade began dating, how their relationship began, or even what trips they took together. But the most important thing to remember, Willis has
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MAYOR, COUNCIL, CITY, MEETING
New York City Mayor Eric Adams marked Good Friday by receiving a jailhouse baptism from the Rev. Al Sharpton, joining in on the religious rite with a group of men incarcerated at the troubled Rikers Island jail complex.
The ceremony came as part of a visit
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GEORGIA, IMMIGRATION, RULES, MEDIA
Georgia lawmakers voted on Thursday to tighten the state’s already strict immigration laws in response to the killing of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student, whose death became ensnared in the broader fight over immigration policy after a man from Venezuela
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ABSENCES, CRISIS, SCHOOL, COVID
A few years ago, a troubling phenomenon began to spread in U.S. education: Students were not showing up to school.
This was not particularly surprising. Schools had shut down in the spring of 2020, at the start of the pandemic, and some did not fully reopen
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ISRAEL, DEMOCRATS, DERSHOWITZ, ANTI
Podcaster and martial arts expert Joe Rogan is coming under fire for accusing Israel of “genocide” in Gaza, and for comparing Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists to the Holocaust in which six million innocent Jews were murdered.
BREAKING: Joe Rogan says
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INFLATION, RISES, LL, MODERATELY
Prices surged higher again in February, casting further doubt on earlier predictions that inflation would continue to decline in 2024.
The personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index climbed 2.5 percent over the 12 months through February, the Commerce
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COMER, HOUSE, WHITE, TESTIFY
As we reported, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer invited Joe Biden to testify in the impeachment inquiry. "Biden must answer questions about his participation in his family’s pay-for-influence schemes," Comer declared.
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Chairman
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FUNERAL, LIEBERMAN, JOE, HOMETOWN
Political dignitaries, friends and family were expected to gather to honor the late, former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut
STAMFORD, Conn. -- Political dignitaries, family and friends are gathering Friday to honor the late Joe Lieberman at a funeral
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WINS, HAMAS, PHOTO, PICTURE
A university sparked anger in the Jewish community and on social media by bestowing an award for a photo of the body of German-Israeli dual citizen Shani Louk, who was killed by Hamas terrorists.
Louk was the subject of a photo that helped the Associated Press
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UKRAINE, ENERGY, BARRAGE, DRONES
Ukraine's armed forces say Moscow launched a large-scale attack on energy infrastructure Friday, with a mass barrage of 99 drones and missiles hitting regions across the country
KYIV, Ukraine -- Moscow launched a large-scale attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure
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WOMAN, OVERTURNED, KILLING, BARS
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Pennsylvania judge has overturned the convictions of three men imprisoned for decades in the 1997 slaying of a 70-year-old woman even though their DNA never matched that found at the scene, but they will remain in prison while a prosecutor
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SENTENCE, WOMAN, YEAR, ACQUITTED
Texas appeals court acquits Crystal Mason's illegal voting conviction
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MOVE, SUMMER, PLANS, MIGRANTS
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago plans to close five shelters for migrants in the coming weeks and move nearly 800 people, including families, in order to reopen park district buildings hosting popular summer camps, athletic contests and other community events in time
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BALLOT, JUDGE, NEW, REDESIGNED
A federal judge has granted an emergency request to force New Jersey to redesign its election ballot before the June primary, upending a longstanding source of electoral power for the state’s Democratic and Republican parties.
The ruling, issued on Friday,
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STUDENT, BIDEN, CHALLENGE, PLAN
Yesterday, 11 Republican-led states filed suit against President Biden and the US Department of Education to stop the implementation of the president’s catastrophic SAVE Plan. The SAVE Plan is technically a new repayment plan for federal student loans, but
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SEES, HARVARD, APPLICATIONS, DROP
Harvard's undergraduate admission applications decreased in number despite other elite schools experiencing record highs, according to a report released Thursday.
The Ivy League university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced it received 54,008 applicants
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44, AMERICA, WORTH, RECORD
The top 1% of Americans now have a combined net worth above $44 trillion for the first time due to the booming stock market, data from the Federal Reserve shows.
Those with a net worth of more than $11 million, which is how the Fed defines the top 1%, gained
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