Emerging Topics in U.S. News
FRIDAY, AUGUST 23rd 2024
Updated 23:59 ET
162 articles
HARRIS, TRUMP, KAMALA, RFK
Thursday night, Kamala Harris took the stage in a blue pantsuit to accept her party's nomination for President of the United States. The excited audience kept chanting "Kamala" and "USA"; she thanked them and said, "We got to get to some business! Thank you
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SECRET, SERVICE, TRUMP, LEAVE
The Secret Service has assigned five agents to administrative duties as a result of its investigation into the failures that led to the assassination attempt on former President Donald J. Trump on July 13, according to two people familiar with the situation.
This
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FED, POWELL, TIME, INTEREST
The September Rate Cut Is Now Locked In
Jerome Powell’s Jackson Hole speech on Friday leaves little doubt that a rate cut is coming in September.
It’s very unusual for the Fed chairman to telegraph moves in monetary policy so clearly at Jackson Hole. Typically,
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RENTS, SOFTWARE, REALPAGE, ACCUSES
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks to reporters during a brief news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, U.S., May 4, 2023.
The Department of Justice and eight states on Friday accused software company RealPage of unlawfully scheming
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BODY, YACHT, SICILY, SUNKEN
Investigators in the superyacht sinking off the coast of Sicily that left seven people dead earlier this week are considering manslaughter charges in the case, judicial sources told Reuters.
The public prosecutor's office of Termini Imerese in Sicily is investigating
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16, BIDEN, AMNESTY, SUE
Attorneys General from Texas, Idaho, and 14 other states filed suit against the Biden-Harris administration on Friday over a new policy that would allow 1 million illegal immigrants a pathway to citizenship without having to first leave the United States.
America
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HARRIS, NEWSOM, GAVIN, POLICY
California Gov. Gavin Newsom appeared to take a thinly-veiled swipe at the Democrats' political maneuvers, saying their process of choosing a candidate was "very inclusive."
Since Vice President Kamala Harris replaced President Joe Biden at the top of the
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BORDER, EGYPT, GAZA, ISRAEL
For all the focus on an Israel-Hamas deal to reach a ceasefire, not enough attention gets paid to a powerful and essential third party: Egypt.
Israel needs to police Egypt’s border with Gaza, the so-called Philadelphi Corridor; otherwise, an endless flow of
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PRISON, RUSSIAN, HOSTAGE, ISLAMIST
Russian news reports say inmates at a prison in the country have taken guards as hostages and have claimed allegiance to the Islamic State group, leaving at least four people injured
MOSCOW -- Inmates at a Russian prison took guards as hostages and claimed
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TRUMP, BRITTANY, MAHOMES, HATERS
The wife of Kansas City Chiefs star quarterback Patrick Mahomes is hitting back at detractors who blasted her for apparently "liking" a social media post by former President Donald Trump, the Daily Mail reported.
The post was an Aug. 13 Instagram entry outlining
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FESTIVAL, PEOPLE, GERMANY, KILLED
Knife attack at a German festival leaves 3 people dead, police say
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SOLINGEN, Germany — An attacker with a knife killed three people and seriously wounded at least five late Friday at a festival in the western German city of
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HOUSE, ALASKA, RACE, DAHLSTROM
Only days after the results of the Alaska primary became apparent, and only hours after the Alaska Supreme Court upheld the repeal of ranked-choice voting (RCV), with Democrat Rep. Mary Peltola holding the lead ahead of Republicans Nick Begich III and Lieutenant
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GUS, WALZ, SON, TIM
Gus Walz reacting to his father’s speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Wednesday.
The Democratic National Convention had many high points: Michelle Obama’s instantly classic definition of Trumpian entitlement, “the affirmative action
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MODI, UKRAINE, ARRIVES, MEETS
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelenksyy on a historic visit to Kyiv on Friday, where he is pushing for a solution to end more than two years of war with Russia.
Modi embraced Zelenskyy — who looked visibly emotional — at
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GUN, BAN, BENCH, MARYLAND
Two major Second Amendment groups called on the Supreme Court to hear a case challenging Maryland’s stringent "Assault Weapons Ban of 2013," after a lower court ruled the ban constitutional.
The Firearms Policy Coalition filed a petition to the high bench
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MURDER, READ, DISMISS, KAREN
A Massachusetts judge has ruled that Karen Read can be re-tried for murder and leaving the scene where her Boston police officer boyfriend died
DEDHAM, Mass. -- A judge ruled that Karen Read can be retried for murder and leaving the crime scene in the death
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DEPUTY, FORTSON, ROGER, MANSLAUGHTER
The ex-Florida deputy who killed Roger Fortson has been charged with manslaughter
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The Florida sheriff’s deputy who shot and killed senior U.S. airman Roger Fortson in his home in May has been charged with manslaughter,
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DEATH, OFFICER, NICHOLS, PLEA
Emmitt Martin III pleaded guilty to two of the four charges.
A second former Memphis police officer federally charged in connection with the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols has pleaded guilty, weeks before the trial is set to begin, court filings show.
Emmitt
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TESLA, CALIFORNIA, FREEWAY, BIG
A Tesla semi-truck’s battery pack caught fire on California’s Interstate 80 near Emigrant Gap in the Sierra Nevada mountains this week, prompting a hazardous materials response and causing a full closure of the freeway for more than half a day. California firefighters
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KEYNOTE, NEWS, TRUMP, HARRIS
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‘RADICAL MARXIST’ – Trump responds to VP Harris' keynote DNC speech by pointing
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SHUT, PILOT, FORMER, ENGINES
Former Alaska Airlines pilot who tried to shut down engines in-flight shares his story
Joseph Emerson, a former Alaska Airlines pilot, calls it the biggest mistake of his life.
Emerson was inside an Alaska Airlines cockpit last October when he raised his
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POLICE, TOSSING, OVERDOSE, DEATH
A Maryland police officer has been convicted of charges that he joined a mob’s Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and hurled a smoke bomb and other objects at police officers guarding a tunnel entrance
WASHINGTON -- A Maryland police officer was convicted
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RUSSIA, UKRAINIAN, CNN, AHEAD
As Ukrainian forces fight to isolate a large group of Russian soldiers caught between a river in Russia’s Kursk Province and the Ukrainian border, Kyiv has launched a series of strikes at airfields, ports and oil depots in Russia aimed at degrading the Kremlin’s
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COMPETE, SPRINTER, WOMAN, ITALIAN
Tennis great Martina Navratilova slammed Italian sprinter Valentina Petrillo as a "pathetic cheater" as the 50-year-old athlete is set to become the first transgender woman to compete in the Paralympics next week.
Navratilova, an outspoken supporter of protecting
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