Emerging Topics in U.S. News
SATURDAY, MAY 18th 2024
Updated 23:59 ET
32 articles
TRUMP, BIDEN, VOTERS, MAHER
“I have been clear at home, and I will be clear here,” Ms. Stefanik is expected to say in her speech, according to a prepared version of her remarks reviewed by The New York Times. “There is no excuse for an American president to block aid to Israel.”
Her
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HARRISON, BUTKER, SPEECH, CATHOLIC
Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker was the commencement speaker at a private college in Kansas last weekend. The three-time Super Bowl winner brought up several topics during his roughly 20-minute-long speech at Benedictine College.
At one point during
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PREAKNESS, DAN, MYSTIK, SEIZE
Seize the Grey went wire to wire to win the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, giving 88-year-old Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas a seventh victory in the race and ending Mystik Dan’s Triple Crown bid.
The gray colt took advantage of the muddy track just as
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SLOVAK, PRIME, MINISTER, APPEARS
PEZINOK, Slovakia — Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico’s condition was serious but stable Saturday as the man accused of trying to assassinate him faced his first court appearance.
Two hours of surgery Friday to remove dead tissue from Fico’s multiple gunshot
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CNN, 58, ALICE, POLITICAL
CNN political commentator and Republican political adviser Alice Stewart died at the age of 58, CNN revealed on Saturday.
Law enforcement officials confirmed Stewart’s death to CNN and informed them that she had been discovered outside in a neighborhood located
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GOVERNMENT, WAR, ISRAEL, CABINET
On Saturday, as documented in the Jerusalem Post, a Minister in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's War Cabinet has laid an ultimatum at Netanyahu's feet over the government's handling of the offense against Hamas terrorists in Gaza:
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COLEMAN, DABNEY, TV, MOVIES
Dabney Coleman, who starred in '9 to 5' and 'Tootsie', dies at 92
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NEW YORK — Dabney Coleman, the mustachioed character actor who specialized in smarmy villains like the chauvinist boss in "9 to 5" and
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SEAN, DIDDY, COMBS, CASSIE
LOS ANGELES — Security video aired by CNN appears to show Sean “Diddy” Combs attacking singer Cassie in a Los Angeles hotel hallway in 2016, the latest in a months-long series of public allegations and revelations of physical and sexual violence from the hip-hop
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ARRESTED, OCCUPY, BUILDING, ANTI
Six University of Pennsylvania students were among 19 pro-Palestinian protesters arrested during an attempt to occupy a school building, university police said Saturday.
Their arrests came a week after authorities broke up a protest encampment on campus and
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GLUE, CLIMATE, MUNICH, AIRPORT
BERLIN (AP) – German authorities closed down Munich airport temporarily on Saturday after six climate activists broke through a security fence and glued themselves to access routes leading to runways, officials and local media reported.
The activists from
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PRIVILEGE, BIDEN, EXECUTIVE, ARMSTRONG
“Reading things on paper and hearing things are two very different things,” Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND), a House Judiciary Committee member who is running for governor, said during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday, discussing President Biden’s use of
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EXPECTED, THOUSANDS, PALESTINIAN, RIGHTS
Thousands of protesters are expected to turn out for a rally in the nation’s capital Saturday in support of Palestinian rights and an immediate end to Israeli military operations in Gaza.
The event commemorates the 76th anniversary of what is called the Nakba,
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SEA, RED, OIL, MISSILE
There's been another report of Iran-backed Houthis from Yemen launching missile attacks on foreign vessels in the Red Sea. They've been less frequent recently, but the provocations certainly have not stopped, as we saw in Nov. 2023.
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LAW, MOBILIZATION, EFFECT, UKRAINE
A divisive mobilization law in Ukraine came into force Saturday, as Kyiv struggles to boost troop numbers after Russia launched a new offensive that some fear could close in on Ukraine's second-largest city.
The legislation, which was watered down from its
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CONTRACEPTION, VETOES, BILLS, YOUNGKIN
RICHMOND, Va. — Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin took action on a final batch of bills from the year’s regular legislative session Friday, signing seven but vetoing 48, including closely watched measures that would have ended a tax break for a Confederate heritage
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MEDICAL, GENDER, ESTABLISHMENT, MAHER
HBO host Bill Maher accused the U.S. medical establishment of being "afraid" to admit that it has gone too far in allowing minors to undergo gender-altering treatment.
Maher made the statement during the latest episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher," noting
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MICHIGAN, GOP, SENATE, RACE
Michigan Democrats are reportedly demanding an investigation be launched into three Republican U.S. Senate candidates, as well as another who is out of the race, regarding alleged forgery.
The Detroit Free Press reported on Friday that members of the Michigan
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EXCESSES, BOWLES, NYTER, EX
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” former New York Times reporter and current reporter and Head of Strategy at the Free Press Nellie Bowles argued that a full reversal of the left-wing excesses of 2020 should include “apologies to the people who got
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ARIZONA, INDICTMENT, GIULIANI, BIRTHDAY
Rudolph W. Giuliani was served with a notice of his indictment in the Arizona election interference case on Friday night, becoming the last of the 18 defendants to receive the notice after nearly a month of unsuccessful attempts by the authorities.
The indictment
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SIXTH, FRENCH, NEW, DEATH
French security forces reported another death Saturday in armed clashes in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia, the sixth fatality in a nearly a week of violent unrest scorching the archipelago whose indigenous population has long sought independence.
The
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DAKOTA, SOUTH, KRISTI, GOP
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem takes the stage at the California Republican Party Spring Convention on Saturday in Burlingame, Calif. Noem has drawn criticism surrounding her recent book, in which she talks about how she put her 14-month-old hunting dog down.
South
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DEADLY, NEW, STORM, HOUSTON
Widespread power outages from deadly Houston storm raise new risk: hot weather
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HOUSTON — As the Houston area works to clean up and restore power to thousands after deadly storms, it will do
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EL, OBAMA, FMR, ERIAN
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” economist, President of Queens’ College, Allianz Chief Economic Adviser, and former Obama Global Development Council Chair Dr. Mohamed El-Erian said that it will be “very hard” to get inflation
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