Emerging Topics in U.S. News
WEDNESDAY, MAY 29th 2024
Updated 23:59 ET
50 articles
TRUMP, TRIAL, JURY, DELIBERATIONS
Former US President Donald Trump attends his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs, at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City, on May 16, 2024.
Jurors in the criminal hush money trial of former President Donald
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BIDEN, TRUMP, DE, NIRO
Few people were reportedly in attendance at a Joe Biden rally in Philadelphia on Wednesday, despite Pennsylvania being an important swing state for him to win.
Photos showing vast spaces of emptiness at the Philadelphia rally began to circulate on Wednesday
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ALITO, JUSTICE, CASES, TRUMP
Many people have gloomily accepted the conventional wisdom that because there is no binding Supreme Court ethics code, there is no way to force Associate Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas to recuse themselves from the Jan. 6 cases that are before the
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SCOTTIE, SCHEFFLER, CHARGES, DROPPED
Criminal charges against Scottie Scheffler have been dismissed, ending a legal saga that began with images of the world's top male golfer being arrested and handcuffed in Louisville during the PGA Championship.
Jefferson County Attorney Mike O'Connell, a local
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KOREA, NORTH, SOUTH, BALLOONS
South Korea says the North has flown balloons carrying trash over the border
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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea flew hundreds of trash-carrying balloons toward South Korea in one of its most bizarre provocations
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ZOO, PANDAS, NATIONAL, GIANT
The National Zoo in Washington announced on Wednesday that China will send two young giant pandas to Washington, months after returning three pandas.
China's ambassador to the United States, Xie Feng, called the new panda agreement a positive sign for U.S.-China
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RAFAH, ISRAEL, HAMAS, RED
Amid world outcry against an Israeli airstrike that took out two Hamas terrorist leaders but also reportedly killed dozens of Palestinian civilians, Israel Defense Forces said Tuesday that the “small munitions” used in the attack simply could not have caused
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UKRAINE, MILITARY, AID, RUSSIA
A U.S. Treasury official is traveling to Kyiv this week to talk about U.S. financial support for Ukraine, efforts to tighten sanctions on Russia and plans to use immobilized Russian sovereign assets for the benefit of Ukraine as it fends off Russian fo...
WASHINGTON
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ISRAEL, NIKKI, ARTILLERY, HALEY
Brazil has withdrawn its ambassador to Israel after months of tensions between the two countries over the war in Gaza.
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been a vocal critic of Israel's actions in Gaza.
The Brazilian Embassy in Israel has been
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MAYORKAS, GAME, ADMITS, DEALING
President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is admitting that migrants arriving at the southern border often “try to game” the nation’s asylum system so they can be released into the United States.
Mayorkas made
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MLB, LEAGUES, RECORDS, HISTORY
Major League Baseball says it is "righting a historic wrong" after recognising the achievements of black players from when it was racially segregated in the 20th Century.
Black players created their own leagues after being kept out of MLB from 1920 to 1948
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TRUMP, HUSH, MONEY, CONVENES
“We don’t want to see a single more innocent life taken,” Kirby said, before flipping out and remarking that he “kind of” took “a little offense at the question.”
Reporter: How does this not violate the red line the president laid out
Kirby: We don’t want
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WINS, TEXAS, PRIMARY, TRUMP
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A former Trump campaign official has won a tight primary fight and will now serve
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BLACK, AMERICAN, MEN, AIRLINES
Three Black men are suing American Airlines, claiming they were discriminated against when ordered to leave a plane in January
NEW YORK -- Black passengers who were briefly ordered off an American Airlines plane in January sued the airline Wednesday, alleging
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PARLIAMENT, RUSSIAN, EUROPEAN, POLICE
Police conducted searches at the residence and office of a European Parliament employee in Brussels over suspected Russian interference.
The employee’s office in Strasbourg, France, was also searched in collaboration with Eurojust and French judicial authorities.
The
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FED, INFLATION, RATE, CUTS
Hopes for interest rate cuts this year by the Federal Reserve are steadily fading, with a stream of recent remarks by Fed officials underscoring their intention to keep borrowing costs high as long as needed to curb persistently elevated inflation.
A key reason
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OPENAI, CONTENT, ATLANTIC, ANNOUNCES
Earlier today, The Atlantic’s CEO, Nicholas Thompson, announced in an internal email that the company has entered into a business partnership with OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. (The news was made public via a press release shortly thereafter.) Editorial content
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GERMANY, MILITARY, COVID, MANDATE
BERLIN (AP) – Germany has scrapped a requirement for its military servicepeople to be vaccinated against COVID-19, a mandate that had been in place since late 2021, the government said Wednesday.
People serving with the German military, the Bundeswehr, are
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ABORTION, 100M, HOUSE, PAC
Democrats’ House Majority PAC is planning to dump $100 million into advertising about killing unborn babies via abortion in an effort to energize voters and retake the House in November.
“The Reproductive Freedom Accountability Fund” will spend funds on swing
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ICELAND, LAVA, SKY, SPEWING
A massive volcanic eruption at the Sundhnúkur crater in Iceland on Wednesday spewed lava over 160 feet into the air, officials announced.
The crater is located on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwestern Iceland, where authorities evacuated the seaside town
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TRUMP, NETANYAHU, REPUBLICANS, CELEBRATES
While Biden previously called the ICC’s move “outrageous,” White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday that “sanctions on the ICC are not an effective or appropriate tool to address U.S. concerns.”
Netanyahu and the rest of Israel’s leadership
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HEARING, JUDGE, SUSPENDED, DRIVING
A Michigan judge was astonished when a defendant charged with driving with a suspended driver’s license dialed into a virtual court hearing while behind the wheel of a car.
The May 15 hearing in Ann Arbor was for Corey Harris, whose case involved his suspended
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PUBLIC, HARVARD, ANNOUNCES, NEW
Harvard may be taking a step back from issuing political statements based on new policy recommendations from a university working group in the wake of controversy over its response to the Israel-Hamas war.
On Tuesday, Interim Harvard President Alan Garber
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DENIES, PETERSON, DNA, JUDGE
The judge approved one of the 14 items that the defense requested.
A California judge largely denied a motion by Scott Peterson's defense team for new or additional DNA testing in his case, as the Los Angeles Innocence Project seeks evidence proving he didn't
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