Emerging Topics in U.S. News
FRIDAY, JULY 19th 2024
Updated 23:59 ET
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TRUMP, SPEECH, RNC, ATTEMPT
Five days after a gunman tried to assassinate him at a political rally, former President Donald J. Trump on Thursday night described his personal experience of the shooting as he formally accepted the Republican Party’s presidential nomination and called on
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BIDEN, DEMOCRATS, CAMPAIGN, HARRIS
The White House denied a report that members of President Joe Biden's family have discussed an exit plan if he decides to end his reelection bid.
NBC News reported Friday that Biden family members were talking about how the president's exit, should it happen,
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GERSHKOVICH, EVAN, YEARS, RUSSIA
Russian court sentences ‘Wall Street Journal’ reporter to 16 years in prison colony Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been sentenced to 16 years for alleged espionage in a trial that his newspaper and the U.S. government calls a sham.
World
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AVIV, TEL, DRONE, ISRAEL
One person was killed and seven wounded in the early hours of Friday morning in Tel Aviv, Israel, as the result of what the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) called an “aerial target” — possibly a drone — that was undetected by defenses.
It is not clear who launched
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SECRET, SERVICE, TRUMP, HAWLEY
The Secret Service Follies continue, with whistleblowers telling Congress that the agency was stretched too thin after President Biden’s NATO summit to adequately protect former President Donald Trump on July 13.
At a July 8 meeting with the FBI, Secret Service
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WEINSTEIN, HARVEY, SET, NOVEMBER
Harvey Weinstein's rape retrial will begin on Nov. 12.
The judge tentatively set the date after Weinstein appeared in a Manhattan courtroom Friday.
The disgraced film producer wore a blue suit and tie with an American flag pin.
Weinstein's pretrial hearing
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COURT, ISRAEL, RULING, SETTLEMENTS
The United Nation’s top court filed a ruling Friday that echoed what Palestinian advocates have been saying for decades: Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land, including its settlements in the West Bank, is illegal and must end.
The International Court of
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WNBA, BASKETBALL, TRAINER, CAITLIN
An WNBA All-Star Game practice turned into a friendly competition among the top players in the league, including Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark.
Reese and Clark were at the Footprint Center with the rest of the All-Stars to practice a day before their game
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FOX, NEWS, CNN, RATINGS
A country singer explains what went wrong with her widely panned national anthem performance, and tech mogul Elon Musk is jetting on out of California for good.
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WORLDWIDE, WIDESPREAD, BANKS, MICROSOFT
An outage has hit computers around the world, affecting airlines, hospitals, retailers and other businesses. Adding to the confusion is that there have been two issues involving Microsoft systems in quick succession, and some users may be affected by both of
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RNC, JOURNALIST, EVAN, NPR
Russia jails US journalist Gershkovich on spying charges
It marks the first conviction of a US journalist for espionage in Russia since the Cold War ended more than 30 years ago.
Prosecutors accused him of working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),
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HOGAN, HULK, RNC, RUN
Hulk Hogan tore off his shirt to reveal a Trump-Vance muscle tank underneath during his speech Thursday night at the Republican National Convention.
Hulk Hogan’s wrestling days may be behind him, but the all-American persona he brought to the ring is going
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TRONG, COMMUNIST, LEADER, VIETNAM
Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party and the country’s most powerful politician, has died following months of ill health
HANOI, Vietnam -- Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party and the country’s
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TRUMP, SHOT, MILLION, REASON
The shot that killed the man who attempted to assassinate former President Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last Saturday was a "one-in-a-million shot," according to a source familiar with the investigation into the shooting.
Fox News learned from
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OBAMA, 2008, CONVENTION, VAN
Remember when (disgraced) former CNN host Chris Matthews talked about the "thrill up my leg" he felt after watching a speech by Barack Obama in the leadup to the 2008 election? Although that Barry speech was before the Democrat National Convention that year,
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SECRETARY, STATE, CEASEFIRE, DEAL
Secretary of State Antony Blinken used the occasion of an interview at the Aspen Security Forum to announce that Iran “is now probably one or two weeks” away from having enough fissile material to construct a nuclear weapon. The real news is that Iran may already
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BEN, SASSE, FLORIDA, PRESIDENT
Yesterday, Ben Sasse resigned from his post as the University of Florida’s (UF) president. He explained that his wife Melissa was recently diagnosed with epilepsy, and that he wanted to dedicate as much time as possible to her and his family. “Gator Nation
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STUDENT, COURT, APPEALS, BIDEN
Despite repeated repudiations by courts, Joe Biden has continued to try to buy votes by unilaterally forgiving student loans, in effect taking the burden off the borrower and putting it in on the American taxpayer.
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On Thursday, however, yet
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BIDEN, CAMPAIGN, STAFF, BURYING
Biden-Harris campaign chair Jen O'Malley Dillon cautioned staff to avoid watching cable news in order to prevent further demoralization among her team.
As the daily calls, both publicly and privately, for President Biden to drop out of the presidential race
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CUT, BRITISH, WOODS, TIGER
TROON, Scotland (AP) — Tiger Woods tied a personal record in the British Open on Friday, one he could have done without but perhaps should come to expect.
Woods matched his highest 36-hole score as a professional — 156 — to miss the cut for the third straight
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78, HIDDEN, DRAGON, TIGER
Cheng Pei-pei, a Chinese-born martial arts film actor who starred in Ang Lee’s “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” has died at age 78
HONG KONG -- Cheng Pei-pei, a Chinese-born martial arts film actor who starred in Ang Lee’s "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,”
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DALLAS, HISTORIC, CHURCH, SMOKE
"To our knowledge, no one is hurt or injured," a pastor at the church said.
Firefighters are battling a major fire that broke out at a historic Baptist church in Dallas.
First Baptist Dallas is a Baptist church located in Dallas, Texas that dates back to
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OUTAGE, BUSINESS, UPDATE, GLOBAL
Some of the headaches and logjams caused by the global IT outage people have been suffering through on Friday have mercifully started to ease as we move into the evening hours. But as my colleague Streiff reported this morning, it was something of a mess for
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RANGE, LONG, UK, MISSILES
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed British government ministers on Friday, a rare appearance by a foreign leader at a cabinet meeting that new Prime Minister Keir Starmer hopes will underline London's support for Kyiv.
A day after hosting a
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