Emerging Topics in U.S. News
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14th 2024
Updated 23:59 ET
30 articles
HARRIS, BIDEN, CAMPAIGN, PRESS
Harris’ presidential campaign was met with enthusiasm. When will the honeymoon end? Vice President Harris has had a three week launch to her campaign that most candidates can only dream of. Campaign veterans, however, say this honeymoon will inevitably end.
Politics
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TRUMP, HARRIS, POLL, ECONOMY
A senior political data reporter argued that if Vice President Kamala Harris keeps gaining ground with the non-college-educated White voters of Trump’s base, she will likely win the election.
CNN’s Harry Enten shared a clip of his appearance on CNN to the
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TRUMP, HARRIS, KAMALA, ENERGY
A hacking group associated with Iran targeted the personal email accounts of "roughly a dozen" people associated with the Trump and Biden campaigns, including current and former U.S. government officials, according to a Google report released on Wednesday.
"In
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WALZ, VANCE, DEBATE, TIM
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” 2024 Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) that he hopes to and “strongly” suspects that he will debate his Democratic counterpart, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) on October
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INFLATION, JULY, CUT, RATE
Annual inflation cooled more than expected last month, to 2.9 percent, according to a Consumer Price Index report released today. It was the first time that the inflation gauge had dropped below 3 percent since 2021.
“On a practical level, there’s no meaningful
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COLUMBIA, PRESIDENT, UNIVERSITY, RESIGNS
After months of controversy and a noticeable anti-semitic problem on her campus, Columbia University president Minouche Shafik has reportedly resigned from her position.
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Shafik had been the center of a brewing controversy at the elite university.
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ISRAEL, FIRE, HAMAS, GAZA
Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip has lasted more than 10 months, with only one weeklong pause in fighting, in late November. That temporary cease-fire led to the return of 50 Israeli hostages captured during the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel in
Continued at New York Times...
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MPOX, EMERGENCY, DECLARES, HEALTH
The World Health Organization has declared the mpox outbreaks in Congo and elsewhere in Africa a global emergency, with cases confirmed among children and adults in more than a dozen countries and a new form of the virus spreading. Few vaccine doses are available
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ABORTION, BALLOT, NOVEMBER, STATES
An informational pamphlet for Arizona voters who will decide in the fall whether to guarantee a constitutional right to an abortion can refer to a fetus as an “unborn human being,” the state's highest court ruled Wednesday.
Arizona voters will get to decide
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RUSSIA, UKRAINE, TROOPS, INCURSION
Ukraine attacks a second region in Western Russia, prompting a state of emergency Ukrainian forces attack a second border region in western Russia, where the governor declares a state of emergency. Ukraine also targets air bases in at least a half-dozen regions.
World
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HARRIS, BORDER, KAMALA, REP
Migrants beginning their journey to the U.S.-Mexico border on a highway in El Salvador in 2019.
Donald Trump, JD Vance and other Republicans incessantly disparage Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris as the Biden administration’s “failed border czar.”
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WALZ, TIM, RECORD, RETIRED
A group of more than 1,000 veterans and military family members signed an open letter sent this week criticizing former President Donald Trump and Ohio Republican Sen. J.D. Vance over their attacks on Gov. Tim Walz’s military service record, USA Today reported.
Vance
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CAMPAIGN, TRUMP, OFFICE, BREAK
Most media may play along with Kamala Harris’ blatant border lies, but not everyone is so willing to cover for her.
On Tuesday, Tulare County, Calif., Sheriff Mike Boudreaux blasted Harris for using his likeness, without his permission, in an ad claiming she
Continued at New York Post...
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OLYMPIC, BOXER, HARASSMENT, NAMED
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who is alleged to have male XY chromosomes and who competed against women to win gold at the Paris Olympics, has filed a criminal complaint to French authorities claiming that author J.K. Rowling and tech billionaire Elon Musk participated
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WINS, ILHAN, OMAR, PRIMARY
'Squad' member Ilhan Omar holds off primary challenge
It was one of several primary races on Tuesday in Connecticut, Wisconsin, Vermont and Minnesota.
The race had been closely watched after successful primary challengers took down two fellow members of the
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NATIONAL, PARK, INJURES, HEAT
A lightning strike has injured two tourists who were standing near the rim of the iconic Horseshoe Bend in Arizona’s Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, the National Park Service says.
The incident happened on Monday around 4 p.m. and involved two women
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ERNESTO, PUERTO, RICO, HURRICANE
Hurricane Ernesto left hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans without power on Wednesday as its wind and rain pelted the island’s frail electrical system.
More than 630,000 customers had lost electricity as of 11 a.m., the Puerto Rico government reported.
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PRINGLES, MARS, MAKER, BUY
The deal marks the biggest buyout in the packaged food industry.
As more consumers reach for generic labels to save on money groceries, M &M's maker Mars is spending big bucks on a new acquisition to gain even more shelf space in the snack aisle.
The candy
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ASTRONAUTS, STARLINER, NASA, SPACE
How NASA will bring astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore home remains uncertain as they continue their extended stay on the International Space Station (ISS) due to ongoing issues with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. Despite the uncertainty, the pair
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ROWLANDS, GENA, 94, ACTRESS
Gena Rowlands, the intense, elegant dramatic actress who, often in collaboration with her husband, John Cassavetes, starred in a series of introspective independent films, has died. She was 94.
The death was confirmed by the office of Daniel Greenberg, a representative
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TRUMP, JUDGE, BID, LOSES
An exasperated Judge Juan Merchan, in a scathing order released Wednesday morning, denied former President Donald Trump's third attempt to kick the judge off his New York criminal hush money case based on an alleged conflict of interest.
"Stated plainly, Defendant's
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HARRIS, GOOGLE, ADS, HEADLINES
In a damning sign of the fundamental fakery of Kamala Harris’ candidacy, it turns out her campaign has been rewriting news headlines in Google search results to make her look better.
Yes, the media’s been pulling for her so hard that you could ask: How on
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TALIBAN, YEARS, AFGHANS, PARADES
The Taliban terrorist organization celebrated the third anniversary of President Joe Biden facilitating its return to power in Afghanistan on Wednesday, hosting a large military parade on the former U.S. air base site at Bagram featuring U.S.-made equipment
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TRUMP, TEAMSTERS, UNION, PRESIDENT
Trump to tout economic plan after union rights row
The stop in Asheville, North Carolina, is the second rally for Trump in two weeks, marking a slower pace for the former president's campaign.
The United Automobile Workers (UAW) union has since filed charges
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