Emerging Topics in U.S. News
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5th 2024
Updated 23:59 ET
114 articles
TRUMP, HARRIS, HUNTER, BIDEN
Republican nominee Donald Trump promised Thursday that if he's elected, he'll create a government efficiency commission to root out fraud in the federal government — and confirmed that tech billionaire Elon Musk, who suggested the idea, will lead it.
"Elon,
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SCHOOL, GEORGIA, SHOOTING, HIGH
Details on Georgia school shooting suspect. And, Russian media hired U.S. influencers
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HOMES, NEW, FBI, RAIDS
The FBI raided the homes of two of the top members of New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ (D) administration on Wednesday morning, Politico revealed.
Several sources told the outlet that NYC First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright’s Manhattan townhome and Deputy Mayor
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CHIEFS, RAVENS, SWIFT, TAYLOR
Taylor Swift’s NFL era will reportedly carry on Thursday night when the Kansas City Chiefs take on the Baltimore Ravens to open the 2024 season.
Swift will be there to support her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, and the rest of the team as they start to pursue a
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OLYMPIC, DIES, UGANDAN, BURNED
Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei has died at a Kenyan hospital where she was being treated for burns on 80% of her body from an attack by her partner
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei has died at a Kenyan hospital where she
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SCHUMER, GOP, PROOF, VOTE
It's not hard to figure out the Democrat Party. It's actually pretty easy. Everything Democrats support or oppose — and I mean everything — can be connected to the ballot box with no more than two dots.
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Perfect example: Proof of citizenship
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RUSSIAN, INFLUENCERS, DOJ, CONSERVATIVE
Right-wing US influencers say they were victims of alleged Russian plot
Getty Images Benny Johnson, a conservative US commentator, says he was a victim if the allegations of the Russian plot prove true.
Conservative US influencers say if the allegations are
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HARRIS, TAX, CUBAN, CAPITAL
Vice President Kamala Harris is turning to tax policy as a way to differentiate herself from both her Republican rival and her Democratic boss, an attempt to simultaneously project a more moderate image and stand by the soak-the-rich populism that animates
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GANG, COLORADO, OFFICIALS, VENEZUELAN
Officials in one Colorado city insisted the "hysteria" surrounding concerns about Venezuelan gang members taking over apartment buildings was "overblown" by the media.
The Denver Post reported Wednesday about growing fears in the city of Aurora after surveillance
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CAITLIN, CLARK, DOUBLE, TRIPLE
Angel Reese said what she wanted to say in her podcast debut on Thursday, all at the expense of Caitlin Clark fans.
In the first episode of her podcast, the WNBA Rookie of the Year contender used a segment to discuss her personal history with fans of her longtime
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WEINSTEIN, HARVEY, ASSAULT, BRITAIN
London (AFP) – UK prosecutors on Thursday said they were dropping a sexual assault case against Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein as there was no “realistic prospect of conviction”.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in June 2022 said it had authorised
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ILLEGAL, ALIEN, PREVIOUSLY, CHILDREN
An illegal alien, previously deported from the United States, and his girlfriend were arrested after police in Fairfax County, Virginia, found two young boys chained up in their apartment.
Franklin Viera Guevara, a 29-year-old illegal alien from El Salvador,
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MUNICH, CONSULATE, POLICE, ISRAELI
Police in Munich exchanged fire with a gunman near the Israeli Consulate in Munich on Thursday, fatally wounding him. Authorities said they believe he was planning to attack the consulate on the anniversary of the attack on the 1972 Munich Olympics.
No one
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BIDEN, ADMITS, INFLATION, 3B
FIRST ON FOX: Energy groups slammed the Biden-Harris administration's $7.3 billion "rural electrification" funding drawn from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) ahead of President Biden's Thursday announcement in battleground Wisconsin.
"This is all about politics,
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COTTON, INFO, TERROR, DHS
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., is demanding the Biden administration explain why it hasn't disclosed the nationality of individuals on the FBI's terror watchlist who illegally crossed the U.S. southern border.
In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro
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PRIME, MINISTER, BARNIER, MICHEL
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - MARCH 05: European Union Chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier speaks during a conference after the first round of UK-EU negotiations in Brussels, Belgium on March 05, 2020.
French President Emmanuel Macron has named Michel Barnier, the
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UKRAINE, KURSK, OFFENSIVE, CHIEF
President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Ukraine's incursion into Russia's western Kursk region had failed to slow the Russian advance in Donbas and had weakened Ukraine's own defenses along the frontline helping Moscow's forces.
Putin, speaking at the
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TESTER, POLL, MONTANA, RACE
Republican challenger Tim Sheehy leads incumbent Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., by 8 points in a new AARP poll.
Sheehy, a businessman, leads Tester 49% to 41% in a four-way race of 600 likely voters in a survey commissioned in late August. Libertarian candidate
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TRUMP, MELANIA, MEMOIR, CLARIFY
Former first lady Melania Trump in a video promoting her memoir released Thursday said she wanted to "clarify the facts" about her life.
"Writing this memoir has been a deeply and reflective journey for me. As a private person who has often been the subject
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GOP, HOUSE, HARRIS, WALZ
Nine House Republicans on Wednesday urged the Biden-Harris administration to support legislation that would end the “warrantless exploitation” of “data broker surveillance” in the wake of a hack that exposed the personal records of 2.7 billion people.
A member
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CONSTITUTION, DANGEROUS, ROGAN, CALLING
Ah, the Left. Ever ready to burn the foundations of America to the ground in pursuit of ... progress.
The latest example is a New York Times article by Jennifer Szalai titled "The Constitution Is Sacred. Is It Also Dangerous?" You can guess what her conclusion
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NEW, YORK, FIRE, ILLUMINATION
There are plenty of bad things happening in Kathy Hochul’s New York. But one thing that has become increasingly clear is how willing Hochul is to allow racism and bigotry to thrive in this city.
Last weekend the terrible news came through that another American
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BIDEN, NETANYAHU, REVEAL, QUESTIONS
The Issue: Hamas executing six hostages — including an American — kidnapped on Oct. 7.
The response from President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to the murders of six hostages, including an American citizen, is “outrage” (“Feckless Dem duo throws
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34, QUAN, RICH, HOMIE
Rich Homie Quan, the Atlanta rapper who gained mainstream fame through the trap singles “Type of Way” and “Flex (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh),” has died. He was 34.
Quan, whose legal name is Dequantes Devontay Lamar, died at an Atlanta hospital, the Fulton County Medical
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