Emerging Topics in U.S. News
TUESDAY, MAY 21st 2024
Updated 23:59 ET
89 articles
TRUMP, BIDEN, TRIAL, DEFENSE
Former President Donald J. Trump and the Republican Party out-raised President Biden and the Democrats last month for the first time in this election cycle, according to campaign officials, as Mr. Biden’s pace of fund-raising slowed significantly from March.
Mr.
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ARREST, ICC, WARRANTS, ISRAEL
Top allies of former President Trump traveled to Israel this week to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Former national security adviser Robert O’Brien made the trip alongside two other former Trump administration officials. They stayed in
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RAISI, PRESIDENT, IRAN, DEATH
People attend funeral ceremony, held for Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his senior officials died in a helicopter crash, in Tabriz, Iran on May 21, 2024.
Thousands of mourners descended on Tabriz on Tuesday for a funeral ceremony honoring Iranian President
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WILLIS, TRUMP, ELECTION, GEORGIA
Voters will decide whether two key players in the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump will keep their jobs.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee are both on the ballot for Tuesday's
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BIDEN, MAHER, SPEECH, BILL
The Issue: President Biden’s commencement speech at Morehouse College, a historically black school.
Colleges and universities should never invite campaigning politicians like President Biden to attend, let alone give, a commencement address (“Joe’s pomp &
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TRUMP, HUSH, MONEY, TV
The company is currently trading at $48 per share, down from its peak of nearly $72 during its initial public offering in March. That’s a loss of more than half the company’s value. It had a bad run of news, even reaching out to the federal government to figure
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ELVIS, GRACELAND, GRANDDAUGHTER, SALE
The granddaughter of Elvis Presley is fighting plans to publicly auction his Graceland estate in Memphis after a company attempted to sell the property based on claims that a loan using it as collateral was not repaid
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Riley Keough, the granddaughter
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OPENAI, SCARLETT, JOHANSSON, VOICE
NEW YORK (AP) — OpenAI on Monday said it plans to halt the use of one of its ChatGPT voices that “Her” actor Scarlett Johansson says sounds “eerily similar” to her own.
In a post on the social media platform X, OpenAI said it is “working to pause” Sky — the
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EQUIPMENT, SEIZE, AP, MEDIA
Israeli authorities seize The Associated Press' broadcasting equipment from Israeli authorities have seized broadcasting equipment of The Associated Press. It had been used to create a live feed into Northern Gaza filmed from the Israeli border.
Media Israeli
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TORNADOES, IOWA, INJURIES, MIDWEST
Storms that pummeled much of Nebraska with torrential rain, high winds and large hail spun up fierce tornados in Iowa Tuesday that caused extensive damage and an unknown number of injuries in at least one rural town and took down several 250-foot (76 meters)
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BIDEN, VETERANS, TOXIC, LAW
Joe Biden was in New Hampshire to talk about the PACT Act on Tuesday.
The PACT Act deals with helping veterans who were exposed to toxins such as burn pits. So that was important to Biden because he feels his son Beau's cancer was related to his exposure to
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TIMES, 700, DEFEATED, GIRLS
A court document that is a part of the lawsuit against the Biden Administration for its expansion of Title IX claims that a transgender middle school athlete in West Virginia knocked female athletes out of competition over 700 times.
The documents’ claims
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TRUMP, BIEL, YOGURT, HOLLYWOOD
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ARREST, SCOTTIE, SCHEFFLER, POLICE
In the wake of last week’s arrest of pro golfer Scottie Scheffler, sports commentator Stephen A. Smith is accusing the police of being steeped in racism for not releasing any bodycam footage of the arrest, and added, “If it were Tiger Woods, you’d have it.”
The
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TAIWAN, CHINA, SANCTIONS, MIKE
The Chinese foreign ministry announced sanctions against former Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., on Tuesday, the day after Taiwan inaugurated a new president.
The former U.S. lawmaker, whose early departure from Congress last month further narrowed the GOP’s slim
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CALEDONIA, NEW, EVACUATING, CITIZENS
French President Emmanuel Macron is making a surprise trip to New Caledonia, signaling confidence that security measures are controlling the unrest.
Government spokesperson Prisca Thevenot announced the trip, which required a change in Macron’s schedule.
Macron
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JENNIFER, BEN, AFFLECK, RUMORS
The show must go on for Jennifer Lopez.
During an appearance on Monday's episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!," the "On the Floor" singer — who is currently promoting her new Netflix film, "Atlas" — ignored the recent split rumors and casually dropped husband Ben
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STATE, NEW, LAW, DOJ
The U.S. Department of Justice sued Oklahoma on Tuesday over a state law that seeks to impose criminal penalties on those living in the state illegally.
The lawsuit in federal court in Oklahoma City challenges an Oklahoma law that makes it a state crime —
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WINS, PRIZE, INTERNATIONAL, BOOKER
German author Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann won the International Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday for "Kairos," the story of a tangled love affair during the final years of East Germany’s existence.
The novel beat five other finalists,
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COUP, CONGO, REPUBLIC, AMERICAN
A U.S. national has been mistakenly accused of involvement in last weekend's attempted coup in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Cole Patrick Ducey, an engineer living in Eswatini, told ABC News Monday that he was not involved, despite reports online and in
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FLIGHT, DEAD, TURBULENCE, SINGAPORE
LONDON and HONG KONG -- One person was dead and several others injured after a Singapore Airlines flight encountered "severe" turbulence about 90 minutes from the plane's destination of Singapore, the airline said in a social media post.
There were 221 passengers
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SPACE, RUSSIA, WEAPON, PENTAGON
It's now in the same orbit as a U.S. government satellite, the Pentagon said.
The United States has assessed that Russia launched what is likely a counter space weapon last week that's now in the same orbit as a U.S. government satellite, Pentagon spokesman
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BUTKER, HARRISON, PU, VEDDER
Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder went on a rant during his concert in Las Vegas and attacked Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker over the player’s support for traditional Christian values.
Vedder spoke out from the stage during the band’s May 18 concert
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DEAL, CROSSINGS, ARIZONA, ADMIN
LUKEVILLE, Arizona — Once the busiest crossing point on the southwest border, migrant crossings in Lukeville have slowed significantly since an election-year deal was struck with Mexico in December. A once constantly busy transportation rally point used by
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