Emerging Topics in U.S. News
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9th 2024
Updated 23:59 ET
74 articles
HARRIS, TRUMP, BIDEN, KAMALA
FOX News Media made a final pitch to host a debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump on Wednesday, sending letters to each campaign.
FOX News Media executives sent a letter to the Harris and Trump campaigns offering to
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MILTON, HURRICANE, FLORIDA, TAMPA
Hurricane Milton threatened nearly the entire state of Florida as it blew in from the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, yet another case of a menacing storm putting many, if not most, of the state’s 23 million residents on high alert.
As with previous storms, including
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SALEH, JETS, ROBERT, AARON
Most of the football world seems to believe that Aaron Rodgers helped fire his former head coach, Robert Saleh. Rodgers, on the other hand, thinks that is “ridiculous.”
Saleh was fired Tuesday morning by Jets Owner Woody Johnson in a move that shocked media
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NETANYAHU, BIDEN, IRAN, SPEAK
In March, as Israel threatened to invade Rafah in southern Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians had been sheltering, President Joe Biden acknowledged that if Israel invaded the city, it would be crossing “a red line.”
It was Biden’s first public
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HELENE, STATE, CAROLINA, HURRICANE
North Carolina legislators completed an initial $273 million relief package on Wednesday to help spur recovery from Hurricane Helene, describing it as a down payment on aid and a way to help hard-hit counties gain more flexibility in holding elections already
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VANCE, CYGNAL, FAVORABILITY, IMPROVES
Trump and Harris are scheduled to visit the border state later in the week.
Vance and Walz visiting Arizona as early voting begins in the battleground state
Vice presidential nominees Sen. JD Vance and Gov. Tim Walz will campaign in Arizona on Wednesday as
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HURRICANE, BIDEN, TRUMP, HARRIS
It's hard to imagine how Kamala Harris has gotten so far as we see more and more how vacuous she is and how she doesn't appear to be able to competently answer even simple questions.
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It explains why she's only been going on friendly broadcasts
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CBS, INTERVIEW, COATES, PARENT
Shari Redstone on Wednesday expressed disagreement with CBS News executives over the handling of a controversial interview about Israel.
Paramount Global’s non-executive chair Shari Redstone publicly broke with the CBS News management team over its handling
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BIG, DEAL, PRIME, AMAZON
Prime Big Deal Days are upon us, and it's the perfect time to replenish your home with some everyday necessities. From the convenience of quick-clean paper towels to delicious smelling hand soap and sustainable paper plates, these items are not only central
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NORTH, KOREA, SOUTH, FIGHTING
North Korea said Wednesday it will permanently block its border with South Korea and build front-line defense structures to cope with "confrontational hysteria" by South Korean and U.S. forces, while not announcing an expected constitutional revision to formally
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TRUMP, HOUSE, SUGGESTS, WHITE
The road to White House runs through this US state
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The White House’s address may be 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but the real road to the presidency runs through the state of Pennsylvania, the biggest prize among the electoral battleground map.
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SUPREME, COURT, DEATH, UNSURE
True crime drama at Supreme Court pits Oklahoma against its top criminal court
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At the Supreme Court Tuesday, a true crime drama that features a man who has been on death row for more than 25 years, always insisting
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NOBEL, CHEMISTRY, AWARDED, WORK
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded on Wednesday to David Baker at the University of Washington “for computational protein design” and to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper of Google DeepMind “for protein structure prediction.”
This year’s prize is about
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BAKER, COURT, LAWSUIT, CAKE
The Colorado Supreme Court threw out a case Tuesday involving a Christian baker who refused to make a cake for a transgender woman.
Lawyer Autumn Scardina, who is transgender, sued Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips after he refused to provide a cake
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GOOGLE, CONSIDERS, SEARCH, LANDMARK
Justice Department calls for sanctions against Google in landmark antitrust case
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The Department of Justice is proposing a series of sanctions against Google to ensure that it can no longer monopolize the search
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BROWN, REJECTS, DIVEST, ISRAEL
Brown University announced on Wednesday that its governing board had voted to reject a student proposal to divest from companies involved in Israeli military and security activities.
The vote, on Tuesday, was the first of its kind in the Ivy League since the
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FAT, BEAR, KILLED, CUB
In a storyline better befitting a melodrama than a popularity vote, Grazer won her second Fat Bear Contest Tuesday by defeating the male behemoth that killed her cub this summer.
Grazer beat Chunk by more than 40,000 votes cast by fans watching live cameras
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TIED, DOG, FLORIDA, AHEAD
Florida troopers rescued a dog tied to a pole and left standing in a large puddle on a rainy Wednesday morning as Hurricane Milton barreled toward the state.
Bodycam footage posted by the agency's Tampa account on X shows a trooper walking along a field off
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TROPICANA, 67, VEGAS, VIDEO
Tropicana Hotel imploded after 67 years on Las Vegas Strip The historic hotel and casino in Las Vegas was imploded in a controlled blast overnight to make way for a new ballpark for the Las Vegas Athletics.
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IDF, HEZBOLLAH, REST, ENVIRONMENTAL
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed Tuesday that it had found and destroyed a Hezbollah tunnel that extended 10 meters into Israeli territory, though without an opening into Israel itself.
Hezbollah has built a network of underground tunnels and bunkers
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LINE, MEN, SHOOT, VOTE
A professor at the University of Kansas has been placed on administrative leave after saying that men who don’t for Vice President Kamala Harris because she’s a woman should be shot. “We could line all those guys up and shoot them,” he said in a recently leaked
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IRANIAN, SAUDI, ARABIA, ISRAEL
As the Middle East remains on edge in anticipation of a possible retaliatory attack by Israel on Iran, the Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, was scheduled to arrive in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday as part of a diplomatic tour aimed at preventing further
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DEBATE, SCHIFF, SENATE, GARVEY
Garvey said Schiff has "one mission, and that's to go after Donald Trump."
Echoes of the 2020 impeachment trial against Donald Trump sparked a bitter exchange between California Senate candidates Rep. Adam Schiff and Steve Garvey at the U.S. Senate Candidate
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EDITOR, LARGE, MISINFORMATION, BIT
Wall Street Journal editor-at-large Gerry Baker mocked the idea that MSNBC hosts could lecture others about "disinformation" after covering for President Biden.
Baker spoke on Fox News’ "America Reports" about "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough attacking his
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