Emerging Topics in U.S. News
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11th 2024
Updated 23:59 ET
49 articles
HARRIS, KAMALA, TRUMP, OBAMA
Vice President Kamala Harris debuted a Spanish accent on Thursday during a Univision town hall event, taking a break from the fake southern accent she sometimes uses.
The accents raise concerns about Harris’s sincerity. Voters are often attuned to inauthentic
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WALZ, TIM, HARRIS, BIDEN
He will do local tv interviews focused on high school football and hunting.
Harris campaign deploying Walz in new push for male voters in swing states
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Friday kicks off new push to reach male voters in swing states, Vice President
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HURRICANE, BIDEN, TRUMP, MILTON
President Biden on Friday joked that Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm is his "boss" and referred to Vice President Kamala Harris as the "president" while he delivered an update on hurricane recovery efforts from the White House.
Seated in the Roosevelt Room
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TRUMP, AURORA, GANG, ANNOUNCES
Mike Coffman, the conservative Republican mayor of Aurora, Colo., had a message for former President Donald J. Trump before the Republican nominee for the White House came on Friday to a city he has repeatedly painted as having been taken over by vicious migrant
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TRUMP, ELECTION, SECURITY, CERTIFY
Some Democrat lawmakers are signaling they won't certify the election if Donald Trump wins, and some of the names are going to sound very familiar. According to Axios, Rep. Jamie Raskin, who has long accused Republicans of being a "threat to democracy," will
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MILTON, FLORIDA, HURRICANE, CLEANUP
Milton was downgraded before it came ashore. Was the damage as bad as expected? NPR's Michel Martin talks to Col. Brandon Bowman, commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Jacksonville District, about assessing damage in Florida after Hurricane Milton.
National
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PRIZE, NOBEL, PEACE, JAPANESE
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its activism against nuclear weapons.
Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee,
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BOEING, 17, JOBS, 000
Boeing to axe 17,000 jobs - tenth of workforce - amid strike
Boeing will axe its workforce by a tenth - cutting 17,000 jobs - and delay production as the airplane maker deals issues across its business.
Chief executive Kelly Ortberg said in an email to staff
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DOCUMENTS, TIKTOK, APP, LAWSUIT
Lawsuit documents reveal what TikTok executives know about app’s effect on teenagers Kentucky is one of 14 states to sue TikTok for failing to protect kids on the app. Kentucky Public Radio and NPR have reviewed dozens of pages of the lawsuit that were blacked
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SWINGS, DEATHS, FISHER, PRICE
The Fisher-Price company is recalling more than 2 million of its Snuga infant swings, after the suffocation and deaths of five infants who went to sleep while in the swings.
"The swing should never be used for sleep and bedding materials should never be added
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SEARCH, STRIKES, BEIRUT, SURVIVORS
An air raid on Beirut left at least 22 people dead and dozens of others wounded after Israeli airstrikes pummeled neighborhoods in Lebanon, according to the Associated Press.
The latest attack, the deadliest one in over a year of war between the embattled
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SUES, VIRGINIA, JUSTICE, ELECTION
The Department of Justice said on Friday it sued the state of Virginia for violating the federal prohibition on systematic efforts to remove voters within 90 days of an election.
On Aug. 7, the state's governor, Glenn Youngkin, signed an executive order requiring
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MAYORKAS, QUICK, SUSHI, HURRICANE
Critics are blasting Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas after he spent less than six hours in Hurricane Helene-ravaged North Carolina on Thursday before jetting back to Washington, D.C., in time to beat rush-hour traffic, the New York Post reported.
He
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PUTIN, IRANIAN, PRESIDENT, CEMENTS
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Friday, hailing the "very close" relationship between Russia and Iran.
The meeting comes as Iran braces for an Israeli response to its missile attacks on Tel Aviv earlier this
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REMAINS, CLIMBER, YEARS, 100
The partial remains of a British mountaineer who might — or might not — have been one of the first two people to climb Mount Everest are believed to have been found a century after their ascent of the world's highest peak, according to an expedition led by
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POPE, MEETS, ZELENSKY, CRIMES
Pope Francis met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Vatican on Friday for their second face-to-face encounter in four months.
The two men, who previously met on the sidelines of a Group of Seven (G7) summit in southern Italy in June, held talks
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NIGHT, SKIES, NORTHERN, LIGHTS
The northern lights dazzle night skies across U.S. and Europe
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On Thursday, the northern lights — also known as the aurora borealis — illuminated vast expanses of Europe and the United States.
The rare and fleeting
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TRUMP, LAWYERS, DISBARMENT, FUTURE
Project 65, a “dark money” left-wing group that has targeted lawyers that represented former President Donald Trump in 2020, is now warning potential Trump attorneys that they could be disbarred for working for him.
In an ad posted on Instagram, and apparently
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CALIFORNIA, COMMISSION, SPACEX, TRUMP
I live close enough to Santa Barbara County, where Vandenberg Air Force Base is located, that I can see the middle stage of a rocket launch. If Elon Musk’s SpaceX was allowed to operate as any other business would operate, Vandenberg would be busy launching
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UPENN, DONOR, UNIVERSITIES, ISRAELI
At least one major university is finding out that allowing rampant antisemitism to flourish on campus is a costly mistake.
Venture capitalist David Magerman, who previously donated $5 million to the University of Pennsylvania, halted his financial support
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STAR, NABERS, GIANTS, MALIK
It hasn't taken long for New York Giants rookie Malik Nabers to show why he was one of the first wide receivers selected in the 2024 NFL Draft.
The No. 6 overall pick's 35 catches through four games leads the league. But Sunday will mark the second consecutive
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BOEING, PLEA, JUDGE, DEAL
A federal judge in Fort Worth heard arguments Friday but withheld a ruling on whether he would accept a guilty plea by Boeing in connection to the tragic crashes of two 737 Max jets that resulted in the loss of 346 lives.
The proposed agreement would have
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UKRAINIAN, RUSSIAN, CAPTIVITY, JOURNALIST
Award-winning Ukrainian journalist dies in Russian captivity, Kyiv says
toggle caption Alex Brandon/AP
Victoria Roshchyna, a Ukrainian journalist held captive by Russia for more than a year, died while in Russian detention, Ukrainian officials confirmed Thursday.
Petro
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CHASTAIN, COMPLAINING, JETBLUE, AIRLINES
Jessica Chastain is catching heat for a public exchange with JetBlue Airlines over a $15 credit.
Earlier this week, the "Help" actress took to X in a series of posts, which have since been deleted, to address her disappointment in how the airlines handled
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