Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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TRUMP, RIOTERS, DAY, BIRTHRIGHT
President-elect Donald Trump's Sunday morning appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press" is, as expected, yielding copious amounts of sound bites and, more importantly, giving some coveted insight into what his priorities will be come January 20, 2025.
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TRUMP, PRESIDENT, COUNSELOR, HEGSETH
For weeks, President-elect Donald Trump has faced a barrage of criticism over his nomination of Pete Hegseth for Defense secretary.
Hegseth, an Army National Guard major and co-host of “Fox & Friends Weekend,” is a staunchly conservative combat veteran who
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CEO, UNITEDHEALTHCARE, NEW, NYPD
The backpack believed to belong to UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s killer was found in Central Park Friday and contained Monopoly money, according to sources via ABC News.
Breitbart News reported that 50-year-old Thompson was shot and killed outside
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FOOTBALL, COLLEGE, ALABAMA, PLAYOFF
The Alabama Crimson Tide were on the outside looking into the College Football Playoff bracket on Sunday after Clemson received the No. 12 seed and SMU got an at-large bid.
Alabama hoped the College Football Playoff selection committee would look at their
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HUNTER, BIDEN, PARDON, REASON
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., is the latest Democratic figure to criticize President Biden’s decision to pardon his son.
Biden announced on Dec. 1 that he pardoned his son Hunter despite repeatedly insisting that he wouldn't issue a pardon for him. Since then,
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JAY, RAPING, LAWSUIT, DIDDY
Lawsuit accuses Jay-Z of raping a 13-year-old with Sean 'Diddy' Combs in 2000
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Jay-Z, the rapper whose real name is Shawn Carter, was accused of drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl, allegedly along with Sean "Diddy" Combs,
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TRUMP, NOTRE, UKRAINE, REOPENING
President-elect Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy held talks in Paris on Saturday, brought together by a grand ceremony to mark the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral.
Macron convened the trilateral meeting
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TRUMP, RUSSIA, SYRIA, UKRAINIAN
It was not immediately clear why Mr. Zelensky chose to release casualty figures now, but his statement came just a few hours after President-elect Donald J. Trump said that Ukraine had lost 400,000 soldiers, without specifying the number of dead or wounded.
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ANTIFA, OBAMA, JONATHAN, TURLEY
Editor's note: This column was first published on the author's blog: Res ipsa loquitur – The thing itself speaks.
It appears no liberal Christmas is complete without the ultimate stocking stuffer: an actual stocking to wear over your face while rioting.
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SOUTH, KOREAN, UNSURE, YOON
"We promise the public that we will thoroughly investigate," police said.
South Korean police will consider imposing a travel ban on President Yoon Suk Yeol, a senior officer said at a press conference on Monday, local time.
Additionally, they had not ruled
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JUAN, SOTO, METS, RECORD
Juan Soto is staying in New York, but he won't be with the Yankees.
Instead, the New York Mets, long believed to be a frontrunner to land the 26-year-old superstar, have landed him on an MLB-record $765 million contract over 15 years, according to multiple
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TRUMP, WRAY, DIRECTOR, FBI
Donald Trump appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday and laid into (soon to be former) FBI Director Christopher Wray over his participation in the weaponization of the Justice Department that has taken place under the Biden-Harris regime. The president-elect
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NOTRE, HOSTS, MASS, 2019
Notre Dame Cathedral on Sunday will host its first Mass since the catastrophic fire of 2019, a moment that transcends religious significance to become a powerful symbol of Paris’ resilience.
For Catholics, it marks the revival of the city’s spiritual heart,
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VETERANS, NAVY, MARCH, HEGSETH
President-elect Donald Trump's Defense Secretary-nominee Pete Hegseth is getting a groundswell of support for his confirmation in the Senate.
There are more than 100 Navy SEAL veterans and war fighters reportedly planning to march to support him on the first
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STUDIOS, TYLER, DIES, PERRY
Steve Mensch, a film executive in Georgia who pushed for state policies to support the industry and who was the president of Tyler Perry Studios, died in a plane crash in Florida on Friday. He was 62.
Mr. Mensch was the sole occupant of a small-engine fixed-wing
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GEORGIA, FLIES, CARSON, GAME
Georgia Bulldogs quarterback Gunner Stockton was on the receiving end of a brutal hit in the team’s SEC Championship win over the Texas Longhorns on Saturday night.
Stockton was thrust into the game after Carson Beck’s injury. In overtime, with the Bulldogs
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CRASHES, PARADE, MOTORCYCLE, 10
A Palm Springs, California, police officer crashed a motorcycle into a crowd at a Christmas parade Saturday night.
The accident left 10 people, including the traffic officer driving the motorcycle, with non-life-threatening injuries, according to the Palm
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GANG, RIGHTS, GROUP, ORDERED
At least 110 people were killed over the weekend in Haiti's Cite Soleil slum when a gang leader targeted elderly people he suspected of causing his child's illness through witchcraft, the National Human Right Defense Network said on Sunday.
The gang leader,
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BILLION, UKRAINE, ANNOUNCES, ADMIN
The Department of Defense (DOD) has announced another nearly $1 billion in a new “assistance package” for Ukraine, bringing the total military aid provided by the U.S. to more than $62 billion since Russia’s February 2022 invasion.
The latest $988 million
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