Emerging Topics in U.S. News
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14th 2024
Updated 23:59 ET
43 articles
TRUMP, NAVY, ARMY, ABC
FIRST ON FOX: ABC News and their top anchor George Stephanopoulos have reached a settlement with Donald Trump in his defamation suit, which will result in the news network paying the president-elect $15 million.
The settlement was publicly filed on Saturday,
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SOUTH, PRESIDENT, KOREA, LAW
Baek Jae Gil, who adapted “Feliz Navidad” into a protest anthem, at a demonstration near the National Assembly in Seoul on Saturday.
While calling for President Yoon Suk Yeol’s removal, tens of thousands of South Korean protesters have danced to traditional
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CEO, NEW, SUSPECT, YORK
Luigi Mangione, the primary suspect in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has obtained high-profile New York Attorney Karen Friedman Agnifilo, NBC News reported on Saturday.
Agnifilo Intrater LLP, confirmed Friedman Agnifilo will represent
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PELOSI, SURGERY, HIP, FALL
Pelosi has hip replacement surgery after fall in Luxembourg
The California Democratic congresswoman was travelling with a bipartisan delegation of lawmakers to Luxembourg to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge.
Pelosi, 84, was airlifted by
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NEW, SIGHTINGS, DRONES, JERSEY
On Friday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) stated that, “there is absolutely no question, no dispute that there are drones flying over and close to military installations” and according
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WHISTLEBLOWER, DEAD, OPENAI, FOUND
OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment
In recent months Mr Balaji had publicly spoken out against artificial intelligence company OpenAI's practices, which has been fighting a number of lawsuits relating to its data-gathering practices.
The
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COUPLE, MEXICO, FOUND, AMERICAN
Victims Gloria Ambriz and Rafael Cardona were relatives of a local official.
Two Americans are dead after being found shot in a pickup truck in Mexico, officials said.
Authorities located the couple while responding to a report of a shooting in Angamacutiro
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DRONES, SHERIFF, NEW, NOVEMBER
Iran's navy is generally worth pointing and laughing at, compared to the United States Navy, even as diminished as that service has been over the last few years. But Iran has been leaning into drone technology lately - and we have mysterious drones buzzing
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HARBOR, 100, DIES, PEARL
Pearl Harbor survivor dies at 100
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HONOLULU — Bob Fernandez, a 100-year-old survivor of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, died shortly after deteriorating health prompted him to skip a trip to Hawaii to attend last
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HEISMAN, ASHTON, HUNTER, STAR
Boise State running back Ashton Jeanty's Heisman Trophy acceptance speech will wind up in the same place as Kamala Harris' presidential election victory speech.
Jeanty, a finalist for the award Saturday night, came up short to two-way Colorado star Travis
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JAY, ASSAULT, WOMAN, INCONSISTENCIES
Jay-Z asks court to dismiss rape lawsuit over inconsistencies
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A lawyer for rapper Jay-Z has asked a court to dismiss a lawsuit accusing him, along with Sean "Diddy" Combs, of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000, after inconsistencies emerged in
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HAMAS, TRUMP, REPORT, CEASEFIRE
Hamas relented in ceasefire talks with Israel because of pressure from President-elect Donald Trump to get a deal in place before he took office, reports NBC News.
Hamas on Thursday agreed to yield to two of Israel's "key demands" for a ceasefire deal in Gaza,
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SERVER, TRUMP, RESTAURANT, OFFICIALS
The libertarian in me insists that a private business should be able to refuse business to anyone. Back in the days before all the pettifoggery about "places of public accommodation" became accepted, it wasn't uncommon to see signs in bars, restaurants, and
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WOMAN, JURY, EVIDENCE, INNOCENT
A Las Vegas jury awarded $34 million on Thursday to a woman who had been wrongfully convicted for murder in 2001.
Kirstin Blaise Lobato served 16 years in prison for the murder of Duran Bailey. However, the jury found that two retired Metropolitan Police Department
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POLL, ELECTION, VOTERS, MINORS
Most Americans, including a majority of Democrats, say the Democrat Party should find another presidential candidate besides Vice President Kamala Harris before the 2028 presidential election, a new Rasmussen Reports poll found.
While earlier polling indicated
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BOMB, HAZMAT, CALL, SQUAD
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby stated that advice from New Jersey for people to request a HAZMAT response and the bomb squad if they encounter a downed drone “makes
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SYRIA, SUPPLY, ROUTE, HEZBOLLAH
Hezbollah head Naim Qassem said on Saturday that the Lebanese armed group had lost its supply route through Syria following the toppling of President Bashar al-Assad nearly a week ago by a sweeping rebel offensive.
Qassem did not mention Assad by name in his
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ANGER, MICHAEL, MOORE, HANDS
Left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore declared that the anger shown towards the health care industry is justified and that he wanted to fuel that anger in a new post.
Writing on his Substack page Friday, Moore noted he doesn’t condone murder, but insisted that
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FRANCISCO, SAN, TORNADO, STORM
San Francisco sees first ever tornado warning in winter storm
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A tornado warning has been issued for the first time ever in San Francisco, as thunderstorms swept through the region, toppling trees and causing major power cuts. The advisory was
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GEORGIA, PRESIDENT, SOCCER, COUNTRY
A former soccer star is set to become president of Georgia on Saturday as the ruling party consolidates its grip in what the opposition calls a blow to the country’s European aspirations and a victory for former imperial ruler Russia.
The ruling Georgian Dream
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SENTENCE, COMMUTES, BIDEN, FENTANYL
President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of a man who was sentenced to ten years in prison for his involvement in a New York woman’s fentanyl overdose death.
In a press release from the White House on Thursday, it was revealed that Biden was pardoning 39
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GUN, CONTROL, ROLLBACK, WANING
Many federal agencies are bracing for the Trump era — but few are likely to face the powerful backlash that awaits the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which pursued an aggressive gun control agenda under President Biden.
The A.T.F., under
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TRUMP, SERVICE, POSTAL, CONSIDERS
President-elect Donald Trump has expressed a keen interest in privatizing the U.S. Postal Service in recent weeks, the Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing three people with knowledge of the matter.
The U.S. Post Office, which has lost more than $100
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TRUMP, YEAR, PERSON, TIME
Ana Navarro told her co-hosts Friday on ABC’s “The View” that President-elect Donald Trump’s selection as Time Magazine’s Person of the Year was akin to Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin sharing the same title.
Co-host Joy Behar said, “The editorial board of
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