Emerging Topics in U.S. News
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4th 2024
Updated 23:59 ET
56 articles
TRUMP, HARRIS, CAMPAIGN, VOTERS
JPMorgan Chase on Friday flatly denied that its CEO, Jamie Dimon, has endorsed Donald Trump for president, minutes after the Republican nominee claimed on social media that Dimon had endorsed him.
"Jamie Dimon has not endorsed anyone. He has not endorsed a
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BIDEN, HURRICANE, HELENE, HARRIS
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) criticized the Biden-Harris administration over the way it has handled the response to Hurricane Helene — namely, the fact that the administration did not do enough in its original emergency disaster declaration.
“When the first
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JOBS, ECONOMY, REPORT, SURPRISE
Economists expect the economy to have added 150,000 jobs in September.
Investors and policymakers eagerly await a jobs report on Friday that will show whether the labor market has continued its monthslong cooldown. The fresh report marks one of the last major
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BIDEN, ELECTION, CONCERNED, SWAY
Think about all of the incidents of rioting, looting, and social unrest over the last few years, and one thing becomes apparent: They are almost all carried out by leftist activists in the name of leftist causes, from "Occupy Wall Street" to the George Floyd
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FEMA, HURRICANE, HELENE, PREPARED
FIRST ON FOX: A group of senators led by Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., is warning the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s "entanglement" with the southern border may have limited its effectiveness in handling emergencies – just as the Biden administration
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HELENE, CAROLINA, NORTH, HURRICANE
North Carolina communities hit hard by Helene need food, water and medicines Crews in western North Carolina are using helicopters and ATVs to get food to people who were cut off by flooding caused by the remnants of Hurricane Helene.
National North Carolina
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IRAN, ISRAEL, TRUMP, BIDEN
Iran’s oil infrastructure has been pushed to the center of the escalating conflict in the Middle East, but an Israeli strike on Iran’s energy facilities would also affect China directly.
On Thursday, President Biden said the United States was “in discussion”
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GARTH, BROOKS, ASSAULT, RAPE
Garth Brooks is a country music icon and performer with dozens of hits and millions of albums sold, but he's now facing shocking new allegations, adding to a list of controversies he's faced over the years.
A former makeup artist for Brooks filed a lawsuit
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JOE, BIDEN, EAST, MIDDLE
When Joe Biden became president, the Middle East was calm. Now it is in the midst of a multifront war.
So quiet was the inheritance from the prior Trump administration that nearly three years later, on September 29, 2023 --and just eight days before the October
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SUPREME, COURT, GUN, LAWSUIT
The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether to block a $10 billion lawsuit Mexico filed against leading U.S. gun manufacturers over allegations their commercial practices have helped caused much bloodshed there.
The gun makers asked the justices to
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WNBA, CAITLIN, CLARK, YEAR
Sunday's WNBA playoff game between the New York Liberty and Las Vegas Aces was the most-watched semifinal round game the league has seen in 22 years.
The game drew an average of 929,000 viewers, up 60% from the semifinals last year.
The numbers of the rematch
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GAZA, WAR, ISRAEL, YEAR
The aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on a crowded tent camp for Palestinians displaced by the war in Muwasi, in the Gaza Strip.
As the world prepares to mark the first anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack and the ensuing war is set to drag into a
Continued at LA Times...
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TRUMP, SMITH, JACK, SHOT
Special Counsel Jack Smith just filed a massive motion attempting to argue that the Supreme Court’s immunity decision should not derail his DC election case against Donald Trump.
The timing and tone of his filing serve no necessary legal end in a case that
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PLAYER, STATE, TRANSGENDER, TEAM
The San Jose State women's volleyball team lost to Colorado State on Thursday night in one of their rare non-cancelled games in recent weeks. Head coach Todd Kress said he even considered thanking Colorado State coach Emily Kohan just for agreeing to play his
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IRAN, BARRAGE, KHAMENEI, AYATOLLAH
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared in a rare sermon Friday that his country’s ballistic missile attack on Israel earlier this week was "legal and legitimate" and that the "resistance in the region will not back down even with the killing
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ADAMS, ERIC, POLL, NEW
Most New York City residents think Mayor Eric Adams broke the law, is doing a bad job as mayor and should resign, according to a poll released Friday, the first since he was indicted last week on bribery and corruption charges.
The poll, which was conducted
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STUDENT, BIDEN, LOAN, PUT
A federal judge in Missouri put a temporary hold on President Joe Biden’s latest student loan cancellation plan on Thursday, slamming the door on hope it would move forward after another judge allowed a pause to expire
Biden's student loan cancellation is
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BUCCANEERS, CRAWL, VEA, SNIPER
Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ defensive tackle Vita Vea sacked Atlanta Falcons’ quarterback Kirk Cousins on Thursday night, then did what appeared to a be a sniper crawl before allegedly acting like he was shooting a gun.
Video of Vea was posted by Prime:
FOX News
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BELLS, RACE, SENATE, ALARM
Democrats are in big trouble when it comes to their efforts to hold onto the Senate.
Right now, it looks like Rep. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) is likely to beat Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT). Then the race has also closed in Ohio with Bernie Moreno going up in some of the
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PROGRAM, PAROLE, BENEFITS, FLIGHT
The Biden administration has reportedly decided against extending parole for tens of thousands of Venezuelan migrants who came to the U.S. through a controversial Biden-era travel program that was temporarily halted due to discoveries of fraud in the program
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SOUTH, KOREA, COSTS, YEAR
The United States and South Korea on Friday agreed on a new five-year plan on sharing the cost of keeping American troops in South Korea, South Korea's foreign ministry and the U.S. Department of Statement said.
For 2026, the nations agreed to raise defense
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TERRORISTS, 250, HEZBOLLAH, LEBANON
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continued advancing against Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon on Thursday and Friday, uprooting outposts and hitting terrorist leaders in airstrikes.
In one airstrike in Beirut on Thursday, the IDF targeted Hezbollah’s Hashim
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OCT, ATTACKS, ANNIVERSARY, ISSUE
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security on Friday warned that the upcoming one-year anniversary of the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel could motivate some people to engage in violence within the United States.
In a public service announcement, authorities
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WASTE, SUPREME, COURT, NUCLEAR
The Supreme Court on Friday added more than a dozen cases to the docket for its new term, which begins next week.
Among the cases: a death row prisoner seeking DNA testing of evidence he claims would exonerate him, a dispute about whether a federal agency
Continued at New York Times...