Emerging Topics in U.S. News
FRIDAY, AUGUST 9th 2024
Updated 23:59 ET
48 articles
HARRIS, TRUMP, KAMALA, ISRAEL
Fox News' "Antisemitism Exposed" newsletter brings you stories on the rising anti-Jewish prejudice across the U.S. and the world.
IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER:
- JD Vance says Kamala Harris's bypassing of Josh Shapiro shows she's ‘bent the knee’
- Federal judge
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WALZ, TIM, VALOR, STOLEN
Walz and legions of 'dudes' want to give men permission to vote Democrat
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When Vice President Harris introduced her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, to the nation this week, she ran through his biography – dad, military
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GOLD, OLYMPIC, WINS, MEDAL
An Algerian athlete won the Olympic women’s welterweight boxing championship Friday in Paris, a year after she was disqualified from the world championships for failing a gender eligibility test.
Amid a controversy that has overshadowed boxing at the Olympics,
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HARRIS, TRUMP, WALZ, CONFERENCE
Donald Trump’s public events are a challenge for anyone who writes about him. His rallies and press conferences are rich sources of material, fountains of molten weirdness that blurp up stuff that would sink the career of any other politician. By the time they’re
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UKRAINE, RUSSIA, MILITARY, OFFENSIVE
Ukraine has launched a major military operation to stab, grab and hold territory inside Russia.
The move is historic, marking the first time since World War II that the armed forces of a sovereign country have invaded and occupied Russian territory.
6 Ukrainian
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SWIFT, TAYLOR, PLOT, ATTACK
The 18-year-old Iraqi citizen was taken into custody in Vienna Thursday evening.
LONDON -- A third teenager has been arrested in connection with the foiled attack on now-canceled Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna, according to an announcement by Austrian Interior
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TRUMP, ASSASSINATION, ATTEMPT, OFFICER
Bodycam footage from July 13, 2024, captures the sound of sirens screaming following the assassination attempt against Donald Trump and the voice of a Butler, Pennsylvania, officer saying, “I f*cking told [the Secret Service] they need to post a guy f*cking
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MEDIA, TWITTER, MUSK, ELON
A former Twitter board member, Omid Kordestani, sued the social media company owned by Elon Musk on Friday, claiming that the billionaire refused to cash out more than $20 million worth of shares.
Mr. Kordestani, who joined Twitter’s board in 2015 and helped
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BRAZIL, PLANE, CRASHES, 62
A passenger airplane crashed in southeastern Brazil, killing all 61 on board A passenger plane carrying four crew members and 57 passengers crashed in a residential area outside São Paulo. Authorities say there are no survivors of the crash.
The Americas A
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TRUMP, PLANE, DIVERTED, MONTANA
There was a slight hitch in the plans on Friday, as Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump headed to a rally in Bozeman, Montana, according to an official at the Billings airport.
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SMARTMATIC, BRIBERY, SCHEME, ALLEGED
A federal grand jury in Miami has charged the co-founder of Smartmatic, a voting machine maker that is separately suing Fox News for defamation, with paying $1 million in bribe payments to officials in the Philippines.
The indictment announced Thursday by
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NATIONAL, PARK, GRAND, CANYON
German tourists accused of defacing US national park with paintballs
Park rangers said they found several signs in the park defaced with yellow paint
Park rangers then questioned the tourists, who admitted that they had fired paintballs in the park with a
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88, CHI, RODRIGUEZ, DIES
Chi Chi Rodriguez, whose flamboyance on the course and passion for the game of golf transformed him into one of its most popular players through his more than three decades on the pro tours, has died. He was 88.
His death was announced by Carmelo Javier Ríos
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YEARS, JAN, 20, RIOTER
Man sentenced to 20 years for attacking police in Jan. 6 riot at U.S. Capitol
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WASHINGTON — A California man with a history of political violence was sentenced on Friday to 20 years in prison for repeatedly attacking police
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MDMA, PTSD, FDA, TREAT
In what could be a pivotal moment for the future of psychedelic medicine, the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) is weighing a decision to approve MDMA-AT, also known as ecstasy or molly, to treat post-traumatic stress disorder.
The FDA is expected to make a
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LYLES, NOAH, COVID, WON
Noah Lyles, the U.S. 100-meter champion proclaimed by many to be the fastest man in the world, won bronze in the men’s 200-meter race on Wednesday while stricken with COVID, according to reports.
“Noah Lyles confirmed he tested positive for COVID at 5am Tuesday
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FERGUSON, YEARS, 10, BROWN
10 years after Michael Brown’s death, we went to Ferguson to ask: What’s changed?
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Michael Brown graduated from high school eight days before a Ferguson police officer shot and killed him in the street.
The
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HOSPITALS, TEXAS, REPORT, ORDERS
Texas orders hospitals to collect migrant data
Abbott says move will help calculate costs of caring for undocumented migrants
The order is the latest in a series of clashes between the federal government and Mr Abbott, a vocal critic of the Biden administration's
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TRUMP, CASE, GRANTS, EXTENSION
Tanya Chutkan, the district judge in former President Donald Trump's 2020 election interference case, granted an extension Friday after a request from special counsel Jack Smith. The hearing on next steps will be Sept. 5 instead of Aug. 16.
Smith's office
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SHERIFF, DEPUTY, CHARGED, WOMAN
"I will not risk the community that I swore to protect," Sheriff Campbell said.
The sheriff for Illinois' Sangamon County Sheriff's Office, which employed the former deputy charged with fatally shooting Sonya Massey in her home after she called 911 to report
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ARRESTED, PARIS, TRAVIS, SCOTT
French prosecutors say rapper Travis Scott has been arrested at a Paris hotel after an altercation with a security guard
Travis Scott is arrested at a Paris hotel after altercation with a security guard
PARIS -- Rapper Travis Scott was arrested at a Paris
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BORDER, NEW, IMMIGRATION, AD
Lawmakers are shifting some of their focus on border security to the north, aiming to control the growing migration problems along the U.S.-Canada border.
The Senate this summer passed bipartisan legislation with the Northern Border Coordination Act that would
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HUNTER, BIDEN, STEPPING, SEEK
A number of pre-trial motions have been filed in Hunter Biden's federal tax evasion case, scheduled for trial in Los Angeles in early September, over the last week, and they're quite revealing as to what evidence the government will be introducing related to
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JOE, JR, ROGAN, RFK
Joe Rogan said his comments praising Robert F. Kennedy Jr, an independent candidate for president, did not constitute an endorsement.
On Thursday, Rogan, host of "The Joe Rogan Experience" said Kennedy was "the only one that makes sense to me. He's the only
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