Emerging Topics in U.S. News
THURSDAY, APRIL 11th 2024
Updated 23:59 ET
43 articles
SIMPSON, OJ, 76, TRIAL
O.J. Simpson's trial divided the nation. What legacy does he leave behind?
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ABORTION, TRUMP, POLL, SUPPORT
President Joe Biden’s campaign launched a seven-figure ad buy in Arizona about abortion on Thursday in the wake of the state Supreme Court’s decision to uphold an 1864 law that bans nearly all abortions, CBS News reported.
“Because of Donald Trump, millions
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BIDEN, TRUMP, COLLEGE, 2024
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks from the hallway outside a courtroom where he is attending a hearing in his criminal case on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, in New York City on March 25, 2024. Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters
Donald
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STATE, DINNER, HOUSE, BIDEN
Former President Donald Trump and his team are not happy about Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's threat to pursue ousting Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., Politico reported Thursday.
Greene on Tuesday escalated her criticism of Johnson in a lengthy letter
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BACKGROUND, GUN, CHECKS, BIDEN
The Biden administration has approved the broadest expansion of federal background checks in decades in an attempt to regulate a fast-growing shadow market of weapons sold online that has contributed to gun violence.
Under a rule being released on Thursday,
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TRUMP, BIDEN, CAMPAIGN, DEBATES
There's a reason that Donald Trump's presidential campaign — and the candidate himself — are calling for more and earlier presidential debates. There's a reason that the Biden campaign has been strangely quiet on the topic. As it happens, both reasons are the
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BIDEN, POLL, TRUMP, BORDER
We live in extremely polarizing times.
Can anyone really dispute that?
The two major presidential candidates are calling each other a threat to democracy.
Donald Trump says Joe Biden is pulling the strings to have him jailed in the hush money case. Joe Biden
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ABORTION, ARIZONA, LAW, BAN
Democrats are teeing up a ballot measure in Arizona that would practically ensure abortion until the moment of birth, after the Arizona Supreme Court held that a new state law regulating abortion after 15 weeks did not repeal an 1864 law that allowed abortion
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ISRAEL, HAMAS, HOSTAGES, LEADER
For the first time in recent memory, many traditional Democrats are considering leaving the party over weakening Israel support.
They should — and vote Republican in November.
The refusal to veto a one-sided United Nations Security Council resolution, the
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OHTANI, INTERPRETER, STAR, 16
"[Mr] Ohtani provided his cellphone to law enforcement, who determined that there was no evidence to suggest that [Mr] Ohtani was aware of, or involved in, [Mr] Mizuhara's illegal gambling activity or payment of those debts," according to the prosecutor's
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BIDEN, INFLATION, ISSUES, BIG
Claim: President Joe Biden claimed on Wednesday that inflation was “skyrocketing” when he took office.
“Look we have dramatically reduced inflation from 9% down to close to 3% we’re in a situation where we’re better situated and we were we took office, where
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FISA, JOHNSON, HOUSE, SPEAKER
Section 702 of the law is under scrutiny on Capitol Hill.
What is FISA? Surveillance law in spotlight as lawmakers debate key spy program
A bill to reauthorize a spy program considered critical to U.S. national security is in limbo on Capitol Hill.
An attempt
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ISRAEL, IRANIAN, FEARS, GENERAL
Iran has warned the Biden White House that if the United States interferes in its anticipated retaliatory strike against Israel, the United States will become a legitimate target for Iranian terrorism. According to the anti-American and pro-Hamas website The
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FBI, RUSSIA, MASSACRE, ATTACK
The FBI is concerned about the possibility of an organized attack in the United States similar to the one that killed scores of people at a Russian concert hall last month, the bureau's director told a House of Representatives panel on Thursday.
“As I look
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JOHNSON, SPEAKER, URGE, UKRAINE
Southern Baptist leaders are calling on House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to "consider the plight of Christians" and support Ukraine in its war against Russia.
Daniel Darling, director of the Land Center for Cultural Engagement at Southwestern Baptist Theological
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TEST, HARVARD, SCORES, STANDARDIZED
Harvard will reinstate standardized testing as a requirement of admission, the university announced Thursday, becoming the latest in a series of highly competitive universities to reverse their test-optional policies.
Students applying to Harvard in fall 2025
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SUMO, AKEBONO, 54, BORN
Taro Akebono, a Hawaii-born sumo wrestler who became the sport’s first foreign grand champion and helped to fuel a resurgence in the sport’s popularity in the 1990s, has died in Tokyo. He was 54.
He died of heart failure in early April while receiving care
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BIDEN, SUMMIT, CHINA, JAPAN
President Biden intends to use a first-ever joint meeting with the leaders of Japan and the Philippines on Thursday to send a blunt diplomatic message to an increasingly aggressive China: Beijing’s harassment of Philippine ships in the South China Sea is a
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SOUTH, KOREA, ELECTIONS, LEADER
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean voters have handed liberals extended opposition control of parliament in what looks like a massive political setback to conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol.
Some experts say the results of Wednesday’s parliamentary elections
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NPR, SCANDAL, BIAS, OUTLET
NPR is facing both internal tumult and a fusillade of attacks by prominent conservatives this week after a senior editor publicly claimed the broadcaster had allowed liberal bias to affect its coverage, risking its trust with audiences.
Uri Berliner, a senior
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85, YEAR, INTRUDER, HOME
An 85-year-old Idaho mother was attacked by an intruder in her home but was able to outsmart him, retrieve her .357 Magnum revolver, and shoot him dead to save her disabled son.
The New York Post reported that the attack occurred March 13, 2024. On April 10,
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CBS, HERRIDGE, BLASTS, SEIZURE
Catherine Herridge, a veteran investigative journalist known for her reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop scandal — accused her most recent employer, CBS News, of committing “journalistic rape” and undermining her professional standing by seizing her filed
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FLORIDA, TEMPORARILY, TEACHER, JUDGE
A federal judge has temporarily halted a Florida law preventing a transgender teacher from using pronouns that do not match her birth sex, NBC News reported.
Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker granted a temporary injunction to Katie Wood, stating that the
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RICE, RASHEE, ARREST, CRASH
The Kansas City Chiefs player has been cooperating with police his lawyer said.
Police issue arrest warrants for Rashee Rice, driver in connection with multi-car crash
Dallas Police issued an arrest warrant Wednesday for Kansas City Chiefs player Rashee Rice
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