Emerging Topics in U.S. News
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11th 2024
Updated 23:59 ET
38 articles
TRUMP, BIDEN, YEAR, CLARK
A recent poll of registered New York voters conducted by the Siena College Research Institute finds that a clear majority supports President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to deport illegal migrants.
The Sienna poll, taken early this month, asked respondents if
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WRAY, FBI, DIRECTOR, TRUMP
President-elect Donald J. Trump will inherit a dangerous new Middle East crisis in Syria when he assumes office in January. But how he might approach a nation now controlled by rebels with terrorist roots is unclear, and may be decided by fierce competing arguments
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DRONES, NEW, STATE, JERSEY
EXCLUSIVE: The incoming chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee is pledging a thorough accounting of how taxpayer dollars have been used by the State Department when he takes the reins of the influential panel next year.
Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., is expected
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MANGIONE, LUIGI, CEO, SUSPECT
Luigi Mangione is accused of killing Brian Thompson in Manhattan on Dec. 4.
Luigi Mangione could face more charges in New York, Manhattan DA says
Luigi Mangione, who is accused of second-degree murder for allegedly gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian
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SOUTH, LAW, KOREA, MARTIAL
The Republic of Korea’s ascent as a global beacon of liberal democracy and capitalism has been built on its robust alliance with the United States. Now this exemplary democracy faces its most significant challenge in decades. It is clearer by the day that President
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MACE, NANCY, REP, CAPITOL
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., said she was attacked in the Capitol by an activist angry over a bill she introduced aimed at blocking the chamber's first openly transgender member from using women's bathrooms.
The Capitol Police said they arrested the attacker after
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PENNY, DANIEL, PROSECUTION, TRIAL
Daniel Penny's defense attorneys spoke out for the first time since their client was found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the 2023 subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely, expressing their shock at how the final days of the trial played out.
Steven
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HEGSETH, PETE, WEST, POINT
The latest story against Pete Hegseth just went south and was shown to be false.
ProPublica said they were pursuing a story about whether Hegseth had been admitted to West Point as he claimed. They said they had contacted West Point and been told on the record,
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SCHUMER, LABOR, SINEMA, CONTROL
As RedState reported on Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer schemed to create a years-long installation of Democrats on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) through President-elect Donald Trump's entire second administration. On Monday, Schumer
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LARGEST, TIMES, HISTORY, NY
Five weeks after Election Day, The New York Times just came out with a useful explainer on one of the voters’ top concerns: the Biden illegal-immigration surge.
All the news that’s fit to print . . . once it doesn’t matter for Democrats?
David Leonhardt,
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CEO, UNITEDHEALTHCARE, WARREN, PUSH
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said in interviews this week that the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was wrong but also served as a "warning" of sorts that "you can only push people so far."
"We'll say it over and over," Warren said on MSNBC.
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DEFENSE, BILL, MINORS, DEMS
The House is set to vote Wednesday on its must-pass yearly defense bill that would give junior enlisted troops a significant pay bump and work to eliminate DEI programs at the Pentagon.
The 1,800-page bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA),
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ONION, INFOWARS, JUDGE, REJECTS
Bankruptcy judge rejects The Onion's bid for Infowars
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The owners of The Onion have just learned they are not the winners of Alex Jones' Infowars company. Late Tuesday, a federal bankruptcy judge rejected their bid
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ICE, SHERIFF, COUNTY, DIEGO
President-elect Donald Trump will rescind a policy that prohibits Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from performing arrests at or near sensitive locations such as schools and churches, NBC News reported.
The policy, which was implemented in 2011 under
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EXCLUSIVE, GORKA, TRUMP, BIG
Dr. Sebastian Gorka, who will be the deputy assistant to the president and senior director of counterterrorism in the soon-to-be-minted Trump administration, said during a special Founders Roundtable on Breitbart Fight Club that the fall of the Assad regime
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JAY, ASSAULT, RAPE, NFL
It's "unlikely" Jay-Z will face criminal charges connected to the alleged rape of a 13-year-old, according to legal experts.
Jay-Z was named as a defendant in an amended complaint accusing the rapper, along with friend Sean "Diddy" Combs, of raping a young
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COURTROOM, ATTACK, JUDGE, PRISON
A US man has been sentenced to decades in prison after attacking a judge in a Las Vegas courtroom earlier this year.
Deobra Redden, 31, was caught on camera in January jumping over a desk and lunging at Judge Mary Kay Holthus, who was sentencing him in another
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ALBERTSONS, SUES, KROGER, DEAL
The grocery chain Albertsons said on Wednesday that it had backed out of its $25 billion merger with Kroger and sued its rival for failing to adequately push for regulatory approval, after both a federal and state judge blocked the deal on Tuesday.
The deal,
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ISRAEL, WEAPONS, STRATEGIC, SYRIA
On Tuesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Elizabeth Vargas Reports,” Mike Huckabee, President-Elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be the United States’ Ambassador to Israel, stated that the chemical weapons inside of Syria cannot fall into the hands of the rebels
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DEATH, WISCONSIN, KAYAKER, FAKED
Wisconsin kayaker who faked his death is back in the U.S. and in custody, police say
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Ryan Borgwardt, a kayaker from Wisconsin who vanished in August during a kayaking trip and who authorities say attempted
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DRONES, JERSEY, NEW, LAWMAKER
A U.S. Coast Guard official said one of its vessels was trailed by dozens of drones off the coast of New Jersey recently, according to Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J.
Smith, a guest on "The Story with Martha MacCallum" Tuesday, said he spent Monday night on the beach
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TRUMP, KIMBERLY, GUILFOYLE, GREECE
President-elect Donald Trump announced the nomination of Kimberly Guilfoyle as the Ambassador to Greece on Tuesday.
The president-elect issued his announcement from his Truth Social account on Tuesday.
“Today, I am very pleased to announce the appointment
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CZAR, BORDER, GAME, DEM
Day by day, it's becoming more and more apparent that Tom Homan is the right man to serve as President-elect (*Acting President*) Donald Trump's border czar. He is forceful, he is focused, he will not be swayed or dissuaded - and he doesn't suffer fools lightly.
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MSNBC, TRUMP, ELECTION, JOE
The week after Thanksgiving delivered a bonanza of huge stories and still CNN was only able to attract an average of 367,00 primetime viewers, which works out to about one-seventh the 2.493 million viewers who tuned in to Fox News.
MSNBC is also in the toilet,
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