Emerging Topics in U.S. News
TUESDAY, MAY 28th 2024
Updated 23:59 ET
83 articles
TRUMP, TRIAL, BIDEN, DE
Lawyers for Donald Trump on Monday asked a federal judge to reject prosecutors' request for a gag order limiting what the former U.S. president can say about law enforcement officers involved in the case accusing him of mishandling sensitive documents.
Trump's
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BIDEN, JOE, DEMOCRATS, OHIO
Democratic Party leaders said Tuesday that they would nominate President Biden for a second term in office via a virtual roll call of delegates to the party’s national convention, bypassing a glitch in Ohio law that had threatened to keep Mr. Biden off the
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UKRAINE, ZELENSKYY, MILITARY, BELGIUM
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy secured a second $1 billion military aid pledge from Belgium during his European Union tour.
Belgium also committed to providing 30 F-16 fighter jets over the next four years.
A day earlier, Zelenskyy signed a bilateral
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CHICAGO, FATALLY, SHOT, SUSPECT
Police in Missouri say a woman went to a police station and told officers that she fatally shot one of her children and drowned the other
Mother tells police she shot one child and drowned another. A third was found safe
FESTUS, Mo. -- A Missouri woman went
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RAFAH, ISRAELI, DEADLY, DISPLACED
The deadly fire that broke out in Rafah following an Israeli airstrike outside the designated “humanitarian zone” Sunday night may have been caused by the secondary detonation of Hamas munitions located near a civilian safe zone, according to the Israeli military.
The
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TRUMP, VERDICT, DE, LAWYERS
“It will really be done with local police,” said Trump before devolving into a barely coherent tirade explaining his desire to provide immunity to his future deportation gestapo:
Do you know, the respect has been taken away, the honor has been taken away from
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PIER, GAZA, AID, DELIVERIES
Joe Biden's foreign policy decisions are just laughable.
Perhaps one of the most questionable moves he's made recently was to put a pier off the Gaza shore to supposedly help facilitate aid to the people in the war-torn region.
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But the problem
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LAW, PARLIAMENT, FOREIGN, GEORGIA
Demonstrators protesting the "foreign influence" law crowd outside the parliament building in central Tbilisi on May 28, 2024.
Georgian lawmakers on Tuesday voted to override a presidential veto on the Russia-style "foreign agents" law, pushing forward with
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SOUTH, AFRICA, ELECTION, CONTINENT
At the dawn of South Africa’s democracy after the fall of the racist apartheid government, millions lined up before sunrise to cast their ballots in the country’s first free and fair election in 1994.
Thirty years later, democracy has lost its luster for a
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UMPIRE, ANGEL, HERNANDEZ, MLB
Umpire Ángel Hernández, who unsuccessfully sued MLB for discrimination, retires
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NEW YORK — Longtime umpire Ángel Hernández, who unsuccessfully sued Major League Baseball for racial discrimination, is retiring immediately.
During
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RUSSIA, STRIKE, CALLS, UKRAINE
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Tuesday that NATO members in Europe were playing with fire by proposing to let Ukraine use Western weapons to strike inside Russia, which he said could trigger a global conflict.
More than two years into
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TEXAS, LARGE, HAIL, CENTRAL
Texas tornadoes leave 760,000 without power
Hundreds of thousands of people are without power in Texas as severe thunderstorms batter the north-east region of the US state.
Officials said the latest round of storms will bring hurricane-force wind gusts of
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POPE, APOLOGIZES, MEN, GAY
He reportedly affirmed a ban on allowing gay men to train for the priesthood.
Pope apologizes for reported use of offensive term for gay men
Pope Francis is apologizing after reports that he used an offensive term for gay men in a recent closed-door meeting.
"Pope
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GATES, MELINDA, FRENCH, RIGHTS
Many years ago, I received this piece of advice: “Set your own agenda, or someone else will set it for you.” I’ve carried those words with me ever since.
That’s why, next week, I will leave the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, of which I was a co-founder almost
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WACTOR, GENERAL, HOSPITAL, JOHNNY
The Los Angeles Police Department is seeking the public's help in locating the individual responsible for fatally shooting "General Hospital" actor Johnny Wactor on Saturday.
In a press release obtained by Fox News Digital on Tuesday, the LAPD said Wactor
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NEW, GUINEA, LANDSLIDE, PAPUA
Nearly five days after a landslide devastated a remote section of Papua New Guinea, officials in the Pacific Island nation have begun evacuating residents, because the area remains unsafe.
“Rocks are still moving, the mountain is still crumbling, and we are
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TRAINING, OPENAI, MODEL, NEW
OpenAI announced on Tuesday that it has begun training a new flagship AI model to succeed the GPT-4 technology powering its popular chatbot, ChatGPT.
The New York Times reports that the San Francisco-based startup, a leading player in the AI industry, revealed
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GENDER, NOTIFYING, BILL, BANNING
The California state legislature is considering a new bill that would prevent schools from notifying parents if their children decide to change genders.
The new bill, AB 1955, is backed by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, who was booted
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TAIWAN, CHINA, PRESIDENT, RENEWS
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te thanked fighter pilots who had scrambled against China last week during its war games around the island.
China, which claims democratically-governed Taiwan as its own territory, ran military drills around Taiwan in what it called
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GOP, TEXAS, HOUSE, STATE
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The Associated Press projects that Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan will survive
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ILLEGAL, CRIMINAL, MURDER, ALIEN
An illegal alien charged with murdering a woman in Berkeley County, West Virginia, spent over two decades in an El Salvador prison before getting released into the United States on President Joe Biden’s watch, new details reveal.
David Antonio Calderon, a
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PELOSI, ATTACKER, APOLOGIZES, YEARS
The man convicted of attempting to hold former Speaker Nancy Pelosi hostage and attacking her husband with a hammer two years ago apologized in federal court Tuesday, but still received 30 years in prison at an unusual resentencing hearing that resulted from
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DEAL, MOBILE, CELLULAR, BUY
T-Mobile is buying U.S. Cellular’s wireless operations and certain spectrum assets in a deal valued at $4.4 billion, and further consolidating the industry
T-Mobile to buy almost all of US Cellular in deal worth $4.4 billion with debt
T-Mobile is buying U.S.
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IRAN, NUCLEAR, ENRICHED, URANIUM
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) issued a confidential report on Monday that discovered that Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium reached 30 times the limit Tehran accepted in former President Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal.
The IAEA
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