Emerging Topics in U.S. News
SATURDAY, AUGUST 10th 2024
Updated 23:59 ET
35 articles
HARRIS, TRUMP, KAMALA, CAMPAIGN
U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks with members of the media before boarding Air Force Two at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Romulus, Michigan, U.S., August 7, 2024.
Vice President Kamala Harris on
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GOLD, MEDAL, OLYMPIC, WIN
Team USA dominated the women’s 4x400-meter relay to win another gold medal at the Paris Olympics on Saturday night.
Shamier Little, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Gabby Thomas and Alexis Holmes set an American record with a time of 3:15.27. The Netherlands finished
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WOJCICKI, YOUTUBE, 56, FORMER
Susan Wojcicki, who helped turn Google from a start-up in her garage into an internet juggernaut and became one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent female executives with her leadership of YouTube, has died.
Her death was confirmed by her husband, Dennis Troper,
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CAMPAIGN, TRUMP, HACKED, FOREIGN
The Trump campaign has acknowledged that at least one of its senior staff had their email hacked, and the product of the hack was sent to Politico.
The campaign blamed “foreign sources hostile to the United States,” citing a Microsoft report on Friday that
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UVALDE, UNCLE, GUNMAN, SHOOTING
DALLAS -- The uncle of the Uvalde, Texas, school shooter who killed 19 students and two teachers begged police to let him try to talk his nephew down, according to a 911 call included in a massive trove of audio and video recordings released by city officials
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BROWN, MICHAEL, DEATH, FERGUSON
A Ferguson, Missouri, police officer was critically injured outside the city's police station during protests on the 10th anniversary of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, a pivotal moment in the national Black Lives Matter movement, police said Saturday.
Ferguson
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WALZ, RECORD, MILITARY, CLAIMS
The former chaplain of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s (D) National Guard unit described him as “cowardly” for retiring and leaving his unit right before a possible deployment.
In an interview with the New York Post, retired Capt. Corey Bjertness explained that
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GAZA, KILLS, SCHOOL, ISRAELI
Israeli forces struck another school in Gaza, killing at least 80 people An Israeli strike on a school in Gaza killed at least 80 people, according to Palestinian health officials. Israel says it hit a Hamas command center.
Middle East Israeli forces struck
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RUSSIA, UKRAINE, TERROR, COUNTER
Earlier this week, reports began filtering in that Ukrainian forces had entered Russia’s Kursk province, in what many analysts assumed was a small cross-border raid—of a sort that Ukraine has attempted a few times since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022.
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TRUMP, KEILAR, JD, CNN
JD Vance 'absolutely' sure Trump thinks he could be president if needed
Sen. JD Vance affirmed former President Donald Trump's assertion that the vice presidential pick doesn't matter to the vast majority of voters. However, Vance stressed he's "absolutely"
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TIM, WALZ, GEORGE, RIOTS
It is not just Republicans who are raising criticisms of the way Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) handled the George Floyd riots in his state.
CNN spoke to a woman who lived in Minneapolis at the time — a Democrat — who described it as “very scary.”
“I do have
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DOUBLE, COLLAPSES, ARCH, AREA
A popular double arch that hung over the turquoise waters of Lake Powell in Utah’s portion of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area collapsed on Thursday, officials said.
The National Park Service confirmed the collapse in a statement on Friday, noting that
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PUBLIC, LA, TRANSIT, OLYMPIC
Los Angeles, a city famous for its passionate car culture and notorious for its traffic, will strongly emphasize the use of public transportation when it hosts the Olympic Games in 2028, L.A. Mayor Karen Bass said Saturday.
L.A. is the birthplace of the modern
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TRUMP, ASSASSINATION, SECRET, ATTEMPT
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is calling on the Secret Service to explain a Butler police officer's claims that the agency met local law enforcement days before the attempted assassination attempt on former President Trump. The officer says in newly released
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MADURO, PROTESTORS, SOCIAL, CLINGING
Nicolas Maduro's government is openly cracking down on protestors on social media Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro is using social media to crack down on government opponents and glorify security forces.
The Americas Nicolas Maduro's government is openly
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WINS, AMERICAN, MASAI, GOLD
American Masai Russell wins Olympic gold in 100m hurdles by a 100th of a second
toggle caption Petr David Josek/AP
SAINT-DENIS, France — Masai Russell bolted down the track, legs scissoring gracefully as she cleared the ten hurdles that separated her from
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VP, BIG, YEAR, GOV
Teachers’ unions rejoiced this week when Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris announced Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, describing the left-wing ticket as a major win for public educators.
But critics are warning that
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PTSD, FDA, PSYCHEDELIC, REJECTS
Federal health regulators on Friday declined to approve the psychedelic drug MDMA as a therapy for PTSD, a major setback for groups seeking a breakthrough decision in favor of using mind-altering substances to treat serious mental health conditions.
Drugmaker
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BLACK, BORDERLANDS, JACK, EARNS
Despite an all-star cast that includes Kevin Hart and Oscar winners Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis, Jack Black’s Borderlands took a dive at the box office with an opening weekend take that will be lucky to top $10 million.
Borderlands is also a popular
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CHILES, BRONZE, JORDAN, MEDAL
U.S. gymnast Jordan Chiles may have to return Olympic bronze medal after ruling
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NPR is in Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics. For more of our coverage from the Games head to our latest updates.
PARIS — An independent arbitration
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OLYMPICS, JENNINGS, MONICA, WALSH
While all eyes are looking on at Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics, Kerri Walsh Jennings can't wait for what's to come four years from now in a place that helped her becomde the beach volleyball legend she is today.
The five-time Olympian and three-time gold
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FINALLY, DEBBY, MOVES, RIVERS
The sun came out but the power stayed off in more than 100,000 homes and businesses across four states Saturday as Debby finally moved out of the U.S.
After first arriving in Florida as a hurricane, the storm spent the better part of a week unleashing tornadoes
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MARATHON, INVENTED, MODERN, OLYMPICS
The Paris Olympics’ picturesque marathon course will take runners past many of the city’s highlights—the Palace of Versailles, the Louvre’s glass pyramid, the Eiffel Tower. But it will miss, by miles, a plain one-block street in the 13th arrondissement named
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HOMELESS, ENCAMPMENTS, CALIFORNIA, BILLIONS
California Governor threatens funding cuts for counties that don't remove homeless encampments California Governor Gavin Newsom has threatened local county governments with funding cuts if they don't do enough to get people off the street. He recently passed
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