Emerging Topics in U.S. News
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10th 2024
Updated 23:59 ET
32 articles
ABORTION, ARIZONA, BAN, TRUMP
The 160-year-old Arizona abortion ban that was upheld on Tuesday by the state’s highest court was among a wave of anti-abortion laws propelled by some historical twists and turns that might seem surprising.
For decades after the United States became a nation,
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TRUMP, BIDEN, ABORTION, DONALD
Since there has been a television in every American home, there have been presidential debates. American voters practically insist that they see the candidates from each major party side by side, debating the issues they care about that affect the nation. Optics
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INFLATION, BIDEN, EXPECTED, MARCH
Donald Trump on Wednesday pounced on President Joe Biden after March's consumer price index came in higher than expected, notching another data point that could signal inflation heating back up and tempering hopes of the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates
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FISA, HOUSE, JOHNSON, TRUMP
More than a dozen House GOP privacy hawks have blocked the House of Representatives from advancing a Speaker Mike Johnson-backed bill to renew a controversial federal government surveillance tool known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
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WATER, FOREVER, CHEMICALS, DRINKING
The agency says the move will protect 100 million people from PFAS exposure.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday announced a new rule mandating the first-ever national standard for the presence of so-called "forever chemicals" in drinking water.
The
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HAMAS, LEADER, SONS, ISRAELI
Hamas told international mediators that it does not have 40 living Israeli hostages who meet the criteria for the first phase of a cease-fire, an Israeli official and a source familiar with the matter told CNN on Wednesday.
Under the framework developed by
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JAPAN, BIDEN, KISHIDA, STEEL
Okinawa feels impact of U.S. and Japan military shifts
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OKINAWA, Japan – President Biden and visiting Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will discuss upgrades to the two countries' alliance
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TRUMP, SENTENCED, MONTHS, WEISSELBERG
Former Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Allen Weisselberg has been sentenced to five month in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of perjury in connection to former President Donald Trump’s New York civil fraud trial.
Weisselberg stood
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BIDEN, NETANYAHU, GAZA, ISRAEL
President Biden has again criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and called his approach to the war in Gaza a “mistake,” underscoring how the conflict has strained relations between the two close allies.
Tensions between the Biden administration
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WOMEN, DAWN, STALEY, SPORTS
The transgender movement received an unexpected setback from two very different authorities on Monday. Pope Francis, who has been applauded by liberals in many other contexts, declared that efforts to change a person’s biological sex are unacceptable as an
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BIDEN, BORDER, ORDER, SHUT
Vulnerable Democrat Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) is attempting to distance himself from President Joe Biden and his disastrous border policies, claiming in a new ad that he worked with Republicans, “fighting to shut down the border to target fentanyl traffickers
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EDITOR, NPR, VETERAN, FOLLOWING
Far-left National Public Radio (NPR) issued a hasty rebuke Tuesday to senior business editor Uri Berliner after he took the broadcaster to task over its lack of diverse views and opinions bookended by left-wing bias.
Berliner, in his op-ed published in the
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ISRAEL, IRAN, STRIKE, TEHRAN
The White House is worried that Iran might strike a U.S. target as part of a potential retaliation for Israel’s April 1 attack on its embassy in Damascus, Syria, according to notes from a meeting involving National Security Council officials earlier this week.
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TRUMP, TRIAL, DELAY, WEEK
Special counsel Jack Smith’s latest brief to the Supreme Court on Donald Trump’s immunity claim strives to ensure that the justices’ decision puts the Jan. 6 trial back on track, ending the detour the former president has extracted from a weak argument.
The
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SHOT, TEACHER, PRINCIPAL, ASSISTANT
A former assistant principal at a Virginia elementary school dismissed several warnings from teachers and students that a 6-year-old had a gun in the hours before he shot his teacher, according to a grand jury report released Wednesday.
"The child was not
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CORNEL, WEST, ACTIVIST, ABDULLAH
“I will never step back from that,” she said, though she pointed out that the group does not endorse political candidates. “But the agenda, the Black Lives Matter agenda of ending state-sanctioned violence, right, of building a world where our children and
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SOUTH, KOREA, POLLS, DIVIDE
Elections reveal a growing gender divide across South Korea
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SEOUL, South Korea – When South Koreans elect a new parliament this week, the outcome will shape the next
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LEE, JACKSON, MOON, REP
In a weird way, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) is the gift that keeps on giving, not so much in the way she represents her constituents in Congress but in how when you're feeling down, out of sorts, and in need of a little comedic relief, she will be there.
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PHILADELPHIA, RAMADAN, SHOOTING, SHOT
At least three people were shot and injured on Wednesday at an outdoor event where about 1,000 people were celebrating Eid al-Fitr in West Philadelphia, the police said.
One of those who was injured was an armed 15-year-old who was shot by a responding police
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TAXES, TEXAS, REPARATIONS, BLACK
A House Democrat recently suggested that Black Americans should be exempt from paying taxes as a form of reparations, but she admitted that the plan may not be a success as many within the community who are poor "aren’t really paying taxes in the first place."
The
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BIDEN, DROP, CONSIDERING, ASSANGE
President Biden said on Wednesday that the United States was considering dropping its prosecution of Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who has been jailed in London for years while fighting extradition to face U.S. charges related to his publication of
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TRIAL, IMPEACHMENT, MAYORKAS, SENATE
Republican senators are gearing up to prevent all legislative business in the Senate from going forward if they don't get a full trial into the articles of impeachment against Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.
Four sources told Fox News Digital
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XI, TAIWAN, JINPING, EX
When China’s leader, Xi Jinping, and then-President Ma Ying-jeou of Taiwan shook hands in Singapore back in 2015, they each extolled their meeting — the first top-level talks between the rival governments — as a breakthrough that could pave the way to a durable
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AI, NEWSLETTER, YEAR, BOTTLENECKS
What should we make of CEO forecasts about the future of artificial intelligence? As the Wall Street Journal reports in “Elon Musk and Jamie Dimon’s AI Predictions and What They Mean for the Future of Humanity,” those two headline bosses seem pretty bullish.
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