Emerging Topics in U.S. News
SATURDAY, AUGUST 24th 2024
Updated 23:59 ET
22 articles
RFK, TRUMP, JR, ENDORSEMENT
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to suspend his presidential campaign and endorse former President Donald J. Trump was — depending on where on the political spectrum the coverage came from — treated with either outright glee — or derision. Conservative sites
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HARRIS, KAMALA, TRUMP, PRESS
“I’ve been told to say” the nomination process for Vice President Kamala Harris was “a very open process, a very inclusive process,” Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) admitted Friday on a far-left podcast.
The so-called “democratic” party did not go through a democratic
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STARLINER, ASTRONAUTS, NASA, SPACE
NASA will bring stranded astronauts back on SpaceX — not Boeing's Starliner NASA had been weighing whether it would be safe enough to return two astronauts to Earth on Boeing's Starliner.
Space NASA will bring stranded astronauts back on SpaceX — not Boeing's
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GERMAN, ATTACK, FESTIVAL, ARRESTED
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the deadly stabbing spree at a festival in Germany on Friday that left three people dead and eight others injured.
The group said the attacker targeted Christians and was a "soldier of the Islamic State" who
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NILE, FAUCI, VIRUS, WEST
The longtime public health official is expected to make a full recovery.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was hospitalized with a case of West Nile virus and is now recovering at home, a spokesperson
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MANSLAUGHTER, SINKING, OPEN, ITALIAN
Prosecutors in Italy said Saturday they have opened an investigation into shipwreck and manslaughter after a superyacht capsized during a storm off the coast of Sicily, killing seven people onboard.
Termini Imerese prosecutor Ambrogio Cartosio confirmed the
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INDEPENDENCE, RUSSIA, DAY, UKRAINE
KYIV, Ukraine -- A somber atmosphere pervades Ukraine's 33rd Independence Day Saturday, as the nation’s war against Russia’s aggression reaches a 30-month milestone. No fireworks, parades or concerts are planned and instead Ukrainians will mark the day with
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SYNAGOGUE, ATTACK, FRENCH, TERRORIST
About 200 police officers hunted on Saturday for a man who tried to set fire to a synagogue in the southern French city of La Grande-Motte, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said, adding that authorities would be ruthless with antisemitism.
A police officer was
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PLAYERS, CHARGERS, ELEVATOR, STUCK
Several Los Angeles Chargers players and other members of the travelling party crawled through a ceiling panel to escape a stuck hotel elevator Friday night
By The Associated Press
DALLAS -- Several Los Angeles Chargers players and other members of the travelling
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GUN, WIELDING, VIDEO, TEXAS
A concerned homeowner in Texas took up arms and fended off a machete-wielding man who attempted to enter his home.
Darryl Stevens' home surveillance camera captured the moment a machete-wielding intruder approached the family's Liberty Hill home just north
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BLASTING, DARTH, VADER, GERMAN
On Monday, a German warship, the "Braunschweig," a corvette (more or less what our Navy calls a frigate) sailed up the River Thames through London. And, as some warship captains are known to do, the Braunschweig's commander announced his visit with loud music
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APP, TELEGRAM, ARRESTED, FOUNDER
There are scant details on this story that broke late Saturday evening, but we'll share what's been reported on the founder and CEO of messaging app Telegram, Pavel Durov, getting taken into custody at a French airport by government officials, on an arrest
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UNION, RAILROADS, COMPLY, DECISION
Arbitration hearing between Canadian railroads and union ends with no decision
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TORONTO — A workers union on Friday threatened a strike at one of Canada’s two major freight railroads, only hours after the
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HARRIS, LL, INFLATION, YEARS
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “José Díaz-Balart Reports,” Harris-Walz Campaign Principal Deputy Campaign Manager Quentin Fulks responded to questions on why 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris hasn’t implemented the solutions
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SWING, WINNING, DEMOCRATS, RURAL
Georgia delegate on what it'll take for the Democratic Party to win the swing state Georgia Congresswoman Nikema Williams talks to NPR's Scott Simon about the significance of the swing state and what, she thinks, it will take to keep Georgia "blue" in 2024.
Politics
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JAMES, CENTERS, AG, PREGNANCY
A federal judge this week issued New York Attorney General Letitia James a preliminary injunction that bars her from taking action against pregnancy clinics on the grounds it would restrict free speech.
"In sum, on this record, Plaintiffs have standing," Judge
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NAVAJO, MINE, RAISING, REOPENED
Navajo, Arizona attorney general question safety of newly reopened uranium mine
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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Uranium mining in the U.S. is picking up after the nuclear fuel’s price hit a 16-year high earlier this year. But now that
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13, CAROLINA, SOUTH, YEARS
South Carolina will carry out its first execution in more than 13 years next month following struggles to obtain lethal injection drugs.
Freddie Eugene Owens, 46, is scheduled to be executed on Sept. 20 for the 1997 killing of store clerk Irene Graves during
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COVERAGE, SANDERS, DEION, REPORTERS
Colorado football head coach Deion Sanders had a tense exchange with a reporter during media day on Aug. 9. Sanders made it clear that he was not fond of some of Denver Post columnist Sean Keeler's coverage of him and the Buffaloes football program in the past.
"You
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FRANCISCO, SAN, ELON, MUSK
San Francisco’s long relationship with X is nearly over — and city officials are far from heartbroken.
Elon Musk is shuttering his social media company’s headquarters in a gritty downtown neighborhood in the coming weeks and will move its last employees based
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VINCI, TEACHER, GENDER, CLASH
A Colorado state representative is pushing back at her 15-year-old son's high school history teacher for suggesting that the artist Leonardo da Vinci was "gender fluid" and that his painting of the Mona Lisa was a self-portrait.
"My 15-year-old’s HISTORY teacher
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CEASE, TALKS, FIRE, HAMAS
Officials in Gaza say at least three dozen Palestinians were killed in multiple Israeli strikes as preparations moved ahead for high-level cease-fire talks in the Egyptian capital
CAIRO -- At least three dozen Palestinians were killed in multiple Israeli strikes
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VIRUS, MASSACHUSETTS, TOWNS, INFECTION
Four towns in Massachusetts have issued a voluntary evening curfew to protect residents from the potentially deadly Eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, following the state's first confirmed human case since 2020, according to the New York Post.
Officials
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STEWART, HYPOCRISY, DNC, BLASTS
On Thursday’s edition of Comedy Central’s “Daily Show,” host Jon Stewart stated that the DNC had “a display of the breadth and width of this diverse, often contradictory party of Roosevelt.”
During a monologue, Stewart said, “But credit where credit is due,
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