Emerging Topics in U.S. News
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23rd 2024
Updated 23:59 ET
13 articles
TRUMP, SECRETARY, AGRICULTURE, BROOKE
President-elect Donald Trump nominated many leading healthcare experts who opposed coronavirus-era lockdowns, focused on ending chronic illness, and want to overhaul America’s healthcare bureaucracies.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services (HHS)
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TRUDEAU, JUSTIN, ARREST, MONTREAL
While we didn't see massive protests by leftists across the country after President-elect Trump's victory on November 5, like after his first election or during the George Floyd riots, the antisemitic hordes have not disappeared completely. Friday night brought
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GIANTS, ESPN, ELLE, DANIEL
Quarterback Daniel Jones' tumultuous tenure with the New York Giants came to an end this week. The franchise benched the 2019 first round draft pick, before ultimately granting Jones' request to be released.
The decision to part ways with Jones was described
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TRUMP, SCOTT, TURNER, NFL
President-elect Donald Trump Friday picked former NFL player Scott Turner, who held a key role in his first administration, to lead the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
“Scott is an NFL Veteran, who, during my First Term, served as the First
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SEBASTIAN, GORKA, TRUMP, CON
Michael Anton, who served in the first Trump administration as its national security spokesman, reportedly pulled himself out of contention for a job at the National Security Council in the second administration because he did not want to work with returning
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UKRAINE, MISSILE, EMERGENCY, HOLD
The low-lying clouds over the city lit up for a split second, video footage showed, then streaks of dozens of glowing warheads plummeted out of the sky.
Booms unlike anything the war-weary residents had heard before thundered through the streets of Dnipro,
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KELCE, JASON, NEW, ESPN
Jason Kelce is expanding his media resume.
The future Hall of Famer, who is a podcast host and "Monday Night Football" analyst, announced Thursday he will host a late-night show on ESPN.
Kelce made the announcement during an appearance with Jimmy Kimmel,
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REFUSING, SPORTS, NEIL, DEGRASSE
"Real Time" host Bill Maher clashed with liberal scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson over his refusal to say that men have a physical advantage over women in sports, insisting he's "part of the problem."
The exchange began when Maher put a spotlight on the ousting
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LAKEN, KILLER, RILEY, CHANCE
When a Georgia judge convicted Jose Ibarra, Laken Riley's killer, on 10 counts and sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole, politicians and pundits across the country expressed frustration that he was not sentenced to death.
Over
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ASSAULT, PETE, HEGSETH, SEXUAL
Buildings of Cannery Row in Monterey, a California coastal tourist town that was the site of a GOP conference where a woman accused Pete Hegseth of sexual assault seven years ago.
On the afternoon of Oct. 12, 2017, a nurse at Kaiser Permanente called the Monterey
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DEAL, CLIMATE, TALKS, COP29
With talks teetering, climate negotiators struck a controversial $300 billion deal
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Negotiators at a global climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, struck a last-minute deal for wealthy countries
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SCHOOL, ATHLETE, TRANS, XX
Roughly two months after barring parents who wore "XX" wristbands during a high school soccer game against a transgender athlete, a school district is confident in its decision to do so.
Anthony Foote of Bow, New Hampshire, told the New Hampshire Journal he
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BIG, ELECTION, VOTERS, REJECTED
Ranked-choice voting and open primaries are two bad ideas whose time has most assuredly not come. Both ideas were on the ballots of several states this election year, and despite proponents of both bad ideas literally pouring bushel baskets of cash into their
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INFANT, OUTBREAK, LISTERIA, TIED
US listeria outbreak kills infant and prompts recall of meat products
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An infant in California died in a listeria outbreak that has now prompted a recall of ready-to-eat meat, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said. The child's
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AI, FLOODS, DEEPFAKES, DOCUMENT
A leading “misinformation expert” has come under fire for citing seemingly nonexistent sources in an affadavit supporting Minnesota’s new law banning some AI-generated deepfakes. Opposing lawyers claim the Stanford professor used AI to write his legal document,
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HARRIS, SENATOR, FRED, 94
He was a populist who championed Democratic Party reforms in the turbulent '60s.
Fred Harris, a former U.S. senator from Oklahoma, presidential hopeful and populist who championed Democratic Party reforms in the turbulent 1960s, died Saturday. He was 94.
Harris’
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ASSAULT, CONOR, MCGREGOR, RANT
A woman claiming that UFC star Conor McGregor “brutally raped and battered” her at a Dublin hotel penthouse was awarded nearly 250,000 Euros ($257,000) by a civil court in Ireland on Friday.
The 12-member jury (eight women, four men) deliberated for six hours
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BEIRUT, ISRAELI, 11, DIPLOMATS
At least 11 killed in Israeli strikes in Beirut as diplomats push for cease-fire
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Israeli airstrikes Saturday killed at least 11 people and injured dozens in central Beirut, as diplomats scrambled to broker
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VICE, PHILIPPINE, PRESIDENT, COUNTRY
Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte has threatened to have President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., the first lady, and the speaker of the House of Representatives assassinated if she herself is killed amid growing tension between them.
The southeast
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CALIFORNIA, LASHES, STORM, NORTHWEST
Storm lashes Northern California after leaving thousands without power in Seattle
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HEALDSBURG, Calif. — Heavy downpours fell over much of Northern California on Friday, causing small landslides, overflowing a river and flooding
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RABBI, MISSING, FEARED, TERRORISTS
An investigation has been launched into the disappearance of an Israeli-Moldovan dual citizen living in the United Arab Emirates, Jerusalem Post reported Saturday.
"Zvi Kogan, an Israeli-Moldovan citizen and Chabad emissary residing in the United Arab Emirates,
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ALICE, 83, DIES, BROCK
Alice Brock, whose eatery in western Massachusetts was immortalized as the place where “you can get anything you want” in Arlo Guthrie’s 1967 antiwar song “Alice’s Restaurant,” died on Thursday in Wellfleet, Mass. — just a week before Thanksgiving, the holiday
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