Emerging Topics in U.S. News
WEDNESDAY, MAY 15th 2024
Updated 23:59 ET
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TRUMP, BIDEN, DEBATE, COHEN
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It’s common, in criminal court, for a defendant’s friends
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PRIME, MINISTER, SLOVAKIA, FICO
Slovakia's populist Prime Minister Robert Fico was wounded in a shooting Wednesday afternoon and taken to hospital.
Reports on TA3, a Slovakian TV station, said Fico, 59, was hit in the stomach after four shots were fired outside the House of Culture in the
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BLINKEN, UKRAINE, KYIV, BAR
Blinken ends Ukraine trip with promise of U.S. help as Russia goes back on offensive Secretary of State Antony Blinken ended his trip to Ukraine by promising U.S. help to push Russian troops out. But the lengthy debates in Washington over aid to Ukraine has
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INFLATION, PRICES, APRIL, SLIGHTLY
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. This is a principle of Newtonian physics, but it also applies to many other areas of human endeavor — like economics.
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In 2021, Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) sponsored an amendment to the Military
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SENATE, HOGAN, MARYLAND, LARRY
ANNAPOLIS — Republican voters advanced strong Senate contenders in Maryland and West Virginia on Tuesday, giving the GOP a big boost in its push to claim control of Congress’ upper chamber.
Former Gov. Larry Hogan claimed the Republican nomination in what
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MENENDEZ, TRIAL, BOB, CORRUPTION
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Don’t be distracted by the shiny object.
Or 13 shiny objects — as
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BIDEN, ISRAEL, JOHNSON, SPEAKER
The Biden administration has told Congress that it intends to move forward with a plan for the United States to sell more than $1 billion in new weapons to Israel, according to three congressional aides familiar with the deal.
The notification of the sale,
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BARGE, BRIDGE, TEXAS, CAUSING
A barge has collided into a bridge in Galveston, Texas, spilling oil and closing the lone road to a nearby island.
Images from the incident, which occurred on Wednesday morning, show a damaged column from the bridge, partly collapsed onto the barge.
The barge
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SHOW, WESTMINSTER, SAGE, POODLE
More than 2,500 prestigious pooches competed in 2024’s Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York City, with only one outstanding long-time competitor taking home the gold.
Sage, a miniature poodle from Houston, Texas, and her handler, Kaz Hosaka, celebrated
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TARIFFS, BIDEN, TRUMP, CHINA
Since President Joe Biden was inaugurated, the United States has imported more than $1.5 trillion in goods from the People's Republic of China, according to the Census Bureau's publicly released data for the period from February 2021 through March 2024.
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PUTIN, XI, CHINA, RUSSIA
Russian President Vladimir Putin's meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in China this week is the latest sign of deepening strategic ties between both sides.
Putin will make a two-day state visit to China from Thursday at the invitation of Xi, it was announced
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PLEA, MIGRANTS, DEALS, NYPD
Incredibly, six of the illegal migrants charged in that vicious Times Square attack on NYPD officers have now been offered plea deals. The message: Progressives just don’t care about lawlessness.
That’s right: Illegally enter the country, illegally flee from
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BLACK, SUPREME, LOUISIANA, COURT
Supreme Court justices were acting on emergency appeals from civil rights lawyers as well as Louisiana’s Republican leaders.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday set aside a decision by two Trump-appointed judges in Louisiana and restored a state election map that
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HOUSE, WHITE, GAZA, AID
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken warned on Wednesday that recent gains in getting desperately needed humanitarian aid to people in the Gaza Strip risked being undone by the fighting in southern Gaza.
The border crossing in the southern city of Rafah has
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WNBA, CAITLIN, CLARK, DEBUT
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The Caitlin Clark era in the WNBA is off and running, and it's off
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CALEDONIA, NEW, EMERGENCY, STATE
President Emmanuel Macron of France convened a crisis meeting on Wednesday and moved to declare a state of emergency in New Caledonia after deadly riots in the semiautonomous French Pacific territory that has long sought independence.
The French authorities
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MCCOURT, TIKTOK, FRANK, BUY
Entrepreneur and former Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt said Wednesday his non profit Project Liberty is forming a consortium to buy social media platform TikTok in the United States.
A law signed by President Joe Biden on April 24 gives the social
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INFLATION, BIDEN, SMALL, ALFREDO
Claim: Biden’s false claim about inflation was really just making the point that the causes of inflation were already in place when President Joe Biden took office.
Verdict: False and misleading.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Wednesday
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SMALL, PLANE, CRASHES, PILOT
The aircraft appears to have broken apart in the air, authorities said.
3 dead after small plane crashes in Tennessee: Sheriff
Three people are dead after a small plane crashed in Tennessee on Wednesday, authorities said.
A 911 caller reported an explosion
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FLORIDA, CHANGE, CLIMATE, DESANTIS
What’s the point of such a bill? Florida faces many threats from a warming climate, including severe hurricanes, higher temperatures, and rising sea levels and flooding. In many cases, the bill is largely symbolic: the state doesn’t have any offshore wind thanks
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ISRAEL, RAFAH, EUROPEAN, UNION
How Israel's military investigates itself in cases of possible wrongdoing
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TEL AVIV, Israel — On April 14, thousands of Palestinians, mostly women and
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FOREIGN, THREATS, ELECTIONS, INTELLIGENCE
The government’s top intelligence official on Wednesday outlined active threats to U.S. elections from Russia and an increasingly aggressive Iran.
Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said the U.S. has “never been better prepared” to address challenges
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KRISTI, NOEM, SOUTH, GOV
Most of South Dakota's tribes have banned Kristi Noem from their land. Here's why
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RAPID CITY, S.D. - The Crow Creek Sioux Tribe is the latest tribal government to ban South Dakota Republican
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UC, IRVINE, BUILDING, CAMPUS
The latest school to be hit by pro-Hamas protests is UC Irvine, where students took over a building, built barricades, chanted “from the river to the sea” and other antisemitic slogans, and shielded themselves with umbrellas.
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🚨BREAKING🚨 UC
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