Emerging Topics in U.S. News
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4th 2024
Updated 23:59 ET
106 articles
TRUMP, HARRIS, KAMALA, POLL
Lower-income voters are supporting Democrat nominee Kamala Harris by 23 percentage points over her GOP rival, Donald Trump, according to the results of the most recent USA Today/Suffolk University poll.
The poll, conducted of 1,000 voters from Aug. 25-28,
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SCHOOL, GEORGIA, SHOOTING, HIGH
The 14-year-old suspect was a student at the school and is in custody.
Georgia high school shooting: What we know about the 4 victims
A Georgia community is in mourning after two students and two teachers were killed in a shooting at Apalachee High School
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ELECTION, RUSSIA, ACCUSE, 2024
When I was four years old, I would regularly insist my father check my bedroom closet for booger-men or other perilous creatures before I went to sleep. In a very similar uninformed, paranoid reaction, the Biden administration is once more accusing Tsar Vladimir
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NETANYAHU, GAZA, CORRIDOR, FIRE
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has vowed to maintain an Israeli military presence in a narrow strip of Gaza along the border with Egypt, one of the main sticking points in the talks over a cease-fire deal in the war. Mr. Netanyahu has called the
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AIDE, HOCHUL, ACCUSED, WORKING
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said she remains "confident" in the state's employee vetting program after her former aide was recently arrested and accused of acting on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party .
Hochul addressed reporters Wednesday, a day after Linda
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UKRAINE, FOREIGN, MINISTER, LVIV
Ukraine's foreign minister submits resignation as Russian strikes kill 7 in Lviv
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KYIV, Ukraine — Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, one of Ukraine's most recognizable faces on the international stage, submitted his resignation
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NAVY, COMMANDER, RELIEVED, PHOTO
Navy commander relieved of duty after photo showed him firing rifle with scope backward
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SAN DIEGO — The commander of a Navy destroyer that’s helping protect the San Diego-based aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt
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MUSK, ELON, CONTENT, BLOCK
In a significant victory for Elon Musk’s social media platform X, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has partially blocked a California law that mandates social media companies to disclose their policies for addressing
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MINOR, QUEEN, STROKE, BRIAN
Brian May is in good spirits after suffering a minor stroke last week.
The Queen guitarist took to Instagram to provide a health update and detailed his hospitalization.
"I’m here to bring you first of all some good news — the good news is that I can play
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GOP, JOHNSON, SCHUMER, GOVERNMENT
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., does not appear to be budging on a recent demand from conservative Republicans to include a Trump-backed voting bill in a must-pass stopgap spending bill at the end of the month.
"As we have said each time we’ve had a
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HARRIS, CAPITAL, GAINS, PROPOSAL
Vice President Kamala Harris boards Air Force Two at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on September 4, 2024.
Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday proposed a 28% tax on long-term capital gains for households with an annual income of $1 million or more, lower
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VENEZUELA, SAILOR, DETAINED, REPORTS
Sailor was reportedly detained "on or about" Aug. 30 while on personal travel.
Pentagon looking into reports of US sailor being detained in Venezuela: US defense official
The Pentagon is aware of reports Wednesday that an American service member was recently
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JACKSON, KETANJI, BROWN, OFFICES
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson shares the poem she's kept in every one of her offices
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In every office she's ever had, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has kept a copy of Henry Wadsworth
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NEW, YORK, DON, CITY
One grim impact of the Harris-Biden migrant crisis was invisible to most New Yorkers until Tuesday’s Post exclusive blew it wide open: “Asylum seeking” criminals are clogging the city’s courts.
Adding insult to injury, Mayor Adams admits that criminal charges
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WHITE, GAME, SOX, DROP
Three-time MLB All-Star and current Chicago White Sox TV analyst Ozzie Guillén did not mince words when talking about umpire Hunter Wendelstedt.
Wendelstedt threw out White Sox interim manager Grady Sizemore in the sixth inning of a 9-0 White Sox loss to the
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SHOOTING, SAN, FRANCISCO, 49ERS
In broad daylight, the first-round draft pick of the San Francisco 49ers was shot in the chest Saturday afternoon by a teenage thief, and the star’s first words were “Am I gonna die?” Wide receiver Ricky Pearsall had been walking alone on a sidewalk near Union
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HAWLEY, WHISTLEBLOWERS, SECRET, UNPREPARED
Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri appeared on Fox News’ "Jesse Watters Primetime" and delivered some bombshell news: whistleblowers have told him that the Secret Service is “woefully unprepared” to protect candidates, and they’re taught by webinars
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WALZ, FRAUD, NONPROFIT, TIM
House Republicans sent a subpoena to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Vice President Kamala Harris' 2024 running mate, over his administration's handling of taxpayer funds during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The subpoenas, sent by the House Education and Workforce Committee,
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DAM, SHAME, ARGUMENT, GREEN
Instead of using fossil fuels, we're told to use "clean" energy: wind, solar or hydropower.
Hydro is the most reliable. Unlike wind and sunlight, it flows steadily.
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But now, environmental groups want to destroy dams that create hydro power.
"Breach
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KELCE, FEELS, LEADER, 12TH
Travis Kelce is not getting any younger.
When the Kansas City Chiefs take on the Baltimore Ravens on Thursday night, Kelce will officially be commencing his 12th NFL season.
His brother, Jason Kelce, asked him how he felt coming out of training camp on a
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ARRESTED, THUNBERG, GRETA, PROTEST
Youth climate radical Greta Thunberg continues to branch out into other areas of leftist politics, and has been arrested at the University of Copenhagen on a Palestine demonstration.
Around 20 people blockaded the University of Copenhagen on Wednesday morning,
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OPENINGS, FALL, JOB, YEAR
U.S. job openings dropped to a 3-1/2-year low in July, suggesting the labor market was losing steam, but probably not enough for the Federal Reserve to consider a big interest rate cut this month.
Job openings, a measure of labor demand, had fallen by 237,000
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NEW, BEAST, AMERICA, CULT
FIRST ON FOX – Vice President Kamala Harris recently hired a director on her campaign who has attacked swaths of White Christians and claimed that America is an imperial "cult" and "bloodthirsty… beast."
Progressive Rev. Jennifer Butler was brought on to court
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SUES, TEXAS, REGISTRATION, VOTER
Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas went to court on Wednesday to try to stop county leaders in San Antonio from sending out more than 200,000 voter registration applications to unregistered residents of Bexar County.
The lawsuit by Mr. Paxton followed a
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