Emerging Topics in U.S. News
THURSDAY, MAY 30th 2024
Updated 23:59 ET
195 articles
TRUMP, VERDICT, GUILTY, TRIAL
Donald Trump is now the first former American president ever to be convicted in a criminal trial — but it's far from clear whether that black mark will sink, or even weigh down, his bid to unseat President Joe Biden.
Recent polls suggest that the guilty verdict
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RUSSIA, UKRAINE, WEAPONS, BIDEN
The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) released an unclassified report that confirms North Korean missile debris was found in Ukraine, proving Russia has been using ballistic missiles produced in the hermit kingdom.
Wednesday's report confirms what Ukrainian
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ALITO, JUSTICE, FLAG, CHIEF
The "Appeal to Heaven" flag had flown in the city's Civic Center since 1964.
San Francisco officials take down 'Appeal to Heaven' flag from in front of City Hall
A historic flag that has flown in front of San Francisco City Hall for 60 years symbolizing America's
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SUPREME, COURT, NRA, AMENDMENT
A unanimous Supreme Court found that the First Amendment exists even in New York, even when the government hates what you have to say. As unbelievable as it sounds, Justice Sonia "the Wide Latina" Sotomayor wrote the opinion stating, "The critical takeaway
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INSTRUCTIONS, TRUMP, SIGHTS, JAMES
After “months of empty promises,” Giuliani filed an application to retain a broker on his New York City apartment, for which he paid $21,000 in fees during April alone. Still, he has made no movement on listing his Palm Beach condominium, “despite such property
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CONVICTS, 14, PRO, DEMOCRACY
Fourteen pro-democracy activists, including former lawmakers, have been convicted in Hong Kong's largest national security case.
Dissent in Hong Kong has been suppressed through reduced public choice, media crackdowns and a Beijing-backed security law.
Those
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UNIVERSITY, POLICE, STATE, WAYNE
Police have dismantled a pro-Palestinian encampment at Wayne State University in Detroit two days after the school suspended in-person classes and encouraged staff to work remotely
DETROIT -- Police broke up a pro-Palestinian encampment Thursday at Wayne State
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BIRD, FLU, HUMAN, CASE
A 3rd human case of bird flu detected, this one with respiratory symptoms
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Michigan’s health department announced Thursday a human case of bird flu in a dairy worker. It’s the third human case reported to date in the current
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DAYBELL, CHAD, GUILTY, FOUND
He was accused of murdering his first wife and second wife's two children.
A jury has found Chad Daybell guilty in the murders of his first wife and his second wife's two children in what prosecutors in Idaho said was a plot to pursue "money, power and sex."
The
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SOUTH, RULING, EARLY, ANC
South Africans were on edge Thursday as votes trickled in from a tight national election, with early returns showing poor results for the African National Congress, the party that has governed the country for three decades.
While official results are not expected
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TRUMP, PROSPECTS, RUTHLESS, VINDICTIVE
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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FETTERMAN, COMMENCEMENT, JOHN, HARVARD
As national Democrats veer ever further into pro-Hamas madness, at least one has proven a bulwark of sanity: Sen. John Fetterman.
The Pennsylvania progressive (though he now rejects the label) tore off a Harvard academic hood as he spoke at Yeshiva University’s
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DEAD, FOUND, CHARGES, POLICE
More than 40 years after some Vermont children waiting for a school bus discovered a dead baby off the side of the road, state police have announced that they found the infant’s parents and no charges will be filed
NORTHFIELD, Vt. -- More than 40 years after
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BOEING, QUALITY, PLANE, TRUST
Boeing’s top executives delivered a plan to improve quality and safety to the Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday, vowing to address systemic issues that have damaged the company’s reputation and put the aircraft manufacturer at the center of several
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FBI, DOJ, SETTLEMENT, STRZOK
Disgraced “FBI lovebirds” Peter Strzok and Lisa Page have reached a “tentative” settlement with the Department of Justice over the alleged violation of their privacy rights with the release of their disparaging text messages about former President Donald Trump
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PIER, BIDEN, GAZA, ADMITS
America’s Gaza pier broke into pieces. Its story is a microcosm of what’s wrong with the Biden presidency.
Joe Biden declared in his State of the Union address that the US Army would build a pier off of the Gaza coast in order to facilitate the delivery of
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STABBING, ALLEGEDLY, ACTOR, GIRLFRIEND
Hollywood actor Nick Pasqual has been charged with stabbing his estranged girlfriend, professional makeup artist Allie Shehorn, multiple times in her Los Angeles home.
On Wednesday, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office shared a press release detailing
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GDP, GROWTH, REVISED, FIRST
Economic growth slowed more sharply early this year than initially estimated, as consumers eased up on spending amid rising prices and high interest rates.
U.S. gross domestic product, adjusted for inflation, grew at a 1.3 percent annual rate in the first
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UNITED, BUTCHER, NATIONS, TEHRAN
It's past time the United States pulled out of the United Nations, taking along what remains of the free Western nations with it. In the latest outrage coming from the UN, that organization has taken time to pay tribute to the "Butcher of Tehran," former Iranian
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EGYPT, BORDER, RAFAH, GAZA
The White House will host a meeting with U.S., Egyptian, and Israeli officials in Cairo next week to discuss reopening the Rafah crossing and a plan for securing the border between Egypt and Gaza, three U.S. and Israeli officials told Axios.
The trip was arranged
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BED, REPORTS, ENTRAPMENT, MILLION
Medical supply company Medline Industries is recalling some 1.5 million portable adult bed rails across the U.S. and Canada, following two reports of entrapment deaths associated with the products
NEW YORK -- Medical supply company Medline Industries is recalling
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STAR, WACTOR, GENERAL, JOHNNY
The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner has determined the cause of death for General Hospital star Johnny Wactor.
Wactor died in the early morning of May 25 during what appears to be a violent car robbery gone wrong, as Breitbart News reported.
His
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IRAN, SHIP, HOUTHIS, GRAIN
The Laax, a Greek-owned, Marshall Islands-flagged bulk carrier that came under attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels earlier this week had a cargo of grain bound for Iran.
As shipping through the Red Sea has dropped during the months of Houthi attacks, the rebels
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THOUSANDS, CLERK, COMPLAINT, MURDAUGH
Former South Carolina court clerk Becky Hill, who presided over the Alex Murdaugh murder trial, is facing 76 counts of misconduct, according to the State Ethics Commission.
Hill is accused of using her official position as Colleton County clerk for financial
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