Emerging Topics in U.S. News
TUESDAY, MAY 7th 2024
Updated 23:59 ET
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TRUMP, STORMY, TRIAL, DANIELS
Stormy Daniels took the stand today in Trump's criminal trial in New York The woman at the center of the hush money scandal, adult film star Stormy Daniels testified on Tuesday in former President Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York.
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ISRAEL, ANTI, COLUMBIA, UNIVERSITY
Thirteen federal judges said Monday in a letter to Columbia University President Minouche Shafik that they won’t hire law clerks from the institution over its handling of the pro-Palestine protests that the judges said “threatened violence, committed assaults,
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JOHNSON, SPEAKER, MIKE, OUSTER
Trump told Greene that the party needs to be unified, a source said.
Former President Donald Trump spoke privately with Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene over the weekend and urged her to drop her push to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, a source close to the
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BIDEN, TRUMP, AD, STEWART
"Daily Show" host Jon Stewart lambasted President Biden, saying he shouldn't be in the White House while addressing his age during a recent comedy set.
"Why are we allowing this?" Stewart asked a Los Angeles crowd at Netflix's comedy festival on Friday, according
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RAFAH, ISRAELI, CROSSING, BORDER
The Israeli military said on Tuesday that its tanks had entered Rafah in southern Gaza and had seized control of the city’s critical border crossing with Egypt in what it called a limited operation to eliminate Hamas fighters and infrastructure that had been
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RUSSIA, SOLDIER, AMERICAN, DETAINED
An American soldier has been arrested in Russia and accused of stealing, according to two U.S. officials.
The soldier, who is not being identified, was stationed in South Korea and was in the process of returning home to the United States. Instead, he traveled
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HAMAS, ISRAEL, FIRE, CEASE
Israeli officials said Monday that Biden administration officials had secretly worked with mediators, without Israel’s knowledge, to craft a Hamas “agreement” to ceasefire terms in an attempt to deter an attack on Hamas in Rafah.
On Monday, as Breitbart News
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MET, GALA, WORE, KATY
On Monday night, some of the biggest celebrities in the country, dressed in their finest and most outrageous couture, assembled at the steps of New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art for the biggest red carpet event of the year. They entered the museum
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BAN, TIKTOK, SUES, LAW
The fight over TikTok's presence here in the United States has been ongoing for some time, but last month, a bill was passed that would ultimately force TikTok's parent company ByteDance to either sell TikTok to an American company and divest from the CCP or
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BIDEN, TRUMP, POLL, DIE
Dem analyst: Biden’s Hopes Fading Fast
In March, President Biden’s surge in the polls “seemed poised to revive his campaign and reenergize the Democratic Party.” But now “it increasingly appears that Biden’s quiet comeback is running out of steam,” grumbles
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TOM, BRADY, ROAST, NDCHEN
According to former Packers Pro Bowler David Bakhtiari, the roast of Tom Brady on Netflix did a lot more than entertain and gain hundreds of thousands of views. It also “Killed PC culture.”
The three-time Super Bowl loser allowed his closest friends, business
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BIDEN, ANTISEMITISM, CONDEMNS, HAMAS
President Biden on Tuesday marked Holocaust Remembrance Day by delivering his most forceful condemnation of campus antisemitism to date, bowing to the mounting pressure for him to address rising anti-Israel protest chaos and harassment of Jewish students and
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PUTIN, RUSSIA, TERM, PRESIDENT
AP — President Vladimir Putin began his fifth term at a glittering Kremlin inauguration Tuesday, embarking on another six years as leader of Russia after destroying his political opponents, launching a devastating war in Ukraine and concentrating all power
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HOCHUL, BLACK, GOV, COMPUTER
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said she regrets saying that Black children who grow up in the Bronx don’t know what the word “computer” means.
“I misspoke and I regret it,” she said in a statement Monday.
“Of course, Black children in the Bronx know what computers
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NUCLEAR, RUSSIA, DRILLS, ANNOUNCES
Two influential Republican U.S. lawmakers have urged President Joe Biden to prevent a French company from working on civil nuclear power projects with Russia's state-owned nuclear company Rosatom, saying doing otherwise would help fund Russian President Vladimir
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BODY, BRIDGE, COLLAPSE, BALTIMORE
The Unified Command salvage teams have located the body of another victim of the Francis Scott Key Bridge diaster, bringing the total number of causalities to six.
Maryland State Police investigators identified the victim as Jose Mynor Lopez, 37, of Baltimore.
The
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DRAKE, GUARD, SECURITY, OUTSIDE
Nothing is off the table as Drake and Kendrick Lamar continue to beef NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Tia Tyree, a Howard University professor who has studied rap feuds over the years, about the current feud between Kendrick Lamar and Drake.
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BOY, AMERICA, SCOUTS, YEARS
The Boy Scouts of America, a staple of youth organizations for over a century, is renaming itself Scouting America.
This significant shift reflects the organization’s renewed focus on inclusivity and diversity, following a period of legal and financial challenges.
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CENSURE, OMAR, RESOLUTION, ILHAN
Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., on Tuesday introduced a resolution to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., for her remarks about Jewish students and antisemitism.
Omar spoke with pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University last month, the site of large-scale demonstrations
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ASSASSINATION, UKRAINE, RUSSIAN, ZELENSKYY
Ukrainian counterintelligence investigators have foiled a Russian plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top military and political figures, Ukraine's state security service said Tuesday.
Two colonels in the State Guard of Ukraine, which
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INDIANA, GOP, SPARTZ, MIKE
Indiana Republican Rep. Victoria Spartz, a Ukrainian-born lawmaker, has won the GOP primary election to represent Indiana's 5th Congressional District in the House.
Spartz's victory in the election comes after she announced in February that she would seek
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CHARGED, PANERA, LEMONADE, CONTROVERSIAL
Fast casual restaurant chain Panera Bread is doing away with highly caffeinated Charged Lemonade drinks that have been at the center of multiple wrongful death lawsuits since last fall.
A spokesperson for Panera confirmed to ABC News that is has undergone
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ANTI, ISRAEL, NYC, FLAG
New York Mayor Eric Adams reacted with anger and disgust on Tuesday, after anti-Israel protesters vandalized a World War I memorial in New York City on Monday.
The 107th United States Infantry monument, located along Central Park on the Upper East Side, depicts
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TESLA, AUTOPILOT, RECALL, DEMAND
Layoffs at electric vehicle maker Tesla keep rolling a month after the company announced it would cut 10% of its global workforce.
While no exact numbers have been revealed, several Tesla employees reported being let go over the weekend. The cuts reportedly
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