Emerging Topics in U.S. News
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11th 2024
Updated 23:59 ET
272 articles
HARRIS, TRUMP, DEBATE, KAMALA
Her campaign said she is ready to face off against Trump in October.
Less than an hour after the ABC News presidential debate ended Tuesday night, Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign called for another matchup, laying down a challenge to former President
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UKRAINE, BLINKEN, RANGE, LONG
Top House Republicans are urging President Biden to reverse restrictions on Ukraine's use of U.S.-made weapons, arguing that the policy hampers Ukraine's defense and provides Russia with a sanctuary for aggression, The Hill reported.
In a letter sent Monday,
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JOHNSON, GOP, VOTE, SPEAKER
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., conducts a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center after a meeting of the House Republican Conference on Tuesday, September 10, 2024.
House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday cancelled a planned vote on a stopgap
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EATING, PETS, SPRINGFIELD, MIGRANTS
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) trusts Springfield officials who say Haitian migrants have not been eating pets but will send troopers and millions of dollars in aid to the city due to the surge of arrivals under the Biden-Harris administration.
After former President
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TYREEK, HILL, OFFICER, FIRED
Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill called for the firing of the police officer who was placed on administrative duties following the NFL star’s detention over the weekend.
Hill released a statement Tuesday – the day after the bodycam footage of his detention
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INFLATION, RATE, CUT, INTEREST
A new report released Wednesday by the Biden Labor Department shows that inflation has started to budge, if only minimally, in the August report card on the health of the American economy. It comes ahead of next week's meeting of the Federal Reserve, which
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TRUMP, FOCUS, REACTS, GROUP
The stereotype of immigrants eating dogs and cats is storied — and vitriolic as ever
toggle caption Alex Brandon/AP
This story first appeared in NPR's live blog of the presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. See how the night unfolded.
It
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OFFICER, CHINA, CIA, SPYING
Ex-CIA officer jailed for 10 years as spy for China
Part of his plea agreement states that he must co-operate with prosecutors "for the rest of his life, including by submitting to debriefings by US government agencies".
Ma, a naturalised US citizen born
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BON, WOMAN, JON, JOVI
Jon Bon Jovi was in the right place at the right time Tuesday when he helped coax a woman from jumping off a bridge in Nashville.
The "Livin' on a Prayer" singer happened to be filming a music video on the Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge when he saw a woman
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TYRE, NICHOLS, DEATH, OFFICERS
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday opened their case against three former Memphis police officers involved in the fatal beating last year of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old FedEx worker, accusing them of having doled out the blows to punish him for leaving a traffic
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FRANCINE, HURRICANE, ARRIVES, NEW
The anxious shiver that the projected path of Hurricane Francine induced in many Louisiana residents can be traced directly back to the last major storm to hit the state, which caused billions of dollars in damage and left a trail of devastating consequences
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INFLATION, PRICES, CORE, HOUSING
A key measure of consumer prices rose by more than expected in August, indicating an acceleration of inflation from a month earlier.
The Department of Labor said that core consumer prices, a metric that excludes food and energy prices, rose by 0.3 percent
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OHIO, SMALL, TOWN, 000
D.C. Democrats have figured out a new way to punish Trump Country, which is small-town America favoring Donald Trump for President. Overwhelm a small town of 56,000 Americans with 20,000 Haitian migrants, as Biden-Harris has done to Springfield, Ohio, and watch
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SECURITY, CAPITOL, LED, SECRET
Ali Akbar Ahmadian, secretary-general of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) of Iran, on Wednesday called for the China-dominated BRICS economic group to create “a new security structure in the international arena to help the order and security of
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TIMBERLAKE, JUSTIN, CASE, DEAL
The singer and actor Justin Timberlake, who faced drunken-driving charges after an erratic drive in the Hamptons led to his arrest, is expected to plead guilty to a lesser offense, according to the Suffolk County district attorney’s office.
A spokeswoman for
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ALBERTO, FUJIMORI, PERU, ABUSES
Alberto Fujimori, whose decade-long presidency began with triumphs righting Peru’s economy and defeating a brutal insurgency only to end in a disgrace of autocratic excess that later sent him to prison, has died. He was 86.
His death Wednesday in the capital,
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BIDEN, ACTIVIST, DEATH, OUTRAGED
President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he was “outraged” by the death of activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi at a riot by Palestinians in the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) last week.
Eygi was killed when Israeli troops fired on a group of Palestinian rioters, according
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LEVEL, INFLATION, LOWEST, YEARS
US inflation falls to lowest in over three years
The figures offer welcome news for the White House, which has been on the defensive over the economy in this year's presidential campaign.
That marked the slowest pace since February 2021 and was down from
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DE, AURORA, TREN, MEMBERS
As RedState’s Ward Clark has reported extensively, apartment buildings in Aurora, Colorado, have reportedly been taken over by the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, whose members charge rent on the apartments they have seized, sell drugs, and engage in
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SMASHED, YEAR, DISPLAY, BACK
The ancient jar smashed by a 4-year-old has been fixed. It's back on display at an Israeli museum
TEL AVIV -- A rare Bronze-Era jar accidentally smashed by a 4-year-old visiting a museum was back on display Wednesday after restoration experts were able to
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NEW, HAMPSHIRE, RACE, MAKES
Former Sen. Kelly Ayotte is now a step closer to succeeding longtime GOP Gov. Chris Sununu in swing state New Hampshire.
Ayotte, a former state attorney general who narrowly lost her Senate re-election in 2016 after breaking with former President Trump after
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DIPS, BLACK, ACTION, AFFIRMATIVE
The predictions were dire. In the course of a bitterly contested trial six years ago, Harvard University said that if it were forced to stop considering race in admissions, the diversity of its undergraduate classes would be badly compromised.
Now, a year
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ARRESTED, LINE, FIRE, CALIFORNIA
US man arrested for allegedly sparking California's Line Fire
Nearly 2,000 firefighters have been deployed to battle the Line Fire
As of Wednesday morning, the Line Fire was 14% contained.
The Line Fire is one of three major wildfires sparked in the last
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LAWSUIT, SEAN, COMBS, NEW
A singer who achieved success in bands put together by Sean “Diddy” Combs has sued the music producer, describing years of psychological and physical abuse, including groping, that she says she suffered as he helped launch her career
NEW YORK -- A singer who
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