Emerging Topics in U.S. News
TUESDAY, APRIL 30th 2024
Updated 23:59 ET
69 articles
TRUMP, JUDGE, TRIAL, BIDEN
When a lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump argued before the Supreme Court last week that his client should be immune from charges of plotting to subvert the last election, he asked the justices to picture a world in which former presidents were ceaselessly
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COLUMBIA, PROTESTERS, UNIVERSITY, ISRAEL
The White House on Tuesday denounced the anti-Israel protests that have erupted on college campuses, saying the occupation of university buildings is “wrong” and not peaceful.
The statement comes just hours after protesters at Columbia University took over
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JOHNSON, SPEAKER, HOUSE, MIKE
House Democratic leaders say they would help save Speaker Johnson's job
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House Democratic leaders say they'll help House Speaker Mike Johnson keep his job if members of
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BIDEN, IX, TITLE, ADMINISTRATION
Former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines called President Joe Biden’s overhaul of Title IX the "most anti-woman" pursuit of this administration as six other states filed a lawsuit challenging the new provisions on Tuesday.
Speaking at a virtual press
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MARIJUANA, DRUG, RECLASSIFY, SHIFT
DEA plans to back reclassifying marijuana as less serious drug, sources say
In an historic shift, the Drug Enforcement Administration is planning to recommend reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug, moving it from a Schedule 1 classification, alongside
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OFFICERS, CHARLOTTE, SHOOTOUT, KILLED
Four law officers serving a warrant for a felon wanted for possessing a firearm were killed and four other officers were wounded in a shootout Monday at a North Carolina home, police said.
Some of the officers who rushed to the Charlotte neighborhood to rescue
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LEBRON, JAMES, EXIT, LAKERS
With the L.A. Lakers now firmly eliminated from the playoffs, it is being reported that LeBron James intends to turn free agent for next season and will begin taking offers from other teams.
According to ESPN’s Brian Windhorst, it James will not take the $51.4
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TESLA, MUSK, CHINESE, ELON
Billionaire Elon Musk paid a surprise visit to China in a successful bid to secure Chinese government approval for the automatic driving features of his Tesla electric vehicles (EV).
On Sunday, Musk posted a photo on X, the social media platform he owns, of
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TRUMP, MONEY, HUSH, TRIAL
But when push comes to shove, conservative policy arguments don’t matter when the GOP presidential nominee is someone who refuses to acknowledge that he lost the last election, and who has not set aside the possibility of utilizing mob violence for his own
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LONDON, SWORD, ARRESTED, PEOPLE
One child was killed and several other people were hospitalized after a man with a sword went on a stabbing spree in northeast London early Tuesday morning, the authorities said.
The child, a 13-year-old boy, died after being taken to a hospital, Stuart Bell,
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NEWSPAPERS, MICROSOFT, SUE, COPYRIGHT
Eight newspapers filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Microsoft and OpenAI alleging the tech films have illegally pulled millions of copyrighted articles into their artificial intelligence products at the expense of publishers.
The suit claims generative AI products
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POLL, RAFAH, ISRAEL, DEAL
Israel will invade Gaza's Rafah 'with or without' a hostage deal, Netanyahu says
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TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel will invade Rafah "with or without a deal"
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40, START, MAMMOGRAMS, PANEL
Regular mammograms to screen for breast cancer should start younger, at age 40, according to an influential U.S. task force. Women ages 40 to 74 should get screened every other year, the group said.
Previously, the task force had said women could choose to
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ABORTION, FLORIDA, WEEK, SIX
Vice President Kamala Harris is continuing her “Fight for Reproductive Freedoms” tour in Florida on Wednesday — the same day a six-week abortion restriction is set to take effect in the state.
Harris is expected to campaign in Jacksonville and to discuss her
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BIRD, FLU, SUPPLY, PERFECT
Egg prices are rising again. The culprit, again: bird flu.
At least, that’s the surface-level reason. In the current wave, according to the CDC, the H5N1 bird flu has been found in over 90 million poultry birds across almost every state since 2022, and has
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NETANYAHU, DEAL, RAFAH, VOWS
The operation to root out Hamas in Gaza will continue, according to Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. That follows months of pressure from the White House and the international community to stop short of entering Rafah, the last stronghold held by the terrorists.
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SMITH, ETHICS, JACK, STEFANIK
Just to make things even more complicated: On Tuesday, Representative Elise Stefanik (R-NY) filed an ethics complaint against Special Counsel Jack Smith, citing attempted efforts to interfere with the 2024 presidential election.
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Stefanik, the
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FBI, BILLION, OLDER, AMERICANS
WASHINGTON -- Scammers stole more than $3.4 billion from older Americans last year, according to an FBI report released Tuesday that shows a rise in losses through increasingly sophisticated criminal tactics to trick the vulnerable into giving up their life
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MEN, TREE, CHARGED, YEAR
LONDON — Two men have been charged with cutting down the popular 150-year-old Sycamore Gap tree that toppled over on Hadrian’s Wall last year in northern England, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Daniel Graham, 38, and Adam Carruthers, 31, were charged with causing
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YELLOWSTONE, BISON, KICKING, LEG
The man now faces a series of possible fines and jail time after the incident.
Man injured after kicking bison in the leg while under influence of alcohol at Yellowstone
A 40-year-old man who allegedly kicked a bison in the leg while under the influence of
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ARREST, ICC, WARRANTS, ISRAELI
The perversity of targeting Israeli leaders for justly attempting, as any other nation would, to free the hostages and prevent future Hamas atrocities is precisely why two decades of US presidents, from both parties, have refused to join the International Criminal
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COURT, ISRAEL, GERMANY, HALT
Members of Germany’s delegation during hearings at the International Court of Justice in The Hague in early April.
The International Court of Justice will deliver a decision on Tuesday on whether suppliers of military aid to Israel share some responsibility
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GLOBAL, PLASTIC, POLLUTION, END
With a deadline looming, countries race for a global agreement to cut plastic waste
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Negotiators from 170 countries are nearing a deal on a global
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COVID, LAB, SCIENTIST, CHINESE
The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China staged a sit-in protest outside his lab after authorities locked him out of the facility — a sign of the Beijing's continuing pressure on scientists conducting research on the coronavirus.
Zhang
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