Emerging Topics in U.S. News
THURSDAY, MAY 2nd 2024
Updated 23:59 ET
44 articles
TRUMP, TRIAL, HUSH, MONEY
“They have no case, and we have a very conflicted judge, unfortunately,” Trump told reporters Thursday. “There is no case, and it should have never been brought.”
A majority of Americans doubt Trump’s criminal trial will conclude with a fair outcome, the CNN
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POLICE, UCLA, ENCAMPMENT, ANTI
Examining the police response to the pro-Palestinian college protests
As protests continue to roil colleges across the nation, NPR looks at why police tactics have differed from campus to campus.
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
The police clearing college campuses
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ANTI, POLICE, ISRAEL, ENCAMPMENT
A group calling itself the U Chicago Popular University for Gaza has put forth ultimatums that extend concerns beyond the context of Gaza.
At a rally Tuesday, protesters included a call for defunding the University of Chicago Police Department.
“The U Chicago
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ABORTION, BAN, ARIZONA, REPEAL
As Florida's six-week abortion ban took effect Wednesday, Dr. Robyn Schickler, CMO of Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida, discussed counseling patients who may be seeking abortions beyond six weeks of pregnancy.
Schickler recently had to inform
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BIDEN, PROTESTS, ANTI, ISRAEL
Anti-Israel agitators and a pro-Israel crowd found unlikely unity during a demonstration at the University of Alabama.
On college and university campuses across the country, heated protests have resulted in violent beatings, pepper spray and campus takeovers
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BIDEN, JAPAN, XENOPHOBIC, INDIA
For months, President Biden has been under pressure to prove he can be tough at the border. But at a campaign reception on Wednesday night, he also tried to voice his commitment to America’s long history of immigration.
He did so by taking a swipe at two of
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ANTISEMITISM, BILL, HOUSE, COMBAT
Some lawmakers voted against a House bill that instructs the Education Department to consider a recognized definition of antisemitism when probing anti-Jewish discrimination at schools, colleges and universities as effectively outlawing the Bible’s New Testament.
However,
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BRIDGE, KEY, BALTIMORE, BODY
Maryland plans to rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge in just over four years at an estimated cost between $1.7 billion and $1.9 billion, a state transportation official said Thursday.
As salvage efforts continue, authorities also announced late Wednesday
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WHISTLEBLOWER, BOEING, DIES, MONTHS
Another Boeing whistleblower has died shortly after exposing problems with the company’s manufacturing practices. Joshua Dean, a former quality auditor at Spirit AeroSystems, a Boeing supplier, died from a fast-spreading infection weeks after being fired for
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GOOGLE, TRIAL, LANDMARK, CLOSES
U.S. v. Google: As landmark 'monopoly power' trial closes, here's what to look for
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The landmark monopoly trial between the U.S. Justice Department and Google comes to
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BIDEN, GOP, REFUGEE, ERNST
FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., led the entire Republican Senate conference in calling on President Biden to reject agreements that would expand the authority of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the case of a global pandemic.
"We strongly urge
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ABORTION, STATES, 2024, RIGHTS
Pro-abortion activists said their proposed amendment to enshrine the right to abortion in the South Dakota constitution has enough signatures to qualify for the November 2024 ballot.
Dakotans for Health, the group leading the ballot effort, told NBC News it
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CEO, PELOTON, 400, DROP
Exercise equipment manufacturer Peloton on Thursday announced it will ax 15% of its workforce, plus CEO Barry McCarthy.
The company’s layoffs are expected to affect around 400 employees. The cuts are part of a cost-cutting program at the company, which has
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FIRE, HAMAS, CEASE, TALKS
A Hamas leader said Thursday that the group would soon send a delegation to Cairo to “complete ongoing discussions” on a cease-fire deal for the war in the Gaza Strip, raising hopes of progress in the stalled efforts for a truce.
The latest cease-fire proposal,
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NATIONAL, DAY, PRAYER, GOD
OPINION:
This week, America commemorates the National Day of Prayer. Do you ever wonder why you should pray for America? Have you asked yourself how your prayers can possibly make any difference if God is sovereign and does what He pleases anyway?
If that’s
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BIDEN, JOE, ULTIMATE, VETERAN
In October 1984, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware was invited to address a conservative Baptist church near Wilmington as he campaigned for a third term.
Mr. Biden, hardly the favorite of social conservatives, was in hostile political territory. But
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LAWSUIT, ABU, GHRAIB, JURY
A judge declared a mistrial Thursday after a jury said it was deadlocked and could not reach a verdict in the trial of a military contractor accused of contributing to the abuse of detainees at the Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq two decades ago.
The mistrial came
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COMPETITIVE, DECADES, FIRST, INDIANA
Indiana will have its first competitive primary election in two decades
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Six Republicans are vying to be the Republican nominee for governor in Indiana with GOP Gov. Eric Holcomb
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CDC, PANDEMIC, MORTALITY, MATERNAL
Maternal mortality went down in 2022 after spiking in 2021, new CDC report shows Maternal mortality got better in 2022, the latest year we have data for. It dropped back down to 2020 levels after spiking in 2021, according to a new report from CDC.
Health
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FLAG, AMERICAN, STUDENT, UNC
FIRST ON FOX – John Rich is praising a group of students at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill for stopping an American flag on the school's quad from hitting the ground on Tuesday.
A photo capturing the moment students stopped protesters from removing
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95, CONNECTICUT, TANKER, FIERY
For the second time in just over a year, a busy portion of Interstate 95 in Connecticut has been shut down — possibly for days — after a tractor-trailer carrying thousands of gallons of gasoline exploded into a massive inferno Thursday morning in Norwalk.
"Emergency
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ARKANSAS, TITLE, GOV, STATE
Republican Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is following the lead taken by other red states in directing her government to defy changes to Title IX made by the Biden administration regarding transgender students.
Huckabee Sanders on Thursday signed an
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NATIONAL, SAN, MOUNTAINS, GABRIEL
President Biden on Thursday will expand the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument by nearly a third in an action that is being widely praised by the Indigenous leaders, politicians, conservationists and community organizers who had long fought for the enlargement
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FLU, BIRD, MISSING, HUMAN
There's been only one human case of bird flu in this outbreak. Are we missing others? Officially, only one person has caught bird flu during the current outbreak among dairy cattle, but experts are hearing of others getting sick. The U.S. doesn't have an easy
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